VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs v1.44.0

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v1.44.0

Released at 2026-01-27

• SECURITY: upgrade base docker image (Alpine) from 3.22.2 to 3.23.2. See Alpine 3.23.2 release notes.

• SECURITY: upgrade Go builder from Go1.25.5 to Go1.25.6. See the list of issues addressed in Go1.25.6.

• FEATURE: add an ability to delete snapshots via /internal/partition/snapshot/delete endpoint. See these docs and #828.

• FEATURE: add an ability to delete stale snapshots via /internal/partition/snapshot/delete_stale?max_age=<d> endpoint. Snapshots older than <d> are automatically deleted. For example, max_age=1d removes snapshots older than one day. See these docs.

• FEATURE: add an ability to automatically delete stale snapshots older than the value passed to -snapshotsMaxAge command-line flag. See #829 and these docs. Thanks to @withlin for the initial implementation.

• FEATURE: add an ability to create snapshots for multiple per-day partitions matching the given partition_prefix passed to /internal/partition/snapshot/create. For example, /internal/partition/snapshot/create?partition_prefix=202601 creates snapshots for all the active per-day partitions for January 2026.

• FEATURE: Journald data ingestion: add -journald.useRemoteIP flag for saving the remote IP address in the remote_ip field. Thanks to @NaturalSpottingSmite for the pull request.

• FEATURE: data ingestion: add an ability to avoid flattening of JSON values for the given keys enumerated via preserve_json_keys query arg or via VL-Preserve-JSON-Keys http request header. This may be useful if the input JSON-encoded logs contain high-cardinality key names such as sku-* in the {"items":{"sku-1":{...},...,"sku-N":{...}}}. Then preserve_json_keys=items would preserve the items field value as is, e.g. it will be equal to the string {"sku-1":{...},...,"sku-N":{...}}. See more details about these options at these docs and at #1002.

• FEATURE: dashboards/internal: add Grafana dashboard for monitoring VictoriaLogs internal state. The source of the dashboard is available here.

• FEATURE: LogsQL: add pattern_match_prefix() and pattern_match_suffx() filters for matching the given pattern at the beginning or at the end of the log field value. See these docs and #762.

• FEATURE: Kubernetes Collector: add an ability to change default _stream fields via -kubernetesCollector.streamFields command-line flag. See #998.

• FEATURE: querying HTTP API: accept step arg with nanosecond precision at /select/logsql/hits and /select/logsql/stats_query_range endpoints. Previously these endpoints were accepting the step query arg only with millisecond precision.

• FEATURE: web UI: add pipe titles with links to docs.victoriametrics.com in autocomplete popup.

• FEATURE: web UI: add a cumulative view option to hits bar chart. See #955.

• FEATURE: web UI: add configurable bar count for hits chart. See #956.

• BUGFIX: LogsQL: properly apply time offset according to the docs for the day_range and week_range filters. Previously offset 2h was incorrectly translated into -02:00 timezone offset instead of the expected +02:00 timezone offset. See #796.

• BUGFIX: LogsQL: use local time zone for the VictoriaLogs server when the day_range or week_range filter doesn't contain explicitly specified offset ... suffix. This aligns with the behaviour when the timezone information is missing in the _time filter.

• BUGFIX: LogsQL: fix panic when executing "_stream":="", "_stream_id":="" or "_time":foo queries. See #717. Thanks to @withlin for the pull request.

• BUGFIX: web UI: fix bars width calculation and visual misalignment relative to time axis. See #900.

• BUGFIX: metrics: fix vl_http_errors_total{path="..."} metric name mismatch for /internal/select/* endpoints (it was exposed as vl_http_request_errors_total{path="..."}). See #1005.

• BUGFIX: Kubernetes Collector: add support for dynamic token and certificates reloading. Previously, vlagent only read credentials at startup, which led to authentication errors after token rotation. See #995.

• BUGFIX: Kubernetes Collector: properly parse Kubernetes system log timestamps. This prevents future logs issues that occurred during the New Year transition.

• BUGFIX: Kubernetes Collector: add additional file fingerprint validation when resuming from a stale checkpoint file. This prevents cannot parse Container Runtime Interface log line errors that could occur if multiple log rotations happened while vlagent was down.

• BUGFIX: HTTP data ingestion: properly handle empty items in comma-separated HTTP ingestion params such as VL-Stream-Fields, VL-Time-Field, VL-Msg-Field, VL-Ignore-Fields and VL-Decolorize-Fields. Previously, empty items in VL-Stream-Fields (e.g. foo,,bar) could unexpectedly add _msg to stream fields and lead to unexpectedly high number of log streams. See #966.