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2026 50

  1. VictoriaLogs vs Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, SigNoz and ClickStack on structured log ingestion
  2. Finding Why Payments Fail with VictoriaLogs Drilldown
  3. Observability Lessons NVIDIA and CoreWeave
  4. Go, Logs and the Engineering Behind VictoriaLogs Performance
  5. What Is Observability? It’s More Than Metrics, Logs, and Traces
  6. VictoriaLogs Has Now a Long Term Support (LTS) Release
  7. VictoriaMetrics September 2026 Ecosystem Updates
  8. The Data Race That Wasn't a Bug (and the One That Was)
  9. The Year-2 Price Cliff: What Your Observability Stack Really Costs Over 3 Years
  10. How Linux readahead works, and the two ways to change it
  11. VictoriaTraces in VictoriaMetrics Cloud: Complete Observability is Here
  12. The most expensive half-hour of an incident.
  13. VictoriaMetrics August 2026 Ecosystem Updates
  14. PostgreSQL 19 interactive tour
  15. Two cats, two dogs, four vendors, and the model the AI couldn't find (Tech Talk Companion)
  16. How Go’s Built-in Map Works with Swiss Tables
  17. The Life of a Metric
  18. Understanding Go's sync.Map from API to Hash Trie
  19. Open Source Is Good Marketing
  20. Observability's Sixth Sense: Grounding Anomaly Detection in Reality
  21. What's new in VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (Q2 2026)
  22. VictoriaMetrics July 2026 Ecosystem Updates
  23. Go 1.27 interactive tour
  24. What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q2 2026? Transparent Credits, Navigation Improvements, and a New Path for Cluster Tiers
  25. GPU Observability with the OpenLIT Collector and the VictoriaMetrics observability stack
  26. Announcing vmestimator: Real-time Cardinality Estimations for VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus
  27. VictoriaMetrics 2026 Mid Year Roundup
  28. Observability for LLM Apps and Agents: OpenLIT SDK + VictoriaMetrics observability stack
  29. How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout
  30. VictoriaMetrics May 2026 Ecosystem Updates
  31. Operator now has Long-Term Support (LTS) version
  32. How Airbnb Built a High-Volume Metrics Pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent
  33. Multi-tiered Observability: A Practical Way to Handle Diverse Workloads
  34. VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates
  35. Not All Telemetry Requires Premium Pricing
  36. VictoriaMetrics at KubeCon Amsterdam: Community Highlights
  37. What's new in VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (Q1 2026)
  38. What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q1 2026? Logs, MCP Server, Better Alerting, and... a Secret Project
  39. VictoriaMetrics at KubeCon: Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling
  40. VictoriaMetrics March 2026 Ecosystem Updates
  41. Observability Lessons From OpenAI
  42. Benchmarking Kubernetes Log Collectors: vlagent, Vector, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry Collector, and more
  43. VictoriaMetrics February 2026 Ecosystem Updates
  44. VictoriaMetrics at FOSDEM, Cloud Native Days France, and CfgMgmtCamp Ghent
  45. VictoriaLogs in VictoriaMetrics Cloud: Fast, Cost-Effective Log Management is Here
  46. What’s new in VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (2025)
  47. VictoriaMetrics January 2026 Ecosystem Updates
  48. VictoriaLogs Basics: What You Need to Know, with Examples & Visuals
  49. What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q4 2025? New tiers, more deployment options, IaC and alerting rules.
  50. Vibe coding tools observability with VictoriaMetrics Stack and OpenTelemetry

2025 58

  1. How a US Software Provider Improved Traffic Alerting with VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection
  2. VictoriaMetrics 2025 Developer Experience: A Year in Review
  3. Spotify’s performance & control across large monitoring environments with VictoriaMetrics
  4. VictoriaMetrics Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification
  5. Our latest updates across the VictoriaMetrics Observability ecosystem
  6. New Capacity Tiers in VictoriaMetrics Cloud
  7. Announcing 1B+ Downloads & Product Development With Logs, Traces, Metrics
  8. AI Agents Observability with OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack
  9. Discarding gRPC-Go: The Story Behind OTLP/gRPC Support in VictoriaTraces
  10. What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q3 2025? From new region in Asia to proactive alerts
  11. How DreamHost Slashed Memory Usage by 80% and Scaled to 76 Million Time Series
  12. Upcoming Conferences & Meetups: Where to Meet Our Team
  13. VictoriaMetrics Long-Term Support (LTS): H2 2025 Update
  14. Creating a Sustainable Open Source Business Model - Introduction
  15. Full-Stack Observability with VictoriaMetrics in the OTel Demo
  16. Alerting Best Practices
  17. vmanomaly Deep Dive: Smarter Alerting with AI (Tech Talk Companion)
  18. VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams
  19. Monotonic and Wall Clock Time in the Go time package
  20. Hello Singapore! VictoriaMetrics Cloud Expands to Asia Pacific
  21. MCP Server Integration & Much More: What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q2 2025
  22. FIPS 140-3 Compatible Builds for VictoriaMetrics Enterprise Components
  23. VictoriaLogs Unleashed: Cluster Version Now Available for Exceptional, Linear Scaling
  24. Integrations made easy with VictoriaMetrics Cloud
  25. Developer's Note: Research on Distributed Tracing, Comparing With Tempo and ClickHouse
  26. vmagent: Key Features Explained in Under 15 Minutes
  27. Go synctest: Solving Flaky Tests
  28. vmalert: Maximize Your Monitoring (Tech Talk Companion)
  29. Celebrating 14K Stars on GitHub: Spring Update
  30. vmalert: Maximize Your Monitoring
  31. VictoriaMetrics Components: Getting Started
  32. VictoriaMetrics Connects with the Open Source Community at LinuxFest Northwest 2025
  33. Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns
  34. VictoriaLogs: Gaps, Gains & Growth
  35. Prometheus Monitoring: Functions, Subqueries, Operators, and Modifiers
  36. VictoriaMetrics Cloud: What's New in Q1 2025?
  37. Don’t default to microservices: You’ll thank us later!
  38. Container CPU Requests & Limits Explained with GOMAXPROCS Tuning
  39. gRPC in Go: Streaming RPCs, Interceptors, and Metadata
  40. From Chaos to Clarity with VictoriaLogs
  41. Prometheus Alerting 101: Rules, Recording Rules, and Alertmanager
  42. Heading to London: Meet Our Team at KubeCon Europe 2025
  43. Inside vmselect: The Query Processing Engine of VictoriaMetrics
  44. Meet Our Team at Scale 22x
  45. Practical Protobuf - From Basic to Best Practices
  46. VictoriaLogs Status Update: Heading Towards the Cluster Version
  47. 24th of February 2025 Statement: VictoriaMetrics Stands with Ukraine!
  48. Prometheus Metrics Explained: Counters, Gauges, Histograms & Summaries
  49. Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained
  50. 300%+ Growth in 2024: Join Our Team in 2025!
  51. FOSDEM 2025 recap
  52. How Protobuf Works—The Art of Data Encoding
  53. OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and More: Which Is Better for Metrics Collection and Propagation?
  54. How vmstorage Handles Query Requests From vmselect
  55. How vmstorage's IndexDB Works
  56. VictoriaMetrics Tech Talk Stream: A Deep Dive into Blackbox Monitoring
  57. How HTTP/2 Works and How to Enable It in Go
  58. VictoriaMetrics Cloud: What's New in Q4 2024?

2024 42

  1. How vmstorage Processes Data: Retention, Merging, Deduplication,...
  2. How vmstorage Handles Data Ingestion From vminsert
  3. When Metrics Meet vminsert: A Data-Delivery Story
  4. From net/rpc to gRPC in Go Applications
  5. VictoriaMetrics helps IHI Terrasun Win Big in Vegas on $1.2B Clean Energy Project
  6. Weak Pointers in Go: Why They Matter Now
  7. How vmagent Collects and Ships Metrics Fast with Aggregation, Deduplication, and More
  8. VictoriaMetrics Efficiently Simplifies Log Complexity with VictoriaLogs
  9. VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection: What's New in Q3 2024?
  10. Go Runtime Finalizer and Keep Alive
  11. Go sync.Once is Simple... Does It Really?
  12. Meet Our Team at KubeCon North America 2024
  13. Monitoring Azure AKS & Azure Linux with VictoriaMetrics
  14. Go I/O Closer, Seeker, WriterTo, and ReaderFrom
  15. Go I/O Readers, Writers, and Data in Motion
  16. Go sync.Map: The Right Tool for the Right Job
  17. Inside Go's Unique Package: String Interning Simplified
  18. Go Singleflight Melts in Your Code, Not in Your DB
  19. Go sync.Cond, the Most Overlooked Sync Mechanism
  20. The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases
  21. Go sync.WaitGroup and The Alignment Problem
  22. Community Question: High Churn Rate Without New Time Series?
  23. Open Source Software Licenses vs Revenue Growth Rates
  24. Slices in Go: Grow Big or Go Home
  25. Go sync.Pool and the Mechanics Behind It
  26. VictoriaMetrics Cloud reduces monitoring costs by 5x
  27. Go Maps Explained: How Key-Value Pairs Are Actually Stored
  28. Go sync.Mutex: Normal and Starvation Mode
  29. Troubleshooting Time Series Databases: Where Did My Metrics Go?
  30. How Go Arrays Work and Get Tricky with For-Range
  31. Golang Defer: From Basic To Traps
  32. VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection: What's New in H1 2024?
  33. Vendoring, or go mod vendor: What Is It?
  34. Q2 2024 Round Up: VictoriaMetrics & VictoriaLogs Updates
  35. Monitoring Proxmox VE via VictoriaMetrics Cloud
  36. Introduction to Managed Monitoring
  37. How to reduce expenses on monitoring: be smarter about data
  38. VictoriaMetrics slashes data storage bills by 90% with world’s most cost-efficient monitoring
  39. How ilert Can Help Enhance Your Monitoring With Its VictoriaMetrics Integration
  40. Comparing Performance and Resource Usage: Grafana Agent vs. Prometheus Agent Mode vs. VictoriaMetrics vmagent
  41. VictoriaMetrics Machine Learning takes monitoring to the next level
  42. How to reduce expenses on monitoring: Swapping in VictoriaMetrics for Prometheus

2023 27

  1. 5 Year Anniversary Celebrations
  2. Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: sync.Pool for CPU-bound operations
  3. VictoriaMetrics Enterprise, the World’s Fastest Open-Source-Based Monitoring: Try It for Free
  4. Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data: Techniques and Models
  5. Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: Limiting concurrency
  6. Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: function caching
  7. Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: strings interning
  8. Momentum: Announcing 268 Million Downloads & 320% Growth in 2023
  9. Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data: Anomaly Types
  10. Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data: An Introduction
  11. VictoriaMetrics Long-Term Support (LTS): Current State
  12. Monitoring Kubernetes costs with OpenCost and VictoriaMetrics
  13. The BSL is a short-term fix: Why we choose open source
  14. Why we generate & collect logs: About the usability & cost of modern logging systems
  15. Q2 Round Up: Roadmap Review & Q3 2023 Look Ahead
  16. VictoriaMetrics bolsters move from monitoring to observability with VictoriaLogs release
  17. Never-firing alerts: What they are and how to deal with them
  18. How to use VictoriaMetrics for monitoring with Netdata Agent
  19. Q1 Roadmap Review & Q2 2023 Look Ahead
  20. Releasing Graphite Query Language in Open Source VictoriaMetrics
  21. Save network costs with VictoriaMetrics remote write protocol
  22. 24th of February 2023 - Statement
  23. VictoriaMetrics Long-Term Support (LTS): Commitment, Current and Next LTS Versions
  24. Rules backfilling via vmalert
  25. Monitoring the Universe & Beyond: Our 2022 in Review
  26. Monitoring benchmark: how to generate 100 million samples/s of production-like data
  27. Latest updates about backup components of VictoriaMetrics

2022 17

  1. Meet the VictoriaMetrics team at KubeCon NA, OSMC & OSA Con 2022
  2. Cardinality explorer
  3. VictoriaMetrics Monitoring
  4. Grafana Mimir and VictoriaMetrics: performance tests
  5. How to Decommission a vmstorage Node from a VictoriaMetrics Cluster
  6. How to Choose a Scalable Open Source Time Series Database: The Cost of Scale
  7. vmagent High-Availability Examples
  8. Status Update: Our Team Is Safe and VictoriaMetrics Continues Full Speed Ahead
  9. Q1/2022 Release Roundup: Announcing VictoriaMetrics v1.76 & More
  10. Pricing comparison for Managed Prometheus
  11. Running VictoriaMetrics on ARM-based processors
  12. VictoriaMetrics Statement re: Attack on Ukraine
  13. Managed VictoriaMetrics announcement
  14. Benchmarking Prometheus-compatible time series databases
  15. Vicky User Community 2021: Thank You for the Contributions!
  16. What’s new in VictoriaMetrics 2021?
  17. With 36M+ Downloads, VictoriaMetrics Skyrockets to New Heights: 2021 in Review

2001 25

  1. Piros | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  2. Allenta | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  3. CloudRaft | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  4. Sensedia & VictoriaMetrics: API-compatible Efficient Storage
  5. Scalable Prometheus: Why DSV Chose VictoriaMetrics
  6. Sensor Factory | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  7. Erythix | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  8. Groove X & VictoriaMetrics: Faster Device Health Monitoring
  9. Scaled & Performant Monitoring at Spotify with VictoriaMetrics
  10. Grammarly & VictoriaMetrics: 10× Lower Costs & Direct Access
  11. Zelarsoft | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  12. DFKI & VictoriaMetrics: Efficient Long-Term Metric Storage
  13. Niubits | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  14. Megazone Cloud | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  15. Cogito Software | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  16. Bajau | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  17. Find Out Why Dig Security Chose VictoriaMetrics!
  18. Ness | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  19. Alpha Data | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  20. SIOS Technology | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  21. 4data | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  22. Proservability | VictoriaMetrics Partner
  23. MongoDB
  24. VictoriaMetrics Community Support | Join the Conversation
  25. VictoriaMetrics Enterprise Support | 24/7 Expert Assistance