Share: VictoriaMetrics is a monitoring solution. It was designed to collect and process telemetry from many systems, provide a retrospective view, and forecast metrics for capacity planning. But what about monitoring VictoriaMetrics itself? There is one of the software development approaches called Observability Driven Development (ODD). In a nutshell, it means that developers should always keep in mind that software needs to be transparent to the person who uses it. Does your software make backups?

Grafana Labs Mimir is a new time series database under AGPLv3-license. The engineering team did a great job by taking the best from Cortex TSDB, reducing its complexity and improving scalability in the same time. According to tests by Grafana Labs, Mimir can scale to a billion active time series and 50 million samples/s ingestion rate.