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Seeing that VictoriaMetrics products are this popular with engineers worldwide is fantastic: Just a little over a year ago, we hit 10K stars, and with the adoption of VictoriaLogs, the star count now went beyond 14K. We don’t take these GitHub Stars milestones for granted: It’s amazing to see these stats grow organically thanks to the community of users out there who use our products. Thank you so much!

This article introduces the key components of VictoriaMetrics and explains how they work together as part of a complete monitoring system. VictoriaMetrics is a top-tier monitoring solution known for its speed and low-resource consumption. It includes components for monitoring, alerting, data visualization, querying, scraping, incremental backups, and more.

Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained This discussion is part of the basic monitoring series, an effort to clarify monitoring concepts for both beginners and experienced users.

Time flies, and just like that, we are already in April! The first quarter of 2025 has been packed with exciting updates for VictoriaMetrics Cloud. If you joined our latest Quarterly Virtual Meetup, you might have already seen some of these announcements alongside other great improvements across all things VictoriaMetrics. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what’s new in VictoriaMetrics Cloud.

Don’t default to microservices: You’ll thank us later! Donald Knuth, professor emeritus at Stanford University and “father” of algorithm analysis, once said – now quite famously – that “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” It’s one of those sayings that all engineers know, most understand, and many struggle to follow through on consistently. What Knuth misses in this pithy, memorable quote is the fact that evil is tempting.

Alerting Rules, Recording Rules, and Alertmanager This discussion is part of the basic monitoring series, an effort to eliminate confusion in monitoring for both beginners and experienced users.

This piece is part of our ongoing VictoriaMetrics series, where we break down how different components of the system function: Inside vmselect: The Query Processing Engine of VictoriaMetrics.

Today, we’re thrilled to share the latest updates on VictoriaLogs, your trusted open-source solution for efficient and user-friendly log management. Whether you’re just discovering VictoriaLogs or have been using it for a while, this post will walk you through the recent enhancements and give you a sneak peek at the much anticipated cluster version that’s on the horizon.

Prometheus Metrics Explained: Counters, Gauges, Histograms & Summaries This discussion is the first part of the basic monitoring series, an effort to eliminate confusion in monitoring for both beginners and experienced users.

Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained Over the years, we’ve received many questions about MetricsQL/PromQL, even from experienced users—especially regarding range queries and instant queries. This article is basic but turns out to be really important to explain why your query behaves the way it does. This discussion is part of the basic monitoring series, an effort to eliminate confusion in monitoring for both beginners and experienced users.