Welcome to the recording for the first VictoriaMetrics User Meet Up live-streamed on our YouTube Channel. Our Founders team discussed 2022 highlights, including features highlights, the 2023 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, discussed the latest & greatest on Managed VictoriaMetrics - and we finished the meet up with an 'Ask Me Anything' session. Thanks for all the questions and the discussion! Enjoy the recording :-)

Welcome & Introduction - Roman Khavronenko

2022 Features Highlights - Speaker: Aliaksandr Valialkin

• MetricsQL Features
• Support for @ modifier
• keep_metric_names modifier
• Advanced label filters’ propagation
• Automatic label filters’ propagation
• Support for short numeric constants
• Distributed query tracing!
• New functions
• vmui Features
• Cardinality explorer!
• Top queries
• Significantly improved usability and stability!
• vmagent Features
• Fetch target response on behalf of vmagent
• Filter targets by url and labels
• /service-discovery page
• Relabel debugging!
• support for absolute __address__
• New service discovery mechanisms
• Multi-tenant support
• Performance improvements
• Relabeling Features
• Conditional relabeling
• Named label placeholders
• Graphite-style relabeling
• vmalert Features
• Better integration with Grafana alerts
• Reusable templates for annotations
• Debugging of alerting rules
• Improved compatibility with Prometheus
• vmctl Features
• Migrate all the data between clusters
• Data migration via Prometheus remote_read protocol

Enterprise Features

• mTLS support
• vmgateway JWT token enhancements
• Automatic restore from backups
• Automatic vmstorage discovery
• Multiple retentions

Various Enhancements

• Environment vars can be referred in command-line flags
• Performance improvements
• Deduplication and downsampling improvements
• Support for metrics push
• Support for Pushgateway data ingestion format
• VictoriaMetrics cluster: multitenancy enhancements
• vmbackup / vmrestore: Azure blob storage
• Official MacOS builds
• Official FreeBSD and OpenBSD builds
• Raspberry PI optimizations
• LTS releases

2023 VictoriaMetrics Roadmap - Roman Khavronenko

• Grafana datasource plugin
• OpenTelemetry ingestion protocol support
• Streaming aggregation
• vmalert: UI for rules management
• vmalert hysteresis support
• vmui explore tab
• VictoriaLogs

The latest on Managed VictoriaMetrics

• What is Managed VictoriaMetrics?
• Features
• VictoriaMetrics Cluster and Single Version with Enterprise features
• Downsampling, Retention Filters and more features are available
• UI for ad-hoc queries and exploration
• Native integration with VictoriaMetrics or other monitoring stack
• Secured access
• Automatic version upgrades using rolling update strategy
• Support from VictoriaMetrics team
• SLA
• What's Under the Hood?
• Kubernetes and VictoriaMetrics Operator
• Karpenter for autoscalling
• Automated backups and restoration with VM BackupManager Enterprise
• Access management with VMAuth
• Roadmap
• Alternative payment providers
• Alerting and Recording rules
• UX/UI redesign
• Integrate more notification systems
• Private links in AWS
• SOC(2) compliance
• More cloud providers
• Everything that’s in VictoriaMetrics roadmap

Ask me anything session

• Watch the video :-)

#victoriametrics #opensource #timeseries #database #monitoring #prometheus #grafana

Thanks to everyone who attended, enjoy the recording!

Please post your questions or comments here under the video.