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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.

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.

Prometheus Metrics Explained: Counters, Gauges, Histograms & Summaries This discussion is the first part of the basic monitoring series, an effort to eliminate confusion in monitoring for both beginners and experienced users.

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.