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This article introduces the key components of VictoriaMetrics and explains how they work together as part of a complete monitoring system. VictoriaMetrics is a top-tier monitoring solution known for its speed and low-resource consumption. It includes components for monitoring, alerting, data visualization, querying, scraping, incremental backups, and more.

Time flies, and just like that, we are already in April! The first quarter of 2025 has been packed with exciting updates for VictoriaMetrics Cloud. If you joined our latest Quarterly Virtual Meetup, you might have already seen some of these announcements alongside other great improvements across all things VictoriaMetrics. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what’s new in VictoriaMetrics Cloud.

Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained This discussion is part of the basic monitoring series, an effort to clarify monitoring concepts for both beginners and experienced users.

Don’t default to microservices: You’ll thank us later! Donald Knuth, professor emeritus at Stanford University and “father” of algorithm analysis, once said – now quite famously – that “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” It’s one of those sayings that all engineers know, most understand, and many struggle to follow through on consistently. What Knuth misses in this pithy, memorable quote is the fact that evil is tempting.

Alerting Rules, Recording Rules, and Alertmanager This discussion is part of the basic monitoring series, an effort to eliminate confusion in monitoring for both beginners and experienced users.

This piece is part of our ongoing VictoriaMetrics series, where we break down how different components of the system function: Inside vmselect: The Query Processing Engine of VictoriaMetrics.