PinnedAliaksandr ValialkinHow to optimize PromQL and MetricsQL queriesThe article explains how to detect and optimize slow PromQL queries in production8 min read·Oct 29, 2021--1--1
Aliaksandr ValialkinPromscale vs VictoriaMetrics: resource usage on production workloadLet’s compare Promscale and VictoriaMetrics resource usage on production workload6 min read·Dec 16, 2020--1--1
Aliaksandr ValialkinPrometheus vs VictoriaMetrics benchmark on node_exporter metricsRecently single-node VictoriaMetrics gained support for scraping Prometheus targets. This made possible to run apples-to-apples benchmark…5 min read·Nov 27, 2020--1--1
Aliaksandr ValialkinHow to use relabeling in Prometheus and VictoriaMetricsPrometheus supports relabeling, which allows performing the following tasks:6 min read·Nov 5, 2020--3--3
Aliaksandr ValialkinBilly: how VictoriaMetrics deals with more than 500 billion rowsLet’s re-run ScyllaDB’s Billy benchmark on VictoriaMetrics11 min read·Jan 22, 2020--2--2
Aliaksandr ValialkinPrometheus storage: technical terms for humansThe article clarifies the meaning of popular tech terms used in the context of Prometheus storage5 min read·Dec 3, 2019--1--1
Aliaksandr ValialkinImproving histogram usability for Prometheus and GrafanaHistograms in Prometheus are tricky to use properly. Is it possible to improve their usage experience? Yes — continue reading the article.6 min read·Nov 26, 2019--1--1
Aliaksandr ValialkinEvaluating Performance and Correctness: VictoriaMetrics responseRecently the Evaluating Performance and Correctness article has been published by Prometheus author. The article points to a few issues…8 min read·Nov 20, 2019--1--1
Aliaksandr ValialkinSpeeding up backups for big time series databasesSuppose you have a time series database containing terabytes of data. How do you mange backups for this data? Do you think it is too big…4 min read·Nov 10, 2019----
Aliaksandr ValialkininFAUN — Developer Community 🐾Comparing Thanos to VictoriaMetrics clusterThanos and VictoriaMetrics provide long-term storage and global query view for Prometheus. The article compares these solutions11 min read·Jun 30, 2019--3--3