**Update note:** this release changes data format for [/api/v1/export/native](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-export-data-in-native-format) in incompatible way, so it cannot be imported into older version of VictoriaMetrics via [/api/v1/import/native](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-import-data-in-native-format).
* FEATURE: check the correctess of raw sample timestamps stored on disk when reading them. This reduces the probability of possible silent corruption of the data stored on disk. This should help [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2998) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3011).
* FEATURE: atomically delete directories with snapshots, parts and partitions at [storage level](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#storage). Previously such directories can be left in partially deleted state when the deletion operation was interrupted by unclean shutdown. This may result in `cannot open file ...: no such file or directory` error on the next start. The probability of this error was quite high when NFS or EFS was used as persistent storage for VictoriaMetrics data. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3038).
* FEATURE: set the `start` arg to `end - 5 minutes` if isn't passed explicitly to [/api/v1/labels](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples.html#apiv1labels) and [/api/v1/label/.../values](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples.html#apiv1labelvalues). See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/3052).
* FEATURE: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): add `vm-native-step-interval` command line flag for `vm-native` mode. New option allows splitting the import process into chunks by time interval. This helps migrating data sets with high churn rate and provides better control over the process. See [feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2733).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): add `top queries` tab, which shows various stats for recently executed queries. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#top-queries) and [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2707).
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly calculate `rate_over_sum(m[d])` as `sum_over_time(m[d])/d`. Previously the `sum_over_time(m[d])` could be improperly divided by smaller than `d` time range. See [rate_over_sum() docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#rate_over_sum) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3045).
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): properly calculate query results at `vmselect`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3067). The issue has been introduced in [v1.81.0](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1810).
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): log clear error when multiple identical `-storageNode` command-line flags are passed to `vmselect` or to `vminsert`. Previously these components were crashed with cryptic panic `metric ... is already registered` in this case. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3076).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): fix `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded` error when the query returns too many data points at `Table` view. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/3092/files).
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): properly calculate query results at `vmselect`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3067). The issue has been introduced in [v1.81.0](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1810).
**It isn't recommended to use VictoriaMetrics cluster v1.81.1 because of [the bug](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3067), which may result in incorrect query results. Upgrade to [v1.81.2](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1812) instead.**
* FEATURE: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): evaluate `q1`, ..., `qN` in parallel when calculating `union(q1, .., qN)`. Previously [union](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#union) args were evaluated sequentially. This could result in lower than expected performance.
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): fix potential panic at `vmselect` under high load, which has been introduced in [v1.81.0](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1810). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3058).
**It isn't recommended to use VictoriaMetrics cluster v1.81.0 because of [the bug](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3058), which may result in `vmselect` crashes under high load. Upgrade to [v1.81.2](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1812) instead.**
**Update note 1:** [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html) by default hides values of `-remoteWrite.url`, `-remoteRead.url` and `-datasource.url` in logs and at `http://vmalert:8880/flags` for security reasons. See the corresponding SECURITY change in the Chagelog below for additional info.
**Update note 2:** [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html) by default points alert source url to `/vmalert/alert?...` aka [web UI](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#web) instead of `/vmalert/api/v1/alert?...` aka JSON handler. The old behavior can be achieved by setting {% raw %}`-external.alert.source=vmalert/api/v1/alert?group_id={{.GroupID}}&alert_id={{.AlertID}}`{% endraw %} command-line flag.
* SECURITY: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): do not expose `-remoteWrite.url`, `-remoteRead.url` and `-datasource.url` command-line flag values in logs and at `http://vmalert:8880/flags` page by default, since they may contain sensitive data such as auth keys. This aligns `vmalert` behaviour with [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html), which doesn't expose `-remoteWrite.url` command-line flag value in logs and at `http://vmagent:8429/flags` page by default. Specify `-remoteWrite.showURL`, `-remoteRead.showURL` and `-datasource.showURL` command-line flags for showing values for the corresponding `-*.url` flags in logs. Thanks to @mble for [the pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2965).
* SECURITY: upgrade base docker image (alpine) from 3.16.1 to 3.16.2. See [alpine 3.16.2 release notes](https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.13.12-3.14.8-3.15.6-3.16.2-released.html).
* FEATURE: return shorter error messages to Grafana and to other clients requesting [/api/v1/query](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyConcepts.html#instant-query) and [/api/v1/query_range](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyConcepts.html#range-query) endpoints. This should simplify reading these errors by humans. The long error message with full context is still written to logs.
* FEATURE: add the ability to fine-tune the number of points, which can be generated per each matching time series during [subquery](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#subqueries) evaluation. This can be done with the `-search.maxPointsSubqueryPerTimeseries` command-line flag. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2922).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): improve the performance for relabeling rules with commonly used regular expressions in `regex` and `if` fields such as `some_string`, `prefix.*`, `prefix.+`, `foo|bar|baz`, `.*foo.*` and `.+foo.+`.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): reduce CPU usage when discovering big number of [Kubernetes targets](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs) with big number of labels and annotations.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add ability to accept [multitenant](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multitenancy) data via OpenTSDB `/api/put` protocol at `/insert/<tenantID>/opentsdb/api/put` http endpoint if [multitenant support](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#multitenancy) is enabled at `vmagent`. Thanks to @chengjianyun for [the pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/3015).
* FEATURE: [monitoring](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#monitoring): expose `vm_hourly_series_limit_max_series`, `vm_hourly_series_limit_current_series`, `vm_daily_series_limit_max_series` and `vm_daily_series_limit_current_series` metrics when `-search.maxHourlySeries` or `-search.maxDailySeries` limits are set. This allows alerting when the number of unique series reaches the configured limits. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#cardinality-limiter) for details.
* FEATURE: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): reduce the amounts of logging at `vmstorage` when `vmselect` connects/disconnects to `vmstorage`.
* FEATURE: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): improve performance for heavy queries on systems with many CPU cores.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add ability to use {% raw %}`{{label_name}}`{% endraw %} placeholders in the `replacement` option of relabeling rules. This simplifies constructing label values from multiple existing label values. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling-enhancements) for details.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): generate additional per-target metrics - `scrape_series_limit`, `scrape_series_current` and `scrape_series_limit_samples_dropped` if series limit is set according to [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter). This simplifies alerting on targets with the exceeded series limit. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#automatically-generated-metrics) for details on these metrics.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add support for MX record types in [dns_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#dns_sd_configs) in the same way as Prometheus 2.38 [does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/10099).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add `__meta_kubernetes_service_port_number` meta-label for `role: service` in [kubernetes_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs) in the same way as Prometheus 2.38 [does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/11002).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add `__meta_kubernetes_pod_container_image` meta-label for `role: pod` in [kubernetes_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs) in the same way as Prometheus 2.38 [does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/11034).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): retry HTTP requests after some wait time during service discovery and during target scrapes if the server returns 429 HTTP status code (aka `Too many requests`). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2940).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): add a legend in the top right corner for shortcut keys. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2813).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add `toTime()` template function in the same way as Prometheus 2.38 [does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/10993). See [these docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/template_reference/#numbers).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add `$alertID` and `$groupID` template variables. These variables may be used for templating annotations or `-external.alert.source` command-line flag. See the full list of supported variables [here](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#templating).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add `$activeAt` template variable. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2999). See the full list of supported variables [here](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#templating). Thanks to @laixintao for the [pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/3000).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): point alert source to [vmalert's UI](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#web) at `/vmalert/alert?...` instead of JSON handler at `/vmalert/api/v1/alert?...`. This improves user experience. The old behavior can be achieved by setting {% raw %}`-external.alert.source=vmalert/api/v1/alert?group_id={{.GroupID}}&alert_id={{.AlertID}}`{% endraw %} command-line flag.
* BUGFIX: prevent from excess CPU usage when the storage enters [read-only mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#readonly-mode).
* BUGFIX: improve performance for requests to [/api/v1/labels](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples.html#apiv1labels) and [/api/v1/label/.../values](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples.html#apiv1labelvalues) when the filter in the `match[]` query arg matches small number of time series. The performance for this case has been reduced in [v1.78.0](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1780). See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2978) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1533) issues.
* BUGFIX: increase the default limit on the number of concurrent merges for small parts from 8 to 16. This should help resolving potential issues with heavy data ingestion. See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2673#issuecomment-1218185978) from @lukepalmer .
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): fix panic when incorrect arg is passed as `phi` into [histogram_quantiles](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#histogram_quantiles) function. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3026).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): allow configuring additional HTTP request headers for `-datasource.url`, `-remoteWrite.url` and `-remoteRead.url` via `-datasource.headers`, `-remoteWrite.headers` and `-remoteRead.headers` command-line flags. Additional HTTP request headers also can be set on group level via `headers` param - see [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#groups) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2860).
* FEATURE: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): execute left and right sides of certain operations in parallel. For example, `q1 or q2`, `aggr_func(q1) <op> q2`, `q1 <op> aggr_func(q1)`. This may improve query performance if VictoriaMetrics has enough free resources for parallel processing of both sides of the operation. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2886).
* FEATURE: [vmauth](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): allow multiple sections with duplicate `username` but with different `password` values at `-auth.config` file.
* FEATURE: add ability to push internal metrics (e.g. metrics exposed at `/metrics` page) to the configured remote storage from all the VictoriaMetrics components. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#push-metrics).
* FEATURE: improve performance for heavy queries over big number of time series on systems with big number of CPU cores. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2896). Thanks to @zqyzyq for [the idea](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/commit/b596ac3745314fcc170a14e3ded062971cf7ced2).
* FEATURE: improve performance for registering new time series in `indexdb` by up to 50%. Thanks to @ahfuzhang for [the issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2249).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add ability to specify tenantID in target labels. In this case metrics from the given target are routed to the given `__tenant_id__`. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#multitenancy) and [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2943).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add service discovery for [Yandex Cloud](https://cloud.yandex.com/en/). See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#yandexcloud_sd_configs) and [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1386).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui). Zoom in the graph by selecting the needed time range in the same way Grafana does. Hold `ctrl` (or `cmd` on MacOS) in order to move the graph to the left/right. Hold `ctrl` (or `cmd` on MacOS) and scroll up/down in order to zoom in/out the area under the cursor. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2812).
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): fix potential panic in [multi-level cluster setup](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multi-level-cluster-setup) when top-level `vmselect` is configured with `-replicationFactor` bigger than 1. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2961).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly handle custom `endpoint` value in [ec2_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#ec2_sd_configs). It was ignored since [v1.77.0](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1770) because of a bug in the implementation of [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1287). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2917).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add missing `__meta_kubernetes_ingress_class_name` meta-label for `role: ingress` service discovery in Kubernetes. See [this commit from Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/commit/7e65ad3e432bd2837c17e3e63e85dcbcc30f4a8a).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): allow stale responses from Consul service discovery (aka [consul_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#consul_sd_configs)) by default in the same way as Prometheus does. This should reduce load on Consul when discovering big number of targets. Stale responses can be disabled by specifying `allow_stale: false` option in `consul_sd_config`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2940).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): [dockerswarm_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#dockerswarm_sd_configs): properly set `__meta_dockerswarm_container_label_*` labels instead of `__meta_dockerswarm_task_label_*` labels as Prometheus does. See [this issue](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/9187).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): set `up` metric to `0` for partial scrapes in [stream parsing mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode). Previously the `up` metric was set to `1` when at least a single metric has been scraped before the error. This aligns the behaviour of `vmselect` with Prometheus.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): restart all the scrape jobs during [config reload](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#configuration-update) after `global` section is changed inside `-promscrape.config`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2884).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly assume role with AWS ECS credentials. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2875). Thanks to @transacid for [the fix](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2876).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): do not split regex in [relabeling rules](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling) into multiple lines if it contains groups. This fixes [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2928).
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): return series from `q1` if `q2` doesn't return matching time series in the query `q1 ifnot q2`. Previously series from `q1` weren't returned in this case.
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): properly show date picker at `Table` tab. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2874).
* BUGFIX: properly generate http redirects if `-http.pathPrefix` command-line flag is set. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2918).
* SECURITY: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): do not expose `-remoteWrite.url`, `-remoteRead.url` and `-datasource.url` command-line flag values in logs and at `http://vmalert:8880/flags` page by default, since they may contain sensitive data such as auth keys. This aligns `vmalert` behaviour with [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html), which doesn't expose `-remoteWrite.url` command-line flag value in logs and at `http://vmagent:8429/flags` page by default. Specify `-remoteWrite.showURL`, `-remoteRead.showURL` and `-datasource.showURL` command-line flags for showing values for the corresponding `-*.url` flags in logs. Thanks to @mble for [the pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2965).
* SECURITY: upgrade base docker image (alpine) from 3.16.1 to 3.16.2. See [alpine 3.16.2 release notes](https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.13.12-3.14.8-3.15.6-3.16.2-released.html).
* BUGFIX: prevent from excess CPU usage when the storage enters [read-only mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#readonly-mode).
* BUGFIX: improve performance for requests to [/api/v1/labels](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples.html#apiv1labels) and [/api/v1/label/.../values](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples.html#apiv1labelvalues) when the filter in the `match[]` query arg matches small number of time series. The performance for this case has been reduced in [v1.78.0](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1780). See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2978) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1533) issues.
* BUGFIX: increase the default limit on the number of concurrent merges for small parts from 8 to 16. This should help resolving potential issues with heavy data ingestion. See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2673#issuecomment-1218185978) from @lukepalmer .
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): fix panic when incorrect arg is passed as `phi` into [histogram_quantiles](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#histogram_quantiles) function. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3026).
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): fix potential panic in [multi-level cluster setup](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multi-level-cluster-setup) when top-level `vmselect` is configured with `-replicationFactor` bigger than 1. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2961).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly handle custom `endpoint` value in [ec2_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#ec2_sd_configs). It was ignored since [v1.77.0](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1770) because of a bug in the implementation of [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1287).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add missing `__meta_kubernetes_ingress_class_name` meta-label for `role: ingress` service discovery in Kubernetes. See [this commit from Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/commit/7e65ad3e432bd2837c17e3e63e85dcbcc30f4a8a).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): allow stale responses from Consul service discovery (aka [consul_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#consul_sd_configs)) by default in the same way as Prometheus does. This should reduce load on Consul when discovering big number of targets. Stale responses can be disabled by specifying `allow_stale: false` option in `consul_sd_config`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2940).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): [dockerswarm_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#dockerswarm_sd_configs): properly set `__meta_dockerswarm_container_label_*` labels instead of `__meta_dockerswarm_task_label_*` labels as Prometheus does. See [this issue](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/9187).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): set `up` metric to `0` for partial scrapes in [stream parsing mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode). Previously the `up` metric was set to `1` when at least a single metric has been scraped before the error. This aligns the behaviour of `vmselect` with Prometheus.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): restart all the scrape jobs during [config reload](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#configuration-update) after `global` section is changed inside `-promscrape.config`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2884).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly assume role with AWS ECS credentials. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2875). Thanks to @transacid for [the fix](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2876).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): do not split regex in [relabeling rules](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling) into multiple lines if it contains groups. This fixes [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2928).
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): return series from `q1` if `q2` doesn't return matching time series in the query `q1 ifnot q2`. Previously series from `q1` weren't returned in this case.
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): properly show date picker at `Table` tab. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2874).
* BUGFIX: properly generate http redirects if `-http.pathPrefix` command-line flag is set. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2918).
* SECURITY: upgrade base docker image (alpine) from 3.16.0 to 3.16.1 . See [alpine 3.16.1 release notes](https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.16.1-released.html).
**Update note 1:** this release introduces backwards-incompatible changes to `vm_partial_results_total` metric by changing its labels to be consistent with `vm_requests_total` metric. If you use alerting rules or Grafana dashboards, which rely on this metric, then they must be updated. The official dashboards for VictoriaMetrics don't use this metric.
**Update note 2:** [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html) adds `/vmalert/` prefix to [web urls](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#web) according to [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2825). This may affect `vmalert` instances with non-empty `-http.pathPrefix` command-line flag. After the update, configuring this flag is no longer needed. Here's [why](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2799#issuecomment-1171392005).
**Update note 3:** this release introduces backwards-incompatible changes to communication protocol between `vmselect` and `vmstorage` nodes in cluster version of VictoriaMetrics because of added ability to query `vmselect` data from other `vmselect` nodes - see [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multi-level-cluster-setup), so read requests to `vmselect` will fail until the upgrade is complete. These errors will stop after all the `vmselect` and `vmstorage` nodes are updated to the new release. It is safe to downgrade to previous releases at any time.
**Update note 4:** this release removes support of deprecated in [1.70.0](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.70.0) param `extra_filter_labels` from [vmalert's](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html) groups definition. This deprecated param was replaced with [params](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#url-params).
**Update note 5:** this release changes naming for published linux binaries at [releases](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases). Now names for binaries for all the supported platforms match the following template - `$(APP_NAME)-$(GOOS)-$(GOARCH)-$(VERSION).tar.gz`. For example, `victoria-metrics-linux-amd64-v1.79.0.tar.gz`. Previously linux binaries didn't have `$(GOOS)` part, e.g. they had the name `victoria-metrics-amd64-v1.79.0.tar.gz`. Please update automation scripts for upgrading VictoriaMetrics releases according to this change.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add [azure_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#azure_sd_configs) service discovery mechanism. It allows discovering Virtual Machines at [Azure Cloud](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1364).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): deprecate alert's status link `/api/v1/<groupID>/<alertID>/status` in favour of `api/v1/alert?group_id=<group_id>&alert_id=<alert_id>"`. The old alert's status link is still supported, but will be removed in future releases. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2825).
* FEATURE: [cluster version of VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): add support for querying lower-level `vmselect` nodes from upper-level `vmselect` nodes. This makes possible to build multi-level cluster setups for global querying view and HA purposes without the need to use [Promxy](https://github.com/jacksontj/promxy). See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multi-level-cluster-setup) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2778).
* FEATURE: add `-search.setLookbackToStep` command-line flag, which enables InfluxDB-like gap filling during querying. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/migrate-from-influx.html) for details.
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): add an UI for [query tracing](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#query-tracing). It can be enabled by clicking `trace query` checkbox and re-running the query. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2703).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add `-remoteWrite.headers` command-line option for specifying optional HTTP headers to send to the configured `-remoteWrite.url`. For example, `-remoteWrite.headers='Foo:Bar^^Baz:x'` would send `Foo: Bar` and `Baz: x` HTTP headers with every request to `-remoteWrite.url`. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2805).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): push per-target `scrape_samples_limit` metric to the configured `-remoteWrite.url` if `sample_limit` option is set for this target in [scrape_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#scrape_configs). See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/operator/issues/497).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): attach node-level labels to [kubernetes_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs) targets if `attach_metadata: {"node": true}` is set for `role: endpoints` and `role: endpointslice`. This is a feature backport from Prometheus 2.37 - see [this pull request](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/10759).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add ability to specify additional HTTP headers to send to scrape targets via `headers` section in `scrape_configs`. This can be used when the scrape target requires custom authorization and authentication like in [this stackoverflow question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66032498/prometheus-scrape-metric-with-custom-header). For example, the following config instructs sending `My-Auth: top-secret` and `TenantID: FooBar` headers with each request to `http://host123:8080/metrics`:
* FEATURE: add ability to pass `limit` query arg to `api/v1/series` endpoint. This can be used if only a sample of up to `limit` series must be returned from the endpoint. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2841) and [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#prometheus-querying-api-enhancements).
* FEATURE: [query tracing](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#query-tracing): show timestamps in query traces in human-readable format (aka `RFC3339` in UTC timezone) instead of milliseconds since Unix epoch. For example, `2022-06-27T10:32:54.506Z` instead of `1656325974506`. This improves traces' readability.
* FEATURE: improve performance of [/api/v1/series](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#finding-series-by-label-matchers) requests, which return big number of time series.
* FEATURE: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly handle partial counter resets in [remove_resets](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#remove_resets) function. Now `remove_resets(sum(m))` should returns the expected increasing line when some time series matching `m` disappear on the selected time range. Previously such a query would return horizontal line after the disappeared series.
* FEATURE: expose `vm_next_retention_seconds` metric at `http://victoriametrics:8428/metrics`, which shows the number of seconds left until the next `indexdb` rotation. Thanks to @guidao for the [pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2863).
*`vm_rows_scanned_per_query` - the number of raw samples scanned per query. This number can exceed `vm_rows_read_per_query` if `step` query arg passed to [/api/v1/query_range](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyConcepts.html#range-query) is smaller than the lookbehind window set in square brackets of [rollup function](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#rollup-functions). For example, if `increase(some_metric[1h])` is executed with the `step=5m`, then the same raw samples on a hour time range are scanned `1h/5m=12` times. See [this article](https://valyala.medium.com/how-to-optimize-promql-and-metricsql-queries-85a1b75bf986) for details.
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): allow selecting the needed columns at table view. This functionaly may help when the selected time series contain many different labels. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2817) and [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2867).
* BUGFIX: consistently name binaries at [releases page](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases) in the form `$(APP_NAME)-$(GOOS)-$(GOARCH)-$(VERSION).tar.gz`. For example, `victoria-metrics-linux-amd64-v1.79.0.tar.gz`. Previously the `$(GOOS)` part was missing in binaries for Linux.
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): allow using `__name__` label (aka [metric name](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#time-series-selectors)) in alerting annotations. For example:
{% raw %}
```console
{{ $labels.__name__ }}: Too high connection number for "{{ $labels.instance }}
* BUGFIX: limit max memory occupied by the cache, which stores parsed regular expressions. Previously too long regular expressions passed in [MetricsQL queries](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) could result in big amounts of used memory (e.g. multiple of gigabytes). Now the max cache size for parsed regexps is limited to a a few megabytes.
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly handle partial counter resets when calculating [rate](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#rate), [irate](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#irate) and [increase](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#increase) functions. Previously these functions could return zero values after partial counter resets until the counter increases to the last value before partial counter reset. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2787).
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly calculate [histogram_quantile](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#histogram_quantile) over Prometheus buckets with unexpected values. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2819).
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly evaluate [timezone_offset](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#timezone_offset) function over time range covering time zone offset switches. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2771).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly add service-level labels (`__meta_kubernetes_service_*`) to discovered targets for `role: endpointslice` in [kubernetes_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs). Previously these labels were missing. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2823).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): make sure that [stale markers](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#prometheus-staleness-markers) are generated with the actual timestamp when unsuccessful scrape occurs. This should prevent from possible time series overlap on scrape target restart in dynmaic envirnoments such as Kubernetes.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly reload changed `-promscrape.config` file when `-promscrape.configCheckInterval` option is set. The changed config file wasn't reloaded in this case since [v1.69.0](#v1690). See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2786). Thanks to @ttyv for the fix.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly set `Host` header during target scraping when `proxy_url` is set to http proxy. Previously the `Host` header was set to the proxy hostname instead of the target hostname. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2794).
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): assume that the response is complete if `-search.denyPartialResponse` is enabled and up to `-replicationFactor - 1``vmstorage` nodes are unavailable. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1767).
* BUGFIX: [vmselect](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmselect): update `vm_partial_results_total` metric labels to be consistent with `vm_requests_total` labels.
* BUGFIX: accept tags without values when reading data in [DataDog format](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#how-to-send-data-from-datadog-agent). Thanks to @PerGon for the [pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2839).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): properly pass the end of the selected time range to `time` query arg to [/api/v1/query](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyConcepts.html#instant-query) when displaying the requested data in JSON and table views. Previously the `time` query arg wasn't set, so `/api/v1/query` was always returning query results for the current time regardless of the selected time range. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2781).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): allow clicking on the suggestion from autocomplete list. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2804).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): apply the selected time range in date picker only after clicking the `Apply` button. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2811).
**Update notes:** it is recommended [clearing caches](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#cache-removal) after the upgrade from [v1.78.0](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.78.0) in order to immediately fix the issue for newly ingested data. Otherwise the issue may exist for newly ingested data for up to a day after the upgrade.
* BUGFIX: properly register time series in per-day inverted index. Previously some series could miss registration in the per-day inverted index. This could result in missing time series during querying. The issue has been introduced in [v1.78.0](#v1780). See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2798) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2793) issues.
**Warning (03-07-2022):** VictoriaMetrics v1.78.0 contains a bug, which may result in missing time series during queries. It is recommended upgrading to [v1.78.1](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.78.1), which fixes the bug.
**Update notes:** this release introduces backwards-incompatible changes to communication protocol between `vmselect` and `vmstorage` nodes in cluster version of VictoriaMetrics because of added [query tracing](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#query-tracing), so read requests to `vmselect` will fail until the upgrade is complete. These errors will stop after all the `vmselect` and `vmstorage` nodes are updated to the new release. It is safe to downgrade to previous releases.
* SECURITY: add `-flagsAuthKey` command-line flag for protecting `/flags` endpoint from unauthorized access. Though this endpoint already hides values for command-line flags with `key` and `password` substrings in their names, other sensitive information could be exposed there. See [This issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2753).
* FEATURE: support query tracing, which allows determining bottlenecks during query processing. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#query-tracing) and [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1403).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): add `cardinality` tab, which can help identifying the source of [high cardinality](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/FAQ.html#what-is-high-cardinality) and [high churn rate](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/FAQ.html#what-is-high-churn-rate) issues. See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2233) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2730) feature requests and [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#cardinality-explorer).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): small UX enhancements according to [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2638).
* FEATURE: allow overriding default limits for in-memory cache `indexdb/tagFilters` via flag `-storage.cacheSizeIndexDBTagFilters`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2663).
* FEATURE: add support of `lowercase` and `uppercase` relabeling actions in the same way as [Prometheus 2.36.0 does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.36.0). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2664).
* FEATURE: add ability to change the `indexdb` rotation timezone offset via `-retentionTimezoneOffset` command-line flag. Previously it was performed at 4am UTC time. This could lead to performance degradation in the middle of the day when VictoriaMetrics runs in time zones located too far from UTC. Thanks to @cnych for [the pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2574).
* FEATURE: limit the number of background merge threads on systems with big number of CPU cores by default. This increases the max size of parts, which can be created during background merge when `-storageDataPath` directory has limited free disk space. This may improve on-disk data compression efficiency and query performance. The limits can be tuned if needed with `-smallMergeConcurrency` and `-bigMergeConcurrency` command-line flags. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2673).
* FEATURE: accept optional `limit` query arg at [/api/v1/labels](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#getting-label-names) and [/api/v1/label/.../values](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#querying-label-values) for limiting the numbef of sample entries returned from these endpoints. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#prometheus-querying-api-enhancements).
* FEATURE: optimize performance for [/api/v1/labels](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#getting-label-names) and [/api/v1/label/.../values](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#querying-label-values) endpoints when `match[]`, `extra_label` or `extra_filters[]` query args are passed to these endpoints. This should help with [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1533).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): support `limit` param per-group for limiting number of produced samples per each rule. Thanks to @Howie59 for [implementation](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2676).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): remove dependency on Internet access at [web API pages](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#web). Previously the functionality and the layout of these pages was broken without Internet access. See [shis issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2594).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): send alerts to the configured notifiers in parallel. Previously alerts were sent to notifiers sequentially. This could delay sending pending alerts when notifier blocks on the currently sent alert.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): implement the `http://vmagent:8429/service-discovery` page in the same way as Prometheus does. This page shows the original labels for all the discovered targets alongside the resulting labels after the relabeling. This simplifies service discovery debugging.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): remove dependency on Internet access at `http://vmagent:8429/targets` page. Previously the page layout was broken without Internet access. See [shis issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2594).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add support for `kubeconfig_file` option at [kubernetes_sd_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs). It may be useful for Kubernetes monitoring by `vmagent` outside Kubernetes cluster. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1464).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): expose `/api/v1/status/config` endpoint in the same way as Prometheus does. See [these docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#config).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add `-promscrape.suppressScrapeErrorsDelay` command-line flag, which can be used for delaying and aggregating the logging of per-target scrape errors. This may reduce the amounts of logs when `vmagent` scrapes many unreliable targets. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2575). Thanks to @jelmd for [the initial implementation](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2576).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add `-promscrape.cluster.name` command-line flag, which allows proper data de-duplication when the same target is scraped from multiple [vmagent clusters](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#scraping-big-number-of-targets). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2679).
* FEATURE: [VictoriaMetrics enterprise](https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/): expose `vm_downsampling_partitions_scheduled` and `vm_downsampling_partitions_scheduled_size_bytes` metrics, which can be used for tracking the progress of initial [downsampling](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#downsampling) for historical data. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2612).
* FEATURE: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): do not spend up to 5 seconds when trying to connect to unavailable `vmstorage` nodes. This should improve query latency when some of `vmstorage` nodes aren't available. Expose `vm_tcpdialer_addr_available{addr="..."}` metric at `http://vmselect:8481/metrics` for determining whether the given `addr` is available for establishing new connections. See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/711#issuecomment-1160363187).
* FEATURE: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): add `-vmstorageDialTimeout` command-line flags to `vmselect` and `vminsert` for tuning the maximum duration for connection estabilishing to `vmstorage` nodes. This should help resolving [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/711).
* BUGFIX: support for data ingestion in [DataDog format](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#how-to-send-data-from-datadog-agent) from legacy clients / agents. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2670). Thanks to @elProxy for the fix.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): do not expose `vm_promscrape_service_discovery_duration_seconds_bucket` metric for unused service discovery types. This reduces the number of metrics exported at `http://vmagent:8429/metrics`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2671).
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): properly apply `alert_relabel_configs` relabeling rules to `-notifier.config` according to [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#notifier-configuration-file). Thanks to @spectvtor for [the bugfix](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2633).
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): properly add `Content-Encoding: snappy`, `Content-Type: application/x-protobuf` and `X-Prometheus-Remote-Write-Version: 0.1.0` request headers when `vmalert` sends [evaluated recording rules' data](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#recording-rules) to `-remoteWrite.url`. These headers are needed by some remote storage systems in order to properly decode snappy-encoded request body. See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2685) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2701) pull requests. Thanks to @manji-0 for th fix.
* BUGFIX: deny [background merge](https://valyala.medium.com/how-victoriametrics-makes-instant-snapshots-for-multi-terabyte-time-series-data-e1f3fb0e0282) when the storage enters read-only mode, e.g. when free disk space becomes lower than `-storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes`. Background merge needs additional disk space, so it could result in `no space left on device` errors. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2603).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): properly apply the selected time range when auto-refresh is enabled. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2693).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): properly update the url with vmui state when new query is entered. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2692).
* BUGFIX: [Graphite render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage): properly calculate sample timestamps when `moving*()` functions such as [movingAverage()](https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/functions.html#graphite.render.functions.movingAverage) are applied over [summarize()](https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/functions.html#graphite.render.functions.summarize).
* BUGFIX: limit the `end` query arg value to `+2 days` in the future at `/api/v1/*` endpoints, because VictoriaMetrics doesn't allow storing samples with timestamps bigger than +2 days in the future. This should help resolving [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2669).
* BUGFIX: properly register time series in per-day inverted index during the first hour after `indexdb` rotation. Previously this could lead to missing time series during querying if these time series stopped receiving new samples during the first hour after `indexdb` rotation. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2698).
* BUGFIX: do not register new series when `-storage.maxHourlySeries` or `-storage.maxDailySeries` limits were reached. Previously samples for new series weren't added to the database when the [cardinality limit](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#cardinality-limiter) was reached, but series were still registered in the inverted index (aka `indexdb`). This could lead to unbound `indexdb` growth during [high churn rate](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/FAQ.html#what-is-high-churn-rate).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): support [reusable templates](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/template_examples/#defining-reusable-templates) for rules annotations. The path to the template files can be specified via `-rule.templates` flag. See more about this feature [here](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#reusable-templates). Thanks to @AndrewChubatiuk for [the pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2532). See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2510).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): expose `vmalert_iteration_interval_seconds` metric at `http://vmalert:8880/metrics`. This metric shows the configured per-group evaluation interval. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2618).
* FEATURE: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): add `influx-prometheus-mode` command-line flag, which allows to restore the original time series written from Prometheus into InfluxDB during data migration from InfluxDB to VictoriaMetrics. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/vmctl/issues/8). Thanks to @mback2k for [the pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2545).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add ability to specify AWS service name when issuing requests to AWS api. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2605). Thanks to @transacid for [the pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2604).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): fix a bug, which could lead to incomplete discovery of scrape targets in Kubernetes (aka `kubernetes_sd_config`). the bug has been introduced in [v1.77.0](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1770).
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): support `scalar` result type in response. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2607).
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): support strings in `humanize.*` template function in the same way as Prometheus does. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2569).
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): proxy `/rules` requests to vmalert from Grafana's alerting UI. This removes errors in Grafana's UI for Grafana versions older than `8.5.*`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2583)
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): do not add `/api/v1/query` suffix to `-datasource.url` if `-remoteRead.disablePathAppend` command-line flag is set. Previously this flag was applied only to `-remoteRead.url`, which could confuse users.
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): prevent from possible resource leak on config update, which could lead to the slowdown of `vmalert` over time. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2577).
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): do not return values from [label_value()](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#label_value) function if the original time series has no values at the selected timestamps.
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): limit the number of concurrently established connections from vmselect to vmstorage. This should prevent from potentially high spikes in the number of established connections after temporary slowdown in connection handshake procedure between vmselect and vmstorage because of spikes in workload. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2552).
* BUGFIX: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): fix build for Solaris / SmartOS. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1322#issuecomment-1120276146).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add ability to specify filters for Availability Zones in [ec2_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#ec2_sd_configs) via `az_filters` section. This section can contain AZ-specific set of filters in the same way as the existing `filters` section, which is used for filtering EC2 instances. The list of supported AZ-specific filters is available [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeAvailabilityZones.html).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): expose `vmagent_remotewrite_global_rows_pushed_before_relabel_total` and `vmagent_remotewrite_rows_pushed_after_relabel_total` metrics at `http://vmagent:8429/metrics`, which can be used for monitoring the rate of rows (aka samples) pushed to remote storage before and after the relabeling via `-remoteWrite.relabelConfig` and `-remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig`. See [relabeling docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling) for details.
* FEATURE: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): add ability to skip `db` label during InfluxDB data import when `influx-skip-database-label` option is used. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2544). Thanks to @mback2k .
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly process passwords and secrets specified in the file pointed by `-promscrape.config` command-line flag. All the passwords and secrets were mistakenly replaced with `<secret>` string in `v1.77.0`. See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2551) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2550).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): rename `vmagent_remote_write_rate_limit_reached_total` metric to `vmagent_remotewrite_rate_limit_reached_total`, so its name is consistent with the rest of `vmagent_remotewrite_` metrics.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): rename `promscrape_stale_samples_created_total` metric to `vm_promscrape_stale_samples_created_total`, so its name is consistent with the rest of `vm_promscrape_` metrics.
* BUGFIX: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): properly import InfluxDB measurements if they contain `db` tag. Previously this could result in incomplete import of measurmenet tags. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2536). Thanks to @mback2k for the bugfix.
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): do not reset the selected relative time range when entering new query. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2402#issuecomment-1115817302).
* BUGFIX: [vmbackup](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmbackup.html): disallow writing backups to `-storageDataPath` directory, since this directory is managed solely by VictoriaMetrics or `vmstorage`. Other apps shouldn't write into this directory. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2503).
* BUGFIX: do not allow setting `-retentionPeriod` smaller than one day, since VictoriaMetrics doesn't support properly such small retention periods. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2496).
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): do not drop samples routed to readonly `vmstorage` nodes if `-dropSamplesOnOverload` command-line flag is set. Try re-routing them to healthy `vmstorage` nodes instead. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2478).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add support for sending data to remote storage with AWS sigv4 authorization. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1287).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): allow filtering targets by target url and by target labels with [time series selector](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#time-series-selectors) on `http://vmagent:8429/targets` page. This may be useful when `vmagent` scrapes big number of targets. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1796).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): reduce `-promscrape.config` reload duration when the config contains big number of jobs (aka [scrape_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#scrape_configs) sections) and only a few of them are changed. Previously all the jobs were restarted. Now only the jobs with changed configs are restarted. This should reduce the probability of data miss because of slow config reload. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2270).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): improve service discovery speed for big number of scrape targets. This should help when `vmagent` discovers big number of targets (e.g. thousands) in Kubernetes cluster. The service discovery speed now should scale with the number of CPU cores available to `vmagent`.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add ability to attach node-level labels and annotations to discovered Kubernetes pod targets in the same way as Prometheus 2.35 does. See [this feature request](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/9510) and [this pull request](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/10080).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add support for `tls_config` and `proxy_url` options at `oauth2` section in the same way as Prometheus does. See [oauth2 docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#oauth2).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add support for `min_version` option at `tls_config` section in the same way as Prometheus does. See [tls_config docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#tls_config).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): expose `vmagent_remotewrite_rate_limit` metric at `http://vmagent:8429/metrics`, which can be used for alerting rules such as `rate(vmagent_remotewrite_conn_bytes_written_total) / vmagent_remotewrite_rate_limit > 0.8` when `-remoteWrite.rateLimit` command-line flag is set. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2521).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add support for DNS-based discovery for notifiers in the same way as Prometheus does (aka `dns_sd_configs`). See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#notifier-configuration-file) and [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2460).
* FEATURE: allow specifying TLS cipher suites for mTLS connections between cluster components via `-cluster.tlsCipherSuites` command-line flag. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#mtls-protection).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): show an empty graph on the selected time range when there is no data on it. Previously `No data to show` placeholder was shown instead of the graph in this case. This prevented from zooming and scrolling of such a graph.
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): show the selected `last N minutes/hours/days` in the top right corner. Previously the `start - end` duration was shown instead, which could be hard to interpret. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2402).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): execute the query when `enter` button is pressed in the same way as Prometheus does. Multi-line query can be entered by pressing `shift-enter` in the query input field.
* FEATURE: expose `vm_indexdb_items_added_total` and `vm_indexdb_items_added_size_bytes_total` counters at `/metrics` page, which can be used for monitoring the rate for addition of new entries in `indexdb` (aka `inverted index`) alongside the total size in bytes for the added entries. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2471).
* FEATURE: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): add `drop_common_labels()` function, which drops common `label="name"` pairs from the passed time series. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#drop_common_labels).
* FEATURE: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): add `tlast_change_over_time(m[d])` function, which returns the timestamp of the last change of `m` on the given lookbehind window `d`. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#tlast_change_over_time).
* FEATURE: leave the last raw sample per each `-dedup.minScrapeInterval` discrete interval when the [deduplication](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication) is enabled. This aligns better with the [staleness rules in Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#staleness) comparing to the previous behaviour when the first sample per each `-dedup.minScrapeInterval` was left.
* FEATURE: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): add ability to disable peer TLS certificate verification with `-cluster.tlsInsecureSkipVerify` command-line flag. See [mTLS docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#mtls-protection) for details. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2490).
* FEATURE: add a handler for `/api/v1/status/buildinfo` endpoint, which is used by Grafana starting from v8.5.0 . See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2515).
* FEATURE: add ability to proxy alerting API requests from Grafana to vmalert by passing `-vmalert.proxyURL` command-line flag to single-node VictoriaMetrics or to `vmselect` at cluster version of VictoriaMetrics. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1739).
* BUGFIX: export staleness markers as `null` values from [JSON export API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-export-data-in-json-line-format). Previously they were exported as `NaN` values. This could break the exported JSON parsing, since `NaN` values aren't supported by [JSON specification](https://www.json.org/).
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): close `vmselect->vmstorage` connections if they were idle for more than 30 seconds. Expose `vm_tcpdialer_conns_idle` metric at `http://vmselect:8481/metrics` with the number of idle connections to `vmstorage`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2508).
* BUGFIX: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): return non-zero exit code on error. This allows handling `vmctl` errors in shell scripts. Previously `vmctl` was returning 0 exit code on error. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2322).
* BUGFIX: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): prevent from indefinite hang on `Ctrl+C`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2491).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly show `scrape_timeout` and `scrape_interval` options at `http://vmagent:8429/config` page. Previously these options weren't displayed even if they were set in `-promscrape.config`.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): handle non-standard http redirect status codes, which may be returned by scrape targets, in the same way as Prometheus does. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2482).
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): skip template execution during rules' validation. This should prevent from `error evaluating annotation template` errors when some template functions expect non-empty args. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2514).
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly handle joins on time series filtered by values. For example, `kube_pod_container_resource_requests{resource="cpu"} * on (namespace,pod) group_left() (kube_pod_status_phase{phase=~"Pending|Running"}==1)`. This query could result in `duplicate time series on the right side` error even if `==1` filter leaves only a single time series per `(namespace,pod)` labels. Now such query is properly executed.
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): properly handle `scalar default vector`, `scalar if vector` and `scalar ifnot vector` queries. Previously such queries could return unexpected results from the `vector` part.
* BUGFIX: [Official Grafana dashboards for VictoriaMetrics](https://grafana.com/orgs/victoriametrics): take into account `indexdb` when calculating disk space usage. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2368).
**Update notes:** this release introduces backwards-incompatible changes to communication protocol between `vmselect` and `vmstorage` nodes in cluster version of VictoriaMetrics, so read requests to `vmselect` will fail until the upgrade is complete. These errors will stop after all the `vmselect` and `vmstorage` nodes are updated to the new release. It is safe to downgrade to previous releases.
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add support for `alert_relabel_configs` option at `-notifier.config`. This option allows configuring relabeling rules for alerts before sending them to configured notifiers. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#notifier-configuration-file) for details.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): allow passing StatefulSet pod names to `-promscrape.cluster.memberNum` command-line flag. In this case the member number is automatically extracted from the pod name, which must end with the number in the range `0 ... promscrape.cluster.membersCount-1`. For example, `vmagent-0`, `vmagent-1`, etc. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2359) and [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#scraping-big-number-of-targets).
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): properly propagate limits at `-search.max*` command-line flags from `vminsert` to `vmstorage`. The limits are `-search.maxUniqueTimeseries`, `-search.maxSeries`, `-search.maxFederateSeries`, `-search.maxExportSeries`, `-search.maxGraphiteSeries` and `-search.maxTSDBStatusSeries`. They weren't propagated to `vmstorage` because of the bug. These limits were introduced in [v1.76.0](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/CHANGELOG.html#v1760). See [this bug](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2450).
* BUGFIX: fix goroutine leak and possible deadlock when importing invalid data via [native binary format](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-import-data-in-native-format). See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2423).
* BUGFIX: [Graphite Render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage): properly calculate [hitCount](https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/functions.html#graphite.render.functions.hitcount) function. Previously it could return empty results if there were no original samples in some parts of the selected time range.
* BUGFIX: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): allow overriding built-in function names inside [WITH templates](https://play.victoriametrics.com/promql/expand-with-exprs). For example, `WITH (sum(a,b) = a + b + 1) sum(x,y)` now expands into `x + y + 1`. Previously such a query would fail with `cannot use reserved name` error. See [this bugreport](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql/issues/5).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): properly display values greater than 1000 on Y axis. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2409).
**Update notes:** this release introduces backwards-incompatible changes to communication protocol between `vmselect` and `vmstorage` nodes in cluster version of VictoriaMetrics, so read requests to `vmselect` will fail until the upgrade is complete. These errors will stop after all the `vmselect` and `vmstorage` nodes are updated to the new release. It is safe to downgrade to previous releases.
* FEATURE: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): add ability to verify files obtained via [native export](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-export-data-in-native-format). See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html#verifying-exported-blocks-from-victoriametrics) and [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2362).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): add pre-defined dashboards for per-job CPU usage, memory usage and disk IO usage. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2243) for details.
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add `-datasource.disableKeepAlive` command-line flag, which can be used for disabling [HTTP keep-alive connections](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_persistent_connection) to datasources. This option can be useful for distributing load among multiple datasources behind TCP proxy such as [HAProxy](http://www.haproxy.org/).
* FEATURE: [Cluster version of VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): reduce memory usage by up to 50% for `vminsert` and `vmstorage` under high ingestion rate.
* FEATURE: [vmgateway](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway.html): Allow to read `-ratelimit.config` file from URL. Also add `-ratelimit.configCheckInterval` command-line option. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2241).
* FEATURE: add the following command-line flags, which can be used for fine-grained limiting of CPU and memory usage during various API calls:
*`-search.maxFederateSeries` for limiting the number of time series, which can be returned from [/federate](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#federation).
*`-search.maxExportSeries` for limiting the number of time series, which can be returned from [/api/v1/export](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-export-time-series).
*`-search.maxSeries` for limiting the number of time series, which can be returned from [/api/v1/series](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples.html#apiv1series).
*`-search.maxTSDBStatusSeries` for limiting the number of time series, which can be scanned during the request to [/api/v1/status/tsdb](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#tsdb-stats).
*`-search.maxGraphiteSeries` for limiting the number of time series, which can be scanned during the request to [Graphite Render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage).
Previously the `-search.maxUniqueTimeseries` command-line flag was used as a global limit for all these APIs. Now the `-search.maxUniqueTimeseries` is used only for limiting the number of time series, which can be scanned during requests to [/api/v1/query](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples.html#apiv1query) and [/api/v1/query_range](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/url-examples.html#apiv1query_range).
When using [cluster version of VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html), these command-line flags (including `-search.maxUniqueTimeseries`) must be passed to `vmselect` instead of `vmstorage`.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html) and [vmauth](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html): reduce the probability of `TLS handshake error from XX.XX.XX.XX: EOF` errors when `-remoteWrite.url` points to HTTPS url at `vmauth`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1699).
* BUGFIX: return `Content-Type: text/html` response header when requesting `/` HTTP path at VictoriaMetrics components. Previously `text/plain` response header was returned, which could lead to broken page formatting. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2323).
* BUGFIX: [Graphite Render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage): accept floating-point values for [maxDataPoints](https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/render_api.html#maxdatapoints) query arg, since some clients send floating-point values instead of integer values for this arg.
* BUGFIX: update base image for VictoriaMetrics from `alpine-3.15.0` to `alpine-3.15.2`. This fixes [CVE-2022-0778](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0778). See [alpine 3.15.2 release docs](https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.15.2-released.html).
**Update notes:** release contains breaking change to vmalert's API introduced in [ee396b5](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2320/commits/ee396b5750d0bcb98233d624f88fa6cf92a8253b).
It replaces the `api/v1/groups` API handler with `api/v1/rules` handler in order to become compatible
with [alerts generator specification](https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md).
See other changes introduced to vmalert [here](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2320).
* FEATURE: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): add support for mTLS communications between cluster components. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#mtls-protection) and [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/550).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add ability to use OAuth2 for `-datasource.url`, `-notifier.url` and `-remoteRead.url`. See the corresponding command-line flags containing `oauth2` in their names [here](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#flags).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add ability to use Bearer Token for `-notifier.url` via `-notifier.bearerToken` and `-notifier.bearerTokenFile` command-line flags. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1824).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add `sortByLabel` template function in order to be consistent with Prometheus. See [these docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/template_reference/#functions) for more details.
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): improve compliance with [Prometheus Alert Generator Specification](https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add `-rule.resendDelay` command-line flag, which specifies the minumum amount of time to wait before resending an alert to Alertmanager (e.g. this is equivalent to `-rules.alert.resend-delay` option from Prometheus. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1665).
* FEATURE: [vmauth](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html): transparently treat `Authorization: Token ...` request headers as `Authorization: Bearer ...` request headers. This allows sending requests to `vmauth` from InfluxDB clients. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1897). Thanks to @dcircelli for the pull request.
* FEATURE: do not log trivial network errors such as `broken pipe` and `connection reset by peer`. This error could occur when writing data to the client, which closes the connection to VictoriaMetrics due to request timeout or similar reason. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2334).
* BUGFIX: [Graphite Render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage): return an additional point after `until` timestamp in the same way as Graphite does. Previously VictoriaMetrics didn't return this point, which could result in missing last point on the graph.
* BUGFIX: properly locate series with the given `name` and without the given `label` when using the `name{label=~"foo|"}` series selector. Previously such series could be skipped. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2255). Thanks to @jduncan0000 for discovering and fixing the issue.
* BUGFIX: properly free up memory occupied by deleted cache entries for the following caches: `indexdb/dataBlocks`, `indexdb/indexBlocks`, `storage/indexBlocks`. This should reduce the increased memory usage starting from v1.73.0. See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2242) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2007) issue.
* BUGFIX: reduce the interval for checking for free disk space from 30 seconds to 1 second. This should reduce the probability of `no space left on device` panics when `-storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes` is set to too low values. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2305).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): prevent from panic at vmagent when importing a time series with big number of samples. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2335). Thanks to @bleedfish for discovering and fixing the issue.
**Update notes:** In this release VictoriaMetrics may use some extra memory due to issues [#2242](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2242) and [#2007](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2007). These issues were addressed in [v1.75.0](#v1750), so we recommend updating straight to it.
* FEATURE: add support for conditional relabeling via `if` filter. The `if` filter can contain arbitrary [series selector](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#time-series-selectors). For example, the following rule drops targets matching `foo{bar="baz"}` series selector:
```yml
- action: drop
if: 'foo{bar="baz"}'
```
This rule is equivalent to less clear traditional one:
```yml
- action: drop
source_labels: [__name__, bar]
regex: 'foo;baz'
```
See [relabeling docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1998) for more details.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): re-use Kafka client when pushing data from [many tenants](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#multitenancy) to Kafka. Previously a separate Kafka client was created per each tenant. This could lead to increased load on Kafka. See [how to push data from vmagent to Kafka](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#writing-metrics-to-kafka).
* FEATURE: improve performance when registering new time series. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2247). Thanks to @ahfuzhang .
* BUGFIX: return the proper number of datapoints from `moving*()` functions such as `movingAverage()` in [Graphite Render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage). Previously these functions could return too big number of samples if [maxDataPoints query arg](https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/render_api.html#maxdatapoints) is explicitly passed to `/render` API.
* BUGFIX: properly handle [series selector](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#time-series-selectors) containing a filter for multiple metric names plus a negative filter. For example, `{__name__=~"foo|bar",job!="baz"}` . Previously VictoriaMetrics could return series with `foo` or `bar` names and with `job="baz"`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2238).
* BUGFIX: [vmgateway](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway.html): properly parse JWT tokens if they are encoded with [URL-safe base64 encoding](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648#section-5).
**Update notes:** In this release VictoriaMetrics may use some extra memory due to issues [#2242](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2242) and [#2007](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2007). These issues were addressed in [v1.75.0](#v1750), so we recommend updating straight to it.
* FEATURE: allow overriding default limits for the following in-memory caches, which usually occupy the most memory:
*`storage/tsid` - the cache speeds up lookups of internal metric ids by `metric_name{labels...}` during data ingestion. The size for this cache can be tuned with `-storage.cacheSizeStorageTSID` command-line flag.
*`indexdb/dataBlocks` - the cache speeds up data lookups in `<-storageDataPath>/indexdb` files. The size for this cache can be tuned with `-storage.cacheSizeIndexDBDataBlocks` command-line flag.
*`indexdb/indexBlocks` - the cache speeds up index lookups in `<-storageDataPath>/indexdb` files. The size for this cache can be tuned with `-storage.cacheSizeIndexDBIndexBlocks` command-line flag.
See also [cache tuning docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#cache-tuning). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1940).
* FEATURE: add `-influxDBLabel` command-line flag for overriding `db` label name for the data [imported into VictoriaMetrics via InfluxDB line protocol](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-send-data-from-influxdb-compatible-agents-such-as-telegraf). Thanks to @johnatannvmd for [the pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2203).
* FEATURE: return `X-Influxdb-Version` HTTP header in responses to [InfluxDB write requests](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-send-data-from-influxdb-compatible-agents-such-as-telegraf). This is needed for some InfluxDB clients. See [this comment](https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/issues/5449#issuecomment-1005347597) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2209).
* BUGFIX: reduce memory usage during the first three hours after the upgrade from versions older than v1.73.0. The memory usage spike was related to the need of in-memory caches' re-population after the upgrade because of the fix for [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401). Now cache size limits are reduced in order to occupy less memory during the upgrade.
* BUGFIX: fix a bug, which could significantly slow down requests to `/api/v1/labels` and `/api/v1/label/<label_name>/values`. These APIs are used by Grafana for auto-completion of label names and label values. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2200).
* BUGFIX: vmalert: add support for `$externalLabels` and `$externalURL` template vars in the same way as Prometheus does. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2193).
* BUGFIX: vmalert: make sure notifiers are discovered during initialization if they are configured via `consul_sd_configs`. Previously they could be discovered in 30 seconds (the default value for `-promscrape.consulSDCheckInterval` command-line flag) after the initialization. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2202).
* BUGFIX: update default value for `-promscrape.fileSDCheckInterval`, so it matches default duration used by Prometheus for checking for updates in `file_sd_configs`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2187). Thanks to @corporate-gadfly for the fix.
* BUGFIX: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): do not return partial responses from `vmselect` if at least a single `vmstorage` node was reachable and returned an app-level error. Such errors are usually related to cluster mis-configuration, so they must be returned to the caller instead of being masked by [partial responses](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#cluster-availability). Partial responses can be returned only if some of `vmstorage` nodes are unreachable during the query. This may help the following issues: [one](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1941), [two](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/678).
**Update notes:** In this release VictoriaMetrics may use some extra memory described in issues [#2242](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2242) and [#2007](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2007). These issues were addressed in [v1.75.0](#v1750), so we recommend updating straight to it.
* FEATURE: publish VictoriaMetrics binaries for MacOS amd64 and MacOS arm64 (aka MacBook M1) at [releases page](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1896) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1851).
* FEATURE: reduce CPU and disk IO usage during `indexdb` rotation once per `-retentionPeriod`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401).
* FEATURE: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): add `-dropSamplesOnOverload` command-line flag for `vminsert`. If this flag is set, then `vminsert` drops incoming data if the destination `vmstorage` is temporarily unavailable or cannot keep up with the ingestion rate. The number of dropped rows can be [monitored](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#monitoring) via `vm_rpc_rows_dropped_on_overload_total` metric at `vminsert`.
* FEATURE: [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html): improve re-routing logic, so it re-routes incoming data more evenly if some of `vmstorage` nodes are temporarily unavailable and/or accept data at slower rate than other `vmstorage` nodes. Also significantly reduce possible re-routing storm when `vminsert` runs with `-disableRerouting=false` command-line flag. This should help the following issues: [one](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1337), [two](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1165), [three](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1054), [four](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/791), [five](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1544).
* FEATURE: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): cover more cases with the [label filters' propagation optimization](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusLabelNonOptimization). This should improve the average performance for practical queries. The following cases are additionally covered:
* Multi-level [transform functions](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#transform-functions). For example, `abs(round(foo{a="b"})) + bar{x="y"}` is now optimized to `abs(round(foo{a="b",x="y"})) + bar{a="b",x="y"}`
* Binary operations with `on()`, `without()`, `group_left()` and `group_right()` modifiers. For example, `foo{a="b"} on (a) + bar` is now optimized to `foo{a="b"} on (a) + bar{a="b"}`
* Multi-level binary operations. For example, `foo{a="b"} + bar{x="y"} + baz{z="q"}` is now optimized to `foo{a="b",x="y",z="q"} + bar{a="b",x="y",z="q"} + baz{a="b",x="y",z="q"}`
* Aggregate functions. For example, `sum(foo{a="b"}) by (c) + bar{c="d"}` is now optimized to `sum(foo{a="b",c="d"}) by (c) + bar{c="d"}`
* FEATURE [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): optimize joining with `*_info` labels. For example: `kube_pod_created{namespace="prod"} * on (uid) group_left(node) kube_pod_info` now automatically adds the needed filters on `uid` label to `kube_pod_info` before selecting series for the right side of `*` operation. This may save CPU, RAM and disk IO resources. See [this article](https://www.robustperception.io/exposing-the-software-version-to-prometheus) for details on `*_info` labels. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1827).
* FEATURE: all: improve performance for arm64 builds of VictoriaMetrics components by up to 15%. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2102).
* FEATURE: all: expose `process_cpu_cores_available` metric, which shows the number of CPU cores available to the app. The number can be fractional if the corresponding cgroup limit is set to a fractional value. This metric is useful for alerting on CPU saturation. For example, the following query alerts when the app uses more than 90% of CPU during the last 5 minutes: `rate(process_cpu_seconds_total[5m]) / process_cpu_cores_available > 0.9` . See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2107).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add ability to configure notifiers (e.g. alertmanager) via a file in the way similar to Prometheus. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#notifier-configuration-file), [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2127).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add support for Consul service discovery for notifiers. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1947).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add support for specifying Basic Auth password for notifiers via a file. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1567).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): provide the ability to fetch target responses on behalf of `vmagent` by clicking the `response` link for the needed target at `/targets` page. This feature may be useful for debugging responses from targets located in isolated environments.
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): show the total number of scrapes and the total number of scrape errors per target at `/targets` page. This information may be useful when debugging unreliable scrape targets.
* FEATURE: vmagent and single-node VictoriaMetrics: disallow unknown fields at `-promscrape.config` file. Previously unknown fields were allowed. This could lead to long-living silent config errors. The previous behaviour can be returned by passing `-promscrape.config.strictParse=false` command-line flag.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `__meta_kubernetes_endpointslice_label*` and `__meta_kubernetes_endpointslice_annotation*` labels for `role: endpointslice` targets in [kubernetes_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs) to be consistent with other `role` values. See [this issue](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/10284).
* FEATURE: vmagent: support Prometheus-like durations in `-promscrape.config`. See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/817#issuecomment-1033384766).
* FEATURE: automatically re-read `-tlsCertFile` and `-tlsKeyFile` files, so their contents can be updated without the need to restart VictoriaMetrics apps. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2171).
* BUGFIX: calculate [absent_over_time()](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#absent_over_time) in the same way as Prometheus does. Previously it could return multiple time series instead of at most one time series like Prometheus does. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2130).
* BUGFIX: return proper results from `highestMax()` function at [Graphite render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage). Previously it was incorrectly returning timeseries with min peaks instead of max peaks.
* BUGFIX: properly limit indexdb cache sizes. Previously they could exceed values set via `-memory.allowedPercent` and/or `-memory.allowedBytes` when `indexdb` contained many data parts. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2007).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): fix a bug, which could break time range picker when editing `From` or `To` input fields. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2080).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): fix a bug, which could break switching between `graph`, `json` and `table` views. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2084).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): fix possible UI freeze after querying `node_uname_info` time series. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2115).
* BUGFIX: show the original location of the warning or error message when logging throttled messages. Previously the location inside `lib/logger/throttler.go` was shown. This could increase the complexity of debugging.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly discover pods without exposed ports for the given service for `role: endpoints` and `role: endpointslice` in [kubernetes_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2134).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly display `zone` contents for `gce_sd_configs` section at `http://vmagent:8429/config` page. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2179). Thanks to @artifactori for the bugfix.
* FEATURE: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): add support for `@` modifier, which is enabled by default in Prometheus starting from [Prometheus v2.33.0](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/10121). See [these docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#modifier) and [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1348). VictoriaMetrics extends `@` modifier with the following additional features:
* It can contain arbitrary expression. For example, `foo @ (end() - 1h)` would return `foo` value at `end - 1 hour` timestamp on the selected time range `[start ... end]`. Another example: `foo @ (now() - 10m)` would return `foo` value 10 minutes ago from the current time.
* It can be put everywhere in the query. For example, `sum(foo) @ start()` would calculate `sum(foo)` at `start` timestamp on the selected time range `[start ... end]`.
* FEATURE: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): add support for optional `keep_metric_names` modifier, which can be applied to all the [rollup functions](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#rollup-functions) and [transform functions](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#transform-functions). This modifier prevents from deleting metric names from function results. For example, `rate({__name__=~"foo|bar"}[5m]) keep_metric_names` leaves `foo` and `bar` metric names in `rate()` results. This feature provides an additional workaround for [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/949).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add support for Kubernetes service discovery in the current namespace in the same way as [Prometheus does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/9881). For example, the following config limits pod discovery to the namespace where vmagent runs:
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): add `__meta_kubernetes_node_provider_id` label for discovered Kubernetes nodes in the same way as [Prometheus does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/9603).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): log error message when remote storage returns 400 or 409 http errors. This should simplify detection and debugging of this case. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1911).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): expose `promscrape_stale_samples_created_total` metric for monitoring the total number of created stale samples when scraping Prometheus targets. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#prometheus-staleness-markers) for the information on when stale samples (aka staleness markers) can be created.
* FEATURE: [vmrestore](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmrestore.html): store `restore-in-progress` file in `-dst` directory while `vmrestore` is running. This file is automatically deleted when `vmrestore` is successfully finished. This helps detecting incompletely restored data on VictoriaMetrics start. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1958).
* FEATURE: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): print the last sample timestamp when the data migration is interrupted either by user or by error. This helps continuing the data migration from the interruption moment. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1236).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): expose `vmalert_remotewrite_total` metric at `/metrics` page. This makes possible calculating SLOs for error rate during writing recording rules and alert state to `-remoteWrite.url` with the query `vmalert_remotewrite_errors_total / vmalert_remotewrite_total`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2040). Thanks to @afoninsky .
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add `stripPort` template function in the same way as [Prometheus does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/10002).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add `parseDuration` template function in the same way as [Prometheus does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/8817).
* FEATURE: [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html): add `stale_samples_over_time(m[d])` function for calculating the number of [staleness marks](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#prometheus-staleness-markers) for time series `m` over the duration `d`. This function may be useful for detecting flapping metrics at scrape targets, which periodically disappear and then appear again.
* FEATURE: [vmgateway](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway.html): add support for `extra_filters` option. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1863).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): improve UX according to [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1960). Thanks to @Loori-R .
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): limit the number of requests sent to VictoriaMetrics during zooming / scrolling. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2064).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): make sure that `vmagent` replicas scrape the same targets at different time offsets when [replication is enabled in vmagent clustering mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#scraping-big-number-of-targets). This guarantees that the [deduplication](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication) consistently leaves samples from the same `vmagent` replica.
* BUGFIX: return the proper response stub from `/api/v1/query_exemplars` handler, which is needed for Grafana v8+. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1999).
* BUGFIX: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): fix a few edge cases and improve migration speed for OpenTSDB importer. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2019).
* BUGFIX: fix possible data race when searching for time series matching `{key=~"value|"}` filter over time range covering multipe days. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2032). Thanks to @waldoweng for the provided fix.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): do not send staleness markers on graceful shutdown. This follows Prometheus behavior. See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2013#issuecomment-1006994079).
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): properly set `__address__` label in `dockerswarm_sd_config`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2038). Thanks to @ashtuchkin for the fix.
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): fix incorrect calculations for graph limits on y axis. This could result in incorrect graph rendering in some cases. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2037).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): fix handling for multi-line queries. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2039).
for already existing data parts for installations with `-dedup.minScrapeInterval` flag value greater than 0. This process is intentionally limited by one CPU core, but still can result
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): add ability to analyze the correlation between two queries on a single graph. Just click `+Query` button, enter the second query in the newly appeared input field and press `Ctrl+Enter`. Results for both queries should be displayed simultaneously on the same graph. Every query has its own vertical scale, which is displayed on the left and the right side of the graph. Lines for the second query are dashed. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1916).
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): add ability to override the interval between returned datapoints. By default it is automatically calculated depending on the selected time range and horizontal resolution of the graph. Now it is possible to override it with custom values. This may be useful during data exploration and debugging.
* FEATURE: accept optional `extra_filters[]=series_selector` query args at Prometheus query APIs additionally to `extra_label` query args. This allows enforcing additional filters for all the Prometheus query APIs by using [vmgateway](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway.html) or [vmauth](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html). See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1863).
* FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): allow specifying `http` and `https` urls in the following command-line flags: `-promscrape.config`, `-remoteWrite.relabelConfig` and `-remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig`.
* FEATURE: vminsert: allow specifying `http` and `https` urls in `-relabelConfig` command-line flag.
* FEATURE: vminsert: add `-maxLabelValueLen` command-line flag for the ability to configure the maximum length of label value. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1908).
* FEATURE: preserve the order of time series passed to [limit_offset](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#limit_offset) function. This allows implementing series paging via `limit_offset(limit, offset, sort_by_label(...))`. See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1920) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/951) issues.
* FEATURE: automaticall convert `(value1|...|valueN)` into `{value1,...,valueN}` inside `__graphite__` pseudo-label. This allows using [Grafana multi-value template variables](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/variables/formatting-multi-value-variables/) inside `__graphite__` pseudo-label. For example, `{__graphite__=~"foo.($bar)"}` is expanded to `{__graphite__=~"foo.{x,y}"}` if both `x` and `y` are selected for `$bar` template variable. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#selecting-graphite-metrics) for details.
* FEATURE: add [timestamp_with_name](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#timestamp_with_name) function. It works the same as [timestamp](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#timestamp), but leaves the original time series names, so it can be used in queries, which match multiple time series names: `timestamp_with_name({foo="bar"}[1h])`. See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/949#issuecomment-995222388) for more context.
* FEATURE: add [changes_prometheus](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#changes_prometheus), [increase_prometheus](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#increase_prometheus) and [delta_prometheus](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#delta_prometheus) functions, which don't take into account the previous sample before the given lookbehind window specified in square brackets. These functions may be used when the Prometheus behaviour for `changes()`, `increase()` and `delta()` functions is needed to be preserved. VictoriaMetrics uses slightly different behaviour for `changes()`, `increase()` and `delta()` functions by default - see [this article](https://medium.com/@romanhavronenko/victoriametrics-promql-compliance-d4318203f51e) for details. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1962).
* BUGFIX: fix `unaligned 64-bit atomic operation` panic on 32-bit architectures, which has been introduced in v1.70.0. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1944).
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): restore the ability to use `$labels.alertname` in labels templating. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1921).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): add missing `query` caption to the input field for the query. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1900).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): fix navigation over query history with `Ctrl+up/down` and fix zoom relatively to the cursor position. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1936).
* BUGFIX: deduplicate samples more thoroughly if [deduplication](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication) is enabled. Previously some duplicate samples may be left on disk for time series with high churn rate. This may result in bigger storage space requirements.
* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): follow up to 5 redirects when `follow_redirects: true` is set for a particular scrape config. Previously only a single redirect was performed in this case. It is expected these redirects are performed to the original hostname. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1945).
* BUGFIX: de-duplicate data exported via [/api/v1/export/csv](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-export-csv-data) by default if [deduplication](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication) is enabled. The de-duplication can be disabled by passing `reduce_mem_usage=1` query arg to `/api/v1/export/csv`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1837).
* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): properly store [historical data](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#rules-backfilling) to old Prometheus versions. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1943).
* FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): add ability to pass arbitrary query args to `-datasource.url` on a per-group basis via `params` option. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1892).
* FEATURE: add `now()` function to MetricsQL. This function returns the current timestamp in seconds. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#now).
* FEATURE: vmauth: allow using optional `name` field in configs. This field is then used as `username` label value for `vmauth_user_requests_total` metric. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1805).
* FEATURE: vmagent: export `vm_persistentqueue_read_duration_seconds_total` and `vm_persistentqueue_write_duration_seconds_total` metrics, which can be used for detecting persistent queue saturation with `rate(vm_persistentqueue_write_duration_seconds_total) > 0.9` alerting rule.
* FEATURE: export `vm_filestream_read_duration_seconds_total` and `vm_filestream_write_duration_seconds_total` metrics, which can be used for detecting persistent disk saturation with `rate(vm_filestream_read_duration_seconds_total) > 0.9` alerting rule.
* FEATURE: export `vm_cache_size_max_bytes` metrics, which show capacity for various caches. These metrics can be used for determining caches with reach its capacity with `vm_cache_size_bytes / vm_cache_size_max_bytes > 0.9` query.
* FEATURE: [vmbackup](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmbackup.html), [vmrestore](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmrestore.html): add `-s3ForcePathStyle` command-line flag, which can be used for making backups to [Aliyun OSS](https://www.aliyun.com/product/oss). See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1802).
* FEATURE: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): improve data migration from OpenTSDB. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1809). Thanks to @johnseekins .
* FEATURE: suppress `connection reset by peer` errors when remote client resets TCP connection to VictoriaMetrics / vmagent while ingesting the data via InfluxDB line protocol, Graphite protocol or OpenTSDB protocol. This error is expected, so there is no need in logging it.
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): store the display type in URL, so it isn't lost when copy-pasting the URL. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1804).
* FEATURE: vmalert: make `-notifier.url` command-line flag optional. This flag can be omitted if `vmalert` is used solely for recording rules and doesn't evaluate alerting rules. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1870).
* FEATURE: [vmbackup](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmbackup.html), [vmrestore](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmrestore.html): export internal metrics at `http://vmbackup:8420/metrics` and `http://vmrestore:8421/metrics` for better visibility of the backup/restore process.
* FEATURE: allow trailing whitespace after the timestamp when [parsing Graphite plaintext lines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-send-data-from-graphite-compatible-agents-such-as-statsd). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1865).
* FEATURE: expose `/-/healthy` and `/-/ready` endpoints as Prometheus does. This is needed for improving integration with third-party solutions, which rely on these endpoints. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1833).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: prevent from scraping duplicate targets if `-promscrape.dropOriginalLabels` command-line flag is set. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1830). Thanks to @guidao for the fix.
* BUGFIX: vmstorage [enterprise](https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/): added missing `vm_tenant_used_tenant_bytes` metric, which shows the approximate per-tenant disk usage. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/PerTenantStatistic.html) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1605).
* BUGFIX: vmauth: properly take into account the value passed to `-maxIdleConnsPerBackend` command-line flag. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1300).
* BUGFIX: consistently return zero from [deriv()](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#deriv) function applied to a constant time series. Previously it could return small non-zero values in this case.
* BUGFIX: [vmrestore](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmrestore.html): properly resume downloading for partially downloaded big files. Previously such files were re-downloaded from the beginning after the interrupt. Now only the remaining parts of the file are downloaded. This allows saving network bandwidth. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/487).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): do not store the last query across vmui page reloads. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1694).
* BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): fix `Cannot read properties of undefined` error at table view. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1797).
* FEATURE: vmalert: allow groups with empty rules list like Prometheus does. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1742).
* FEATURE: vmalert: allow groups with default `tenant` in `-clusterMode`. Default `tenant` values can be specified via `-defaultTenant.prometheus` and `-defaultTenant.graphite`. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#multitenancy).
* FEATURE: automatically detect timestamp precision (ns, us, ms or s) for the data ingested into VictoriaMetrics via [InfluxDB line protocol](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-send-data-from-influxdb-compatible-agents-such-as-telegraf).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add ability to protect `/config` page with auth key via `-configAuthKey` command-line flag. This page may contain sensitive config information, so it may be good to restrict access to this page. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1764).
* FEATURE: vmagent: hide passwords and auth tokens at `/config` page like Prometheus does. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1764).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `-promscrape.maxResponseHeadersSize` command-line flag for tuning the maximum HTTP response headers size for Prometheus scrape targets.
* FEATURE: vmagent: send data to multiple configured remote storage systems in parallel (e.g. when multiple `-remoteWrite.url` flag values are specified). This should improve data ingestion speed.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `-remoteWrite.maxRowsPerBlock` command-line flag for tuning the number of samples to send to remote storage per each block. Bigger values may improve data ingestion performance at the cost of higher memory usage.
* FEATURE: vmagent: distribute Kafka messages among all the partitions when [writing data to Kafka](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#writing-metrics-to-kafka).
* FEATURE: add [label_graphite_group](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#label_graphite_group) function for extracting the given groups from Graphite metric names.
* FEATURE: add [duration_over_time](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#duration_over_time) function for calculating the actual lifetime of the time series with possible gaps. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1780).
* FEATURE: add [limit_offset](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#limit_offset) function, which can be used for implementing simple paging over big number of time series. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1778).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: reduce the increased memory usage when scraping targets with big number of metrics which periodically change. The memory usage has been increased in v1.68.0 after vmagent started generating staleness markers in [stream parse mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1745).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `show original labels` button per each scrape target displayed at `http://vmagent:8429/targets` page. This should improve debuggability for service discovery and relabeling issues similar to [this one](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1664). See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1698).
* FEATURE: vmagent: shard targets among cluster nodes after the relabeling is applied. This should guarantee that targets with the same set of labels go to the same `vmagent` node in the cluster. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1687).
* FEATURE: vmagent: atomatically switch to [stream parsing mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode) if the response from the given target exceeds the command-line flag value `-promscrape.minResponseSizeForStreamParse`. This should reduce memory usage when `vmagent` scrapes targets with non-uniform response sizes (this is the case in Kubernetes monitoring).
* FEATURE: vmagent: send Prometheus-like staleness marks in [stream parsing mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode). Previously staleness marks wern't sent in stream parsing mode. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#prometheus-staleness-markers) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: properly calculate `scrape_series_added` metric for targets in [stream parsing mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode). Previously it was set to 0 in stream parsing mode. See [more details about this metric](https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/jobs_instances/#automatically-generated-labels-and-time-series).
* FEATURE: vmagent: expose `promscrape_series_limit_max_series` and `promscrape_series_limit_current_series` metrics at `http://vmagent:8429/metrics` for scrape targets with the [enabled series limiter](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter).
* FEATURE: vmagent: return error if `sample_limit` or `series_limit` options are set when [stream parsing mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode) is enabled, since these limits cannot be applied in stream parsing mode.
* FEATURE: vmalert: add `-remoteRead.disablePathAppend` command-line flag, which allows specifying the full `-remoteRead.url`. If `-remoteRead.disablePathAppend` is set, then `vmalert` doesn't add `/api/v1/query` suffix to `-remoteRead.url`.
* FEATURE: add trigonometric functions, which are going to be added in [Prometheus 2.31](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/9239): [acosh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#acosh), [asinh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#asinh), [atan](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#atan), [atanh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#atanh), [cosh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#cosh), [deg](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#deg), [rad](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#rad), [sinh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#sinh), [tan](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#tan), [tanh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#tanh). Also add `atan2` binary operator. See [this pull request](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/9248).
* FEATURE: consistently return the same set of time series from [limitk](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#limitk) function. This improves the usability of periodically refreshed graphs.
* FEATURE: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): varios UX improvements. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1711) and [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui).
* FEATURE: [vmauth](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html): add ability to specify HTTP headers, which will be sent in requests to backends. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1736).
* FEATURE: allow using tab separators additionally to whitespace separators when [ingesting data in Graphite plaintext protocol](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-send-data-from-graphite-compatible-agents-such-as-statsd). Such separators are [supported by Carbon-c-relay](https://github.com/grobian/carbon-c-relay/commit/f3ffe6cc2b52b07d14acbda649ad3fd6babdd528).
* BUGFIX: vmstorage: fix `unaligned 64-bit atomic operation` panic on 32-bit architectures (arm and 386). The panic has been introduced in v1.67.0.
* BUGFIX: vmalert, vmauth: prevent from frequent closing of TCP connections established to backends under high load. This should reduce the number of TCP sockets in `TIME_WAIT` state at `vmalert` and `vmauth` under high load. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1704).
* BUGFIX: vmalert: correctly calculate alert ID including extra labels. Previously, ID for alert entity was generated without alertname or groupname. This led to collision, when multiple alerting rules within the same group producing same labelsets. E.g. expr: `sum(metric1) by (job) > 0` and expr: `sum(metric2) by (job) > 0` could result into same labelset `job: "job"`. The bugfix adds all extra labels right after receiving response from the datasource. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1734).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: set `honor_timestamps: true` by default in [scrape configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#scrape_configs) if this options isn't set explicitly. This aligns the behaviour with Prometheus.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: group scrape targets by the original job names at `http://vmagent:8429/targets` page like Prometheus does. Previously they were grouped by the job name after relabeling, which may result in unexpected empty target groups. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1707).
* BUGFIX: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): fix importing boolean fields from InfluxDB line protocol. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1709).
* FEATURE: add ability to accept metrics from [DataDog agent](https://docs.datadoghq.com/agent/) and [DogStatsD](https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/dogstatsd/). See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#how-to-send-data-from-datadog-agent). This option simplifies the migration path from DataDog to VictoriaMetrics. See also [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/206).
* FEATURE: vmagent [enterprise](https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/): add support for data reading and writing from/to [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/). See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#kafka-integration).
* FEATURE: vmui: switch to [μPlot](https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot) and add ability to naturally scroll and zoom graphs. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui). Thanks to @Loori-R.
* FEATURE: vmstorage: stop accepting new data if `-storageDataPath` directory contains less than `-storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes` of free space. This should prevent from `out of disk space` crashes. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/269).
* FEATURE: calculate quantiles in the same way as Prometheus does in such functions as [quantile_over_time](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#quantile_over_time) and [quantile](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#quantile). Previously results from VictoriaMetrics could be slightly different than results from Prometheus. See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1625) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1612) issues.
* FEATURE: add `rollup_scrape_interval(m[d])` function to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html), which returns `min`, `max` and `avg` values for the interval between samples for `m` on the given lookbehind window `d`.
* FEATURE: add `topk_last(k, q)` and `bottomk_last(k, q)` functions to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html), which return up to `k` time series from `q` with the maximum / minimum last value on the graph.
* BUGFIX: align behavior of the queries `a or on (labels) b`, `a and on (labels) b` and `a unless on (labels) b` where `b` has multiple time series with the given `labels` to Prometheus behavior. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1643).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: fix `openstack_sd_config` service discovery when both `domain_name` and `project_id` config options are set. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1655).
* BUGFIX: return proper values (zeroes) from [stddev_over_time](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#stddev_over_time) and [stdvar_over_time](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#stdvar_over_time) functions when the lookbehind window in square brackets contains only a single sample. Previously the sample value was incorrectly returned in this case.
* BUGFIX: vminsert: fix uneven distribution of time series among storage nodes in [multi-level cluster setup](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multi-level-cluster-setup). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1672).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `vm_promscrape_max_scrape_size_exceeded_errors_total` metric for counting of the failed scrapes due to the exceeded response size (the response size limit can be configured via `-promscrape.maxScrapeSize` command-line flag). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1639).
* BUGFIX: vmalert: properly reload rule groups if only the `interval` config option is changed. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1641).
* BUGFIX: properly handle `{__name__=~"prefix(suffix1|suffix2)",other_label="..."}` queries. They may return unexpected empty responses since v1.66.0. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1644).
* FEATURE: add `-cluster` and/or `-enterprise` suffixes to `short_version` label at `vm_app_version` metric exposed at `/metrics` page of every VictoriaMetrics component. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1635).
* BUGFIX: vmselect: fix accessing [Graphite APIs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-api-usage). The access has been broken in v1.66.0, because `/graphite/*` path prefix accidentally clashed with `/graph*` path prefix used for VictoriaMetrics UI (aka `vmui`).
* BUGFIX: fix parsing `regex: <bool_or_number>` in relabeling rules (for example, `regex: true` or `regex: 123`). The bug has been introduced in v1.66.0.
* FEATURE: vmalert: add web UI with the list of alerting groups, alerts and alert statuses. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1602).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add `-rule.maxResolveDuration` command-line flag, which could be used for limiting the auto-resolve duration for the alerting rule. By default it is limited to 3x evaluation interval. This could be too high for big evaluation intervals. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1586).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add support for Bearer token authorization for `-datasource.url`, `-remoteRead.url` and `-remoteWrite.url`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1608).
* FEATURE: vmagent: send stale markers for disappeared metrics like Prometheus does. Previously stale markers were sent only when the scrape target disappears or when it becomes temporarily unavailable. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#prometheus-staleness-markers) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add ability to set `series_limit` option for a particular scrape target via `__series_limit__` label. This allows setting the limit on the number of time series on a per-target basis. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add ability to set `stream_parse` option for a particular scrape target via `__stream_parse__` label. This allows managing the stream parsing mode on a per-target basis. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add ability to set `scrape_interval` and `scrape_timeout` options for a particular target via `__scrape_interval__` and `__scrape_timeout__` labels in the same way as Prometheus 2.30 does. See [this pull request](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/8911).
* FEATURE: vmagent: generate `scrape_timeout_seconds` metric per each scrape target, so the target saturation could be calculated with `scrape_duration_seconds / scrape_timeout_seconds`. See the corresponding [pull request from Prometheus 2.30](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/9247).
* FEATURE: vmagent: reduce CPU usage when calculating the number of newly added series per scrape (this number is sent to remote storage in `scrape_series_added` metric).
* FEATURE: vmagent: reduce CPU usage when applying `series_limit` to scrape targets with constant set of metrics. See more information about `series_limit` [here](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter).
* FEATURE: vminsert: disable rerouting by default when a few of `vmstorage` nodes start accepting data at lower speed than the rest of `vmstorage` nodes. This should improve VictoriaMetrics cluster stability during rolling restarts and during spikes in [time series churn rate](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/FAQ.html#what-is-high-churn-rate). The rerouting can be enabled by passing `-disableRerouting=false` command-line flag to `vminsert`.
* FEATURE: vmauth: do not put invalid auth tokens into log by default due to security reasons. The logging can be returned back by passing `-logInvalidAuthTokens` command-line flag to `vmauth`. Requests with invalid auth tokens are counted at `vmagent_http_request_errors_total{reason="invalid_auth_token"}` metric exposed by `vmauth` at `/metrics` page.
* FEATURE: add new relabeling actions: `keep_metrics` and `drop_metrics`. This simplifies metrics filtering by metric names. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling) for more details.
* FEATURE: allow splitting long `regex` in relabeling filters into an array of shorter regexps, which can be put into multiple lines for better readability and maintainability. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling) for more details.
* FEATURE: optimize performance for queries with regexp filters on metric name like `{__name__=~"metric1|...|metricN"}`. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1610) from @faceair.
* FEATURE: vmui: use Prometheus-compatible query args, so `vmui` could be accessed from graph editor in Grafana. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1619). Thanks to @Loori-R.
* FEATURE: vmselect: automatically add missing port to `-storageNode` hostnames. For example, `-storageNode=vmstorage1,vmstorage2` is automatically translated to `-storageNode=vmstorage1:8401,vmstorage2:8401`. This simplifies [manual setup of VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#cluster-setup).
* FEATURE: vminsert: automatically add missing port to `-storageNode` hostnames. For example, `-storageNode=vmstorage1,vmstorage2` is automatically translated to `-storageNode=vmstorage1:8400,vmstorage2:8400`. This simplifies [manual setup of VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#cluster-setup).
* FEATURE: add [mad(q)](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#mad) function to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html). It calculates [Median absolute deviation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_absolute_deviation) for groups of points with identical timestamps across multiple time series.
* FEATURE: add [outliers_mad(tolerance, q)](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#outliers_mad) function to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html). It returns time series with peaks outside the [Median absolute deviation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_absolute_deviation) multiplied by `tolerance`.
* FEATURE: add `histogram_quantiles("phiLabel", phi1, ..., phiN, buckets)` function to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html). It calculates the given `phi*`-quantiles over the given `buckets` and returns time series per each quantile with the corresponding `{phiLabel="phi*"}` label.
* FEATURE: add `quantiles_over_time("phiLabel", phi1, ..., phiN, series_selector[d])` function to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html). It calculates the given `phi*`-quantiles over raw samples selected by `series_selector` on the given lookbehind window `d`. It returns time series per each quantile with the corresponding `{phiLabel="phi*"}` label.
* FEATURE: [enterprise](https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/): do not ask for `-eula` flag if `-version` flag is passed to enteprise app. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1621).
* BUGFIX: properly handle queries with multiple filters matching empty labels such as `metric{label1=~"foo|",label2="bar|"}`. This filter must match the following series: `metric`, `metric{label1="foo"}`, `metric{label2="bar"}` and `metric{label1="foo",label2="bar"}`. Previously it was matching only `metric{label1="foo",label2="bar"}`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1601).
* BUGFIX: vmselect: reset connection timeouts after each request to `vmstorage`. This should prevent from `cannot read data in 0.000 seconds: unexpected EOF` warning in logs. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1562). Thanks to @mxlxm .
* BUGFIX: keep metric name for time series returned from [rollup_candlestick](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#rollup_candlestick) function, since the returned series don't change the meaning of the original series. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1600).
* BUGFIX: use Prometheus-compatible label value formatting for [count_values](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#count_values) function. Previously big values could be improperly formatted, which could break query results, which rely on label value such as `... on(label) count_values("label", ...)`.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly use `https` scheme for wildcard TLS certificates for `role: ingress` targets in Kubernetes service discovery. See [this issue](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/8902).
* BUGFIX: fix non-repeatable results from `quantile_over_time()` function when the number of input samples exceeds 1000. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1612).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: fix EC2 zone discovery when `filters` are specified in [ec2_sc_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#ec2_sd_configs). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1626).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add ability to read scrape configs from multiple files specified in `scrape_config_files` section. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1559).
* FEATURE: vmagent: reduce memory usage and CPU usage when [Prometheus staleness tracking](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#prometheus-staleness-markers) is enabled for metrics exported from the deleted or disappeared scrape targets.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add the ability to limit the number of unique time series scraped per each target. This can be done either globally via `-promscrape.seriesLimitPerTarget` command-line option or on per-target basis via `series_limit` option at `scrape_config` section. See [the updated docs on cardinality limiter](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1561).
* FEATURE: vmagent: discover `role: ingress` and `role: endpointslice` in [kubernetes_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs) via v1 API instead of v1beta1 API if Kubernetes supports it. This fixes service discovery in Kubernetes v1.22 and newer versions. See [these docs](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/deprecation-guide/#ingress-v122).
* FEATURE: take into account failed queries in `vm_request_duration_seconds` summary at `/metrics`. Previously only successful queries were taken into account. This could result in skewed summary. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1537).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add ability to set additional labels per group via `labels` config section. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1471).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add `-disableAlertgroupLabel` command-line flag for disabling the label with alert group name. This may be needed for proper deduplication in Alertmanager. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1532).
* FEATURE: update Go builder from v1.16.7 to v1.17.0. This improves data ingestion and query performance by up to 5% according to benchmarks. See [the release post for Go1.17](https://go.dev/blog/go1.17).
* FEATURE: vmagent: expose `promscrape_discovery_http_errors_total` metric, which can be used for monitoring the number of failed discovery attempts per each `http_sd` config.
* FEATURE: do not reset response cache when a sample with old timestamp is ingested into VictoriaMetrics if `-search.disableAutoCacheReset` command-line option is set. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1570).
* FEATURE: add `quantiles("phiLabel", phi1, ..., phiN, q)` aggregate function to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html), which calculates the given `phi*` quantiles over time series returned by `q`. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1573).
* BUGFIX: rename `sign` function to `sgn` in order to be consistent with PromQL. See [this pull request from Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/8457).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: add `role: endpointslice` in [kubernetes_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#kubernetes_sd_configs) in order to be consistent with Prometheus. Previously this role was supported with incorrect name: `role: endpointslices`. Now both `endpointslice` and `endpointslices` are supported. See [the corresponding code in Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/2ec6c7dbb82b72834021e01f1773eb90a67a371f/discovery/kubernetes/kubernetes.go#L99).
* BUGFIX: improve the detection of the needed free space for background merge operation. This should prevent from possible out of disk space crashes during big merges. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1560).
* BUGFIX: vmauth: remove trailing slash from the full url before requesting it from the backend. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1554).
* BUGFIX: properly parse OpenTSDB `put` messages with multiple spaces between message elements. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1574). Thanks to @envzhu for the fix.
* FEATURE: add `bitmap_and(q, mask)`, `bitmap_or(q, mask)` and `bitmak_xor(q, mask)` functions to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html). These functions allow performing bitwise operations over data points in time series. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1541).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add `-remoteWrite.disablePathAppend` command-line flag, which can be used when custom `-remoteWrite.url` must be specified. For example, `./vmalert -disablePathAppend -remoteWrite.url='http://foo.bar/a/b/c?d=e'` would write data to `http://foo.bar/a/b/c?d=e` instead of `http://foo.bar/a/b/c?d=e/api/v1/write`. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1536).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `-promscrape.noStaleMarkers` command-line flag for disabling sending Prometheus stale markers for metrics from disappeared scrape targets. This option may be used for reducing memory usage when scraping big number of metrics with big number of labels and when stale markers aren't needed.
* FEATURE: vmselect: add `-search.noStaleMarkers` command-line flag for disabling stale markers handling in queries. This may save some CPU time when the queried data doesn't contain stale markers.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: stop scrapers for deleted targets before starting scrapers for added targets. This should prevent from possible time series overlap when old targets are substituted by new targets (for example, during new deployment in Kubernetes). The overlap could lead to incorrect query results. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1509).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: send Prometheus stale markers for the previously scraped metrics on failed scrapes like Prometheus does. See [this article](https://www.robustperception.io/staleness-and-promql).
* BUGFIX: upgrade base Docker image from Alpine 3.14.0 to Alpine 3.14.1 . This fixes potential security issues - see [Alpine 3.14.1 release notes](https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.14.1-released.html).
* BUGFIX: disable overriding the lookbehind window `[d]` at `last_over_time(m[d])` if `d` is smaller than the interval between samples, since users don't expect implicit overriding of explicitly set `[d]` in `last_over_time(m[d])`.
* FEATURE: add support for Prometheus staleness markers. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1526).
* FEATURE: vmagent: automatically generate Prometheus staleness markers for the scraped metrics when scrape targets disappear in the same way as Prometheus does. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1526).
* FEATURE: add `present_over_time(m[d])` function, which returns 1 if `m` has a least a single sample over the previous duration `d`. This function has been added also to [Prometheus 2.29](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.29.0).
* FEATURE: vmagent: support multitenant writes according to [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#multitenancy). This allows using a single `vmagent` instance in front of VictoriaMetrics cluster for all the tenants. Thanks to @omarghader for [the pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1505). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1491).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `__meta_ec2_availability_zone_id` label to discovered Amazon EC2 targets. This label is available in Prometheus [starting from v2.29](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.29.0).
* FAETURE: vmagent: add `__meta_gce_interface_ipv4_<name>` labels to discovered GCE targets. These labels are available in Prometheus [starting from v2.29](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v2.29.0).
* FEATURE: add `-search.maxSamplesPerSeries` command-line flag for limiting the number of raw samples a single query can process per each time series. This option can protect from out of memory errors when a query processes tens of millions of raw samples per series. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1067).
* FEATURE: add `-search.maxSamplesPerQuery` command-line flag for limiting the number of raw samples a single query can process across all the time series. This option can protect from heavy queries, which select too big number of raw samples. Thanks to @jiangxinlingdu for [the initial pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1478).
* FEATURE: vminsert: expose `vm_rpc_send_duration_seconds_total` counter, which can be used for determining high saturation of every `vminsert -> vmstorage` link with an alerting query `rate(vm_rpc_send_duration_seconds_total) > 0.9s`. This query triggers when the link is saturated by more than 90%. This usually means that more `vminsert` or `vmstorage` nodes must be added to the cluster in order to increase the total number of `vminsert -> vmstorage` links.
* FEATURE: vmagent: expose `vmagent_remotewrite_send_duration_seconds_total` counter, which can be used for determining high saturation of every connection to remote storage with an alerting query `rate(vmagent_remotewrite_send_duration_seconds_total) > 0.9s`. This query triggers when a connection is saturated by more than 90%. This usually means that `-remoteWrite.queues` command-line flag must be increased in order to increase the number of connections per each remote storage.
* BUGFIX: fix corner cases for queries on time ranges exceeding 40 days. Previously some series can be missing in query results. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1486).
* BUGFIX: vmselect: return dummy response at `/rules` page in the same way as for `/api/v1/rules` page. The `/rules` page is requested by Grafana 8. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1493) for details.
* BUGFIX: vmbackup: automatically set default `us-east-1` S3 region if it is missing. This should simplify using S3-compatible services such as MinIO for backups. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1449).
* BUGFIX: vmselect: prevent from possible deadlock when multiple `target` query args are passed to [Graphite Render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage).
* BUGFIX: return series with `a op b` labels and `N` values for `(a op b) default N` if `(a op b)` returns series with all NaN values. Previously such series were removed.
* BUGFIX: vmui: fix layout when the query selects more than 27 time series. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1497).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: restore highlighting in red for DOWN targets at `/targets` page. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1461).
* FEATURE: vmselect: embed [vmui](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/vmui) into a single-node VictoriaMetrics and into `vmselect` component of cluster version. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1413). The web interface is available at the following paths:
* FEATURE: support durations anywhere in [MetricsQL queries](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html). For example, `sum_over_time(m[1h]) / 1h` is a valid query, which is equivalent to `sum_over_time(m[1h]) / 3600`.
* FEATURE: support durations without suffixes in [MetricsQL queries](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html). For example, `rate(m[3600])` is a valid query, which is equivalent to `rate(m[1h])`.
* FEATURE: export `vmselect_request_duration_seconds` and `vminsert_request_duration_seconds` [VictoriaMetrics histograms](https://valyala.medium.com/improving-histogram-usability-for-prometheus-and-grafana-bc7e5df0e350) at `/metrics` page. These histograms can be used for determining latency distribution and SLI/SLO for the served requests. For example, the following query would return the percent of queries that took less than 500ms during the last hour: `histogram_share(500ms, sum(rate(vmselect_request_duration_seconds_bucket[1h])) by (vmrange))`.
* FEATURE: vmagent: dynamically reload client TLS certificates from disk on every [mTLS connection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/identity/devices/mutual-tls-authentication). This should allow using `vmagent` with [Istio service mesh](https://istio.io/latest/about/service-mesh/). See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1420).
* FEATURE: log http request path plus all the query args on errors during request processing. Previously only http request path was logged without query args, so it could be hard debugging such errors.
* FEATURE: add ability to remove caches stored inside `<-storageDataPath>/cache` on startup if `reset_cache_on_startup` file is present there. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1447).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: remove `{ %space %}` typo in `/targets` output. The typo has been introduced in v1.62.0. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1408).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: fix CSS styles on `/targets` page. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1422).
* BUGFIX: properly update `vm_merge_need_free_disk_space` metric at `/metrics` page when there is no enough free disk space for performing optimal merges. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1373).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add service discovery for Docker (aka [docker_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#docker_sd_configs)). See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1402).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add service discovery for DigitalOcean (aka [digitalocean_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#digitalocean_sd_configs)). See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1367).
* FEATURE: vmagent: change the default value for `-remoteWrite.queues` from 4 to `2 * numCPUs`. This should reduce scrape duration for highly loaded vmagent, which scrapes tens of thousands of targets. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1385).
* FEATURE: vmagent: show the number of samples the target returns during the last scrape on `/targets` and `/api/v1/targets` pages. This should simplify debugging targets, which may return too big or too low number of samples. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1377).
* FEATURE: vmagent: support for http-based service discovery (aka [http_sd_config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/sd_configs.html#http_sd_configs)), which has been added since Prometheus 2.28. See [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1392).
* FEATURE: vmagent: support namespace in Consul serive discovery in the same way as Prometheus 2.28 does. See [this issue](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/8894) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: support generic auth configs in `consul_sd_configs` in the same way as Prometheus 2.28 does. See [this issue](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/8924) for details.
* FEATURE: [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html): limit the number of samples per each imported JSON line. This should limit the memory usage at VictoriaMetrics side when importing time series with big number of samples.
* FEATURE: vmselect: log slow queries across all the `/api/v1/*` handlers (aka [Prometheus query API](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api)) if their execution duration exceeds `-search.logSlowQueryDuration`. This should simplify debugging slow requests to such handlers as `/api/v1/labels` or `/api/v1/series` additionally to `/api/v1/query` and `/api/v1/query_range`, which were logged in the previous releases.
* FEATURE: vminsert: sort the `-storageNode` list in order to guarantee the identical `series -> vmstorage` mapping across all the `vminsert` nodes. This should reduce resource usage (RAM, CPU and disk IO) at `vmstorage` nodes if `vmstorage` addresses are passed in random order to `vminsert` nodes.
* BUGFIX: prevent from adding new samples to deleted time series after the rotation of the inverted index (the rotation is performed once per `-retentionPeriod`). See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1347#issuecomment-861232136) for details.
* BUGFIX: vmstorage: reduce high disk write IO usage on systems with big number of CPU cores. The issue has been introduced in the release [v1.59.0](#v1590). See [this commit](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/commit/aa9b56a046b6ae8083fa659df35dd5e994bf9115) and [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1338#issuecomment-863046999) for details.
* BUGFIX: vmstorage: prevent from incorrect stats collection when multiple concurrent queries execute the same tag filter. This may help reducing CPU usage under certain workloads. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1338).
* BUGFIX: vmselect: return the last timestamp for the max / min value from `tmax_over_time(m[d])` and `tmin_over_time(m[d])` [MetricsQL functions](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) as most users expect. See also [this issue](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/8966).
* BUGFIX: vmselect: return the expected value for `increase_pure()` [MetricsQL function](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) after a gap in a time series. Previously incorrect too big value could be returned after the gap from `increase_pure()`.
* BUGFIX: vmalert: fix recording rules, which were broken in v1.61.0. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1369).
* BUGFIX: reset the on-disk cache for mapping from the full metric name to an internal metric id (e.g. `metric_name{labels} -> internal_metric_id`) after deleting metrics via [delete API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-delete-time-series). This should prevent from possible inconsistent state after unclean shutdown. This [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1347).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add support for backfilling (aka replay) of recording and alerting rules. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#rules-backfilling) and [this feature request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/836).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add a command-line flag `-rule.configCheckInterval` for automatic re-reading of `-rule` files without the need to send SIGHUP signal. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/512).
* FEATURE: vmagent: respect the `sample_limit` and `-promscrape.maxScrapeSize` values when scraping targets in [stream parsing mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode). See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1331).
* FEATURE: vmauth: add ability to specify mutliple `url_prefix` entries for balancing the load among multiple `vmselect` and/or `vminsert` nodes in a cluster. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html#load-balancing).
* FEATURE: vminsert: add `-disableRerouting` command-line flag for forcibly disabling the rerouting. This should help resolving [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/791) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1054) issues.
* FEATURE: vminsert: reduce the probability of global re-routing storm if all the vmstorage nodes cannot keep up with the given ingestion rate for some time. This should improve cluster stability in such cases. See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/791) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1054) issues.
* FEATURE: allow building VictoriaMetrics components for Solaris / SmartOS. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1322).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add ability to debug relabeling rules. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1343).
* BUGFIX: reduce CPU usage by up to 2x during querying a database with big number of active daily time series. The issue has been introduced in `v1.59.0`.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly apply auth and tls configs in `eureka_sd_configs`. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1350).
* BUGFIX: properly generate `target` property for `*Series(foo.*.bar)` responses returned from [Graphite Render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage). Previously the `target` contained the expanded list of series for `foo.*.bar`, e.g. `sumSeries(foo.a.bar,foo.b.bar,...foo.z.bar)`. Now VictoriaMetrics returns `sumSeries(foo.*.bar)` as a target in the same way as Graphite does.
* FEATURE: add ability to limit the number of unique time series, which can be added to storage per hour and per day. This can help dealing with high cardinality and high churn rate issues. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#cardinality-limiter).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add ability to limit the number of unique time series, which can be sent to remote storage systems per hour and per day. This can help dealing with high cardinality and high churn rate issues. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add ability to run alerting and recording rules for multiple tenants. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/740) and [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#multitenancy).
* FEATURE: vminsert: add support for data ingestion via other `vminsert` nodes. This allows building multi-level data ingestion paths in VictoriaMetrics cluster by writing data from one level of `vminsert` nodes to another level of `vminsert` nodes. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multi-level-cluster-setup) and [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/541#issuecomment-835487858) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: reload `bearer_token_file`, `credentials_file` and `password_file` contents every second. This allows dynamically changing the contents of these files during target scraping and service discovery without the need to restart `vmagent`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1297).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add a flag to control behaviour on startup for state restore errors. Such errors were returned and logged before as well. Now user can specify whether to just log these errors (`-remoteRead.ignoreRestoreErrors=true`) or to stop the process (`-remoteRead.ignoreRestoreErrors=false`). The latter is important when VM isn't ready yet to serve queries from vmalert and it needs to wait. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1252).
* FEATURE: vmalert: add ability to pass `round_digits` query arg to datasource via `-datasource.roundDigits` command-line flag. This can be used for limiting the number of decimal digits after the point in recording rule results. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/525).
* FEATURE: return `X-Server-Hostname` header in http responses of all the VictoriaMetrics components. This should simplify tracing the origin server behind a load balancer or behind auth proxy during troubleshooting.
* FEATURE: vmselect: allow to use 2x more memory for query processing at `vmselect` nodes in [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html). This should allow processing heavy queries without the need to increase RAM size at `vmselect` nodes.
* FEATURE: add ability to filter `/api/v1/status/tsdb` output with arbitrary [time series selectors](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#time-series-selectors) passed via `match[]` query args. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#tsdb-stats) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1168) for details.
* FEATURE: automatically detect memory and cpu limits for VictoriaMetrics components running under [cgroup v2](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html) environments such as [HashiCorp Nomad](https://www.nomadproject.io/). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1269).
* FEATURE: add `timezone_offset(tz)` function. It returns offset in seconds for the given timezone `tz` relative to UTC. This can be useful when combining with datetime-related functions. For example, `day_of_week(time()+timezone_offset("America/Los_Angeles"))` would return weekdays for `America/Los_Angeles` time zone. Special `Local` time zone can be used for returning an offset for the time zone set on the host where VictoriaMetrics runs. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1306) and [MetricsQL docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) for more details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add support for OAuth2 authorization for scrape targets and service discovery in the same way as Prometheus does. See [these docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#oauth2).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add support for OAuth2 authorization when writing data to `-remoteWrite.url`. See `-remoteWrite.oauth2.*` config params in `/path/to/vmagent -help` output.
* FEATURE: vmalert: add ability to set `extra_filter_labels` at alerting and recording group configs. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#groups).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: do not retry scraping targets, which don't support HTTP. This should reduce CPU load and network usage at `vmagent` and at scrape target. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1289).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: fix possible race when refreshing `role: endpoints` and `role: endpointslices` scrape targets in `kubernetes_sd_config`. Prevoiusly `pod` objects could be updated after the related `endpoints` object update. This could lead to missing scrape targets. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1240).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: limit `scrape_timeout` by `scrape_interval`. This guarantees that only a single sample is lost during the configured `scrape_interval` when scrape target responds slowly. See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1281#issuecomment-840538907) for details.
* BUGFIX: properly remove stale parts outside the configured retention if `-retentionPeriod` is smaller than one month. Previously stale parts could remain active for up to a month after they go outside the retention.
* BUGFIX: stop the process on panic errors, since such errors may leave the process in inconsistent state. Previously panics could be recovered, which could result in unexpected hard-to-debug further behavior of running process.
* BUGFIX: vminsert, vmagent: make sure data ingestion connections are closed before completing graceful shutdown. Previously the connection may remain open, which could result in trailing samples loss.
* BUGFIX: vmauth, vmalert: properly re-use HTTP keep-alive connections to backends and datasources. Previously only 2 keep-alive connections per backend could be re-used. Other connections were closed after the first request. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1300) for details.
* BUGFIX: vmalert: fix false positive error `result contains metrics with the same labelset after applying rule labels`, which could be triggered when recording rules generate unique metrics. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1293).
* BUGFIX: vmctl: properly import InfluxDB rows if they have a field and a tag with identical names. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1299).
* BUGFIX: properly reload configs if `SIGHUP` signal arrives during service initialization. Previously such `SIGHUP` signal could be ingonred and configs weren't reloaded.
* BUGFIX: reduce the probability of `the removal queue is full` panic when highly loaded VictoriaMetrics stores data on NFS. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1313).
* FEATURE: improved new time series registration speed on systems with many CPU cores. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1244). Thanks to @waldoweng for the idea and [draft implementation](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1243).
* FEATURE: vmalert: use the same technique as Grafana for determining evaluation timestamps for recording rules. This should make consistent graphs for series generated by recording rules compared to graphs generated for queries from recording rules in Grafana. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1232).
* FEATURE: vmauth: add ability to set madatory query args in `url_prefix`. For example, `url_prefix: http://vm:8428/?extra_label=team=dev` would add `extra_label=team=dev` query arg to all the incoming requests. See [the example](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html#auth-config) for more details.
* FEATURE: vmctl: add OpenTSDB migration option. See more details [here](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl#migrating-data-from-opentsdb).
* FEATURE: log metrics with dropped labels if the number of labels in the ingested metric exceeds `-maxLabelsPerTimeseries`. This should simplify debugging for this case.
* FEATURE: vmagent: list user-visible endpoints at `http://vmagent:8429/`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1251).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly update `role: endpoints` and `role: endpointslices` scrape targets if the underlying service objects are updated in `kubernetes_sd_config`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1240).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: apply `scrape_timeout` on receiving the first response byte from `stream_parse: true` scrape targets. Previously it was applied to receiving and *processing* the full response stream. This could result in false timeout errors when scrape target exposes millions of metrics as described [here](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1017#issuecomment-767235047).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: eliminate possible data race when obtaining value for the metric `vm_persistentqueue_bytes_pending`. The data race could result in incorrect value for this metric.
* BUGFIX: vmstorage: remove empty directories on startup. Such directories can be left after unclean shutdown on NFS storage. Previously such directories could lead to crashloop until manually removed. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1142).
* FEATURE: vminsert and vmagent: add `-sortLabels` command-line flag for sorting metric labels before pushing them to `vmstorage`. This should reduce the size of `MetricName -> internal_series_id` cache (aka `vm_cache_size_bytes{type="storage/tsid"}`) when ingesting samples for the same time series with distinct order of labels. For example, `foo{k1="v1",k2="v2"}` and `foo{k2="v2",k1="v1"}` represent a single time series. Labels sorting is disabled by default, since the majority of established exporters preserve the order of labels for the exported metrics.
* FEATURE: allow specifying label value alongside label name for the `others sum` time series returned from `topk_*` and `bottomk_*` functions from [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html). For example, `topk_avg(3, max(process_resident_memory_bytes) by (instance), "instance=other_sum")` would return top 3 series from `max(process_resident_memory_bytes) by (instance)` plus a series containing the sum of other series. The `others sum` series will have `{instance="other_sum"}` label.
* FEATURE: do not delete `dst_label` when applying `label_copy(q, "src_label", "dst_label")` and `label_move(q, "src_label", "dst_label")` to series without `src_label` and with non-empty `dst_label`. See more details at [MetricsQL docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html).
* FEATURE: update Go builder from `v1.16.2` to `v1.16.3`. This should fix [these issues](https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.16.3+label%3ACherryPickApproved).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add support for `follow_redirects` option to `scrape_configs` section in the same way as [Prometheus 2.26 does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/8546).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add support for `authorization` section in `-promscrape.config` in the same way as [Prometheus 2.26 does](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/8512).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add support for socks5 proxy in `proxy_url` config option. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1177).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add support for `socks5 over tls` proxy in `proxy_url` config option. It can be set up with the following config: `proxy_url: "tls+socks5://proxy-addr:port"`.
* FEATURE: vmagent: reduce memory usage when `-remoteWrite.queues` is set to a big value. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1167).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add AWS IAM roles for tasks support for EC2 service discovery according to [these docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task-iam-roles.html).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add support for `proxy_tls_config`, `proxy_authorization`, `proxy_basic_auth`, `proxy_bearer_token` and `proxy_bearer_token_file` options in `consul_sd_config`, `dockerswarm_sd_config` and `eureka_sd_config` sections.
* FEATURE: vmagent: pass `X-Prometheus-Scrape-Timeout-Seconds` header to scrape targets as Prometheus does. In this case scrape targets can limit the time needed for performing the scrape. See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1179#issuecomment-813118733) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: drop corrupted persistent queue files at `-remoteWrite.tmpDataPath` instead of throwing a fatal error. Corrupted files can appear after unclean shutdown of `vmagent` such as OOM kill or hardware reset. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1030).
* FEATURE: vmauth: add support for authorization via [bearer token](https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/bearer-authentication/). See [the docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html#auth-config) for details.
* FEATURE: publish `arm64` and `amd64` binaries for cluster version of VictoriaMetrics at [releases page](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases).
* BUGFIX: properly handle `/api/v1/labels` and `/api/v1/label/<label_name>/values` queries on big `start ... end` time range. This should fix big resource usage when VictoriaMetrics is queried with [Promxy](https://github.com/jacksontj/promxy) v0.0.62 or newer versions.
* BUGFIX: do not break sort order for series returned from `topk*`, `bottomk*` and `outliersk` [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) functions. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1189).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly work with simple HTTP proxies which don't support `CONNECT` method. For example, [PushProx](https://github.com/prometheus-community/PushProx). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1179).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly discover targets if multiple namespace selectors are put inside `kubernetes_sd_config`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1170).
* BUGFIX: vmselect: remove `-search.storageTimeout` command-line flag, since it has the same meaning as `-search.maxQueryDuration`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/711#issuecomment-808884995).
* BUGFIX: vminsert: return back `type` label to per-tenant metric `vm_tenant_inserted_rows_total`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/932).
* FEATURE: optimize query performance by up to 10x on systems with many CPU cores. See [this tweet](https://twitter.com/MetricsVictoria/status/1375064484860067840).
*`process_resident_memory_anon_bytes` - RSS share for memory allocated by the process itself. This share cannot be freed by the OS, so it must be taken into account by OOM killer.
*`process_resident_memory_file_bytes` - RSS share for page cache memory (aka memory-mapped files). This share can be freed by the OS at any time, so it must be ignored by OOM killer.
*`process_resident_memory_shared_bytes` - RSS share for memory shared with other processes (aka shared memory). This share can be freed by the OS at any time, so it must be ignored by OOM killer.
*`process_resident_memory_peak_bytes` - peak RSS usage for the process.
*`process_virtual_memory_peak_bytes` - peak virtual memory usage for the process.
* FEATURE: use InfluxDB field as metric name if measurement is empty and `-influxSkipSingleField` command-line is set. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1139).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `-promscrape.consul.waitTime` command-line flag for tuning the maximum wait time for Consul service discovery. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1144).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `vm_promscrape_discovery_kubernetes_stale_resource_versions_total` metric for monitoring the frequency of `too old resource version` errors during Kubernetes service discovery.
* FEATURE: single-node VictoriaMetrics: log metrics with timestamps older than `-search.cacheTimestampOffset` compared to the current time. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#backfilling) for details.
* BUGFIX: prevent from infinite loop in `/metrics/find` and `/metrics/expand` [Graphite Metrics API handlers](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-metrics-api-usage) when they match metric names or labels with `*`, `{` or `[` chars.
* BUGFIX: do not merge duplicate time series during requests to `/api/v1/query`. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1141>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly handle `too old resource version` error messages from Kubernetes watch API. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1150>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: do not retry sending data blocks if remote storage returns `400 Bad Request` error. The number of dropped blocks due to such errors can be monitored with `vmagent_remotewrite_packets_dropped_total` metrics. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1149>
* FEATURE: export `vm_available_memory_bytes` and `vm_available_cpu_cores` metrics, which show the number of available RAM and available CPU cores for VictoriaMetrics apps.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add ability to replicate scrape targets among `vmagent` instances in the cluster with `-promscrape.cluster.replicationFactor` command-line flag. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#scraping-big-number-of-targets).
* FEATURE: vmagent: accept `scrape_offset` option at `scrape_config`. This option may be useful when scrapes must start at the specified offset of every scrape interval. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#troubleshooting) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: support `proxy_tls_config`, `proxy_basic_auth`, `proxy_bearer_token` and `proxy_bearer_token_file` options at `scrape_config` section for configuring proxies specified via `proxy_url`. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#scraping-targets-via-a-proxy).
* FEATURE: vmauth: allow using regexp paths in `url_map`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1112) for details.
* FEATURE: accept `round_digits` query arg at `/api/v1/query` and `/api/v1/query_range` handlers. This option can be set at Prometheus datasource in Grafana for limiting the number of digits after the decimal point in response values.
* FEATURE: add `-influx.databaseNames` command-line flag, which can be used for accepting data from some Telegraf plugins such as [fluentd plugin](https://github.com/fangli/fluent-plugin-influxdb). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1124).
* FEATURE: publish Windows builds for [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html), [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html), [vmauth](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html) and [vmctl](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html) at `vmutils-windows-*.zip` archives at [releases page](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases).
* FEATURE: listen for IPv6 UDP if `-enableTCP6` command-line flag is passed to VictoriaMetrics. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1131).
* BUGFIX: vmagent: reduce memory usage when Kubernetes service discovery is used in big number of distinct scrape config jobs by sharing Kubernetes object cache. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1113>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: apply `sample_limit` only after `metric_relabel_configs` are applied as Prometheus does. Previously the `sample_limit` was applied before metrics relabeling.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly apply `tls_config`, `basic_auth` and `bearer_token` to proxy connections if `proxy_url` option is set. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1116>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly scrape targets via https proxy specified in `proxy_url` if `insecure_skip_verify` flag isn't set in `tls_config` section. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1116>
* BUGFIX: prevent exponent overflow when processing extremely small values close to zero such as `2.964393875E-314`. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1114>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: fix a panic in Kubernetes service discovery when a target is filtered out with relabeling. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1107>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: fix Kubernetes service discovery for `role: ingress`. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1110>
* FEATURE: add `sign(q)` and `clamp(q, min, max)` functions, which are planned to be added in [the upcoming Prometheus release](https://twitter.com/roidelapluie/status/1363428376162295811) . The `last_over_time(m[d])` function is already supported in [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html).
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `scrape_align_interval` config option, which can be used for aligning scrapes to the beginning of the configured interval. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#troubleshooting) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add ability to spread scrape targets among multiple `vmagent` instances. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#scraping-big-number-of-targets) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1084) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: use watch API for Kubernetes service discovery. This should reduce load on Kubernetes API server when it tracks big number of objects (for example, 10K pods). This should also reduce the time needed for k8s targets discovery. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1057) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: export `vm_promscrape_target_relabel_duration_seconds` metric, which can be used for monitoring the time spend on relabeling for discovered targets.
* FEATURE: add `increase_pure(m[d])` function to MetricsQL. It works the same as `increase(m[d])` except of various edge cases. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/962) for details.
* FEATURE: increase accuracy for `buckets_limit(limit, buckets)` results for small `limit` values. See [MetricsQL docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: initial support for Windows build with `CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=windows go build ./app/vmagent`. See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/70) and [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1036).
* FEATURE: vmagent: support WebIdentityToken auth in EC2 service discovery. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1080) for details.
* FEATURE: vmalert: properly process query params in `-datasource.url` and `-remoteRead.url` command-line flags. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1087) for details.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly apply `-remoteWrite.rateLimit` when `-remoteWrite.queues` is greater than 1. Previously there was a data race, which could prevent from proper rate limiting.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly perform graceful shutdown on `SIGINT` and `SIGTERM` signals. The graceful shutdown has been broken in `v1.54.0`. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1065>
* BUGFIX: properly calculate `histogram_quantile()` over time series with only a single non-zero bucket with `{le="+Inf"}`. Previously `NaN` was returned, now the value for the last bucket before `{le="+Inf"}` is returned like Prometheus does.
* BUGFIX: vmselect: do not cache partial query results on timeout when receiving data from `vmstorage` nodes. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1085>
* BUGFIX: properly cache query results when `extra_label` query arg is used. Previously the cached results could clash for different `extra_label` values. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1095>
* BUGFIX: fix `http: superfluous response.WriteHeader call` issue. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1078>
* BUGFIX: fix arm64 builds due to the issue in `github.com/golang/snappy`. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1074>
* BUGFIX: fix `index out of range [1024819115206086200] with length 27` panic, which could occur when `1e-9` value is passed to VictoriaMetrics histogram. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1096>
* BUGFIX: fix parsing for Graphite line with empty tags such as `foo; 123 456`. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1100>
* BUGFIX: unescape only `\\`, `\n` and `\"` in label names when parsing Prometheus text exposition format as Prometheus does. Previously other escape sequences could be improperly unescaped.
* BUGFIX: properly handle queries containing a filter on metric name plus any number of negative filters and zero non-negative filters. For example, `node_cpu_seconds_total{mode!="idle"}`. The bug was introduced in [v1.54.0](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.54.0).
* FEATURE: optimize searching for matching metrics for `metric{<label_filters>}` queries if `<label_filters>` contains at least a single filter. For example, the query `up{job="foobar"}` should find the matching time series much faster than previously.
* FEATURE: reduce execution times for `q1 <binary_op> q2` queries by executing `q1` and `q2` in parallel.
* FEATURE: single-node VictoriaMetrics now accepts requests to handlers with `/prometheus` and `/graphite` prefixes such as `/prometheus/api/v1/query`. This improves compatibility with [handlers from VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#url-format).
* FEATURE: expose `process_open_fds` and `process_max_fds` metrics. These metrics can be used for alerting when `process_open_fds` reaches `process_max_fds`. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/402> and <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1037>
* FEATURE: vmalert: add `-datasource.appendTypePrefix` command-line option for querying both Prometheus and Graphite datasource in cluster version of VictoriaMetrics. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#graphite) for details.
* FEATURE: vmauth: add ability to route requests from a single user to multiple destinations depending on the requested paths. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1064>
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `__meta_kubernetes_endpoints_label_*`, `__meta_kubernetes_endpoints_labelpresent_*`, `__meta_kubernetes_endpoints_annotation_*` and `__meta_kubernetes_endpoints_annotationpresent_*` labels for `role: endpoints` in Kubernetes service discovery. These labels where added in Prometheus 2.25.
* FEATURE: reduce the minimum supported retention period for inverted index (aka `indexdb`) from one month to one day. This should reduce disk space usage for `<-storageDataPath>/indexdb` folder if `-retentionPeriod` is set to values smaller than one month.
* FEATURE: vmselect: export per-tenant metrics `vm_vmselect_http_requests_total` and `vm_vmselect_http_requests_duration_ms_total` . Other per-tenant metrics are available as a part of [enterprise package](https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/). See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/932> for details.
* BUGFIX: properly convert regexp tag filters containing escaped dots to non-regexp tag filters. For example, `{foo=~"bar\.baz"}` should be converted to `{foo="bar.baz"}`. Previously it was incorrectly converted to `{foo="bar\.baz"}`, which could result in missing time series for this tag filter.
* BUGFIX: do not spam error logs when discovering Docker Swarm targets without dedicated IP. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1028> .
* BUGFIX: properly embed timezone data into VictoriaMetrics apps. This should fix `-loggerTimezone` usage inside Docker containers.
* BUGFIX: properly build Docker images for non-amd64 architectures (arm, arm64, ppc64le, 386) on [Docker hub](https://hub.docker.com/u/victoriametrics/). Previously these images were incorrectly based on amd64 base image, so they didn't work.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: return back unsent block to the queue during graceful shutdown. Previously this block could be dropped if remote storage is unavailable during vmagent shutdown. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1065> .
* FEATURE: added [vmctl tool](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmctl.html) to VictoriaMetrics release process. Now it is packaged in `vmutils-*.tar.gz` archive on [the releases page](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases). Source code for `vmctl` tool has been moved from [github.com/VictoriaMetrics/vmctl](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/vmctl) to [github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmctl](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/tree/master/app/vmctl).
* FEATURE: added `-search.maxStepForPointsAdjustment` command-line flag, which can be used for disabling adjustment for points returned by `/api/v1/query_range` handler if such points have timestamps closer than `-search.latencyOffset` to the current time. Such points may contain incomplete data, so they are substituted by the previous values for `step` query args smaller than one minute by default.
* FEATURE: vmselect: added ability to use Graphite-compatible filters in MetricsQL via `{__graphite__="foo.*.bar"}` syntax. This expression is equivalent to `{__name__=~"foo[.][^.]*[.]bar"}`, but it works faster and it is easier to use when migrating from Graphite to VictoriaMetrics. This feature deprecates the usage of `-search.treatDotsAsIsInRegexps` command-line flag.
* FEATURE: vmselect: added ability to set additional label filters, which must be applied during queries. Such label filters can be set via optional `extra_label` query arg, which is accepted by [querying API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#prometheus-querying-api-usage) handlers. For example, the request to `/api/v1/query_range?extra_label=tenant_id=123&query=<query>` adds `{tenant_id="123"}` label filter to the given `<query>`. It is expected that the `extra_label` query arg is automatically set by auth proxy sitting
in front of VictoriaMetrics. [Contact us](mailto:sales@victoriametrics.com) if you need assistance with such a proxy. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1021> .
* FEATURE: vmalert: added `-datasource.queryStep` command-line flag for passing optional `step` query arg to `/api/v1/query` endpoint. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1025>
* FEATURE: vmalert: added ability to query Graphite datasource when evaluating alerting and recording rules. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#graphite) for details.
* FEATURE: vmagent: added `-remoteWrite.roundDigits` command-line option for rounding metric values to the given number of decimal digits after the point before sending the metric to the corresponding `-remoteWrite.url`. This option can be used for improving data compression on the remote storage, because values with lower number of decimal digits can be compressed better than values with bigger number of decimal digits.
* FEATURE: vmagent: added `-remoteWrite.rateLimit` command-line flag for limiting data transfer rate to `-remoteWrite.url`. This may be useful when big amounts of buffered data is sent after temporarily unavailability of the remote storage. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1035>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: reduce HTTP reconnection rate for scrape targets. Previously vmagent could errorneusly close HTTP keep-alive connections more frequently than needed.
* BUGFIX: vmagent: retry scrape and service discovery requests when the remote server closes HTTP keep-alive connection. Previously `disable_keepalive: true` option could be used under `scrape_configs` section when working with such servers.
* FEATURE: provide a sample list of alerting rules for VictoriaMetrics components. It is available [here](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/deployment/docker/alerts.yml).
* FEATURE: disable final merge for data for the previous month at the beginning of new month, since it may result in high disk IO and CPU usage. Final merge can be enabled by setting `-finalMergeDelay` command-line flag to positive duration.
* FEATURE: add `tfirst_over_time(m[d])` and `tlast_over_time(m[d])` functions to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) for returning timestamps for the first and the last data point in `m` over `d` duration.
* FEATURE: add ability to pass multiple labels to `sort_by_label()` and `sort_by_label_desc()` functions. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/992> .
* FEATURE: enforce at least TLS v1.2 when accepting HTTPS requests if `-tls`, `-tlsCertFile` and `-tlsKeyFile` command-line flags are set, because older TLS protocols such as v1.0 and v1.1 have been deprecated due to security vulnerabilities.
* FEATURE: support `extra_label` query arg for all HTTP-based [data ingestion protocols](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-import-time-series-data). This query arg can be used for specifying extra labels which should be added for the ingested data.
* FEATURE: vmbackup: increase backup chunk size from 128MB to 1GB. This should reduce the number of Object storage API calls during backups by 8x. This may also reduce costs, since object storage API calls usually have non-zero costs. See <https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/> and <https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#operations-pricing> .
* BUGFIX: properly parse escaped unicode chars in MetricsQL metric names, label names and function names. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/990>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: prevent from `dialing to the given TCP address time out` error when scraping big number of unavailable targets. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/987>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly log errors when `-promscrape.streamParse` command-line flag is set. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1009>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly suppress errors when both `-promscrape.suppressScrapeErrors` and `-promscrape.streamParse` command-line flags are set. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1009> .
* BUGFIX: vmalert: return non-empty result in template func `query` stub to pass validation. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/989> .
* BUGFIX: upgrade base image for Docker packages from Alpine 3.12.1 to Alpine 3.12.3 in order to fix potential security issues. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1010>
* FEATURE: add `/api/v1/status/top_queries` handler, which returns the most frequently executed queries and queries that took the most time for execution. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/907>
* FEATURE: vmagent: add support for `proxy_url` config option in Prometheus scrape configs. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/503>
* FEATURE: remove parts with stale data as soon as they go outside the configured `-retentionPeriod`. Previously such parts may remain active for long periods of time. This should help reducing disk usage for `-retentionPeriod` smaller than one month.
* BUGFIX: vmalert: properly escape multiline queries when passing them to Grafana. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/890>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: set missing `__meta_kubernetes_service_*` labels in `kubernetes_sd_config` for `endpoints` and `endpointslices` roles. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/982>
* BUGFIX: do not adjust `offset` value provided in MetricsQL query. Previously it could be modified in order to improve response cache hit ratio. This is unneeded, since cache hit ratio should remain good because the query time range should be already aligned to multiple of `step` values. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/976>
* FEATURE: do not publish duplicate Docker images with `-cluster` tag suffix for [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html), [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html), [vmauth](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html), [vmbackup](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmbackup.html) and [vmrestore](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmrestore.html), since they are identical to images without `-cluster` tag suffix.
* BUGFIX: vmalert: properly populate template variables. This has been broken in v1.50.0. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/974>
* BUGFIX: properly parse negative combined duration in MetricsQL such as `-1h3m4s`. It must be parsed as `-(1h + 3m + 4s)`. Prevsiously it was parsed as `-1h + 3m + 4s`.
* BUGFIX: properly parse lines in [Prometheus exposition format](https://github.com/prometheus/docs/blob/master/content/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats.md) and in [OpenMetrics format](https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/master/specification/OpenMetrics.md) with whitespace after the timestamp. For example, `foo 123 456 ## some comment here`. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/970>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly delete unregistered scrape targets from `/targets` and `/api/v1/targets` pages. They weren't deleted due to the bug in `v1.50.0`.
* FEATURE: automatically reset response cache when samples with timestamps older than `now - search.cacheTimestampOffset` are ingested to VictoriaMetrics. This makes unnecessary disabling response cache during data backfilling or resetting it after backfilling is complete as described [in these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#backfilling). This feature applies only to single-node VictoriaMetrics. It doesn't apply to cluster version of VictoriaMetrics because `vminsert` nodes don't know about `vmselect` nodes where the response cache must be reset.
* FEATURE: vmagent: return user-friendly HTML page when requesting `/targets` page from web browser. The page is returned in the old plaintext format when requesting via curl or similar tool.
* FEATURE: allow multiple whitespace chars between measurements, fields and timestamp when parsing InfluxDB line protocol.
Though [InfluxDB line protocol](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.8/write_protocols/line_protocol_tutorial/) denies multiple whitespace chars between these entities,
some apps improperly put multiple whitespace chars. This workaround allows accepting data from such apps.
* FEATURE: export `vm_promscrape_scrapers_started_total{type="<sd_type>"}` and `vm_promscrape_scrapers_stopped_total{type="<sd_type>"}` metrics for tracking churn rate for scrapers
* BUGFIX: properly handle `*` and `[...]` inside curly braces in query passed to Graphite Metrics API. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/952>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly pass `datacenter` filter to Consul API server. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/574#issuecomment-740454170>
* BUGFIX: properly handle CPU limits set on the host system or host container. The bugfix may result in lower memory usage on systems with CPU limits. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/946>
* BUGFIX: prevent from duplicate `name` tag returned from `/tags/autoComplete/tags` handler. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/942>
* BUGFIX: do not enable strict parsing for `-promscrape.config` if `-promscrape.config.dryRun` comand-line flag is set. Strict parsing can be enabled with `-promscrape.config.strictParse` command-line flag. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/944>
* BUGFIX: vminsert: properly update `vm_rpc_rerouted_rows_processed_total` metric. Previously it wasn't updated. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/955>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly recover when opening incorrectly stored persistent queue. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/964>
* BUGFIX: vmagent: properly handle scrape errors when stream parsing is enabled with `-promscrape.streamParse` command-line flag or with `stream_parse: true` per-target config option. Previously such errors weren't reported at `/targets` page. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/967>
* BUGFIX: assume the previous value is 0 when calculating `increase()` for the first point on the graph if its value doesn't exceed 100 and the delta between two first points equals to 0. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/962>
* FEATURE: optimize Consul service discovery speed when discovering big number of services. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/574>
* FEATURE: add `label_uppercase(q, label1, ... labelN)` and `label_lowercase(q, label1, ... labelN)` function to [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html)
* FEATURE: add `count_eq_over_time(m[d], N)` and `count_ne_over_time(m[d], N)` for counting the number of samples for `m` over `d` that (equal / not equal) to `N`.
* FEATURE: do not print usage info for all the command-line flags when incorrect command-line flag is passed. Previously it could be hard reading the error message
about incorrect command-line flag because of too big usage info for all the flags.
* FEATURE: upgrade Go builder from v1.15.5 to v1.15.6 . This fixes [issues found in Go since v1.15.5](https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.15.6+label%3ACherryPickApproved).
* BUGFIX: properly parse timestamps in OpenMetrics format - they are exposed as floating-point number in seconds instead of integer milliseconds
unlike in Prometheus exposition format. See [the docs](https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/master/specification/OpenMetrics.md#timestamps).
* BUGFIX: return `nan` for `a >bool b` query when `a` equals to `nan` like Prometheus does. Previously `0` was returned in this case. This applies to any comparison operation
with `bool` modifier. See [these docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/operators/#comparison-binary-operators) for details.
* BUGFIX: handle `time() cmp_op metric` like Prometheus does - i.e. return `metric` value if `cmp_op` comparison is true. Previously `time()` value was returned.
* BUGFIX: return `nan` for `minute(m)` query when `m` equals to `nan` like Prometheus does. This applies to all the time-related functions such as `day_of_month`, `day_of_week`,
* FEATURE: added [Snap package for single-node VictoriaMetrics](https://snapcraft.io/victoriametrics). This simplifies installation under Ubuntu to a single command:
* FEATURE: vminsert: export `vm_rpc_vmstorage_is_reachable` metric, which can be used for monitoring reachability of vmstorage nodes from vminsert nodes.
* FEATURE: add `-loggerWarnsPerSecondLimit` command-line flag for rate limiting of WARN messages in logs. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/905>
* FEATURE: apply `loggerErrorsPerSecondLimit` and `-loggerWarnsPerSecondLimit` rate limit per caller. I.e. log messages are suppressed if the same caller logs the same message
* FEATURE: log metric name plus all its labels when the metric timestamp is out of the configured retention. This should simplify detecting the source of metrics with unexpected timestamps.
* BUGFIX: properly parse Prometheus metrics with [exemplars](https://github.com/OpenObservability/OpenMetrics/blob/master/OpenMetrics.md#exemplars-1) such as `foo 123 ## {bar="baz"} 1`.
* FEATURE: vmselect: add `"isPartial":{true|false}` field in JSON output for `/api/v1/*` functions
from [Prometheus querying API](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/). `"isPartial":true` is set if the response contains partial data
because of a part of `vmstorage` nodes were unavailable during query processing.
* FEATURE: vmagent: reduce memory usage when service discovery detects big number of scrape targets and the set of discovered targets changes over time.
* FEATURE: vmagent: add `-promscrape.dropOriginalLabels` command-line option, which can be used for reducing memory usage when scraping big number of targets.
* FEATURE: add `-search.treatDotsAsIsInRegexps` command-line flag, which can be used for automatic escaping of dots in regexp label filters used in queries.
For example, if `-search.treatDotsAsIsInRegexps` is set, then the query `foo{bar=~"aaa.bb.cc|dd.eee"}` is automatically converted to `foo{bar=~"aaa\\.bb\\.cc|dd\\.eee"}`.
* FEATURE: update Go builder from v1.15.4 to v1.15.5. This should fix [these issues in Go](https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.15.5+label%3ACherryPickApproved).
See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/887> and <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/845>
* BUGFIX: remove spikes at the end of time series gaps for `increase()` or `delta()` functions. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/894>
* BUGFIX: vminsert: properly return HTTP 503 status code when all the vmstorage nodes are unavailable. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/896>
* FEATURE: vmagent: reduce memory usage when `kubernetes_sd_config` discovers big number of scrape targets (e.g. hundreds of thousands) and the majority of these targets (99%)
are dropped during relabeling. Previously labels for all the dropped targets were displayed at `/api/v1/targets` page. Now only up to `-promscrape.maxDroppedTargets` such
* BUGFIX: vmagent: eliminate data race when `-promscrape.streamParse` command-line is set. Previously this mode could result in scraped metrics with garbage labels.
* BUGFIX: properly calculate `topk_*` and `bottomk_*` functions from [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) for time series with gaps.
See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/173>
* FEATURE: optimize more cases according to <https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusLabelNonOptimization> . Now the following cases are optimized too:
See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/825> and [troubleshooting docs for vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#troubleshooting).
* FEATURE: accept optional third argument of string type at `topk_*` and `bottomk_*` functions. This is label name for additional time series to return with the sum of time series outside top/bottom K. See [MetricsQL docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) for more details.
* BUGFIX: vmalert: skip automatically added labels on alerts restore. Label `alertgroup` was introduced in [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/611)
and automatically added to generated time series. By mistake, this new label wasn't correctly purged on restore event and affected alert's ID uniqueness.
* FEATURE: automatically add missing label filters to binary operands as described at <https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusLabelNonOptimization> .
This should improve performance for queries with missing label filters in binary operands. For example, the following query should work faster now, because it shouldn't
fetch and discard time series for `node_filesystem_files_free` metric without matching labels for the left side of the expression:
* FEATURE: vmagent: show original labels before relabeling is applied on `duplicate scrape target` errors. This should simplify debugging for incorrect relabeling.
* FEATURE: vmagent: `/targets` page now accepts optional `show_original_labels=1` query arg for displaying original labels for each target before relabeling is applied.
due to [relabeling](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#relabeling). The `sum(rate(vm_rows_added_to_storage_total))` can be bigger
than `sum(rate(vm_rows_inserted_total))` if [replication](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#replication-and-data-safety) is enabled.
* FEATURE: keep metric name after applying [MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html) functions, which don't change time series meaning.
* BUGFIX: vmalert: accept days, weeks and years in `for:` part of config like Prometheus does. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/817>
Typical use cases: repeated evaluation of alerting rules in [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html) or dashboard auto-refresh in Grafana.
Previously `Inf` values could result in `NaN` values for adjacent samples in time series. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/805> .
* BUGFIX: fill gaps on graphs for `range_*` and `running_*` functions. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/806> .
* FEATURE: improve performance for `/api/v1/series` handler when it returns big number of time series.
* FEATURE: add `vm_merge_need_free_disk_space` metric, which can be used for estimating the number of deferred background data merges due to the lack of free disk space.
See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/685#issuecomment-698595309> .
* BUGFIX: vmagent: do not show `-remoteWrite.url` in initial logs if `-remoteWrite.showURL` isn't set. See <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/773> .
* BUGFIX: properly handle case when [/metrics/find](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-metrics-api-usage) finds both a leaf and a node for the given `query=prefix.*`.
