Watch the replay of our live Q1 2024 Virtual Meet Up with the following agenda:

• Intro & Warm Up
• What's new in VictoriaMetrics as of Q1 '24
• Long Term Support (LTS) Update
• Anomaly Detection launch & update
• Community News
• AMA session (open mic)

#opensource #timeseries #database #monitoring #anomalydetection #victoriametrics #observability #opentelemetry

Detailed agenda:

What's new in VictoriaMetrics

• New releases
• v1.97 - long-term support (LTS) release
• v1.98 - mTLS authorization in all VictoriaMetrics components
• v1.99 - improved propagation of label filters in MetricsQL queries
• v1.100 - improvements in streaming aggregation and vmauth
• New features
• DataDog integrations
• Accept data from new versions of DataDog agent via DataDog v2 API
• Accept data from DataDog AWS lambda extensions
• OpenTelemetry
• Data ingestion via Amazon Firehose: Accept OTEL metrics from Amazon Firehose
• Prometheus-compatible naming
• -opentelemetry.usePrometheusNaming command-line flag
• Converts metric names and labels into Prometheus-compatible naming in the
• same way as OTEL collector does
• Hetzner service discovery
• Discover scrape targets at Hetzner Cloud and Hetzner Robot
• hetzner_sd_configs
• Per-tenant and per-label downsampling (enterprise feature)
• Individual downsampling configs per distinct sets of tenants
• Individual downsampling configs per distinct sets of time series
• New Graphite query functions
• aggregateSeriesLists
• diffSeriesLists
• multiplySeriesLists
• sumSeriesLists
• mTLS support
• Every VictoriaMetrics Enterprise component verifies client TLS certificates if -mtls command-line flag is set
• Vmauth Enterprise supports mTLS-based request routing
• vmauth: improved request routing
• Host-based request routing
• Query args-based request routing
• Arbitrary header value-based request routing
• vmauth: DNS-based load balancing
• Even load balancing across IP addresses behind a single hostname
• Works great with vminsert and vmselect services

MetricsQL: new functions

• sum_eq_over_time
• sum_gt_over_time
• sum_le_over_time
• count_values_over_time - counts the number of unique sample values over time
• MetricsQL: improved label filters’ propagation
• Stream aggregation improvements
• Reduced memory usage by up to 5x
• De-duplication during data ingestion
• New aggregation functions:
• ○ unique_samples
• ○ increase_prometheus
• ○ total_prometheus
• Ability to drop labels before stream aggregation and de-duplication
• keep_metric_names option
• Performance improvements
• Improve registration speed for new time series by up to 10x
• Reduce memory usage when scraping targets with big number of metrics
• Optimize performance for /api/v1/labels and /api/v1/label/.../values APIs

VictoriaMetrics Long Term Support Updates

• VictoriaMetrics LTS. Status
• 1.93.x LTS will be supported at least until the end of July 2024 for Open Source Version
• 1.97.3+ contains bug fixes for Enterprise Version
• All bug fixes and improvements go to the master branch
• VictoriaMetrics LTS. Why?
• The amount of community support (GitHub issues, Slack, Telegram, StackOverflow questions etc.) overhead increased 4x during the last year
• Reducing test coverage of new releases by the VictoriaMetrics community
• By doing this we hope to get more feedback from the community
• VictoriaMetrics LTS. Your steps
• Update to the latest version of VictoriaMetrics. It contains all bug fixes and improvements/features
• For personal usage, you can request the VictoriaMetrics Enterprise version for free

Anomaly Detection launch & update

• Recap: What is anomaly detection?
• Recap: Why ML & AI for anomaly detection?
• Why VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection?
• What’s new: Flexible Configs
• What’s new: AutoTune
• What’s new: Docs & site updates
• Quickstart - minimalistic guide on how to set up and run `vmanomaly` (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Model types - explanations and diagrams to understand specifics of a lifecycle and find the best model for your use case
• AutoTuned model introduction - find out how to set-and-forget the model of your choice to learn from your data
• VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection got its own feature page
• Roadmap for 2024
• Streaming models support
• GUI: Deeper integration with anomaly detection service
• Node_exporter preset. Presets for common tasks, like “seasonal_weekly”, “testing”, “autotuned_daily”
• (Q3-Q4) Root Cause Analysis: Drill down your incidents faster and more efficient. Finishing transition from PoC to production.

Community Update & News Q1 Meet Up ‘24

0:00 Intro & Warm Up

4:50 What's New in VictoriaMetrics - Alex

31:27 Long Term Support (LTS) Update - Artem

36:58 VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection - Daria & Fred

46:16 Community Updates & News - JJ

55:16 AMA Session