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August is a month when things typically quiet down. At VictoriaMetrics, however, we kept up the pace. This month saw two VictoriaMetrics releases, vmanomaly updates, a new Tech Talk, and great blog posts from the VictoriaMetrics team you might have missed.

Tech Talks went dark for a few months, and on episode 13 I finally got to ask why. Mathias Palmersheim’s answer, delivered completely straight, was that his users were unhappy with the availability and usability of their feeders and their litter box, and he wasn’t allowed back on stream until that got fixed. The users are two dogs and two cats, and they have titles. Maisie, a Shiba Inu who came to him through a rescue, is the recently promoted chief executive pawofficer.

Every number on your dashboards has a life story. It is born somewhere inside a running process, lives for a while as a few bytes in memory, travels across the network, settles down on a disk in some compressed shape, gets queried thousands of times, slowly loses its resolution as it ages, and is eventually deleted and forgotten forever.