Monitoring protects us from the unknown, and makes us see through the complexity of distributed systems and hardware.

But what is monitoring if not another complex distributed system? And what happens when it fails?
VictoriaMetrics is an open-source distributed monitoring solution for metrics. Users trust it to provide observability for their services and infrastructure. But as with any distributed system, combining unique settings, versatile workload, and hardware specifics could result in unexpected state of VictoriaMetrics software.

In the talk, Roman Khavronenko will cover how the monitoring approach evolved over time after encountering many unique VictoriaMetrics support cases.

What is Monitoring of Monitoring? How to build engineer-friendly Grafana dashboards, create meaningful alerts, and compile troubleshooting guides for open-source product?

Discuss these and other monitoring-related questions together with Roman!