Memory usage reduction by up to 5x: Welcome to VictoriaMetrics v1.92 & up!

[Jean-Jerome Schmidt-Soisson]

Hello all, 

We’ve been busy working on VictoriaMetrics over the past few weeks and the optimization gains are strong in our latest releases: 

Memory usage reduction by up to 5x!

(for installations with high churn rate)

Welcome to VictoriaMetrics v1.92 & up!

Further highlights include: 

• Support for OpenTelemetry

• Easy-to-configure sharding in vmagent: Simplifies building horizontally scalable stream aggregation

• Security features

  • Upgrade Go builder from Go1.20.6 to Go1.21.0

  • Upgrade base docker image (Alpine) from 3.18.2 to 3.18.3

• Updated official Grafana dashboards for VictoriaMetrics

• Plenty of new features in MetricsQL

And a range of additional features in vmui, vmalert, vmctl, etc. 

See the full features news in the ChangeLog: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html 

Let us know if you have any feedback and feel free to share the news in your own channels!

Cheers,

JJ