Built a Mastodon observability stack over the weekend for toot.community: Grafana dashboards (web/sidekiq/streaming/edge), VictoriaMetrics rules, SLOs & alerts. The ultimate goal was to get meaningful symptom (user-facing) alerts and to learn about Jsonnet […] [Original post on toot.community]

With thanks to all our users & customers ❤️ Some of our team's key milestones this year: ✅ Hit one billion software downloads ✅ Released the much-requested cluster version of #VictoriaLogs ✅ Introduced our new open source database for traces, #VictoriaTraces

🎉 It’s the last day of #KubeCon North America in Atlanta! Come say hi to the #VictoriaMetrics team at booth #1241. We’re here until 2 PM.

Last call to visit #VictoriaMetrics at #KubeCon - Booth #1241! We are introducing #VictoriaTraces, our #OpenSource, user-friendly database designed for storing and querying distributed tracing data, built by the VictoriaMetrics team.

We're a fully remote team: We all work from where(ever) we happen to be, so conferences such as KubeCon are a great opportunity for us to meet our users & customers of course, but also to meet our colleagues - often in person for the first time 😇

Anomaly Detection at #KubeCon! 🛠️ Meet #VictoriaMetrics at KubeCon North America, November 10-13 - booth #1241, and explore how our tools can help you pinpoint issues and optimize your #Kubernetes deployments. #CloudNativeCon bit.ly/43977fO

We’re excited to kick off Day 1 at #KubeCon North America in Atlanta!🎉 #VictoriaMetrics is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of this incredible event. 📍 Come visit us at Booth 1241, our team is here to chat about #metrics, #logs, #traces, and #observability.

Meet VictoriaMetrics at #KubeCon! 🌟 Interested in a hosted monitoring solution? Discover the power of #VictoriaMetrics #Cloud from November 10-13 - booth #1241 at KubeCon North America. 🖥 We’ve got your monitoring needs covered. #CloudNativeCon bit.ly/43977fO #observability #monitoring

Day 1 photo collage for our team present in Atlanta this week at the #Observability Day and in preparation of #KubeCon starting today 😎

Start the week with a new VictoriaMetrics blog post on AI Agents Observability! ☕️ AI agents are gaining popularity and increasingly integrated into production environments. However, this fast adoption introduces new #observability challenges that call for adaptable, flexible solutions.

VictoriaMetrics will be at Open Source Summit Japan, Tokyo this year! #OSSummit Our Software Engineer, Zhu Jiekun, will be a co-speaker on the session related to Bilibili's Practice: Scaling Metrics Monitoring for 10,000 Applications With #VictoriaMetrics.

VictoriaMetrics #Cloud is our fully managed monitoring platform that effortlessly scales to billions of time series, giving you powerful, cost-predictable #observability without the operational hassle.

🇺🇸 Atlanta is Ready for Observability Solutions! #VictoriaMetrics is a Platinum Sponsor at Observability Day. Join us to explore the world of #observability, monitoring, incl. logs, traces & time series #databases for #Kubernetes users - and more.

@didiviking.bsky.social , #VictoriaMetrics Developer Advocate, will present "Cutting Through Metrics Cardinality Noise with VictoriaMetrics" at the #SREday in Amsterdam. In high-scale environments, metrics cardinality isn’t just a resource concern; it’s an architectural challenge.

#KubeCon #CNCF North America 2025 is one week away. Discover with #VictoriaMetrics (🥈 silver sponsor of the event) the latest trends on #TSDB, #traces, and open source #observability at our booth! November 10-13 - booth #1241 in Atlanta. 👇 bit.ly/43977fO #OpenSource

📈 #VictoriaLogs is your go-to, simple, reliable & cost-efficient logs solution that scales effortlessly. We've got you covered, whether it's high performance, open-source flexibility, or a robust logs #database.

🚀 Tech Talk #10 goes live in just 5 minutes! Ever wondered how actually to deploy a powerful observability backend? In VictoriaMetrics Tech Talk #9 Part 2, we're doing just that! We'll cover setting up Metrics, Logs, and Traces with the #Kubernetes Stack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBusZ9fuF-o

What Happens When Storage Is Full? 🤔 VictoriaMetrics is a fast and cost-effective time series database, often used as a backend for Prometheus setups. But what if your storage runs out? Check this cool guide where you can follow step by step how to fix this. bit.ly/4hU9Xfb #Monitoring #Observability

🚀 #VictoriaMetrics is a Silver Sponsor 🪙 at #KubeCon North America from November 10-13 - booth #1241! See you in Atlanta. 🗻☀️ Join us to explore the world of #observability with open source time series, logs & #traces #databases. bit.ly/43977fO #TechConference #OpenSource #CloudNativeCon

🟣 #VictoriaMetrics will say present as @OSODaycom - October 23-24: one of our co-founders, @hagen1778.bsky.social will present “Aggregating Metrics In-Flight: Challenges and Opportunities”.

Are you interested in #MCP? #VictoriaMetrics will say present as OPEN SOURCE OBSERVABILITY DAY 2025 - October 23-24: Alexander Marshalov will present “How to Use an AI Assistant with Your Monitoring System”.

Amazing PromCon EU 2025 edition in Munich 🇩🇪, ending up meeting the @juliusv.com & the Prometheus maintainers and contributors. Looking forward to the next edition👏

#SRE Day in London was great! One of our co-founders, @hagen1778.bsky.social presented “Aggregating Metrics In-Flight: Challenges and Opportunities”. One of the common practices for improving the query speed in #Prometheus is to create recording rules for commonly used queries.

🚀Ready to get hands-on with your #observability #PaaS? In Part 2 of our VictoriaMetrics Tech Talk series, we're diving deep into setting up VictoriaMetrics, #VictoriaLogs, and #VictoriaTraces in #Kubernetes! Learn how to deploy your core data stores the "easier" way. Don't miss out! bit.ly/42POe1E

PromCon 2025 kicks off tomorrow, the biggest conference for #Prometheus fans! 🎉 Come visit us at the #Google Offices in Munich, Germany 🇩🇪 on October 21–22, 2025. We're excited to catch up with the community, share our latest innovations, and chat all about #OpenSource monitoring and #observability.

🚀 How DreamHost Slashed Memory Usage by 80% & Scaled to 76M+ Time Series! As businesses grow, monitoring tools can reach their limits. DreamHost, which manages over 1.5M websites, faced high resource usage with open-source solutions.

🇫🇷 Tomorrow is the day! 🇫🇷 Join us for the #VictoriaMetrics #Meetup in Paris, hosted by Criteo Engineering! 📍 Location: Criteo HQ, Paris. 🕡 Time: 18:00

🚀 Go behind the scenes with the VictoriaMetrics team! In this special talk, Marc Sherwood is joined by our CTO, @valyala.bsky.social , to explore our powerful, open-source logging solution, VictoriaLogs.

#KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon North America 2025 is coming to Atlanta 🇺🇸, November 10-13 - booth #1241 #VictoriaMetrics, is a Silver Sponsor; get in touch at our booth, and learn more about #TSDB, logs management, #traces, and #Observability with our experts. Stay tuned! bit.ly/43977fO

🔍 This video explores the challenges of using network #monitoring tools like #Suricata in today’s encrypted environments. In the past, packet sniffing was simpler because most #network traffic was #unencrypted.

Join us for an exciting #VictoriaMetrics #Meetup in Paris, hosted by Criteo Engineering! 🗓️ When October 15th at 6 PM bit.ly/4lFcNEU

Join us at #Cloud Native Days #Austria! Our Developer Advocate, @didiviking.bsky.social , will present “From zero to #developer: my one year serendipity journey with #OpenTelemetry”. Becoming a contributor to an open-source project is a transformative step in any developer's career.

We are live now on our YouTube channel 👉https://www.youtube.com/live/Y_9Mu2hGWcE

We're only 1 month away from #PromCon 2025, the biggest conference for #Prometheus fans! Come visit us at the Google Offices in Munich, Germany, on October 21–22, 2025. #PromCon EU in #Berlin was one of our favourite conferences so far, and we're looking forward to the 2025 edition! bit.ly/4754IVS

#LTS releases are published for the #Enterprise versions of VictoriaMetrics and are designed for production workloads under #SLA, providing long-term support lines of releases for VictoriaMetrics customers.

I can recommend victorialogs (by @victoriametrics.bsky.social) for managing logs. It was very easy to setup (single binary) and very easy to import the data (just send a http POST with the log event in JSON) 😎

Open source defies everything you've ever heard or learned about business (author's quote).

Tomorrow, don't miss our Tech Talk #9 at 10 am PT | 6 pm GMT | 7 pm CET. Is your #monitoring infrastructure getting out of hand? Are your developers spending more time managing databases than shipping code? It might be time to think about building a Platform as a Service for #VictoriaMetrics.

St. Louis, Here we go! Mathias Palmersheim, VictoriaMetrics Solutions #Engineer, will present “Better Together: Leveraging Your #Observability Tools as a SIEM” at #DevOps Midwest 2025 - on September 18th at 3:30 PM CDT. 🌐 Don't miss out—save the date! 📅 bit.ly/4n6Cqjx #Monitoring #SIEM

Full-Stack #Observability with VictoriaMetrics in the OTel Demo The #OTel Astronomy Shop now runs on a unified backend: ✅ #VictoriaMetrics (metrics) ✅ #VictoriaLogs (logs) ✅ #VictoriaTraces (traces) 👉 Clone the #repo. Launch the environment bit.ly/4n3OTEC #OpenTelemetry

VictoriaMetrics present at - #SREday 2025 in UK 📍 Location: Everyman Canary Wharf 📅 September 18th at 4:30 PM BST @didiviking.bsky.social , #VictoriaMetrics Developer Advocate will present “Cutting Through Metrics #Cardinality Noise with VictoriaMetrics”.

Let's meet at #SREday 2025 in London, UK! 📍 Location: Everyman Canary Wharf 📅 September 19th at 2 PM BST @hagen1778.bsky.social l, one of VictoriaMetrics' co-founders, will present "Aggregating #Metrics In-Flight: Challenges and Opportunities".

🔔 A firing alert is like someone ringing your doorbell - it demands 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.

What if #log management became simple and performant? That’s exactly what we’re building with #VictoriaLogs. In his latest article, @smana.dev explains it very well, don’t miss the read! bit.ly/3KbTypg #Logs #LogsManagement

😑 Struggling with #Prometheus high RAM, slow queries, or scaling issues? With a step-by-step guide, Amir Shamsi explains why #VictoriaMetrics is faster, scalable, and easy to run. Read now 👉 bit.ly/3HKYaCe #Observability #Monitoring

Ever wondered what is #query tracing in @victoriametrics.bsky.social UI, vmui? My article explores how you can take full advantage of this unique feature, start troubleshooting your queries with Trace Analyzer in a couple of easy steps: medium.com/@dianatodea/...

TOMORROW! Get ready to finally understand your network data. We're going live to break down everything from SNMP headaches to modern tools like gNMI, Suricata, and more. ⏰ Set a reminder for August 28th, at 10 am PDT | 6 pm BST | 7 pm CEST! bit.ly/4fTOS3c #LiveStream #SNMP #SysAdmin #sre

We're happy to share that we'll be participating in this year's PromCon EU in Munich 🇩🇪 as Diamond sponsors. #PromCon EU in Berlin was one of our favourite #conferences so far, and we're looking forward to the 2025 edition! See you there! bit.ly/3Jztcxu #TechEvents #Observability #Prometheus

Bonjour, Paris! Join us for an exciting #VictoriaMetrics #Meetup in the City of Lights, hosted by Criteo! 📍Criteo HQ | October 15th | 🕡 18:00 Diana Todea - VictoriaMetrics Developer Advocate will present, “Beyond #Prometheus: pushing the boundaries of scalable monitoring with VictoriaMetrics”.

Running Talos #Linux in your #K8s cluster and wondering how to collect system logs properly? Ryan Jacobs just published a deep dive into exactly that, and it’s packed with practical steps, #Helm configs, gotchas, and workarounds.