VictoriaMetrics Expands in North America as Spotify and MongoDB Use Its Open-Source Stack to Run Observability at Scale

Self-funded company grew headcount 50% in 2026 and is adding North American sales, customer success and developer advocacy staff

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VictoriaMetrics, a provider of open-source observability solutions, today announced it’s building momentum for its next phase of growth with a fast-growing open-source community, continued product innovation and expanding enterprise adoption. The company is increasing its investment in North America to bring its cost-efficient observability technology to more engineering teams managing increasingly complex IT and AI infrastructure, with plans to expand its support, engineering, sales and marketing teams, increase its presence at industry conferences, and accelerate marketing initiatives across the continent.

VictoriaMetrics’ technology supports demanding workloads at leading technology companies, with enterprise customers reporting significant improvements in performance and infrastructure efficiency, including:

• MongoDB uses VictoriaMetrics Enterprise for global metrics observability across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
• Grammarly reported a 10x reduction in infrastructure costs after migrating to VictoriaMetrics, which it called “one of the smoothest transitions in its history”
• Spotify's R&D replaced its in-house time series database with VictoriaMetrics Enterprise, documenting ingestion of approximately 78 million data points per second and dashboards and queries up to 10x faster
• DreamHost reported an 80% reduction in memory usage while supporting 76 million active time series

In a published customer case study, MongoDB highlighted VictoriaMetrics Enterprise’s scalability, flexibility and performance:

“Everything we do starts with our customers. As MongoDB has continued to grow, we needed an observability platform that could grow with us—VictoriaMetrics is remarkably scalable and easy to use, allowing our engineers to move quickly, delivering value for our internal engineering teams and our customers,” said persephone thorn, Manager Observability at MongoDB. “VictoriaMetrics Enterprise has given us the visibility and flexibility to operate a globally distributed platform with confidence. We were able to build on the tools and workflows our engineers already knew, while gaining the scalability and query performance we needed to support our next stage of growth and continue delivering the experience our customers expect.”

Practitioners report similar results in reviews on PeerSpot. A software engineer who replaced Prometheus with VictoriaMetrics reported about 70% less RAM, 75% less disk, 3x faster writes and 7x faster p95 query latency. An SRE lead at a financial services firm with more than 10,000 employees has run VictoriaMetrics for four years as a high-availability cluster split across data centers, and rated it 10 out of 10.

Its customer momentum mirrors growing open-source adoption. In 2026, VictoriaMetrics surpassed one billion downloads and accumulated more than 21,000 GitHub stars across its repositories, showing the platform’s growing popularity among developers. During the first half of the year, its teams published more than 70 product releases across the open-source portfolio and merged 1,715 pull requests, excluding bots.

“Engineering teams shouldn't have to choose between observability performance, operational simplicity and cost efficiency,” said Artem Navoiev, CEO and co-founder of VictoriaMetrics. “Our open-source foundation and flexible deployment options help these teams meet demanding monitoring needs as they maintain control over infrastructure resources, costs and operational overhead.”

On the product front, the open-source offering expanded beyond metrics with purpose-built open-source databases for logs and distributed traces. VictoriaLogs, its scalable, fast and efficient logging solution, and VictoriaTraces, its user-friendly database designed for storing and querying distributed tracing data, are now also available in VictoriaMetrics Cloud. These developments extend the company's managed offering across all three major telemetry signals.

Finally, VictoriaMetrics is continuing to invest in engineering, customer success, developer advocacy and marketing to build upon its momentum and reach more users. Its global headcount grew to over 70 employees, a 50% increase, in 2026, and it maintained a self-funded growth model, thanks to customer support and open-source adoption. North America represents the next step in bringing its observability technology to more engineering teams seeking greater control over performance, complexity and cost.

“As open-source adoption grows and our solutions expand beyond metrics into logs and traces, we're investing in the people, technology and community needed to support engineering teams at every stage of scale. North America is an important part of that next chapter,” said Navoiev.

Additional Resources:

• VictoriaLogs vs Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, SigNoz and ClickStack on structured log ingestion
• VictoriaMetrics slashes data storage bills by 90% with world’s most cost-efficient monitoring
• Announcing 1B+ Downloads & Product Development With Logs, Traces, Metrics

About VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics was founded by four engineers with deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and high-performance software. Together, they share a vision of building simple, reliable, and scalable observability solutions for users around the world. With 1B+ downloads to date, VictoriaMetrics users and customers include Spotify, MongoDB, Grammarly, and more.

For more information, please visit https://victoriametrics.com.