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What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q4 2025? New tiers, more deployment options, IaC and alerting rules.

2025 has been quite a year! As we enter into 2026, we want to share all the great features that VictoriaMetrics Cloud has brought in the last quarter. Remember that this Quarterly Live Update is available in video format as well here: Let’s get to it!

Easy Guide for Connecting Redis to a Grafana Data Source

Redis is a widely used in-memory data store, commonly deployed as a cache, session store, message broker, or fast key-value database. Because Redis often sits on the critical path of an application, having visibility into its behavior (memory usage, client connections, command throughput, cache efficiency) is essential for troubleshooting and performance tuning.

Vibe coding tools observability with VictoriaMetrics Stack and OpenTelemetry

AI-powered coding assistants have transformed how developers write software. Tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, and OpenCode have introduced what many call “vibe coding” — a new paradigm where users describe their intent and AI agents handle the implementation details. But as these tools become integral to development workflows, a critical question emerges: how do we understand what’s happening under the hood?

Five Ways to Simplify Data Masking | The Tony and Tonie Show Ep 38

5 signs your data masking is fast, secure, and low-maintenance. Can you protect PII, still deliver realistic test data, and design a data masking solution that’s easy to automate and maintain? Tony and Tonie discuss five key traits of a tool that does just that. Read the full article.

Two Small Steps to Measurable Flyway Value | The Tony and Tonie show Ep40

Two small steps with Flyway. Fast, measurable value without disruption, even on fragile legacy databases. Tony and Tonie explore how two simple Flyway integration steps deliver fast, measurable value: more visible change, more reliable migrations, and fewer code issues, all without disrupting your existing development workflow.

Layers of Trust: How to Protect Financial Data from the Inside Out

Prior to working for a software company, I spent most of my career working for financial organizations. I have lots of friends who still do. Talking with one the other day, the question came up, what keeps you up at night? Her one word response was a little surprising: Fraud. Understand, she’s in charge of managing data at a bank. You’d expect maybe uptime, performance, high availability, any of the standard data management worries. Instead, it’s fraud.

Easiest Way to Connect InfluxDB to a Grafana Data Source

InfluxDB is a widely used time-series database designed for storing and querying metrics, events, and telemetry data. It’s commonly used for infrastructure monitoring, application instrumentation, and IoT-style workloads where time-based data is central. In many environments, InfluxDB already exists as part of the monitoring or data collection pipeline, and the primary need is simply to visualize that data effectively.

C# Equivalent of the TINYINT Data Type in SQL

TINYINT is one of the simplest numeric data types you can ever work with in SQL databases. It stores small numeric values, saves space, and is commonly used for flags, statuses, and boolean-like fields. But the moment you bring C# into the picture, things get intriguing. There is no TINYINT keyword in C#, and no one-to-one mapping you can use. Instead, you are left asking an important question: What is the correct C# equivalent of the TINYINT data type in SQL?