From 346445d99d274562e7f767f4642eadc90d5a4288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hui Wang Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:11:43 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] doc: add note about unsupported grafana alerting ui --- docs/victorialogs/README.md | 2 ++ docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/victorialogs/README.md b/docs/victorialogs/README.md index 00c225af5a..8a831ac4aa 100644 --- a/docs/victorialogs/README.md +++ b/docs/victorialogs/README.md @@ -604,6 +604,8 @@ is set to vmalert url. For example, the following command instructs proxying `ht This allows accessing [vmalert web UI](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/#web) via VictoriaLogs at the `/select/vmalert/*` paths. +> Currently, the Grafana Alerting UI cannot work with the VictoriaLogs datasource, since it does not proxy requests to the configured `-vmalert.proxyURL` due to a hard limitation on Grafana side, see [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/victoriametrics-datasource/issues/59#issuecomment-2694191642) for details. + ## List of command-line flags Pass `-help` to VictoriaLogs in order to see the list of supported command-line flags with their description: diff --git a/docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md b/docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md index 1b4e26559c..bfb9b89d7b 100644 --- a/docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md +++ b/docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md @@ -428,3 +428,7 @@ Please refer to [How to use multitenancy in rules](https://docs.victoriametrics. - "/select/logsql/.*" url_prefix: "http://victorialogs:9428" ``` + +### How to display rules in Grafana Alerting UI? + +Currently, the Grafana Alerting UI cannot work with the VictoriaLogs datasource, since it does not proxy requests to the configured `-vmalert.proxyURL` due to a hard limitation on Grafana side, see [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/victoriametrics-datasource/issues/59#issuecomment-2694191642) for details. \ No newline at end of file From 5db8bd819e33a7ff76efa77c1d79a0de971aa227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hui Wang Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:40:01 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] rephrase --- docs/victorialogs/README.md | 2 +- docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/victorialogs/README.md b/docs/victorialogs/README.md index 8a831ac4aa..303534c3f0 100644 --- a/docs/victorialogs/README.md +++ b/docs/victorialogs/README.md @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ is set to vmalert url. For example, the following command instructs proxying `ht This allows accessing [vmalert web UI](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/#web) via VictoriaLogs at the `/select/vmalert/*` paths. -> Currently, the Grafana Alerting UI cannot work with the VictoriaLogs datasource, since it does not proxy requests to the configured `-vmalert.proxyURL` due to a hard limitation on Grafana side, see [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/victoriametrics-datasource/issues/59#issuecomment-2694191642) for details. +> Currently, Grafana Alerting UI cannot display datasource-managed rules through the VictoriaLogs datasource plugin, even when `-vmalert.proxyURL` is configured. This is because Grafana currently supports datasource-managed rules only for the `Prometheus` and `Loki` datasource types. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/victoriametrics-datasource/issues/59#issuecomment-2694191642) for details. ## List of command-line flags diff --git a/docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md b/docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md index bfb9b89d7b..c02121ece7 100644 --- a/docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md +++ b/docs/victorialogs/vmalert.md @@ -431,4 +431,4 @@ Please refer to [How to use multitenancy in rules](https://docs.victoriametrics. ### How to display rules in Grafana Alerting UI? -Currently, the Grafana Alerting UI cannot work with the VictoriaLogs datasource, since it does not proxy requests to the configured `-vmalert.proxyURL` due to a hard limitation on Grafana side, see [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/victoriametrics-datasource/issues/59#issuecomment-2694191642) for details. \ No newline at end of file +Currently, Grafana Alerting UI cannot display datasource-managed rules through the VictoriaLogs datasource plugin, even when `-vmalert.proxyURL` is configured. This is because Grafana currently supports datasource-managed rules only for the `Prometheus` and `Loki` datasource types. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/victoriametrics-datasource/issues/59#issuecomment-2694191642) for details.