Many “LLM observability with OpenTelemetry” tutorials stop at a single chat.completions span. That works for a demo, but it leaves gaps once an agent fans out into 30 tool calls, two vector-DB queries, three handoffs, and a 90-second tail latency you need to attribute. This post wires the OpenLIT SDK (50+ instrumentations, OTel GenAI semantic conventions, one line of code) into the full VictoriaMetrics observability stack and shows query examples that turn agent telemetry into decisions.
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By Phuong Le
If you run VictoriaLogs, your day-to-day comes down to three things: sending logs, querying them, and setting retention so the disk does not fill up. Everything else happens quietly on disk.
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By Pablo Fernandez
The VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack included two releases for VictoriaMetrics and a new LTS release for the VictoriaMetrics Operator in May. We’ve also published two detailed articles in the last few weeks: This release roundup covers updates for.
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By Vadim Rutkovsky
VictoriaMetrics Operator has been developing at a neck-breaking pace, bringing numerous improvements, features, and fixes to our community. We usually make at least a single release every two weeks. While this rapid iteration cycle is great for delivering fixes and improvements quickly, it can be challenging for administrators managing critical production environments.
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By Pablo Fernandez
We always knew that Airbnb’s engineering is operating on a completely different scale, and their new high-volume metrics pipeline is proof of that. This is one of those rare stories where scale and efficiency go hand in hand - they modernized their observability stack with open source components and reduced cost by an order of magnitude. Airbnb is now processing more than 100 million samples per second on a single production cluster.
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By Pablo Fernandez
Observability in large companies is rarely one-size-fits-all. The VictoriaMetrics topologies guide shows why different deployment patterns are needed as scale, isolation, and reliability requirements grow. Different workloads require different trade-offs: some need long retention for audits and trend analysis, while others need higher resolution for debugging. Business-critical systems also demand dependable alerting and high availability, often with several 9s of reliability.
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By Pablo Fernandez
We’re excited to learn that our vmagent helped Airbnb migrate its high-volume metrics pipeline from StatsD and Veneur to OpenTelemetry. Airbnb is now handling 100 million samples per second. You can read more about the migration in these articles: In other news, April saw releases across the VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack. We have released several important bugfixes for VictoriaMetrics and many new features in VictoriaLogs. This release round-up covers updates for.
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By Pablo Fernandez
Observability in software is often framed as a choice between self-hosted and SaaS: manage it yourself, or pay a vendor to handle your data. Both self-hosted and SaaS approaches have their merits, but assuming you must choose one exclusively over the other leads to poor trade-offs: either overcommitting to an all-in-one SaaS despite spiraling costs, or fully self-hosting when it’s unnecessary.
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By Diana Todea
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam brought together about 13,500 attendees this year, the largest turnout yet. The size of the event showed just how much the cloud-native space has grown, and how central observability, platform engineering, and cost control have become. For VictoriaMetrics, this year’s event was a mix of talks, booth conversations, and a lot of direct feedback from users.
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By Fred Navruzov
Following our 2025 updates, here we recap how VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection evolved in Q1 2026. Stay tuned for upcoming content on anomaly detection.
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By VictoriaMetrics
In this episode, we explore neurodiversity in tech and beyond with guests Carl Alexander and Zach Stepek. They share firsthand experiences of what has helped them thrive as neurodivergent professionals and what has not. Together, they discuss the importance of community as a key factor in empowerment, growth, and long-term success for neurodivergent individuals in both work and life. PlayList Resources for Further Learning.
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By VictoriaMetrics
AI coding assistants are already emitting rich OpenTelemetry data — revealing prompts, tool usage, workflows, and developer behavior in real time. Resources for Further Learning.
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By VictoriaMetrics
Telemetry Talks explores how OpenTelemetry’s CNCF graduation arrives at a pivotal moment for AI-powered development. Together with Alex Marshalov, we dive into vibe coding, AI agents, and the growing need for observability in GenAI systems — from prompts and token usage to reasoning chains and distributed traces — using the VictoriaMetrics stack and OpenTelemetry as the foundation for understanding the next generation of autonomous software.
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By VictoriaMetrics
In this episode of DevEx Talks, Mike Gifford shares his perspective on accessibility in today’s tech landscape, drawing from his extensive experience in the field. Together, we explore how well accessibility is currently defined, whether the industry is truly meeting the needs of professionals who rely on it, and what gaps still exist. We also discuss the growing importance of accessibility within Developer Relations and where the biggest opportunities lie to create more inclusive tools, communities, and workflows.
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By VictoriaMetrics
Now you can download massive logs in CSV without crashing your browser in VictoriaLogs. Resources for Further Learning.
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By VictoriaMetrics
vmanomaly has now AI Copilot in the UI, with the help of MCP. Resources for Further Learning.
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By VictoriaMetrics
What keeps tech people motivated? Is it a good tech challenge or a life-work balance? Elif, CNCF Ambassador, explains. Resources for Further Learning.
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By VictoriaMetrics
In this short, our software engineer Zhu Jiekun, explains how retroactive sampling can reduce trace traffic and ingestion costs by sending minimal data for sampling decisions and retrieving full spans only when needed—at the cost of added system complexity. Resources for Further Learning.
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By VictoriaMetrics
This episode of Telemetry Talks explores the evolution of an OTLP/gRPC tracing pipeline for VictoriaTraces within OpenTelemetry and VictoriaMetrics, including a shift from standard gRPC-Go to a simplified HTTP/2-based implementation to reduce complexity and improve flexibility. Together with the our guest, Jiekun, we revisited the VictoriaMetrics KubeCon talk ideas on tail-based and retroactive sampling — and their impact on the broader OpenTelemetry community.
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