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In 2025, Elastic and Google Cloud created a powerhouse of AI-driven insights, providing an end-to-end search, observability, and security journey for our joint customers. We continue to partner on many opportunities for success and have made even further progress this year to empower all our users, especially around generative AI (GenAI). This blog highlights our collaboration with Google Cloud to help you harness the power of data at scale as well as our top moments from Google Cloud Next ‘25.

2025 was a landmark year for VictoriaMetrics — defined not only by product improvements, new capabilities, and wider adoption, but by a strong and consistent presence across the global open-source and cloud-native ecosystem. Our mission has always been clear: to build open-source monitoring and observability solutions that are simple, reliable, and efficient for metrics, logs, and traces.

On December 15, 2025, Spotify experienced a widespread outage that disrupted playback, logins, and app functionality for users around the world. While Spotify’s official status page remained silent throughout the incident, StatusGator detected the problem early using real user signals and issued an Early Warning Signal within minutes.

This year, the world leaned heavily on words like reimagine, rebuild, renew, reshape, and reinvent, and the same spirit defined our journey. As promised last year, we reimagined key capabilities, reshaped workflows, and restructured critical parts of our network monitoring tool to meet modern demands. At the same time, we reinforced the core foundation you've trusted for more than a decade: delivering reliable, usable features with uncompromising security.

Managing multiple customer accounts as an MSP can be overwhelming. With the constant demands of configuring monitors, generating reports, and maintaining security across numerous customers, efficiency becomes critical. Throughout this year, we've focused on making your life easier with powerful new features that automate repetitive tasks, enhance security, and give you better visibility into customer health.

The customer was already using Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) to deliver Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines. Rather than attempting to migrate existing VMware-based VDAs, which often introduces driver conflicts and legacy dependencies, we followed a proven best-practice approach. We provisioned new VDA machines directly on XenServer using the PVS Virtual Desktop Setup Wizard. This ensured clean builds, free from VMware-specific components, and fully optimized for the XenServer platform.