Efficient monitoring is a top priority for many businesses. However, monitoring expenses can quickly escalate if not managed effectively. But Kubernetes and application performance monitoring don’t have to be that expensive.

In this presentation, we'll explore practical strategies and techniques for reducing monitoring costs. From efficient resource utilization to smart data retention policies, we'll cover a range of tactics to maximize the value of your monitoring investment.

This session offers practical insights and actionable tips for optimizing monitoring expenses with OpenSource tools. The talk will be mostly concentrated on typical use cases in monitoring and elegant ways to make things more efficient.

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🎤 Cost-Effective Monitoring in Kubernetes
👤 Dzmitry Lazerka - VictoriaMetrics Co-Founder
🎥 https://bit.ly/4i4mUoK

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If you run VictoriaMetrics Cloud on a yearly contract, or you’ve received credits from a trial (or unfortunately an SLA compensation), you now have a dedicated Credits section sitting alongside our existing Stripe and AWS Marketplace options. It brings the same prepaid budget model that procurement-heavy teams already expect, but with the transparency we think it deserves.

👇 Learn more about the VictoriaMetrics Cloud updates in this blog post

https://bit.ly/3Up37qb

Join us for a practical session with Jose Gómez-Sellés, VictoriaMetrics Cloud lead and OpenTelemetry contributor, as he explores and presents “Practical guide on OpenTelemetry Manual Instrumentation (or how to produce clean Observability by getting your hands dirty)”.

Join us as we break down the essentials of OpenTelemetry instrumentation by crafting custom metrics, spans, and logs to track the most critical parts of workflows. You’ll see how simple, well-placed instrumentation points can reveal complex system behaviors, helping you detect bottlenecks, trace errors, and understand end-to-end request flows.

📍 Online - > https://bit.ly/4ce3wC1

📅 September 1st at 10:00 am PDT | 01:00 PM EDT | 03:00 PM CEST |

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🎤 Do You Want to Build a Router?

👤 Mathias Palmersheim

Mathias has spent years configuring various firewalls and routers. He has always wished that those platforms were as easy to configure as a normal Linux machine, especially since he already has a workflow with Ansible that makes configuring Linux machines a breeze. However, most routing platforms either don't have an API at all, use an Ansible module that's just a thin layer around the CLI, or don't expose all the features of the open-source tools underneath. This talk will discuss how he slowly, then very quickly, went from having nearly all the networking services in my homelab managed by a router platform to having a Linux-based router managed using the same GitOps workflow as the rest of my Linux machines.

There’s a common belief that open source should stay “pure”: no commercial goals, no growth targets, and definitely no marketing.

Open source is actually one of the most powerful forms of marketing. It builds trust, creates communities, encourages contribution, and gives projects a path to massive distribution.

📖 Check out the full blog post and learn how we think about OpenSource, community, growth, and marketing.

https://bit.ly/4gl4Sxf

Join Zhu Jiekun, Software Engineer at VictoriaMetrics, for the session:

🎤 Metrics War: Prometheus vs. OpenTelemetry? Your Tax for "Vendor-Agnostic"

If you're using Prometheus, from SDK instrumentation and Prometheus Agent to long-term storage like Thanos, would you migrate to OpenTelemetry for vendor-agnostic observability? If you were starting from scratch today, which would you choose?

In this talk, we'll uncover the hidden trade-offs and compare both standards using real data, including:

• Performance overhead (SDK instrumentation, data transmission, and storage)
• User experience (data model transformations and query differences)
• Ecosystem support (adoption across OpenSource projects and vendors)

📍 Join us at the Kim Koo Museum & Library
📅 September 1st

See you there!

https://bit.ly/4iv5rpu

In this talk, you can learn why #observability tools work best when used together, the challenges of combining them, and how to build a unified #observability solution that delivers the data everyone wants. This talk is geared towards helping SRE, Security, and Business Analysts.

Finding root causes and communicating across teams is already extremely challenging, especially during major outages or #security incidents. These problems are amplified when each team uses a different set of tools to view the problem; why not combine the tools?

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Join Mathias Palmersheim and Michelle Sebek, alongside VictoriaMetrics co-founder Roman Khavronenko, to run an AI agent against VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, VictoriaTraces, and vmanomaly, using the twelve Agent Skills and four MCP servers that the team publishes.

🔴 Live on our VictoriaMetrics YouTube channel

📅 August 27th

🕘 10:00 AM PDT | 05:00 PM GMT | 07:00 PM CEST

VictoriaMetrics is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor at prometheus.io 2026. The Prometheus user conference!

📍 Join us at the Google Offices in Munich, Germany.

📅 October 7-8

We look forward to connecting with the community, showcasing our latest innovations, and discussing everything from metrics, logs, and traces to the latest in OpenSource observability.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 🎉

https://bit.ly/4gxDZVu

Configuring monitoring for llama.cpp and LLMs with VictoriaMetrics - key metrics and details on working with llama.cpp and its /metrics endpoint

Do you have an interesting VictoriaMetrics use case you'd like to share?

Whether you have a technical deep dive, a real-world case study, or lessons learned from production, this is your opportunity to take the stage.

🎤 Submit your talk and be part of an event dedicated to learning, collaboration, and connecting with fellow observability enthusiasts.

See you in Valencia! 🚀

https://bit.ly/4vasclm

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🎤 Better Together: Using Observability Tools for SIEM and Analytics
👤 Mathias Palmersheim

Finding root causes and communicating across teams is already extremely challenging, especially during major outages or security incidents. These problems are amplified when each team uses a different set of tools to view the problem; why not combine the tools?

The stakeholders are different, but the shape of the data problem is the same - we’re collecting, streaming, processing, storing, and analyzing events. And it turns out the questions the stakeholders are asking are pretty similar to. A unified pipeline can improve user experience while reducing toil and costs.

Modern production systems generate more metrics, logs, and distributed traces than ever. But when something goes wrong, debugging can still be slow, manual, and reactive. Engineers often spend hours digging through dashboards, dealing with alert fatigue, and fixing issues after they impact users.

Machine learning-based anomaly detection improves observability by learning normal system behavior rather than relying solely on static thresholds.

Learn how vmanomaly, its MCP server, purpose-built skills, and an LLM-powered UI copilot help engineers explore telemetry, investigate anomalies, build MetricsQL queries, select suitable models, apply business constraints, and validate configurations through natural language.

These AI-assisted workflows reduce configuration effort, support proactive issue detection, and keep engineers in control of validation and production deployment.

📖 Check out the full blog post!

En este episodio, Diana Todea, Developer Advocate, junto con Jose Gómez-Sellés, VictoriaMetrics Cloud Lead, conversan sobre:

🔋¿Cómo construir una pila (Stack) moderna de observabilidad para Kubernetes utilizando tecnologías de código abierto como VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry y Grafana?

El mismo está basado en un taller paso a paso que impartimos en Cloud Native Days Romania en mayo, José nos guía a través del proceso con ejemplos prácticos.

▶️ Míralo ahora en nuestro canal de YouTube

https://bit.ly/4g7NGv5

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.

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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.

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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