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VictoriaLogs Status Update: Heading Towards the Cluster Version

Today, we’re thrilled to share the latest updates on VictoriaLogs, your trusted open-source solution for efficient and user-friendly log management. Whether you’re just discovering VictoriaLogs or have been using it for a while, this post will walk you through the recent enhancements and give you a sneak peek at the much anticipated cluster version that’s on the horizon.

Conquering Data Overload at Ingestion - Tech Talks #2

Join us for our second Tech Talk, where we’ll tackle log ingestion challenges and explore how VictoriaLogs makes log management effortless with the following: Modern infrastructure produces an overwhelming volume of log data, but traditional log management solutions struggle with scalability, performance, and cost.

Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained

Prometheus Monitoring: Instant Queries and Range Queries Explained Over the years, we’ve received many questions about MetricsQL/PromQL, even from experienced users—especially regarding range queries and instant queries. This article is basic but turns out to be really important to explain why your query behaves the way it does. This discussion is part of the basic monitoring series, an effort to eliminate confusion in monitoring for both beginners and experienced users.

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.