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FOSDEM 2025 recap

In case you haven’t heard about it yet, FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a huge, free, gathering for open-source software enthusiasts that happens every February in Brussels, Belgium. It’s a non-profit event put together by the community, and it’s one of the biggest of its kind - we’re talking about around 10,000 people from all over the world coming to hang out and talk about all things open source.

Discovering the Magic Behind OpenTelemetry Instrumentation - Jose Gomez-Selles | Fosdem 2025

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.

A Deep Dive into Blackbox Monitoring - Tech Talk #1

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.

How HTTP/2 Works and How to Enable It in Go

Once you’re comfortable with net/rpc from previous article (From net/rpc to gRPC in Go Applications), it’s probably a good idea to start exploring HTTP/2, which is the foundation of the gRPC protocol. How HTTP/2 Works and How to Enable It in Go This piece leans a bit more on the theory side, so heads-up, it’s text-heavy. We’ll focus on understanding HTTP/2 and then briefly touch on enabling it in Go. So, grab a coffee, settle in, and let’s break it down.

VictoriaMetrics Cloud: What's New in Q4 2024?

It’s been an exciting journey since we launched VictoriaMetrics Cloud, empowering many with a managed, simple, reliable, and efficient monitoring solution to reduce monitoring costs by up to 5x. Designed to eliminate the overhead of running infrastructure, VictoriaMetrics Cloud has proven to be a game-changer, offering the scalability and power of the popular VictoriaMetrics open-source time-series database but, this time, fully managed.

VictoriaMetrics helps IHI Terrasun Win Big in Vegas on $1.2B Clean Energy Project

We’re happy to announce that VictoriaMetrics, open source time-series database and monitoring solution, and IHI Terrasun Solutions, a leading energy storage system integrator, have partnered on one of North America’s largest clean energy projects! The Gemini Solar + Storage project, which is carefully situated on less than 5,000 acres, is designed to provide clean energy for up to 10% of Nevada’s electricity needs during peak use times.

VictoriaMetrics December Virtual Meet Up: Celebrate 2024 With Us!

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.

How vmstorage Turns Raw Metrics into Organized History

vmstorage is the component in VictoriaMetrics that handles long-term storage of monitoring data. It receives data from vminsert, organizes the data into efficient storage structures, and manages how long data is kept. Before vminsert even sees the data, agents are out there collecting it, these agents gather metrics from different sources, hold onto the data briefly, and then send it over to vminsert in batches.