Summary
Title & Context
VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q1 2026 Update – meetup-style product update in English. The presenter (Jose) reviews new features and improvements delivered during the quarter.
Key Topics
- General availability of Victoria Logs in VictoriaMetrics Cloud
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for AI-assisted querying and dashboarding
- New pricing and cost comparison page
- Enhanced alerting (per-rule editing, preset alerts, generic webhooks)
- Access token limits and clarity improvements
- Infrastructure upgrades (private link, Graviton migration, incremental backups)
- Upcoming items (SOC2, VPC integration, traces, anomaly detection)
Main Takeaways
- Victoria Logs is now GA in the cloud platform, providing a cost-efficient, OpenTelemetry-native log solution with LogSQL queries, saved queries, and an overview dashboard.
- AI integration through an MCP server lets users ask natural-language questions (e.g., “How is my service going?”) and receive generated dashboards and diagnostics, reducing manual dashboard effort.
- A transparent pricing page includes benchmark comparisons with other providers, helping users estimate costs and choose the right tier without hidden assumptions.
- Alerting improvements – users can now edit individual alert rules via the UI, use preset alerts from the open-source project “awesome Prometheus alerts,” and send notifications through generic webhooks.
Technical Details
- Victoria Logs is OpenTelemetry-native and supports wide events.
- The MCP server works with access tokens and can be used with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, etc.
- The new pricing page shows downsampling explanation and starter/medium/large tiers with cost estimates.
- Alerting rules can be uploaded/downloaded as YAML, but now also edited individually in the UI.
- Infrastructure: all clusters migrated to a blue-green topology, backups switched to incremental on AWS, and Graviton (ARM) adopted for better price/performance.
Target Audience
DevOps engineers, SREs, platform teams, and observability practitioners evaluating or using VictoriaMetrics Cloud for metrics and logs. Also useful for those interested in AI-assisted observability workflows.
