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Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained

When evaluating, instant vectors provide current snapshots, while range vectors give you multiple values over a period of time. But how do they work?

Prometheus Metrics Explained: Counters, Gauges, Histograms & Summaries

Metrics come in different types: counters that only increase, gauges that fluctuate, histograms that show value distributions, and summaries that pre-calculate statistics.

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and More: Which Is Better for Metrics Collection and Propagation?

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus 2.x, Prometheus 3.x, and vmagent are put together for comparison in scraping and pushing data to remote storage.

Monitoring benchmark: how to generate 100 million samples/s of production-like data

One of the latest benchmarks we made was ‘VictoriaMetrics: scaling to 100 million metrics per second’. While the fact of such scale for VictoriaMetrics is noteworthy on its own, the benchmark tool used to generate that load is usually overlooked. In this blog post I’ll explain in more details the challenge of running such benchmarks.

Managed VictoriaMetrics announcement

We are glad to announce the availability of Managed VictoriaMetrics (VictoriaMetrics Cloud) - try it right now!