Complex modern applications rely heavily on observability, and metric monitoring is a crucial part of observability. The most common process of metric monitoring, which includes data scraping, processing, storage, and visualization, can be summarized in the diagram below: If an issue arises, for example, when users ask, “I have already recorded metrics in the application, why can’t I see my metrics on Grafana?”, how should we troubleshoot it?

With this blog post, we are excited to introduce a quarterly “What’s New” series to inform a broader audience about the latest features and improvements made to VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (or simply vmanomaly). This first post will cover both Q1 and Q2 of 2024. Stay tuned for the next content on anomaly detection.

Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent virtual meetup, during which we discussed some of our Q2 2024 highlights, including features highlights, the 2024 roadmap for VictoriaMetrics and all the latest news on VictoriaLogs! In this blog post, we’d like to share a summary of these highlights.

This Post was updated in June of 2024 to remove the requirement to install VMAgent on each Proxmox VE node, and update the screenshots to reflect updates in Managed VictoriaMetrics and Grafana.

Monitoring, in the context of software, is a catch-all term for visibility into infrastructure, or an application. It can encompass metrics, logs, traces, and any other telemetry data that provides information on a running application, server, or another device. Monitoring helps you catch problems before your customers do and speeds up the time to resolution for any problems that do slip through. Managed monitoring is where another company runs part or all of your monitoring system.

Monitoring can get expensive due to the huge quantities of data that need to be processed. In this blog post, you’ll learn the best ways to store and process monitoring metrics to reduce your costs, and how VictoriaMetrics can help. This blog post will only cover open-source solutions. VictoriaMetrics is proudly open source. You’ll get the most out of this blog post if you are familiar with Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir or VictoriaMetrics.

We’re happy to share customer research today demonstrating that VictoriaMetrics is the world’s most cost-efficient monitoring solution! The real-world results show customers can save energy costs and achieve Net Zero carbon compliance faster with VictoriaMetrics in their tech stack.

The ilert team have been working on an integration of VictoriaMetrics as part of their offering, and we’re happy to share this news today via this joint blog post. Please read on to learn more about ilert and how this new integration of VictoriaMetrics can help enhance your monitoring.