chore(helm): update image docker.io/victoriametrics/victoria-metrics v1.120.0 → v1.121.0 (#37219)

This PR contains the following updates:

| Package | Update | Change |
|---|---|---|
|
[docker.io/victoriametrics/victoria-metrics](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics)
| minor | `a1cb2f3` -> `4f65d40` |

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### Release Notes

<details>
<summary>VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
(docker.io/victoriametrics/victoria-metrics)</summary>

###
[`v1.121.0`](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.121.0)

[Compare
Source](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/compare/v1.120.0...v1.121.0)

####
[v1.121.0](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.121.0)

Released at 2025-07-04

**Update Note 1:** The `-retryMaxTime` flag has been deprecated. Please
use `-retryMaxInterval` flag instead. For more details, see
[#&#8203;9169](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9169).

- FEATURE: all the [VictoriaMetrics
Enterprise](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/enterprise.html)
components: improve error message when an empty license is provided via
the `-license` or `-licenseFile` command-line flags. See
[#&#8203;9337](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9337)
for the details.

- FEATURE:
[vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmagent/):
add `concurrency` option to kafka remoteWrite producer. See
[9249](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9249)
issue for details.

- FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/) and
[Single-node VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/):
support `label_limit` scrape parameter. It sets labels limit for each
scraped sample from a target. If limit is exceeded, the scrape will be
rejected and target marked with corresponding scrape error. The
`label_limit` can be defined on global level, per job or during
relabeling via `__label_limit__` label. See [scrape configs
doc](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/sd_configs/#scrape_configs)
for details. See
[#&#8203;7660](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/7660)
and
[#&#8203;3233](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3233)
issues.

- FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/):
introduce a new flag `-retryMaxInterval` as a replacement for the
deprecated `-retryMaxTime` flag. The new flag more accurately reflects
the behavior it controls. See
[#&#8203;9169](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9169)
for more details. Thanks to the
[@&#8203;leiwingqueen](https://redirect.github.com/leiwingqueen).

- FEATURE:
[vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/):
add `/api/v1/notifiers` API endpoint for returning list of configured or
discovered notifiers.

- FEATURE:
[vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/):
add `datasource_type` query argument for `/api/v1/rules` and
`/api/v1/alerts` endpoints to filter response by rule's datasource
[type](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/#groups).
See
[#&#8203;8537](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/8537).

- FEATURE:
[vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/):
respect group order defined in the rule file during [replay
mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/#rules-backfilling)
to allow chained group if needed. See
[#&#8203;9334](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9334).

- FEATURE: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert/): add
`-replay.ruleEvaluationConcurrency` to allow concurrent `/query_range`
requests for a single rule. Increasing this value when replaying for a
long time and a single request range is limited by
`-replay.maxDatapointsPerQuery`. See this
[#&#8203;7387](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/7387)
for details. Thanks to the
[@&#8203;BenNF](https://redirect.github.com/BenNF).

- FEATURE:
[vmbackupmanager](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmbackupmanager/):
improve error messages when `vmbackupmanager` fails to create snapshot.
See
[#&#8203;9340](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9340)
for the details.

- FEATURE:
[vmbackupmanager](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmbackupmanager/):
support client-side TLS configuration for creating and deleting
snapshots via `-snapshot.tls*` cmd-line flags.

- FEATURE:
[vmsingle](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/)
and
[vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmagent/):
remove duplicate kubernetes targets from
[service-discovery-debug](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/relabeling/#relabel-debugging)
page. See
[8626](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/8626)
issue for details.

- FEATURE:
[vmsingle](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/)
and `vmselect` in [VictoriaMetrics
cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/cluster-victoriametrics/):
add command-line flag `-search.logSlowQueryStatsHeaders` for [query
execution
stats](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/query-stats/).
The new flag allows specifying the list of headers to log together with
slow queries if user's request contains them. This flag is available
only in VictoriaMetrics
[enterprise](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/enterprise/).
See [Query
Stats](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/query-stats/)
for details.

- FEATURE:
[vmsingle](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/)
and
[vmselect](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/cluster-victoriametrics/):
add ability to proxy `/api/v1/notifiers` to vmalert when
`-vmalert.proxyURL` is set. See
[9267](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/9267)
PR for details.

- FEATURE:
[vmsingle](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/)
and `vmstorage` in [VictoriaMetrics
cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/cluster-victoriametrics/):
add `vm_cache_eviction_bytes_total` counter metrics to reflect cache
evictions due to expiration, misses and cache size. See
[9293](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/9293)
PR for details. Thanks to the
[@&#8203;BenNF](https://redirect.github.com/BenNF)

- FEATURE:
[vmsingle](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/)
and `vmstorage` in [VictoriaMetrics
cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/cluster-victoriametrics/):
enhance `MustReadAt` panic message to include filename for easier
debugging of out-of-range reads. See
[#&#8203;9106](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9106).

- BUGFIX:
[dashboards/vmagent](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/12683) and
[dashboards/vmalert](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/14950): fix
ad-hoc filters auto-complete and filtering on panels that use MetricsQL
specific expressions. See
[#&#8203;8657](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/8657).

- BUGFIX:
[MetricsQL](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/metricsql/):
fix negative increase result when `-search.maxLookback` or
`-search.maxStalenessInterval` are set and data contains gap. See
[#&#8203;8935
(comment)](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/8935#issuecomment-2978728661).

- BUGFIX: [stream
aggregation](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/stream-aggregation/):
properly clean quantiles output state during flush. See
[#&#8203;9350](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9350).

- BUGFIX:
[vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/):
fix exposition of duplicated metrics for dynamically discovered
notifiers via Consul and DNS. See
[#&#8203;9260](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9260).

- BUGFIX:
[vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/):
remove inline styles from UI to align with
`--http.header.csp=default-src 'self'` setting. See
[#&#8203;9236](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9236).

- BUGFIX:
[vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/):
fix alerts state restoration for alerting rules that are using
[templating](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/#templating)
in the labels. See
[#&#8203;9305](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9305).

- BUGFIX: [vmbackup](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmbackup/),
[vmbackupmanager](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmbackupmanager/):
automatically retry requests failing with `Expired Token` errors. This
helps to avoid failed backups when using [EKS Pod
Identity](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/pod-id-how-it-works.html)
for authentication. See
[#&#8203;9280](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9280).

- BUGFIX:
[vmsingle](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/)
and `vmstorage` in [VictoriaMetrics
cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/cluster-victoriametrics/):
properly return results for search requests with `.+|^$` regex filter
expression. See
[9290](https://redirect.github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/9290)
issue for details.

- BUGFIX:
[vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/#vmui):
fix errors in console about loading of `manifest.json` when accessing UI
through vmauth with Basic Auth enabled.

- BUGFIX:
[vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/#vmui):
disabled opening of autocomplete popup on initial page load.

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charts/stable/victoriametrics/Chart.yaml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ annotations:
   truecharts.org/min_helm_version: "3.14"
   truecharts.org/train: stable
 apiVersion: v2
-appVersion: 1.120.0
+appVersion: 1.121.0
 dependencies:
   - name: common
     version: 28.12.6
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@ sources:
   - https://github.com/truecharts/charts/tree/master/charts/stable/victoriametrics
   - https://hub.docker.com/r/victoriametrics/victoria-metrics
 type: application
-version: 4.0.5
+version: 4.1.0
 

charts/stable/victoriametrics/values.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 image:
   repository: docker.io/victoriametrics/victoria-metrics
-  tag: v1.120.0@sha256:a1cb2f3dfd45775700846b5c15c028a6993708b4af32c78d36ad20b9a3a31797
+  tag: v1.121.0@sha256:4f65d40da793ee125f7fbf9f882114520b0168949c4b9fb2c11403168d9dc3f9
   pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
 service:
   main: