PinnedInITNEXTbyAliaksandr Valialkin·Mar 11, 2025Why VictoriaLogs is a better alternative to Grafana Loki?Loki is an open-source log management system from Grafana. It is advertised as a better alternative to other open-source databases for logs…A response icon4A response icon4
PinnedInITNEXTbyAliaksandr Valialkin·Jun 10, 2024Go evolves in the wrong directionGo programming language is known to be easy to use. Thanks to its well-thought syntax, features and tooling, Go allows writing easy-to-read…A response icon8A response icon8
PinnedAliaksandr Valialkin·Oct 29, 2021How to optimize PromQL and MetricsQL queriesThe article explains how to detect and optimize slow PromQL queries in productionA response icon1A response icon1
Aliaksandr Valialkin·Apr 17, 2025The better alternative to Graphite monitoring toolGraphite is a great open source monitoring solution and time series database (TSDB) for metrics. But is has scalability issues :(A response icon1A response icon1
InITNEXTbyAliaksandr Valialkin·Oct 19, 2024How do open source solutions for logs work: Elasticsearch, Loki and VictoriaLogsIf you use Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Loki or VictoriaLogs and are curious why your system has performance or high resource usage issues …A response icon2A response icon2
InITNEXTbyAliaksandr Valialkin·Jun 30, 2024f-tests as a replacement for table-driven tests in GoTable-driven tests in Go is the officially recommended way to write multiple tests for some function, which may produce different outputs…A response icon6A response icon6
Aliaksandr Valialkin·Dec 16, 2020Promscale vs VictoriaMetrics: resource usage on production workloadLet’s compare Promscale and VictoriaMetrics resource usage on production workloadA response icon2A response icon2
Aliaksandr Valialkin·Nov 27, 2020Prometheus 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…A response icon2A response icon2
Aliaksandr Valialkin·Nov 5, 2020How to use relabeling in Prometheus and VictoriaMetricsPrometheus supports relabeling, which allows performing the following tasks:A response icon3A response icon3
Aliaksandr Valialkin·Jan 22, 2020Billy: how VictoriaMetrics deals with more than 500 billion rowsLet’s re-run ScyllaDB’s Billy benchmark on VictoriaMetricsA response icon2A response icon2
