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The Importance of Community Knowledge in Tech

Tools alone aren’t enough. How you use them and the expertise you tap into make all the difference. In this Short, we explore why even the best tools need the proper guidance to unlock their full potential. Open-source communities are goldmines of knowledge and support Connecting with experts can save you serious time and headaches While enterprise support is valuable, the community often has your back. Get practical tips to get the most out of your tools, and remember: it’s not just what you use; it’s how you connect, learn, and grow along the way.

How We Built VictoriaLogs Cluster: A CTO's

Go behind the scenes with the VictoriaMetrics team! In this special talk, Marc Sherwood is joined by our CTO, Alexander Marshalov, to explore our powerful, open-source logging solution, VictoriaLogs. This isn't just a feature showcase. This is a deep dive into the engineering mindset that drives our development. Alexander shares firsthand insights into why we built VictoriaLogs Cluster, the technical challenges of creating a distributed system for logs, and the core principles of simplicity and efficiency that guide our architecture.

Building a VictoriaMetrics PaaS: The What, Why, and "Easier Button" - Tech Talk #9

Ready to tame your monitoring complexity? Join Mathias and Marc for the first episode of our brand-new series dedicated to building a robust, scalable, and user-friendly VictoriaMetrics Platform as a Service (PaaS)! As organizations grow, managing monitoring infrastructure becomes a major challenge. This series provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building your own VictoriaMetrics-based PaaS to reduce developer friction, improve reliability, and save on costs.

Creating a Sustainable Open Source Business Model - Introduction

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.

LibreNMS + VictoriaMetrics: The Ultimate Monitoring Duo

Get the best of both worlds! Love LibreNMS but need more power for long-term metrics? Integrate it with VictoriaMetrics! We show you a surprisingly simple way to combine these two powerhouses for advanced querying and storage, and even how to A/B test your setup. Want more ways to power-up your monitoring stack? Subscribe for more integration guides and pro tips!

Bridging the Gap Integrating Logs Metrics and Flow for Observability

In this video, we discuss handling both old and new systems in IT environments. From legacy SNMP setups to modern telemetry, most organizations juggle multiple data sources, which can make observability feel overwhelming. We explore how to combine logs, metrics, and flow data into one system that provides actionable insights. You’ll see practical examples of simplifying scattered tools and making sense of complex, disparate information. Understanding how these different types of data work together is key to getting observability right.

Full-Stack Observability with VictoriaMetrics in the OTel Demo

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.

Nonsense Networking: Tech Talk #8

Ever feel like getting simple data from your network is way harder than it should be? You're not alone. With so many devices, the amount of data can be overwhelming, making it tough to see what's actually happening. In this stream, we're breaking down the common frustrations with network monitoring. We'll cover: The SNMP Problem: We'll start with why the "standard" method, SNMP, is often a pain. We'll look at the challenge of finding the right MIBs and OIDs just to get tools like Telegraf or Prometheus to work.

Alerting Best Practices

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.