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

VictoriaMetrics and vmalert - using the `query()` function in alert annotations to display several different metrics instead of a single `$value` from `expr`.

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michabbb Dec 13, 2025

🔔 Built-in alerting support via #vmalert integration. Fits RUM (Real User Monitoring) and SIEM use cases. Automatically parses CEF messages sent over Syslog protocol.

🖥️ Built-in web UI for log exploration. #Grafana plugin available for building arbitrary dashboards. Interactive command-line tool vlogscli for querying.

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VictoriaMetrics Dec 11, 2025

The latest VictoriaMetrics releases introduce major enhancements across several of its core components, including vmagent, #vmalert, vmctl, and their toolset.
New in v1.130.0:
✨ Metric metadata support (#Prometheus-compatible API)
#VictoriaMetrics can now scrape and store metadata using vmsingle or vmagent and expose it via /api/v1/metadata. Enable it with -enableMetadata=true across vmsingle, vmagent, and vminsert.

VictoriaMetrics Aug 5, 2025

Smart Routing with #vmalert 🧠✨
Here’s where the magic begins:
🔁 Groups duplicate alerts
📩 Combines related events into single messages
🔕 Silences alerts during maintenance

🚀 Building a scalable, cost-effective monitoring stack on #AWS with #VictoriaMetrics! Perfect for #DevOps and #SRE, achieve high performance, low cost, and easy scaling.

VictoriaMetrics Jun 30, 2025

🔔 #Alerting, your way. #VictoriaMetrics #Cloud supports both:
✅ Managed AlertManager (based on #vmalert)
✅ Your own custom AlertManager
Plug into your #observability stack — #Slack, #PagerDuty, Teams & more.
More information in this latest blog post 👇

https://hubs.ly/Q03rqgbk0

VictoriaMetrics May 19, 2025

This Thursday!

Join our #vmalert #Tech Talk for best practices & a LIVE #DEMO. 💻

See rule config, alert firing, AlertManager integration & more! Ask Mathias Palmersheim & Marc Sherwood your questions.

📅 May 22nd, 10 AM PDT
🎥 YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/live/zpjBSZ8TkGU

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VMalert - Maximize Your Monitoring - Tech Talks #5

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VictoriaMetrics May 16, 2025

Level up your alerting game!
🚀 Join our Tech Talk: "vmalert: Maximize Your Monitoring".

Learn config, best practices, & optimization tips from Mathias Palmersheim & Marc Sherwood.
📅 May 22nd, 2025 ⏰ 10 AM PDT 📍 YouTube Live

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/live/zpjBSZ8TkGU

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Denys Holius May 22, 2023

Never-firing #alerts : What they are and how to deal with them

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/never-firing-alerts/

#sre #devops #observability #monitoring #oncall #victoriametrics #prometheus #tsdb #vmalert

Never-firing alerts: What they are and how to deal with them

Read how vmalert helps to find alerting rules which don’t match any time series. Such rules will never fire and only trick users with a false sense of protection.