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It’s been a while since the last update on “What’s New” series, so I will try and keep it short yet informative. Stay tuned for upcoming content on anomaly detection.

This post covers ~80% of VictoriaLogs concepts and features people ask about most often. For deeper details and full references, see the official VictoriaLogs documentation. Part of a series.

2025 has been quite a year! As we enter into 2026, we want to share all the great features that VictoriaMetrics Cloud has brought in the last quarter. Remember that this Quarterly Live Update is available in video format as well here: Let’s get to it!

AI-powered coding assistants have transformed how developers write software. Tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, and OpenCode have introduced what many call “vibe coding” — a new paradigm where users describe their intent and AI agents handle the implementation details. But as these tools become integral to development workflows, a critical question emerges: how do we understand what’s happening under the hood?

2025 was a landmark year for VictoriaMetrics — defined not only by product improvements, new capabilities, and wider adoption, but by a strong and consistent presence across the global open-source and cloud-native ecosystem. Our mission has always been clear: to build open-source monitoring and observability solutions that are simple, reliable, and efficient for metrics, logs, and traces.

When your active time series is in the billions and the total number of data points you need to monitor runs into the tens of trillions, you need a high-performance observability solution with operational simplicity. Streaming behemoth Spotify is one such case. Their observability team chose VictoriaMetrics as the fastest monitoring and observability solution on the market.

VictoriaMetrics has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Certification, awarded to Red Hat partners who meet requirements for delivering a scalable, supported, and secure operator designed for enterprise cloud deployments. VictoriaMetrics available on the Red Hat OpenShift OperatorHub The program certified VictoriaMetrics as a solution that allows for portability and operational efficiency across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

We’re excited to announce a set of updates across the entire VictoriaMetrics open source products suite — including VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, VictoriaTraces, the VictoriaMetrics Kubernetes Operator. These improvements bring better performance, stronger security, enhanced metadata visibility, and a smoother experience when running observability at scale.

As announced in our latest VictoriaMetrics Cloud Product updates in Q3 2025, we have been working to substantially improve our public tiers, and we wanted to dedicate some time to explain these changes and showcase what users can expect moving forward.

We’re currently at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, and it’s a great opportunity to connect with the community and share some of the progress we’ve made this year. It’s been a busy period of development, new releases, and community engagement, all guided by our focus on delivering simple, reliable, and efficient monitoring & observability solutions.