VictoriaMetrics

The first half of 2026 was awesome for VictoriaMetrics. We shipped a wide range of improvements across #metrics, #logs, #traces, #cloud, and the #Kubernetes operator. Our main focus across open-source components and enterprise solutions was on performance, stability, and making observability easier to adopt and operate day‑to‑day. This roundup brings together the most important changes to date, including a quick look back at key anomaly detection improvements from 2025 that are now paying off today. The VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack In Numbers Across all VictoriaMetrics OSS products we have recorded so far… ⭐ 3300+ additional GitHub stars (raising the total above 21,000 ⭐️ across all our repositories). ⬇️ 4,476,294 downloads from GitHub. 🐳 32,670,000 downloads from Docker Hub and Quay. 🚀 70+ releases. 🤝 30+ active third-party contributors. ✅ 622 issues closed. 🔀 1,715 PRs merged (excluding bots). Learn more in our latest blog post https://hubs.li/Q04q0nP10

Telemetry Talks episode 6 is here 🎙️ In this episode, Diana Todea joins Jose Gómez-Sellés Gómez -Sellés (VictoriaMetrics #Cloud Lead) to explore how to build a modern Kubernetes #observability stack using open-source technologies such as VictoriaMetrics, #OpenTelemetry, and #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. If you're looking to better understand observability, #OpenTelemetry, this episode is for you. 👉 Watch now: https://lnkd.in/eFm6bgEb #TelemetryTalks

Our Tech Talk is back, hosted by Michelle Sebek - Head of Marketing NA.  We're kicking it off with the most honest demo environment there is: a real house with real pets. 🏡🐈 Mathias Palmersheim, one of our Solutions Engineers, has one rule for his smart home: he should be the only reason the lights don't turn on. Not a cloud outage. Not a vendor abandoning a perfectly working device. Everything runs locally: 🏠 Home Assistant 📊 VictoriaMetrics 📂 Alerting rules in #Git 📲 Notifications through ntfy Watch us walk through the entire setup live. An empty pet bowl triggers an alert, and refilling it resolves it. Then we dive into the most interesting part: how do you alert on "is the cat healthy" when the right threshold isn't a fixed number? The setup is fun, but the patterns are the same ones teams use in production: alerts that resolve rather than nag, history you can actually query, and dashboards worth opening. 🔴 Live on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eN7RENfy 📅 July 30th 🕘 10:00 AM PDT | 05:00 PM GMT | 07:00 PM CEST #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #VictoriaMetrics #OpenSource

🎥 Missed JNation 🇵🇹 May 26 & 27 - 2026 last month? Our Developer Experience Engineer, Diana Todea, delivered an insightful session: "Observability’s Sixth Sense: Detecting Anomalies in Metrics" Watch it on demand 👇 https://lnkd.in/e8zznhWh This talk examines anomaly detection as a complementary approach to working with metrics. Instead of relying on predefined limits, anomaly detection focuses on identifying behavior that deviates from the normal pattern over time.

🥳 New update - Real-time Cardinality Estimations for VictoriaMetrics and #Prometheus #Cardinality problems usually begin with a small, seemingly harmless change: you add a label, and suddenly one metric becomes thousands of unique series. Cardinality explosions are often caught only after performance degrades. And at that point, your #observability stack may be degraded and painful to troubleshoot. #vmestimator is a new project designed to track cardinality trends in real time and send you alerts before they become a real problem. Find more about how vmestimator works, in our latest blog post 👇 https://hubs.li/Q04pN3ct0

⏰ Just 1 hour to go! Our Virtual Meetup will go live on our YouTube channel soon. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eyJ2zCJc We will have great product updates, such as VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, VictoriaMetrics Cloud, and anomaly detection. 🎤 We're also thrilled to have Kirill, Senior Platform Engineer at Trade Republic, joining us as a guest speaker to share "Running VictoriaMetrics and Mimir Side by Side at ~100M Active Series." See you there! 🙌 #Monitoring #Observability #OpenSource #logs #metrics #traces

📢 Don’t miss our Virtual Meetup Q2 – Tomorrow! 🕔 5 pm GMT | 6 pm CEST | 9 am PDT 📺 Live on our YouTube Channel 👉 https://lnkd.in/eP8PEmp6 We will have great product updates, such as VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, VictoriaMetrics Cloud, and anomaly detection. 🎤 We're also thrilled to have Kirill, Senior Platform Engineer at Trade Republic, joining us as a guest speaker to share "Running VictoriaMetrics and Mimir Side by Side at ~100M Active Series." See you there! 🙌 #Monitoring #Observability #OpenSource #logs #metrics #traces

🎥 Missed Berlin Berlin Buzzwords? Our Developer Experience Engineer, Diana Todea, presented “#Observability’s Sixth Sense: Detecting Anomalies in Metrics”. In this talk, she examines anomaly detection as a complementary approach to working with metrics. Instead of relying on predefined limits, anomaly detection focuses on identifying behavior that deviates from the normal pattern over time. The focus is on how developers can interpret these signals, where anomaly detection is useful, and where it is not. Modern systems produce more metrics than any single person can reason about. As systems grow and change, defining fixed thresholds becomes harder, and unexpected behavior often appears without clearly crossing an alert boundary. Using a short, live walkthrough with real metric data, the talk shows how anomalies can surface gradual changes, unusual patterns, and subtle shifts that are easy to miss in dashboards. The session is exploratory and practical, aimed at developers who work with metrics and want additional ways to understand system behavior without introducing complex models or heavy tooling. Watch now 👇 https://lnkd.in/eGBMf7XE

Zerops replaced its custom #SQLite-based logging stack with #VictoriaLogs, Vector, and syslog-ng. The new setup gives every project its own lightweight logging infrastructure while delivering: ✔️ ~100× better retention ✔️ Faster #log queries ✔️ Zero-downtime migration across thousands of running projects Learn more about this 👇 https://hubs.li/Q04kDJ4h0 #LogManagement #logs

🚀 Today’s the last day of WeAreDevelopers 2026, join us until 5 PM! Stop by the #VictoriaMetrics booth and discover our high-performance, #OpenSource time series #database built to handle your toughest workloads. 💪 Experience the speed, efficiency, and scale that power modern #observability. 📍 Messe Berlin – South Entrance We’d love to meet you! https://lnkd.in/deJs_5U #TechConference #TimeSeriesDatabase #MonitoringSolutions