Tag Archives: VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaTraces: Recording Rules, Metrics, and Alerts from Trace Spans
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22 May 2026

VictoriaTraces – just like VictoriaLogs – supports Recording Rules (see VictoriaMetrics: Recording Rules for AWS Load Balancer logs) for traces, because traces are essentially the same logs, just structured differently. And since we have Recording Rules – we can build metrics out of logs for alerts and Grafana dashboards. Although this actually isn’t the best… Read More »

VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry
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19 May 2026

On the project, we’ve gradually grown to the point where it’s time to have proper tracing – to build real observability, not just monitoring. A long time ago I did something similar with Jaeger – a monster, and it kind of stayed in my drafts from 2019 or 2020. Since right now our entire stack… Read More »

OpenTelemetry: OTel Collectors in Kubernetes and VictoriaMetrics Stack integration
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16 May 2026

Today let’s talk about how to run OpenTelemetry in Kubernetes and integrate it with the VictoriaMetrics stack – VictoriaMetrics for metrics, VictoriaLogs for logs, and VictoriaTraces for traces. Actually, this post wasn’t planned at all, and once a draft did appear – it was supposed to be the third in the series, but in the… Read More »

Claude Code: creating Kubernetes debugging AI Agent for VictoriaMetrics
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30 April 2026

While I’m working on a series of posts about setting up and using Claude Code, here’s a quick example of building my own AI Agent for VictoriaMetrics and Kubernetes, “wrapping” it into a Claude Code Plugin, and creating my own Claude Code Marketplace where similar plugins for developers on my project will live. The general… Read More »

VictoriaMetrics: Basic Monitoring for AWS, Linux, NGINX, and PHP
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28 March 2026

The RTFM migration from DigitalOcean to AWS went smoothly, and I’m gradually settling in. New infrastructure, everything new – so for the first while I want to keep a close eye on the server and blog state, which means setting up basic monitoring for WordPress: NGINX, PHP-FPM, the database, and the infrastructure running it all.… Read More »

VictoriaMetrics: using vmalert and query() in alerts for different $value values
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26 March 2026

Just a quick note, because I’ve needed to do something like this fairly often – and only today discovered how elegantly it’s done with vmalert. So, sometimes in an alert you want to display multiple $value entries, for example: – alert: OpenAI Budget Usage expr: | openai_budget_used_usd / openai_budget_total_usd * 100 > 80 … annotations:… Read More »

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 14 – logs with VictoriaLogs and alerts with VMAlert
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28 February 2026

A continuation of the home NAS setup series. Monitoring in general has already been configured in previous parts, but log management still needs to be set up – because doing it in the console with tail -f /var/log/messages is certainly possible – but there are more convenient tools available. We’ll use VictoriaLogs – especially since… Read More »

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 11 – extended monitoring with additional exporters
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10 February 2026

In the previous post FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, we configured VictoriaMetrics, node_exporter, Grafana and created a basic dashboard and basic alerts. Now, I want to add a bit more monitoring – to see process CPU/RAM data, SMART information, and ZFS details. Everything written here has been added to… Read More »

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana
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7 February 2026

Finally got around to monitoring. I was interested in running a standard stack with VictoriaMetrics + Grafana + Alertmanager not in the usual Kubernetes with a Helm chart, but simply on the host. However, the approach is the same as monitoring services in AWS/Kubernetes – on FreeBSD, we will have VictoriaMetrics for metrics, Grafana for… Read More »

VictoriaMetrics: Recording rules for AWS Load Balancer logs
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6 December 2025

Continuing the topic of AWS Load Balancer logs: in the previous post, Golang: recording AWS Load Balancer logs to VictoriaLogs, we collected logs using our own logs collector in Golang. Now we need to get something useful out of these logs. Previously, when I had Loki on my project, we used its RecordingRules to create… Read More »