Monitoring serves as a shield against the unknown, providing clarity through the complexity of distributed systems and hardware. However, monitoring itself can become a complex system, posing challenges when it fails.

Instrumentation is the secret ingredient that brings observability to life, revealing the intricate workings of applications in ways logs and metrics alone can’t match. In this talk, we’ll dive deep into the magic of OpenTelemetry instrumentation, exploring how to uncover hidden insights within your applications and services.

Do you have any blackboxes that do not provide any monitoring data except for letting you know things are broken? Do you wish you had a way to know your systems were healthy without the constant vigilance? In our January tech talk, on Blackbox, we will explore how to gain valuable insights into your application's health and performance from an external perspective.

2024 is almost over, but VictoriaMetrics Observability is always on! Review our product roadmaps to date 01:01:28 VictoriaLogs roadmap update 01:32:52 Arseny Zinchenko - VictoriaMetrics in hOS: Saving costs and mental health. Demo: VictoriaLogs vs Loki for storing logs.

Aliaksandr Valialkin - VictoriaMetrics co-founder, will be presenting: "How to Solve Challenges with Log Filtering & Analytics.

1:56:53 Community News AMA 1:42:48 Mathias Palmersheim, VictoriaMetrics Solution Engineer, presents: 'How did I find my job at VictoriaMetrics? Making my own monitoring and logging solution!'.

Haley Wang, a software engineer at VictoriaMetrics, presented at KubeCon China 2024 on August 22nd, 2024! In her talk, "Building a High-Performance Time Series #Database from Scratch: Optimization Strategies," Haley shared valuable insights and strategies for optimizing time series databases.

Aliaksandr Valialkin, #VictoriaMetrics CTO present "Strategies for Efficient hashtag#LogManagement in Large-Scale hashtag#Kubernetes Clusters" at hashtag#FrOSCon. Large #Kubernetes clusters can generate significant volumes of logs, especially when housing thousands of running pods. This may demand substantial CPU, RAM, disk IO, and disk space for storing and querying large log volumes. In this talk, we will look into different strategies of storing those logs in #ElasticSearch, Grafana Loki and #VictoriaLogs and examine how we can save 10x or more on infrastructure costs.

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