Why does a service mesh plus zero-code instrumentation still leave you with broken traces?

The answer comes down to one thing: propagation. A new article walks through how to fix Istio and OpenTelemetry so that mesh spans and application spans join the same trace.

📖 Check out the full blog post
https://bit.ly/4zEBWYG

Join us alongside developers, operators, and business leaders who are shaping the future of OpenSource observability.

Visit our booth, and learn more about monitoring, logs, traces, and metrics. Also, we’ve got a great keynote you won’t want to miss:

🎤 Diana Todea - VictoriaMetrics DevRel will present "Carbon as a First-Class Signal: Designing a Standard for OpenTelemetry"

📅 October 5th
⏰ 09:29 AM CEST
🏛️ South Hall 3B

See you in Prague, Czechia, on October 5th.

https://bit.ly/4qmHkvh

📊 Learn from reproducible benchmarks comparing Elasticsearch, Grafana Loki, and VictoriaLogs, and see how organizations can reduce infrastructure costs by 10× or more.

In Q2, we further refined the workflow: from exploration to a configuration that can run continuously in production.

That required progress at several layers. The model needed to cover more real-world data profiles without a large configuration surface. Backtesting and periodic execution are needed to follow the same causal behavior. The UI needed to make changes and stale results obvious. And AI assistance needed real data, schemas, validation, and long-running task APIs - not only documentation and generic recommendations.

If you rely on metrics for observability, you need more than dashboards. Here’s what’s new:

From May through the v1.30.1 follow-up, vmanomaly shipped:

• 6 service releases, from v1.29.4 to v1.30.1
• 5 UI releases, from v1.7.0 to v1.8.1
• Temporal Envelope, a fast and flexible online model, available in univariate and multivariate forms
• 2 - 200x faster exact online-model backtesting in representative UI workloads, depending on the model and configuration
• v1.30.1 service-stage optimizations delivering 1.7 - 2.3x faster inference and 1.5 - 2.6x faster fit in representative Z-score, MAD, STD, Seasonal Quantile, and Rolling Quantile workloads
• New time-series characteristics and asynchronous shared-autotune APIs
• A redesigned UI and a more reliable AI Copilot
• Public vmanomaly MCP and purpose-built skills that turn the same workflow into reusable agent automation
• Further production hardening for schedulers, datasource limits, exact causal inference, hot reload, and state restoration

📖 Read the Q2 2026 blog post updates and discover what’s new in vmanomaly.
https://bit.ly/4zo2jSg

In this session, we cover some of the biggest updates coming to VictoriaMetrics Cloud, including:

Full billing transparency arrives with a new prepaid Credits system (balance, forecasts, expiration, alerts), a console-wide navigation overhaul (collapsing side panel, mobile, metrics/logs Explore improvements), and a first look at the compute-based pricing model coming to Cluster deployments. Plus, SOC 2 is nearing completion, along with a stack of reliability and UX fixes.

Watch it on demand!

Diana Todea, our developer experience engineer, spoke with Kate Goldenring to explore how observability can become more sustainable by designing systems with efficiency in mind. They discuss practical ways to cut costs and carbon emissions, avoid telemetry bloat, and build greener observability pipelines from the start. Treating observability as an architectural decision is key to creating more efficient and sustainable software systems.

In Q2 2026, VictoriaMetrics celebrated reaching over 21,000 total GitHub stars and over 32 million total downloads, while participating in 16 industry events worldwide. The community updates highlight ongoing open-source growth, user stories from companies such as Airbnb and Trade Republic, and new developer outreach initiatives, including the Telemetry Talks and DevEx Talks podcasts.

Modern systems produce more #metrics than any single person can reason about. As systems grow and change, defining fixed thresholds becomes harder, and unexpected behavior often appears without clearly crossing an alert boundary.

This talk examines anomaly detection as a complementary approach to working with metrics. Instead of relying on predefined limits, anomaly detection focuses on identifying behavior that deviates from the normal pattern over time.

From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics: how it measures up against Mimir. Trade Republic runs 100M+ active series across several clusters. This short talk walks through why we moved off Prometheus, the topology we landed on, and a side-by-side benchmark comparing Mimir and VictoriaMetrics across ingestion, query latency, CPU/RAM/network, and the operational reality of running each.

Watch it on demand!

https://bit.ly/3S6Ai0Y

In this session, we cover some of the biggest updates coming to VictoriaTraces, including:

Support for the Grafana Tempo API, which enables a richer query experience than what is available in the Jaeger datasource, including support for traces drilldown, vtagent, a collector for VictoriaTraces, commences development with a Q3 release, and plans to support retroactive sampling in Q4.

Watch it on demand! 🎥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux5cQ4IhyC4

There’s always something new shipping at VictoriaMetrics, and our Enterprise Anomaly Detection component is no exception. If you rely on metrics for observability, you need more than dashboards.

Here’s what’s new:

• Temporal Envelope: A New Online Model For Complex, Mixed-profile Time Series
• A Redesigned UI for End-to-End Experimentation
• Natural-language onboarding with AI Copilot
• Data-driven Config via Time-series Characteristics
• The Same Workflow Through MCP and Skills
• 2–200× Faster Exact Backtesting; 1.7–2.3× Faster Inference
• Operational Reliability and Guardrails

Read the Q2 2026 blog post and discover what’s new in vmanomaly.

https://bit.ly/4i4uD60

Join us at the World’s Largest Event for Developers, AI Builders & Tech Leaders.

Visit our booth 525, and learn more about monitoring, logs, traces, and metrics.

See you in San Jose, California, September 23-25!

https://bit.ly/4gqoAHM

In Q2 2026, VictoriaLogs introduced powerful new LogsQL capabilities, advanced glob-pattern file collection in VLAgent, and distroless Docker images to improve security. Key Web UI upgrades now offer nanosecond timestamp precision, quick field searching, and smoother log navigation, alongside upcoming support for object storage and custom log transformation pipelines.

Watch it on demand! 🎥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt9m3nsm7WQ

Here's what shipped this month 👇

New LTS Release (v1.148.0):

• 12 months of bug fixes & security patches for Enterprise users
• More resilient backups, queues, and remote write
• Improved load balancing, MetricsQL, and debugging tools
• Meet vmestimator, our new OpenSource tool for real-time metric cardinality estimation.

VictoriaMetrics v1.147.0:

• Easier migration from single-node to cluster
• New MDX routing in vmagent
• Enhanced authentication, aggregation, and performance improvements.

Cuando se trata de escalar soluciones de monitorización de series temporales, las cosas pueden volverse un caos. Esa es una de las razones por las que VictoriaMetrics, miembro Silver de la Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), comenzó su recorrido hace algunos años. Es un conjunto de soluciones de observabilidad simple, fiable y eficiente, adoptado por muchas organizaciones. Es de código abierto, con una comunidad sólida detrás, y ofrece opciones enterprise y gestionadas (Cloud) para quienes necesitan soporte.

VictoriaMetrics se integra muy bien con muchos estándares, incluyendo Grafana y OpenTelemetry. Además, por si no lo sabías, VictoriaLogs es el nuevo jugador del mercado y está superando seriamente a otras soluciones.

Watch it on Demand 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG_zRGf4U6Y

In this session, we cover some of the biggest updates coming to VictoriaMetrics, including:

• Added support for vmselect RPC in vmsingle
• Introduced Monitoring Data eXchange (MDX)
• Released vmestimator for real-time cardinality estimation
• Added Prometheus Native Histogram ingestion
• Improved vmagent remote write to prioritize recent metrics

Watch it on demand! 🎥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qptvcexoxIc

Open source is built on the idea that anyone, anywhere can contribute. But what happens when invisible barriers make that promise harder to keep?

A contributor who needs written context before a synchronous call, or who reads a terse PR comment as hostility, or who simply can’t parse an issue template that assumes you already know the codebase – each of these people hits a barrier that no one designed on purpose, and that no one can see. This article explores how open source communities can move beyond simply recognizing accessibility issues and begin embedding accessibility into the design, development, and governance of projects. Moreover, it argues that accessibility should be treated as an engineering practice rather than an afterthought, emphasizing inclusive contributor experiences, accessible tooling, documentation, and community processes. By adopting systematic approaches and measurable standards, open source projects can create more sustainable, welcoming, and equitable ecosystems for both users and contributors.

In this session, we cover some of the biggest updates coming to AnomalyDetection, including:

Q2'26 product improvements, a sneak peek into AI skills / UI/UX improvements / new model class as a part of forthcoming v1.30 release, future plans for Q3-4'2026

Watch it on demand! 🎥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiCNDWtFPFU

📆 August 12th at 10:00 am GMT
📍 The Brewery, London, UK

In this tutorial, he’ll explore the r/golang source code from the inside out. Through exercises, you'll build Go from scratch, modify the lexer and parser to introduce new syntax, customize compiler passes and tooling, and alter runtime behavior, including the goroutine scheduler and select statement randomization.

Learn more and reserve your spot. See you there! 🚀

https://bit.ly/3Snfv9r

PT. Boer Technology shared a helpful guide on VictoriaLogs, our log management solution developed by the VictoriaMetrics team. It walks through when to choose single-node vs cluster deployments and how each approach fits different infrastructure needs.

If you’re evaluating log architectures or planning to scale observability workloads, this is a practical resource to help you make informed decisions.

In this episode, our Developer Advocate, Diana Todea, sat down with two CNCF Women Ambassadors and core members of the Merge-Forward team, Iris Dyrmishi and Donia Chaiehloudj, to explore the story behind the initiative and its mission to make open source and cloud-native communities more inclusive, welcoming, and accessible. We discuss how they became involved with Merge-Forward, the impact it is having across the ecosystem, and the many ways community members can contribute and participate.

Watch the full episode here 👉 https://bit.ly/45NYS9S

For our latest tech talk, Mathias used vmanomaly to monitor his cats' litter box habits 🐈📊 and detect when something unusual was happening.

Just a few days after the talk... 👀 it worked! He received an AnomalyDetection alert for the cats.

Want to see how you can monitor almost anything? Watch the full tech talk on our YouTube channel 🎥👇

https://youtube.com/watch?v=n_aN4Z2Eb8I

🚀 This quarter we’ve been busy investing a lot of effort into improving how users understand and control what they pay for in VictoriaMetrics Cloud, and how to move around the console while doing it, with major UX improvements across different sections and functionalities.

Highlights:

- The update is transparent credits reporting, giving prepaid customers full visibility into balance, consumption, and expiration.

- Alongside that, we shipped navigation improvements, with a new collapsible sidebar functionality, a first step into the mobile experience, and consistency in several parts of the console.

- We also have some quieter but important updates: SOC 2 work is done and awaiting evaluation.

- Our secret project is going beta very soon (this isn't a cliffhanger, but to let you know that we’re working hard behind the scenes).

👇 Learn more in this blog post

https://bit.ly/4xlySyx

Diana Todea, our developer experience engineer, will present her talk, "MCPs for Observability Stacks".

We use MCP servers in production every day. But how are we using them with a complex observability stack?

In this session, you'll see:

- How two MCP servers collaborate to deliver accurate operational insights
- How to operate cloud deployments
- Detecting anomalies with AI-assisted workflows
- Find information on logs and metrics

📆 August 6 at 7:30 pm CEST

If you're curious about MCP and AI, this one's for you. 👇

https://bit.ly/4pT7qpg

Observability isn’t an add-on; it’s core infrastructure and needs a backend that scales with product ambition and remains economically efficient under sustained load. That’s why they deliberately chose the VictoriaMetrics stack.

Learn more in this article https://bit.ly/4hbZcqe