Watch the recording of the first VictoriaMetrics User Meet Up in 2023 live-streamed on our YouTube Channel.

Our Founders team discussed Q1 2023 highlights, including features highlights, the 2023 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics, a first introduction to the upcoming VictoriaLogs - and we finished the meet up with an 'Ask Me Anything' session. Thanks for all the questions and the discussion! Enjoy the recording :-)

Meetup Agenda:

Welcome & Introductions - Roman Khavronenko

Overview of the Latest Features - Roman Khavronenko & Aliaksandr Valialkin

VictoriaMetrics 2023 Q1 Stats

• 180+ issues
• 260+ PRs
• 40 contributors
• 12 releases, from 1.86 to 1.89:
• 114 FEATURES
• 103 BUG FIXES

What's new in VictoriaMetrics at Q1 2023 - Roman Khavronenko & Aliaksandr Valialkin

• vmui Features
• Dark theme
• Explore mode
• Sticky tooltips
• Cardinality explorer
• vmalert: GCS and S3 support for config rules
• Streaming Aggregation
• Use cases & benefits
• Usage & examples
• VictoriaMetrics Remote Write Protocol
• vmauth improvements

Roadmap Review/Update (upcoming) - Roman Khavronenko

• Grafana Data Source Plugin
• Grafana datasource plugin: query trace
• OpenTelemetry ingestion protocol support
• vmalert: UI for rules management
• vmalert: hysteresis support
• vmui explore tab

VictoriaLogs Preview - Aliaksandr Valialkin

• Existing open source log management systems
• ELK (ElasticSearch) stack: Pros & Cons
• Grafana Loki: Pros & Cons
• What is VictoriaLogs
• Open source log management system from VictoriaMetrics
• Easy to setup and operate
• Scales vertically and horizontally
• Optimized for low resource usage (CPU, RAM, disk space)
• Accepts data from Logstash and Fluentbit in Elasticsearch format
• Accepts data from Promtail in Loki format
• Supports stream concept from Loki
• Provides easy to use yet powerful query language - LogsQL
• LogsQL Examples
• Search by time
• Full-text search
• Combining search queries
• Searching arbitrary labels
• Log Streams
• What is a log stream?
• LogsQL examples: querying log streams
• Stream labels vs log labels
• LogsQL: stats over access logs
• VictoriaLogs: CLI Integration
• VictoriaLogs Recap

Where to Find VictoriaMetrics - Jean-Jérôme Schmidt-Soisson

AMA Session - ALL

• Watch the video :-)

#victoriametrics #opensource #timeseries #database #monitoring #prometheus #grafana #logs #cardinality #streaming

Thanks to everyone who attended, enjoy the recording!

Please post your questions or comments here under the video.

0:00 Intro & Warm Up

3:48 What's new in VictoriaMetrics at Q1 2023 - Roman Khavronenko

32:30 VictoriaLogs Preview - Aliaksandr Valialkin
1:22:00 Where to find VictoriaMetrics - Jean-Jérôme Schmidt-Soisson
1:27:25 AMA session