San Francisco, CA, USA
2018
  |  By PF Pablo Fernandez
The best thing that can happen to an open-source project is to find its way into some of the world’s largest technology companies. In September 2026, this happened twice in one week: VictoriaMetrics is now officially bundled in the self-managed edition of NVIDIA’s Cloud Functions, and I learned that CoreWeave is using VictoriaMetrics as the metrics backend for all of its infrastructure customers. Both companies adopted VictoriaMetrics independently.
  |  By MS Michelle Sebek
What actually makes a logging system fast? That was the question behind Tech Talk. And if you were expecting the answer to be a collection of clever Go optimizations, Jesús Espino, Principal Engineer at VictoriaMetrics, made an important point pretty early in our conversation: A huge part of VictoriaLogs’ performance comes from architecture and data structures. The micro-optimizations come later. Now that gave my Tech Talk partner in crime, Mathias Palmersheim, and me plenty to dig into.
  |  By MS Michelle Sebek
Modern systems, due to their distributed nature, rarely fail in simple ways. A request might pass through an API gateway, several microservices, a database, a message queue, and a third-party service before a response ever reaches a user. When something slows down or breaks, knowing that something is wrong is only the beginning. You need to figure out.
  |  By PF Pablo Fernandez
VictoriaLogs now runs in production everywhere, and many teams running it have told us the same thing: everyone wants new features, but it’s hard to keep upgrading their logging backend every few weeks. They want the mix of stability and up-to-date security that only LTS releases can satisfy. We’re happy to announce the first Long Term Support (LTS) release of VictoriaLogs: v1.52.1. This is the start of a new v1.52.x LTS line.
  |  By PF Pablo Fernandez
Another month whooshed by, bringing a slew of updates: 3 vmanomaly and 2 VictoriaMetrics releases, and new versions of vmestimator, VictoriaTraces, and our first ever LTS release of VictoriaLogs. This brings 12 months of stability to VictoriaLogs Enterprise users. But the big one was the launch of VictoriaTraces on VictoriaMetrics Cloud. Finally, we can offer a complete managed observability stack with metrics, logs, and traces. We run it, you use it. This ecosystem update includes.
  |  By JE Jesús Espino
Imagine this: you are testing the performance of some part of your application. Everything is going smoothly, the numbers look good, and as a last check you turn on Go’s race detector. Then, out of nowhere, it prints a warning you didn’t expect: So you look at it. You look at it again, and again, and you think: “What the…?” The race is between your code and a goroutine you never started, somewhere deep inside net/http. You have no idea how that is possible, or why.
  |  By MS Michelle Sebek
I’m not the one whose phone lights up at 3 a.m. when production breaks. But I’ve spent years working alongside the engineers who are, and I’ve noticed that observability migrations happen for two reasons. Either engineering needed one, or, far more often, a quote landed that looked too good to refuse. The engineers rarely regret the first kind. The second kind they tell me about in year two, usually with a renewal notice in hand.
  |  By JE Jesús Espino
Most of the time, when we read a file, we do not think much about what happens underneath. You ask for some bytes, you get some bytes. But when getting data off the disk efficiently is at the core of what your application does, what happens underneath starts to matter a great deal, and two identical read() calls can differ enormously in what they cost. So in this post we are going to look at one of the Linux kernel’s optimizations for reading files: readahead.
  |  By PF Pablo Fernandez
Earlier this year, we launched VictoriaLogs in VictoriaMetrics Cloud, bringing fast and cost-effective log management to everyone. Today we launch the final major step toward full observability: VictoriaTraces is now available to all cloud users. With this release, you can now manage all three signals, metrics, logs, and traces, in one place with the predictable pricing, reliability, and the operational simplicity you’ve come to expect from VictoriaMetrics.
  |  By Michelle Sebek
It’s not the outage, it’s the stretch before you know what actually broke In short: VictoriaMetrics Enterprise support is expertise, not a ticket queue. It’s reactive by design (you reach engineers who know the stack when something breaks), with one proactive service, Monitoring of Monitoring, that watches the health of your VictoriaMetrics observability stack (metrics, logs, and traces).
  |  By VictoriaMetrics
Telemetry Talks episode 8 is here We sat down with OTel maintainers to talk about the future of the community, GenAI semantic conventions, contributing beyond code, OTel in Practice, and what they’re currently building, writing, organizing, and experimenting with across the CloudNative and OpenSource ecosystem. A conversation about where OTel is today and what comes next. Playlist Resources for Further Learning.
  |  By VictoriaMetrics
What if your alerts were based on anomalies instead of static thresholds? This short explores how anomaly scores help build more adaptive, reliable alerts that respond to changing system behavior. Resources for Further Learning.
  |  By VictoriaMetrics
Go is fast because of decisions most engineers never see. Jesus walks through how VictoriaMetrics uses Go to process logs at scale, the tradeoffs behind those choices, and what breaks if you get them wrong. If you write Go or run log pipelines, this is 30 minutes worth blocking your calendar for. Resources for Further Learning.
  |  By VictoriaMetrics
In this episode, we continue to dive into the workshop we hosted at Cloud Native Days Romania in May, together with our guest, Fred Navruzov, correlating OpenTelemetry with anomaly detection. Furthermore we explore how the VictoriaMetrics MCP server and skills bring AI-powered observability to your workflows. Learn how to detect anomalies faster and interact with your metrics, logs and traces using natural language.
  |  By VictoriaMetrics
An engineer in an incident does not have a metrics problem, a logs problem and a traces problem. They have one question, and answering it today means opening three interfaces and retyping the same timestamp, service name and tenant into each one.
  |  By VictoriaMetrics
The OpenTelemetry Collector presets are a great way to start collecting Kubernetes metrics.
  |  By VictoriaMetrics
In this episode, we explore how to build a modern Kubernetes observability stack using open-source technologies such as VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Grafana. Based on a step by step workshop we gave at Cloud Native Days Romania in May, Jose is walking us through it with practical examples. Playlist Resources for Further Learning.
  |  By VictoriaMetrics
Warm up Community News VictoriaTraces roadmap Update VictoriaMetrics roadmap updates Community Story by Kirill Kobylianskii from Trade Republic:"Running VictoriaMetrics and Mimir Side by Side at ~100M active series" Anomaly Detection Updates VictoriaMetrics Cloud Updates VictoriaLogs roadmap Update AMA session.
  |  By VictoriaMetrics
Resources for Further Learning.
  |  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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