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The Life of a Metric

Follow a single metric through its whole life inside VictoriaMetrics: born as a counter in your process, exported over the wire, given an identity and an inverted-index entry, written through an LSM tree, compressed into columnar blocks on disk, read back by a rate() query, downsampled as it ages, and finally deleted when retention runs out.

Open Source Is Good Marketing

Open source and commercial marketing often seem at odds, but open source often needs marketing, and open source itself is often good marketing. This blog post explains how open source supports our marketing goals and how we use marketing to support open source growth.

VictoriaMetrics 2026 Mid Year Roundup

Take a look at what we shipped in the first half of 2026 across VictoriaMetrics: metrics, logs, traces, and cloud,with improvements in performance, scalability, and usability.

How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout

A beginner-friendly tour of how VictoriaLogs stores your logs on disk: streams and daily partitions, immutable parts, blocks and columns, and the files inside a part (timestamps, values, bloom filters, column headers, and the two-level index) that let a query read only the bytes it needs.

How Airbnb Built a High-Volume Metrics Pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent

Learn how Airbnb rebuilt its observability pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent to handle over 100 million samples per second, reduce cost by 10x, and simplify high-scale metrics aggregation.

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 release round‑up: heads up about critical VictoriaMetrics bugfixes in v1.141.0–v1.142.0, and explore new VictoriaLogs features including Splunk ingestion and advanced LogsQL tooling.

VictoriaMetrics at KubeCon Amsterdam: Community Highlights

VictoriaMetrics participated in KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. The team delivered multiple talks covering platform design, Kubernetes observability, and distributed tracing optimization. A real-world case study from Miro showcased a cost-efficient, AZ-aware observability architecture built with VictoriaMetrics. With a 15-person team on site, the booth saw strong interest from users tackling scaling, cost, and performance challenges. The company also hosted its first community after-party, “After Deploy,” co-organized with Varnish and Shipfox, extending discussions beyond the conference.

VictoriaMetrics March 2026 Ecosystem Updates

March 2026 VictoriaMetrics Stack releases deliver Grafana Cardinality Explorer, VMUI pagination, JWT auth enhancements, log UI sidebar, and Kubernetes log enrichment for scalable observability. Upgrade now for better UI usability, query performance, and production-ready monitoring workflows.

Observability Lessons From OpenAI

OpenAI applies observability to autonomous AI agents using the VictoriaMetrics Stack and OpenTelemetry. Learn to build your own local setup with metrics, logs, and traces that help LLMs test, benchmark, and iterate autonomously.