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We’re currently at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, and it’s a great opportunity to connect with the community and share some of the progress we’ve made this year. It’s been a busy period of development, new releases, and community engagement, all guided by our focus on delivering simple, reliable, and efficient monitoring & observability solutions.

Nowadays, AI agents are becoming more and more popular and often deployed as part of production systems. However, this rapid adoption brings unique observability challenges that require flexible solutions. On the one hand, AI agents are fundamentally just like any other software services that produce the same classic observability signals we’re familiar with: metrics, logs, and traces.

The third quarter of 2025 has been a busy one for VictoriaMetrics Cloud! We expanded globally, polished the user experience, introduced new enterprise debugging tools, and delivered smarter alerts to help users make the most of their observability data. If you missed our Quarterly Live Update, don’t worry! You can watch the full recording here: Let’s recap what’s new in VictoriaMetrics Cloud this quarter.

For any growing business, there comes a point where the tools that once worked perfectly begin to show their limits. This is especially true for monitoring infrastructure. As your user base, services, and data volumes expand, the pressure on your monitoring stack intensifies. For web hosting leader DreamHost, with over 1.5 million websites to manage, their existing open-source solutions simply couldn’t keep up.

Open source defies everything you’ve ever heard or learned about business before (author’s quote). Yes, open source software has been around since the 90s, but there’s still little else like it. If anything, as time has gone on, we’ve added adjacent concepts like “open core” and “source available” that have added complexity to a model that isn’t that straight forward to grasp to begin with. VictoriaMetrics is an open source company.

The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop is a widely used demonstration environment designed to illustrate the concepts and practical implementation of observability in distributed systems. Built as a microservice-based e-commerce application, the demo provides developers with a near real-world environment where they can explore how telemetry data—metrics, logs, and traces—can be collected, processed, and visualized.

A firing alert is like someone ringing your doorbell - it demands your immediate attention, interrupting whatever else you’re doing. It requires focus and a quick response. But imagine trying to live in an apartment where the doorbell never stops ringing. You could put in earplugs to block the noise, but that only masks the problem - it doesn’t solve it. On the other hand, disconnecting the doorbell entirely isn’t a solution either.

I was thrilled to host our latest tech talk, where we got to do a deep dive into vmanomaly with the best possible guests: Fred Navruzov, the actual team lead for the product, and Co-Host, Matthias Palmersheim. We covered a ton of ground, from high-level concepts to the nitty-gritty of configuration. For everyone who couldn’t make it, I wanted to share my personal recap of the most important technical takeaways from our conversation.

VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams This VictoriaLogs article serves as a quick way to grasp the core concepts of VictoriaLogs. It covers only the most important information from the documentation, along with common cases identified after troubleshooting many real-world scenarios. If you’re just getting started with VictoriaLogs, this is a great place to begin. For more in-depth or advanced details, refer to the official documentation.

Q2 2025 has brought another wave of improvements to VictoriaMetrics Cloud! If you tuned in to our latest Quarterly Virtual Meetup, you saw firsthand how we’re making observability even more accessible, powerful, and interactive.