lib/promscrape/discovery/ec2: properly pass filters to DescribeAvailabilityZones API call

Previously filters wheren't passed to this call after the commit 0e09fdb8b0

Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1626

.dockerignore

@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ gocache-for-docker
 victoria-metrics-data
 vmstorage-data
 vmselect-cache
+.vscode

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ assignees: ''
 
 **Describe the bug**
 A clear and concise description of what the bug is.
-It would be a great [upgrading](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-upgrade) 
+It would be great to [upgrade](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-upgrade) 
 to [the latest available release](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases)
-and verifying whether the bug is reproducible there.
-It is also recommended reading [troubleshooting docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#troubleshooting).
+and verify whether the bug is reproducible there.
+It's also recommended to read the [troubleshooting docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#troubleshooting).
 
 **To Reproduce**
 Steps to reproduce the behavior.
@@ -33,15 +33,14 @@ of Grafana dashboards if possible:
 
 See how to setup monitoring here:
 * [monitoring for single-node VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#monitoring)
-* [montioring for VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#monitoring)
+* [monitoring for VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#monitoring)
 
 **Version**
-The line returned when passing `--version` command line flag to binary. For example:
+The line returned when passing `--version` command line flag to the binary. For example:
 ```
 $ ./victoria-metrics-prod --version
 victoria-metrics-20190730-121249-heads-single-node-0-g671d9e55
 ```
 
 **Used command-line flags**
-Please provide applied command-line flags used for running VictoriaMetrics and its components. 
-
+Please provide the command-line flags used for running VictoriaMetrics and its components. 

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -16,11 +16,13 @@ updates:
     directory: "/app/vmui/packages/vmui/web"
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 0
   - package-ecosystem: "docker"
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"
   - package-ecosystem: "npm"
-    directory: "/app/vmui"
+    directory: "/app/vmui/packages/vmui"
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 0

.github/workflows/check-licenses.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     paths:
       - 'vendor'
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   build:
     name: Build
@@ -14,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@main
         with:
-          go-version: 1.16
+          go-version: 1.17
         id: go
       - name: Code checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@master

.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# For most projects, this workflow file will not need changing; you simply need
+# to commit it to your repository.
+#
+# You may wish to alter this file to override the set of languages analyzed,
+# or to provide custom queries or build logic.
+#
+# ******** NOTE ********
+# We have attempted to detect the languages in your repository. Please check
+# the `language` matrix defined below to confirm you have the correct set of
+# supported CodeQL languages.
+#
+name: "CodeQL"
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master, cluster ]
+  pull_request:
+    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
+    branches: [ master, cluster ]
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '30 18 * * 2'
+
+jobs:
+  analyze:
+    name: Analyze
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      actions: read
+      contents: read
+      security-events: write
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        language: [ 'go', 'javascript' ]
+        # CodeQL supports [ 'cpp', 'csharp', 'go', 'java', 'javascript', 'python', 'ruby' ]
+        # Learn more about CodeQL language support at https://git.io/codeql-language-support
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
+    - name: Initialize CodeQL
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
+      with:
+        languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
+        # If you wish to specify custom queries, you can do so here or in a config file.
+        # By default, queries listed here will override any specified in a config file.
+        # Prefix the list here with "+" to use these queries and those in the config file.
+        # queries: ./path/to/local/query, your-org/your-repo/queries@main
+
+    # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages  (C/C++, C#, or Java).
+    # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below)
+    - name: Autobuild
+      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v2
+
+    # ℹ️ Command-line programs to run using the OS shell.
+    # 📚 https://git.io/JvXDl
+
+    # ✏️ If the Autobuild fails above, remove it and uncomment the following three lines
+    #    and modify them (or add more) to build your code if your project
+    #    uses a compiled language
+
+    #- run: |
+    #   make bootstrap
+    #   make release
+
+    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ on:
     paths-ignore:
       - 'docs/**'
       - '**.md'
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   build:
     name: Build
@@ -16,15 +19,15 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@main
         with:
-          go-version: 1.16
+          go-version: 1.17
         id: go
-      - name: Dependencies
-        run: |
-          go get -u golang.org/x/lint/golint
-          go get -u github.com/kisielk/errcheck
-          curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b $(go env GOPATH)/bin v1.29.0
       - name: Code checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@master
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: |
+          make install-golint
+          make install-errcheck
+          make install-golangci-lint
       - name: Build
         env:
           GO111MODULE: on
@@ -60,7 +63,7 @@ jobs:
           GOOS=darwin go build -mod=vendor ./app/vmctl
           CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=windows go build -mod=vendor ./app/vmagent
       - name: Publish coverage
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2.1.0
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
         with:
           file: ./coverage.txt
 

.github/workflows/wiki.yml

@@ -5,8 +5,13 @@ on:
       - 'docs/*'
     branches:
       - master
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   build:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write  # for Git to git push
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@master

.gitignore

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 *.pprof
 /bin
 .idea
+.vscode
 *.test
 *.swp
 /gocache-for-docker

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

@@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ members of the project's leadership.
 ## Attribution
 
 This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4,
-available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html
+available at <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html>
 
 [homepage]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org
 
 For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see
-https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq
+<https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq>

CODE_OF_CONDUCT_RU.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 
 **Последствия**: Предупреждение о последствиях в случае продолжающегося неуместного поведения.
 На определенное время не допускается взаимодействие с людьми, вовлеченными в инцидент,
-включая незапрошенное взаимодействие 
+включая незапрошенное взаимодействие
 с теми, кто обеспечивает соблюдение Кодекса. Это включает в себя избегание взаимодействия
 в публичных пространствах, а так же во внешних каналах,
 таких как социальные сети. Нарушение этих правил влечет за собой временный или вечный бан.
@@ -89,10 +89,10 @@
 **Общественное влияние**: Серьёзное нарушение стандартов сообщества,
 включая продолжительное неуместное поведение.
 
-**Последствия**: Временный запрет (бан) на любое взаимодействие 
+**Последствия**: Временный запрет (бан) на любое взаимодействие
 или публичное общение с сообществом на определенный период времени.
 На этот период не допускается публичное или личное взаимодействие с людьми,
-вовлеченными в инцидент, включая незапрошенное взаимодействие 
+вовлеченными в инцидент, включая незапрошенное взаимодействие
 с теми, кто обеспечивает соблюдение Кодекса.
 Нарушение этих правил влечет за собой вечный бан.
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 
 Данный Кодекс Поведения основан на [Кодекс Поведения участника][homepage],
 версии 2.0, доступной по адресу
-https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct.html.
+<https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct.html>.
 
 Принципы Воздействия в Сообществе были вдохновлены [Mozilla's code of conduct
 enforcement ladder](https://github.com/mozilla/diversity).
@@ -116,5 +116,5 @@ enforcement ladder](https://github.com/mozilla/diversity).
 [homepage]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org
 
 Ответы на общие вопросы о данном кодексе поведения ищите на странице FAQ:
-https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq. Переводы доступны по адресу
-https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations.
+<https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq>. Переводы доступны по адресу
+<https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations>.

LICENSE

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
 
    END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
 
-   Copyright 2019-2021 VictoriaMetrics, Inc.
+   Copyright 2019-2022 VictoriaMetrics, Inc.
 
    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

Makefile

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ all: \
 
 include app/*/Makefile
 include deployment/*/Makefile
+include snap/local/Makefile
+
 
 clean:
 	rm -rf bin/*
@@ -84,9 +86,12 @@ vmutils-windows-amd64: \
 	vmauth-windows-amd64 \
 	vmctl-windows-amd64
 
-release-snap:
-	snapcraft
-	snapcraft upload "victoriametrics_$(PKG_TAG)_multi.snap" --release beta,edge,candidate
+
+publish-release:
+	git checkout $(TAG) && $(MAKE) release publish && \
+		git checkout $(TAG)-cluster && $(MAKE) release publish && \
+		git checkout $(TAG)-enterprise && $(MAKE) release publish && \
+		git checkout $(TAG)-enterprise-cluster && $(MAKE) release publish
 
 release: \
 	release-victoria-metrics \
@@ -95,66 +100,82 @@ release: \
 release-victoria-metrics: \
 	release-victoria-metrics-amd64 \
 	release-victoria-metrics-arm \
-	release-victoria-metrics-arm64
+	release-victoria-metrics-arm64 \
+	release-victoria-metrics-darwin-amd64 \
+	release-victoria-metrics-darwin-arm64
 
 release-victoria-metrics-amd64:
-	GOARCH=amd64 $(MAKE) release-victoria-metrics-generic
+	OSARCH=amd64 $(MAKE) release-victoria-metrics-generic
 
 release-victoria-metrics-arm:
-	GOARCH=arm $(MAKE) release-victoria-metrics-generic
+	OSARCH=arm $(MAKE) release-victoria-metrics-generic
 
 release-victoria-metrics-arm64:
-	GOARCH=arm64 $(MAKE) release-victoria-metrics-generic
+	OSARCH=arm64 $(MAKE) release-victoria-metrics-generic
 
-release-victoria-metrics-generic: victoria-metrics-$(GOARCH)-prod
+release-victoria-metrics-darwin-amd64:
+	OSARCH=darwin-amd64 $(MAKE) release-victoria-metrics-generic
+
+release-victoria-metrics-darwin-arm64:
+	OSARCH=darwin-arm64 $(MAKE) release-victoria-metrics-generic
+
+release-victoria-metrics-generic: victoria-metrics-$(OSARCH)-prod
 	cd bin && \
-		tar --transform="flags=r;s|-$(GOARCH)||" -czf victoria-metrics-$(GOARCH)-$(PKG_TAG).tar.gz \
-			victoria-metrics-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-		&& sha256sum victoria-metrics-$(GOARCH)-$(PKG_TAG).tar.gz \
-			victoria-metrics-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			| sed s/-$(GOARCH)-prod/-prod/ > victoria-metrics-$(GOARCH)-$(PKG_TAG)_checksums.txt
+		tar --transform="flags=r;s|-$(OSARCH)||" -czf victoria-metrics-$(OSARCH)-$(PKG_TAG).tar.gz \
+			victoria-metrics-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+		&& sha256sum victoria-metrics-$(OSARCH)-$(PKG_TAG).tar.gz \
+			victoria-metrics-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			| sed s/-$(OSARCH)-prod/-prod/ > victoria-metrics-$(OSARCH)-$(PKG_TAG)_checksums.txt
 
 release-vmutils: \
 	release-vmutils-amd64 \
 	release-vmutils-arm64 \
 	release-vmutils-arm \
+	release-vmutils-darwin-amd64  \
+	release-vmutils-darwin-arm64 \
 	release-vmutils-windows-amd64
 
 release-vmutils-amd64:
-	GOARCH=amd64 $(MAKE) release-vmutils-generic
+	OSARCH=amd64 $(MAKE) release-vmutils-generic
 
 release-vmutils-arm64:
-	GOARCH=arm64 $(MAKE) release-vmutils-generic
+	OSARCH=arm64 $(MAKE) release-vmutils-generic
 
 release-vmutils-arm:
-	GOARCH=arm $(MAKE) release-vmutils-generic
+	OSARCH=arm $(MAKE) release-vmutils-generic
+
+release-vmutils-darwin-amd64:
+	OSARCH=darwin-amd64 $(MAKE) release-vmutils-generic
+
+release-vmutils-darwin-arm64:
+	OSARCH=darwin-arm64 $(MAKE) release-vmutils-generic
 
 release-vmutils-windows-amd64:
 	GOARCH=amd64 $(MAKE) release-vmutils-windows-generic
 
 release-vmutils-generic: \
-	vmagent-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-	vmalert-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-	vmauth-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-	vmbackup-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-	vmrestore-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-	vmctl-$(GOARCH)-prod
+	vmagent-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+	vmalert-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+	vmauth-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+	vmbackup-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+	vmrestore-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+	vmctl-$(OSARCH)-prod
 	cd bin && \
-		tar --transform="flags=r;s|-$(GOARCH)||" -czf vmutils-$(GOARCH)-$(PKG_TAG).tar.gz \
-			vmagent-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmalert-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmauth-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmbackup-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmrestore-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmctl-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-		&& sha256sum vmutils-$(GOARCH)-$(PKG_TAG).tar.gz \
-			vmagent-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmalert-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmauth-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmbackup-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmrestore-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			vmctl-$(GOARCH)-prod \
-			| sed s/-$(GOARCH)-prod/-prod/ > vmutils-$(GOARCH)-$(PKG_TAG)_checksums.txt
+		tar --transform="flags=r;s|-$(OSARCH)||" -czf vmutils-$(OSARCH)-$(PKG_TAG).tar.gz \
+			vmagent-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmalert-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmauth-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmbackup-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmrestore-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmctl-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+		&& sha256sum vmutils-$(OSARCH)-$(PKG_TAG).tar.gz \
+			vmagent-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmalert-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmauth-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmbackup-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmrestore-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			vmctl-$(OSARCH)-prod \
+			| sed s/-$(OSARCH)-prod/-prod/ > vmutils-$(OSARCH)-$(PKG_TAG)_checksums.txt
 
 release-vmutils-windows-generic: \
 	vmagent-windows-$(GOARCH)-prod \
@@ -174,6 +195,7 @@ release-vmutils-windows-generic: \
 			vmctl-windows-$(GOARCH)-prod.exe \
 			> vmutils-windows-$(GOARCH)-$(PKG_TAG)_checksums.txt
 
+
 pprof-cpu:
 	go tool pprof -trim_path=github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics@ $(PPROF_FILE)
 
@@ -261,7 +283,7 @@ golangci-lint: install-golangci-lint
 	golangci-lint run --exclude '(SA4003|SA1019|SA5011):' -D errcheck -D structcheck --timeout 2m
 
 install-golangci-lint:
-	which golangci-lint || curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b $(shell go env GOPATH)/bin v1.42.1
+	which golangci-lint || curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b $(shell go env GOPATH)/bin v1.45.1
 
 install-wwhrd:
 	which wwhrd || GO111MODULE=off go get github.com/frapposelli/wwhrd

app/victoria-metrics/Makefile

@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ victoria-metrics-ppc64le-prod:
 victoria-metrics-386-prod:
 	APP_NAME=victoria-metrics $(MAKE) app-via-docker-386
 
+victoria-metrics-darwin-amd64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=victoria-metrics $(MAKE) app-via-docker-darwin-amd64
+
+victoria-metrics-darwin-arm64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=victoria-metrics $(MAKE) app-via-docker-darwin-arm64
+
 package-victoria-metrics:
 	APP_NAME=victoria-metrics $(MAKE) package-via-docker
 

app/victoria-metrics/main.go

@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ import (
 
 var (
 	httpListenAddr    = flag.String("httpListenAddr", ":8428", "TCP address to listen for http connections")
-	minScrapeInterval = flag.Duration("dedup.minScrapeInterval", 0, "Leave only the first sample in every time series per each discrete interval "+
-		"equal to -dedup.minScrapeInterval > 0. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication for details")
+	minScrapeInterval = flag.Duration("dedup.minScrapeInterval", 0, "Leave only the last sample in every time series per each discrete interval "+
+		"equal to -dedup.minScrapeInterval > 0. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication and https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#downsampling")
 	dryRun = flag.Bool("dryRun", false, "Whether to check only -promscrape.config and then exit. "+
-		"Unknown config entries are allowed in -promscrape.config by default. This can be changed with -promscrape.config.strictParse")
+		"Unknown config entries aren't allowed in -promscrape.config by default. This can be changed with -promscrape.config.strictParse=false command-line flag")
 )
 
 func main() {
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func main() {
 
 	logger.Infof("starting VictoriaMetrics at %q...", *httpListenAddr)
 	startTime := time.Now()
-	storage.SetMinScrapeIntervalForDeduplication(*minScrapeInterval)
+	storage.SetDedupInterval(*minScrapeInterval)
 	vmstorage.Init(promql.ResetRollupResultCacheIfNeeded)
 	vmselect.Init()
 	vminsert.Init()
@@ -86,19 +86,20 @@ func requestHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 		if r.Method != "GET" {
 			return false
 		}
+		w.Header().Add("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, "<h2>Single-node VictoriaMetrics</h2></br>")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, "See docs at <a href='https://docs.victoriametrics.com/'>https://docs.victoriametrics.com/</a></br>")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Useful endpoints:</br>")
 		httpserver.WriteAPIHelp(w, [][2]string{
-			{"/vmui", "Web UI"},
-			{"/targets", "discovered targets list"},
-			{"/api/v1/targets", "advanced information about discovered targets in JSON format"},
-			{"/config", "-promscrape.config contents"},
-			{"/metrics", "available service metrics"},
-			{"/flags", "command-line flags"},
-			{"/api/v1/status/tsdb", "tsdb status page"},
-			{"/api/v1/status/top_queries", "top queries"},
-			{"/api/v1/status/active_queries", "active queries"},
+			{"vmui", "Web UI"},
+			{"targets", "discovered targets list"},
+			{"api/v1/targets", "advanced information about discovered targets in JSON format"},
+			{"config", "-promscrape.config contents"},
+			{"metrics", "available service metrics"},
+			{"flags", "command-line flags"},
+			{"api/v1/status/tsdb", "tsdb status page"},
+			{"api/v1/status/top_queries", "top queries"},
+			{"api/v1/status/active_queries", "active queries"},
 		})
 		return true
 	}

app/vmagent/Makefile

@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ vmagent-ppc64le-prod:
 vmagent-386-prod:
 	APP_NAME=vmagent $(MAKE) app-via-docker-386
 
+vmagent-darwin-amd64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=vmagent $(MAKE) app-via-docker-darwin-amd64
+
+vmagent-darwin-arm64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=vmagent $(MAKE) app-via-docker-darwin-arm64
+
+vmagent-windows-amd64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=vmagent $(MAKE) app-via-docker-windows-amd64
+
 package-vmagent:
 	APP_NAME=vmagent $(MAKE) package-via-docker
 
@@ -81,6 +90,3 @@ vmagent-pure:
 
 vmagent-windows-amd64:
 	GOARCH=amd64 APP_NAME=vmagent $(MAKE) app-local-windows-with-goarch
-
-vmagent-windows-amd64-prod:
-	APP_NAME=vmagent $(MAKE) app-via-docker-windows-amd64

app/vmagent/README.md

@@ -6,14 +6,12 @@ or any other Prometheus-compatible storage systems that support the `remote_writ
 
 <img alt="vmagent" src="vmagent.png">
 
-
 ## Motivation
 
 While VictoriaMetrics provides an efficient solution to store and observe metrics, our users needed something fast
 and RAM friendly to scrape metrics from Prometheus-compatible exporters into VictoriaMetrics.
 Also, we found that our user's infrastructure are like snowflakes in that no two are alike. Therefore we decided to add more flexibility
-to `vmagent` such as the ability to push metrics instead of pulling them. We did our best and will continue to improve vmagent.
-
+to `vmagent` such as the ability to push metrics additionally to pulling them. We did our best and will continue to improve `vmagent`.
 
 ## Features
 
@@ -46,7 +44,7 @@ to `vmagent` such as the ability to push metrics instead of pulling them. We did
 Please download `vmutils-*` archive from [releases page](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases), unpack it
 and configure the following flags to the `vmagent` binary in order to start scraping Prometheus targets:
 
-* `-promscrape.config` with the path to Prometheus config file (usually located at `/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml`)
+* `-promscrape.config` with the path to Prometheus config file (usually located at `/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml`). The path can point either to local file or to http url. `vmagent` doesn't support some sections of Prometheus config file, so you may need either to delete these sections or to run `vmagent` with `-promscrape.config.strictParse=false` additional command-line flag, so `vmagent` will ignore unsupported sections. See [the list of unsupported sections](#unsupported-prometheus-config-sections).
 * `-remoteWrite.url` with the remote storage endpoint such as VictoriaMetrics, the `-remoteWrite.url` argument can be specified multiple times to replicate data concurrently to an arbitrary number of remote storage systems.
 
 Example command line:
@@ -67,7 +65,6 @@ Then send InfluxDB data to `http://vmagent-host:8429`. See [these docs](https://
 
 Pass `-help` to `vmagent` in order to see [the full list of supported command-line flags with their descriptions](#advanced-usage).
 
-
 ## Configuration update
 
 `vmagent` should be restarted in order to update config options set via command-line args.
@@ -75,6 +72,7 @@ Pass `-help` to `vmagent` in order to see [the full list of supported command-li
 `vmagent` supports multiple approaches for reloading configs from updated config files such as `-promscrape.config`, `-remoteWrite.relabelConfig` and `-remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig`:
 
 * Sending `SUGHUP` signal to `vmagent` process:
+
   ```bash
   kill -SIGHUP `pidof vmagent`
   ```
@@ -83,10 +81,8 @@ Pass `-help` to `vmagent` in order to see [the full list of supported command-li
 
 There is also `-promscrape.configCheckInterval` command-line option, which can be used for automatic reloading configs from updated `-promscrape.config` file.
 
-
 ## Use cases
 
-
 ### IoT and Edge monitoring
 
 `vmagent` can run and collect metrics in IoT and industrial networks with unreliable or scheduled connections to their remote storage.
@@ -97,28 +93,24 @@ The maximum buffer size can be limited with `-remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL`.
 `vmagent` works on various architectures from the IoT world - 32-bit arm, 64-bit arm, ppc64, 386, amd64.
 See [the corresponding Makefile rules](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/app/vmagent/Makefile) for details.
 
-
 ### Drop-in replacement for Prometheus
 
 If you use Prometheus only for scraping metrics from various targets and forwarding those metrics to remote storage
 then `vmagent` can replace Prometheus. Typically, `vmagent` requires lower amounts of RAM, CPU and network bandwidth compared with Prometheus.
 See [these docs](#how-to-collect-metrics-in-prometheus-format) for details.
 
-
 ### Replication and high availability
 
 `vmagent` replicates the collected metrics among multiple remote storage instances configured via `-remoteWrite.url` args.
 If a single remote storage instance temporarily is out of service, then the collected data remains available in another remote storage instance.
 `vmagent` buffers the collected data in files at `-remoteWrite.tmpDataPath` until the remote storage becomes available again and then it sends the buffered data to the remote storage in order to prevent data gaps.
 
-
 ### Relabeling and filtering
 
 `vmagent` can add, remove or update labels on the collected data before sending it to the remote storage. Additionally,
 it can remove unwanted samples via Prometheus-like relabeling before sending the collected data to remote storage.
 Please see [these docs](#relabeling) for details.
 
-
 ### Splitting data streams among multiple systems
 
 `vmagent` supports splitting the collected data between muliple destinations with the help of `-remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig`,
@@ -126,7 +118,6 @@ which is applied independently for each configured `-remoteWrite.url` destinatio
 data among long-term remote storage, short-term remote storage and a real-time analytical system [built on top of Kafka](https://github.com/Telefonica/prometheus-kafka-adapter).
 Note that each destination can receive it's own subset of the collected data due to per-destination relabeling via `-remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig`.
 
-
 ### Prometheus remote_write proxy
 
 `vmagent` can be used as a proxy for Prometheus data sent via Prometheus `remote_write` protocol. It can accept data via the `remote_write` API
@@ -134,7 +125,6 @@ at the`/api/v1/write` endpoint. Then apply relabeling and filtering and proxy it
 The `vmagent` can be configured to encrypt the incoming `remote_write` requests with `-tls*` command-line flags.
 Also, Basic Auth can be enabled for the incoming `remote_write` requests with `-httpAuth.*` command-line flags.
 
-
 ### remote_write for clustered version
 
 While `vmagent` can accept data in several supported protocols (OpenTSDB, Influx, Prometheus, Graphite) and scrape data from various targets, writes are always peformed in Promethes remote_write protocol. Therefore for the [clustered version](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html), `-remoteWrite.url` the command-line flag should be configured as `<schema>://<vminsert-host>:8480/insert/<accountID>/prometheus/api/v1/write` according to [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#url-format). There is also support for multitenant writes. See [these docs](#multitenancy).
@@ -143,7 +133,6 @@ While `vmagent` can accept data in several supported protocols (OpenTSDB, Influx
 
 By default `vmagent` collects the data without tenant identifiers and routes it to the configured `-remoteWrite.url`. But it can accept multitenant data if `-remoteWrite.multitenantURL` is set. In this case it accepts multitenant data at `http://vmagent:8429/insert/<accountID>/...` in the same way as cluster version of VictoriaMetrics does according to [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#url-format) and routes it to `<-remoteWrite.multitenantURL>/insert/<accountID>/prometheus/api/v1/write`. If multiple `-remoteWrite.multitenantURL` command-line options are set, then `vmagent` replicates the collected data across all the configured urls. This allows using a single `vmagent` instance in front of VictoriaMetrics clusters for processing the data from all the tenants.
 
-
 ## How to collect metrics in Prometheus format
 
 Specify the path to `prometheus.yml` file via `-promscrape.config` command-line flag. `vmagent` takes into account the following
@@ -211,18 +200,18 @@ entries to 60s. Run `vmagent -help` in order to see default values for the `-pro
 
 The file pointed by `-promscrape.config` may contain `%{ENV_VAR}` placeholders which are substituted by the corresponding `ENV_VAR` environment variable values.
 
-
 ## Loading scrape configs from multiple files
 
-`vmagent` supports loading scrape configs from multiple files specified in the `scrape_config_files` section of `-promscrape.config` file. For example, the following `-promscrape.config` instructs `vmagent` loading scrape configs from all the `*.yml` files under `configs` directory plus a `single_scrape_config.yml` file:
+`vmagent` supports loading scrape configs from multiple files specified in the `scrape_config_files` section of `-promscrape.config` file. For example, the following `-promscrape.config` instructs `vmagent` loading scrape configs from all the `*.yml` files under `configs` directory, from `single_scrape_config.yml` local file and from `https://config-server/scrape_config.yml` url:
 
 ```yml
 scrape_config_files:
 - configs/*.yml
 - single_scrape_config.yml
+- https://config-server/scrape_config.yml
 ```
 
-Every referred file can contain arbitrary number of any [supported scrape configs](#how-to-collect-metrics-in-prometheus-format). There is no need in specifying top-level `scrape_configs` section in these files. For example:
+Every referred file can contain arbitrary number of [supported scrape configs](#how-to-collect-metrics-in-prometheus-format). There is no need in specifying top-level `scrape_configs` section in these files. For example:
 
 ```yml
 - job_name: foo
@@ -235,6 +224,17 @@ Every referred file can contain arbitrary number of any [supported scrape config
 
 `vmagent` dynamically reloads these files on `SIGHUP` signal or on the request to `http://vmagent:8429/-/reload`.
 
+## Unsupported Prometheus config sections
+
+`vmagent` doesn't support the following sections in Prometheus config file passed to `-promscrape.config` command-line flag:
+
+* [remote_write](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#remote_write). This section is substituted with various `-remoteWrite*` command-line flags. See [the full list of flags](#advanced-usage). The `remote_write` section isn't supported in order to reduce possible confusion when `vmagent` is used for accepting incoming metrics via push protocols such as InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSDB, DataDog, etc. In this case the `-promscrape.config` file isn't needed. See [these docs](#features) for details.
+* `remote_read`. This section isn't supported at all.
+* `rule_files` and `alerting`. These sections are supported by [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html).
+
+The list of supported service discovery types is available [here](#how-to-collect-metrics-in-prometheus-format).
+
+Additionally `vmagent` doesn't support `refresh_interval` option at service discovery sections. This option is substituted with `-promscrape.*CheckInterval` command-line options, which are specific per each service discovery type. See [the full list of command-line flags for vmagent](#advanced-usage).
 
 ## Adding labels to metrics
 
@@ -247,10 +247,9 @@ Labels can be added to metrics by the following mechanisms:
 /path/to/vmagent -remoteWrite.label=datacenter=foobar ...
 ```
 
-
 ## Relabeling
 
-`vmagent` and VictoriaMetrics support Prometheus-compatible relabeling.
+VictoriaMetrics components (including `vmagent`) support Prometheus-compatible relabeling.
 They provide the following additional actions on top of actions from the [Prometheus relabeling](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#relabel_config):
 
 * `replace_all`: replaces all of the occurences of `regex` in the values of `source_labels` with the `replacement` and stores the results in the `target_label`.
@@ -275,11 +274,26 @@ The `regex` value can be split into multiple lines for improved readability and
   - "foo_.+"
 ```
 
+VictoriaMetrics components support an optional `if` filter, which can be used for conditional relabeling. The `if` filter may contain arbitrary [time series selector](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/#time-series-selectors). For example, the following relabeling rule drops targets, which don't match `foo{bar="baz"}` series selector:
+
+```yaml
+- action: keep
+  if: 'foo{bar="baz"}'
+```
+
+This is equivalent to less clear traditional relabeling rule:
+
+```yaml
+- action: keep
+  source_labels: [__name__, bar]
+  regex: 'foo;baz'
+```
+
 The relabeling can be defined in the following places:
 
 * At the `scrape_config -> relabel_configs` section in `-promscrape.config` file. This relabeling is applied to target labels. This relabeling can be debugged by passing `relabel_debug: true` option to the corresponding `scrape_config` section. In this case `vmagent` logs target labels before and after the relabeling and then drops the logged target.
 * At the `scrape_config -> metric_relabel_configs` section in `-promscrape.config` file. This relabeling is applied to all the scraped metrics in the given `scrape_config`. This relabeling can be debugged by passing `metric_relabel_debug: true` option to the corresponding `scrape_config` section. In this case `vmagent` logs metrics before and after the relabeling and then drops the logged metrics.
-* At the `-remoteWrite.relabelConfig` file. This relabeling is aplied to all the collected metrics before sending them to remote storage. This relabeling can be debugged by passing `-remoteWrite.relabelDebug` command-line option to `vmagent`. In this case `vmagent` logs metrics before and after the relabeling and then drops all the logged metrics instead of sending them to remote storage.
+* At the `-remoteWrite.relabelConfig` file. This relabeling is applied to all the collected metrics before sending them to remote storage. This relabeling can be debugged by passing `-remoteWrite.relabelDebug` command-line option to `vmagent`. In this case `vmagent` logs metrics before and after the relabeling and then drops all the logged metrics instead of sending them to remote storage.
 * At the `-remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig` files. This relabeling is applied to metrics before sending them to the corresponding `-remoteWrite.url`. This relabeling can be debugged by passing `-remoteWrite.urlRelabelDebug` command-line options to `vmagent`. In this case `vmagent` logs metrics before and after the relabeling and then drops all the logged metrics instead of sending them to the corresponding `-remoteWrite.url`.
 
 You can read more about relabeling in the following articles:
@@ -291,7 +305,6 @@ You can read more about relabeling in the following articles:
 * [Extracting labels from legacy metric names](https://www.robustperception.io/extracting-labels-from-legacy-metric-names)
 * [relabel_configs vs metric_relabel_configs](https://www.robustperception.io/relabel_configs-vs-metric_relabel_configs)
 
-
 ## Prometheus staleness markers
 
 `vmagent` sends [Prometheus staleness markers](https://www.robustperception.io/staleness-and-promql) to `-remoteWrite.url` in the following cases:
@@ -300,20 +313,18 @@ You can read more about relabeling in the following articles:
 * If the metric disappears from the list of scraped metrics, then stale marker is sent to this particular metric.
 * If the scrape target becomes temporarily unavailable, then stale markers are sent for all the metrics scraped from this target.
 * If the scrape target is removed from the list of targets, then stale markers are sent for all the metrics scraped from this target.
-* Stale markers are sent for all the scraped metrics on graceful shutdown of `vmagent`.
 
 Prometheus staleness markers' tracking needs additional memory, since it must store the previous response body per each scrape target in order to compare it to the current response body. The memory usage may be reduced by passing `-promscrape.noStaleMarkers` command-line flag to `vmagent`. This disables staleness tracking. This also disables tracking the number of new time series per each scrape with the auto-generated `scrape_series_added` metric. See [these docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/jobs_instances/#automatically-generated-labels-and-time-series) for details.
 
-
 ## Stream parsing mode
 
 By default `vmagent` reads the full response body from scrape target into memory, then parses it, applies [relabeling](#relabeling) and then pushes the resulting metrics to the configured `-remoteWrite.url`. This mode works good for the majority of cases when the scrape target exposes small number of metrics (e.g. less than 10 thousand). But this mode may take big amounts of memory when the scrape target exposes big number of metrics. In this case it is recommended enabling stream parsing mode. When this mode is enabled, then `vmagent` reads response from scrape target in chunks, then immediately processes every chunk and pushes the processed metrics to remote storage. This allows saving memory when scraping targets that expose millions of metrics.
 
 Stream parsing mode is automatically enabled for scrape targets returning response bodies with sizes bigger than the `-promscrape.minResponseSizeForStreamParse` command-line flag value. Additionally, the stream parsing mode can be explicitly enabled in the following places:
 
-- Via `-promscrape.streamParse` command-line flag. In this case all the scrape targets defined in the file pointed by `-promscrape.config` are scraped in stream parsing mode.
-- Via `stream_parse: true` option at `scrape_configs` section. In this case all the scrape targets defined in this section are scraped in stream parsing mode.
-- Via `__stream_parse__=true` label, which can be set via [relabeling](#relabeling) at `relabel_configs` section. In this case stream parsing mode is enabled for the corresponding scrape targets. Typical use case: to set the label via [Kubernetes annotations](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations/) for targets exposing big number of metrics.
+* Via `-promscrape.streamParse` command-line flag. In this case all the scrape targets defined in the file pointed by `-promscrape.config` are scraped in stream parsing mode.
+* Via `stream_parse: true` option at `scrape_configs` section. In this case all the scrape targets defined in this section are scraped in stream parsing mode.
+* Via `__stream_parse__=true` label, which can be set via [relabeling](#relabeling) at `relabel_configs` section. In this case stream parsing mode is enabled for the corresponding scrape targets. Typical use case: to set the label via [Kubernetes annotations](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations/) for targets exposing big number of metrics.
 
 Examples:
 
@@ -333,7 +344,6 @@ scrape_configs:
 
 Note that `sample_limit` and `series_limit` options cannot be used in stream parsing mode because the parsed data is pushed to remote storage as soon as it is parsed.
 
-
 ## Scraping big number of targets
 
 A single `vmagent` instance can scrape tens of thousands of scrape targets. Sometimes this isn't enough due to limitations on CPU, network, RAM, etc.
@@ -348,6 +358,8 @@ spread scrape targets among a cluster of two `vmagent` instances:
 /path/to/vmagent -promscrape.cluster.membersCount=2 -promscrape.cluster.memberNum=1 -promscrape.config=/path/to/config.yml ...
 ```
 
+The `-promscrape.cluster.memberNum` can be set to a StatefulSet pod name when `vmagent` runs in Kubernetes. The pod name must end with a number in the range `0 ... promscrape.cluster.memberNum-1`. For example, `-promscrape.cluster.memberNum=vmagent-0`.
+
 By default each scrape target is scraped only by a single `vmagent` instance in the cluster. If there is a need for replicating scrape targets among multiple `vmagent` instances,
 then `-promscrape.cluster.replicationFactor` command-line flag must be set to the desired number of replicas. For example, the following commands
 start a cluster of three `vmagent` instances, where each target is scraped by two `vmagent` instances:
@@ -361,7 +373,6 @@ start a cluster of three `vmagent` instances, where each target is scraped by tw
 If each target is scraped by multiple `vmagent` instances, then data deduplication must be enabled at remote storage pointed by `-remoteWrite.url`.
 See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication) for details.
 
-
 ## Scraping targets via a proxy
 
 `vmagent` supports scraping targets via http, https and socks5 proxies. Proxy address must be specified in `proxy_url` option. For example, the following scrape config instructs
@@ -401,9 +412,9 @@ scrape_configs:
 
 By default `vmagent` doesn't limit the number of time series each scrape target can expose. The limit can be enforced in the following places:
 
-- Via `-promscrape.seriesLimitPerTarget` command-line option. This limit is applied individually to all the scrape targets defined in the file pointed by `-promscrape.config`.
-- Via `series_limit` config option at `scrape_config` section. This limit is applied individually to all the scrape targets defined in the given `scrape_config`.
-- Via `__series_limit__` label, which can be set with [relabeling](#relabeling) at `relabel_configs` section. This limit is applied to the corresponding scrape targets. Typical use case: to set the limit via [Kubernetes annotations](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations/) for targets, which may expose too high number of time series.
+* Via `-promscrape.seriesLimitPerTarget` command-line option. This limit is applied individually to all the scrape targets defined in the file pointed by `-promscrape.config`.
+* Via `series_limit` config option at `scrape_config` section. This limit is applied individually to all the scrape targets defined in the given `scrape_config`.
+* Via `__series_limit__` label, which can be set with [relabeling](#relabeling) at `relabel_configs` section. This limit is applied to the corresponding scrape targets. Typical use case: to set the limit via [Kubernetes annotations](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations/) for targets, which may expose too high number of time series.
 
 All the scraped metrics are dropped for time series exceeding the given limit. The exceeded limit can be [monitored](#monitoring) via `promscrape_series_limit_rows_dropped_total` metric.
 
@@ -423,12 +434,11 @@ The exceeded limits can be [monitored](#monitoring) with the following metrics:
 
 These limits are approximate, so `vmagent` can underflow/overflow the limit by a small percentage (usually less than 1%).
 
-
 ## Monitoring
 
 `vmagent` exports various metrics in Prometheus exposition format at `http://vmagent-host:8429/metrics` page. We recommend setting up regular scraping of this page
 either through `vmagent` itself or by Prometheus so that the exported metrics may be analyzed later.
-Use official [Grafana dashboard](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/12683) for `vmagent` state overview.
+Use official [Grafana dashboard](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/12683) for `vmagent` state overview. Graphs on this dashboard contain useful hints - hover the `i` icon at the top left corner of each graph in order to read it.
 If you have suggestions for improvements or have found a bug - please open an issue on github or add a review to the dashboard.
 
 `vmagent` also exports the status for various targets at the following handlers:
@@ -442,7 +452,6 @@ This information may be useful for debugging target relabeling.
 * `http://vmagent-host:8429/ready`. This handler returns http 200 status code when `vmagent` finishes it's initialization for all service_discovery configs.
 It may be useful to perform `vmagent` rolling update without any scrape loss.
 
-
 ## Troubleshooting
 
 * We recommend you [set up the official Grafana dashboard](#monitoring) in order to monitor the state of `vmagent'.
@@ -452,10 +461,11 @@ It may be useful to perform `vmagent` rolling update without any scrape loss.
 
 * If `vmagent` uses too big amounts of memory, then the following options can help:
   * Disabling staleness tracking with `-promscrape.noStaleMarkers` option. See [these docs](#prometheus-staleness-markers).
-  * Enabling stream parsing mode. See [these docs](#stream-parsing-mode).
+  * Enabling stream parsing mode if `vmagent` scrapes targets with millions of metrics per target. See [these docs](#stream-parsing-mode).
   * Reducing the number of output queues with `-remoteWrite.queues` command-line option.
-  * Reducing the amounts of RAM vmagent can use for in-memory buffering with `-memory.allowedPercent` or `-memory.allowedBytes` command-line option. Another option is to reduce memory limits in Docker and/or Kuberntes if `vmagent` runs under these systems.
+  * Reducing the amounts of RAM vmagent can use for in-memory buffering with `-memory.allowedPercent` or `-memory.allowedBytes` command-line option. Another option is to reduce memory limits in Docker and/or Kubernetes if `vmagent` runs under these systems.
   * Reducing the number of CPU cores vmagent can use by passing `GOMAXPROCS=N` environment variable to `vmagent`, where `N` is the desired limit on CPU cores. Another option is to reduce CPU limits in Docker or Kubernetes if `vmagent` runs under these systems.
+  * Passing `-promscrape.dropOriginalLabels` command-line option to `vmagent`, so it drops `"discoveredLabels"` and `"droppedTargets"` lists at `/api/v1/targets` page. This reduces memory usage when scraping big number of targets at the cost of reduced debuggability for improperly configured per-target relabeling.
 
 * When `vmagent` scrapes many unreliable targets, it can flood the error log with scrape errors. These errors can be suppressed
   by passing `-promscrape.suppressScrapeErrors` command-line flag to `vmagent`. The most recent scrape error per each target can be observed at `http://vmagent-host:8429/targets`
@@ -464,17 +474,9 @@ It may be useful to perform `vmagent` rolling update without any scrape loss.
 * The `/api/v1/targets` page could be useful for debugging relabeling process for scrape targets.
   This page contains original labels for targets dropped during relabeling (see "droppedTargets" section in the page output). By default the `-promscrape.maxDroppedTargets` targets are shown here. If your setup drops more targets during relabeling, then increase `-promscrape.maxDroppedTargets` command-line flag value to see all the dropped targets. Note that tracking each dropped target requires up to 10Kb of RAM. Therefore big values for `-promscrape.maxDroppedTargets` may result in increased memory usage if a big number of scrape targets are dropped during relabeling.
 
-* If `vmagent` scrapes a big number of targets then the `-promscrape.dropOriginalLabels` command-line option may be passed to `vmagent` in order to reduce memory usage.
-  This option drops `"discoveredLabels"` and `"droppedTargets"` lists at `/api/v1/targets` page, which may result in reduced debuggability for improperly configured per-target relabeling.
+* We recommend you increase `-remoteWrite.queues` if `vmagent_remotewrite_pending_data_bytes` metric exported at `http://vmagent-host:8429/metrics` page grows constantly. It is also recommended increasing `-remoteWrite.maxBlockSize` and `-remoteWrite.maxRowsPerBlock` command-line options in this case. This can improve data ingestion performance to the configured remote storage systems at the cost of higher memory usage.
 
-* If `vmagent` scrapes targets with millions of metrics per target (for example, when scraping [federation endpoints](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/federation/)),
-  we recommend enabling [stream parsing mode](#stream-parsing-mode) in order to reduce memory usage during scraping.
-
-* We recommend you increase `-remoteWrite.queues` if `vmagent_remotewrite_pending_data_bytes` metric exported at `http://vmagent-host:8429/metrics` page grows constantly.
-
-* If you see gaps in the data pushed by `vmagent` to remote storage when `-remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL` is set, try increasing `-remoteWrite.queues`.
-  Such gaps may appear because `vmagent` cannot keep up with sending the collected data to remote storage. Therefore it starts dropping the buffered data
-  if the on-disk buffer size exceeds `-remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL`.
+* If you see gaps in the data pushed by `vmagent` to remote storage when `-remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL` is set, try increasing `-remoteWrite.queues`. Such gaps may appear because `vmagent` cannot keep up with sending the collected data to remote storage. Therefore it starts dropping the buffered data if the on-disk buffer size exceeds `-remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL`.
 
 * `vmagent` drops data blocks if remote storage replies with `400 Bad Request` and `409 Conflict` HTTP responses. The number of dropped blocks can be monitored via `vmagent_remotewrite_packets_dropped_total` metric exported at [/metrics page](#monitoring).
 
@@ -513,12 +515,14 @@ It may be useful to perform `vmagent` rolling update without any scrape loss.
   See the available options below if you prefer fixing the root cause of the error:
 
   The following relabeling rule may be added to `relabel_configs` section in order to filter out pods with unneeded ports:
+
   ```yml
   - action: keep_if_equal
     source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_port, __meta_kubernetes_pod_container_port_number]
   ```
 
   The following relabeling rule may be added to `relabel_configs` section in order to filter out init container pods:
+
   ```yml
   - action: drop
     source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_container_init]
@@ -527,17 +531,16 @@ It may be useful to perform `vmagent` rolling update without any scrape loss.
 
 ## Kafka integration
 
-[Enterprise version](https://victoriametrics.com/enterprise.html) of `vmagent` can read and write metrics from / to Kafka:
+[Enterprise version](https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/) of `vmagent` can read and write metrics from / to Kafka:
 
 * [Reading metrics from Kafka](#reading-metrics-from-kafka)
 * [Writing metrics to Kafka](#writing-metrics-to-kafka)
 
 The enterprise version of vmagent is available for evaluation at [releases](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases) page in `vmutils-*-enteprise.tar.gz` archives and in [docker images](https://hub.docker.com/r/victoriametrics/vmagent/tags) with tags containing `enterprise` suffix.
 
-
 ### Reading metrics from Kafka
 
-[Enterprise version](https://victoriametrics.com/enterprise.html) of `vmagent` can read metrics in various formats from Kafka messages. These formats can be configured with `-kafka.consumer.topic.defaultFormat` or `-kafka.consumer.topic.format` command-line options. The following formats are supported:
+[Enterprise version](https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/) of `vmagent` can read metrics in various formats from Kafka messages. These formats can be configured with `-kafka.consumer.topic.defaultFormat` or `-kafka.consumer.topic.format` command-line options. The following formats are supported:
 
 * `promremotewrite` - [Prometheus remote_write](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#remote_write). Messages in this format can be sent by vmagent - see [these docs](#writing-metrics-to-kafka).
 * `influx` - [InfluxDB line protocol format](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.7/write_protocols/line_protocol_tutorial/).
@@ -570,10 +573,9 @@ topic = "influx"
 data_format = "influx"
 ```
 
-
 #### Command-line flags for Kafka consumer
 
-These command-line flags are available only in [enterprise](https://victoriametrics.com/enterprise.html) version of `vmagent`, which can be downloaded for evaluation from [releases](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases) page (see `vmutils-*-enteprise.tar.gz` archives) and from [docker images](https://hub.docker.com/r/victoriametrics/vmagent/tags) with tags containing `enterprise` suffix.
+These command-line flags are available only in [enterprise](https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/) version of `vmagent`, which can be downloaded for evaluation from [releases](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases) page (see `vmutils-*-enteprise.tar.gz` archives) and from [docker images](https://hub.docker.com/r/victoriametrics/vmagent/tags) with tags containing `enterprise` suffix.
 
 ```
   -kafka.consumer.topic array
@@ -606,11 +608,10 @@ These command-line flags are available only in [enterprise](https://victoriametr
 
 ### Writing metrics to Kafka
 
-[Enterprise version](https://victoriametrics.com/enterprise.html) of `vmagent` writes data to Kafka with `at-least-once` semantics if `-remoteWrite.url` contains e.g. Kafka url. For example, if `vmagent` is started with `-remoteWrite.url=kafka://localhost:9092/?topic=prom-rw`, then it would send Prometheus remote_write messages to Kafka bootstrap server at `localhost:9092` with the topic `prom-rw`. These messages can be read later from Kafka by another `vmagent` - see [these docs](#reading-metrics-from-kafka) for details.
+[Enterprise version](https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/) of `vmagent` writes data to Kafka with `at-least-once` semantics if `-remoteWrite.url` contains e.g. Kafka url. For example, if `vmagent` is started with `-remoteWrite.url=kafka://localhost:9092/?topic=prom-rw`, then it would send Prometheus remote_write messages to Kafka bootstrap server at `localhost:9092` with the topic `prom-rw`. These messages can be read later from Kafka by another `vmagent` - see [these docs](#reading-metrics-from-kafka) for details.
 
 Additional Kafka options can be passed as query params to `-remoteWrite.url`. For instance, `kafka://localhost:9092/?topic=prom-rw&client.id=my-favorite-id` sets `client.id` Kafka option to `my-favorite-id`. The full list of Kafka options is available [here](https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md).
 
-
 #### Kafka broker authorization and authentication
 
 Two types of auth are supported:
@@ -627,15 +628,13 @@ Two types of auth are supported:
 ./bin/vmagent -remoteWrite.url=kafka://localhost:9092/?topic=prom-rw&security.protocol=SSL -remoteWrite.tlsCAFile=/opt/ca.pem -remoteWrite.tlsCertFile=/opt/cert.pem -remoteWrite.tlsKeyFile=/opt/key.pem
 ```
 
-
 ## How to build from sources
 
 We recommend using [binary releases](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases) - `vmagent` is located in the `vmutils-*` archives .
 
-
 ### Development build
 
-1. [Install Go](https://golang.org/doc/install). The minimum supported version is Go 1.16.
+1. [Install Go](https://golang.org/doc/install). The minimum supported version is Go 1.17.
 2. Run `make vmagent` from the root folder of [the repository](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics).
    It builds the `vmagent` binary and puts it into the `bin` folder.
 
@@ -664,7 +663,7 @@ ARM build may run on Raspberry Pi or on [energy-efficient ARM servers](https://b
 
 ### Development ARM build
 
-1. [Install Go](https://golang.org/doc/install). The minimum supported version is Go 1.16.
+1. [Install Go](https://golang.org/doc/install). The minimum supported version is Go 1.17.
 2. Run `make vmagent-arm` or `make vmagent-arm64` from the root folder of [the repository](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics)
    It builds `vmagent-arm` or `vmagent-arm64` binary respectively and puts it into the `bin` folder.
 
@@ -674,28 +673,34 @@ ARM build may run on Raspberry Pi or on [energy-efficient ARM servers](https://b
 2. Run `make vmagent-arm-prod` or `make vmagent-arm64-prod` from the root folder of [the repository](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics).
    It builds `vmagent-arm-prod` or `vmagent-arm64-prod` binary respectively and puts it into the `bin` folder.
 
-
 ## Profiling
 
 `vmagent` provides handlers for collecting the following [Go profiles](https://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs):
 
-* Memory profile can be collected with the following command:
+* Memory profile can be collected with the following command (replace `0.0.0.0` with hostname if needed):
+
+<div class="with-copy" markdown="1">
 
 ```bash
-curl -s http://<vmagent-host>:8429/debug/pprof/heap > mem.pprof
+curl http://0.0.0.0:8429/debug/pprof/heap > mem.pprof
 ```
 
-* CPU profile can be collected with the following command:
+</div>
+
+* CPU profile can be collected with the following command (replace `0.0.0.0` with hostname if needed):
+
+<div class="with-copy" markdown="1">
 
 ```bash
-curl -s http://<vmagent-host>:8429/debug/pprof/profile > cpu.pprof
+curl http://0.0.0.0:8429/debug/pprof/profile > cpu.pprof
 ```
 
+</div>
+
 The command for collecting CPU profile waits for 30 seconds before returning.
 
 The collected profiles may be analyzed with [go tool pprof](https://github.com/google/pprof).
 
-
 ## Advanced usage
 
 `vmagent` can be fine-tuned with various command-line flags. Run `./vmagent -help` in order to see the full list of these flags with their desciptions and default values:
@@ -707,278 +712,333 @@ vmagent collects metrics data via popular data ingestion protocols and routes th
 
 See the docs at https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html .
 
+  -configAuthKey string
+     Authorization key for accessing /config page. It must be passed via authKey query arg
   -csvTrimTimestamp duration
-    	Trim timestamps when importing csv data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1ms. Higher duration (i.e. 1s) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1ms)
+     Trim timestamps when importing csv data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1ms. Higher duration (i.e. 1s) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1ms)
   -datadog.maxInsertRequestSize size
-    	The maximum size in bytes of a single DataDog POST request to /api/v1/series
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 67108864)
+     The maximum size in bytes of a single DataDog POST request to /api/v1/series
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 67108864)
   -dryRun
-    	Whether to check only config files without running vmagent. The following files are checked: -promscrape.config, -remoteWrite.relabelConfig, -remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig . Unknown config entries are allowed in -promscrape.config by default. This can be changed with -promscrape.config.strictParse
+     Whether to check only config files without running vmagent. The following files are checked: -promscrape.config, -remoteWrite.relabelConfig, -remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig . Unknown config entries aren't allowed in -promscrape.config by default. This can be changed by passing -promscrape.config.strictParse=false command-line flag
   -enableTCP6
-    	Whether to enable IPv6 for listening and dialing. By default only IPv4 TCP and UDP is used
+     Whether to enable IPv6 for listening and dialing. By default only IPv4 TCP and UDP is used
   -envflag.enable
-    	Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables additionally to command line. Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. Flags are read only from command line if this flag isn't set. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#environment-variables for more details
+     Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables additionally to command line. Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. Flags are read only from command line if this flag isn't set. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#environment-variables for more details
   -envflag.prefix string
-    	Prefix for environment variables if -envflag.enable is set
+     Prefix for environment variables if -envflag.enable is set
+  -eula
+     By specifying this flag, you confirm that you have an enterprise license and accept the EULA https://victoriametrics.com/assets/VM_EULA.pdf
   -fs.disableMmap
-    	Whether to use pread() instead of mmap() for reading data files. By default mmap() is used for 64-bit arches and pread() is used for 32-bit arches, since they cannot read data files bigger than 2^32 bytes in memory. mmap() is usually faster for reading small data chunks than pread()
+     Whether to use pread() instead of mmap() for reading data files. By default mmap() is used for 64-bit arches and pread() is used for 32-bit arches, since they cannot read data files bigger than 2^32 bytes in memory. mmap() is usually faster for reading small data chunks than pread()
   -graphiteListenAddr string
-    	TCP and UDP address to listen for Graphite plaintext data. Usually :2003 must be set. Doesn't work if empty
+     TCP and UDP address to listen for Graphite plaintext data. Usually :2003 must be set. Doesn't work if empty
   -graphiteTrimTimestamp duration
-    	Trim timestamps for Graphite data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1s. Higher duration (i.e. 1m) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1s)
+     Trim timestamps for Graphite data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1s. Higher duration (i.e. 1m) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1s)
   -http.connTimeout duration
-    	Incoming http connections are closed after the configured timeout. This may help to spread the incoming load among a cluster of services behind a load balancer. Please note that the real timeout may be bigger by up to 10% as a protection against the thundering herd problem (default 2m0s)
+     Incoming http connections are closed after the configured timeout. This may help to spread the incoming load among a cluster of services behind a load balancer. Please note that the real timeout may be bigger by up to 10% as a protection against the thundering herd problem (default 2m0s)
   -http.disableResponseCompression
-    	Disable compression of HTTP responses to save CPU resources. By default compression is enabled to save network bandwidth
+     Disable compression of HTTP responses to save CPU resources. By default compression is enabled to save network bandwidth
   -http.idleConnTimeout duration
-    	Timeout for incoming idle http connections (default 1m0s)
+     Timeout for incoming idle http connections (default 1m0s)
   -http.maxGracefulShutdownDuration duration
-    	The maximum duration for a graceful shutdown of the HTTP server. A highly loaded server may require increased value for a graceful shutdown (default 7s)
+     The maximum duration for a graceful shutdown of the HTTP server. A highly loaded server may require increased value for a graceful shutdown (default 7s)
   -http.pathPrefix string
-    	An optional prefix to add to all the paths handled by http server. For example, if '-http.pathPrefix=/foo/bar' is set, then all the http requests will be handled on '/foo/bar/*' paths. This may be useful for proxied requests. See https://www.robustperception.io/using-external-urls-and-proxies-with-prometheus
+     An optional prefix to add to all the paths handled by http server. For example, if '-http.pathPrefix=/foo/bar' is set, then all the http requests will be handled on '/foo/bar/*' paths. This may be useful for proxied requests. See https://www.robustperception.io/using-external-urls-and-proxies-with-prometheus
   -http.shutdownDelay duration
-    	Optional delay before http server shutdown. During this delay, the server returns non-OK responses from /health page, so load balancers can route new requests to other servers
+     Optional delay before http server shutdown. During this delay, the server returns non-OK responses from /health page, so load balancers can route new requests to other servers
   -httpAuth.password string
-    	Password for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if -httpAuth.username is empty
+     Password for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if -httpAuth.username is empty
   -httpAuth.username string
-    	Username for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if empty. See also -httpAuth.password
+     Username for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if empty. See also -httpAuth.password
   -httpListenAddr string
-    	TCP address to listen for http connections. Set this flag to empty value in order to disable listening on any port. This mode may be useful for running multiple vmagent instances on the same server. Note that /targets and /metrics pages aren't available if -httpListenAddr='' (default ":8429")
+     TCP address to listen for http connections. Set this flag to empty value in order to disable listening on any port. This mode may be useful for running multiple vmagent instances on the same server. Note that /targets and /metrics pages aren't available if -httpListenAddr='' (default ":8429")
   -import.maxLineLen size
-    	The maximum length in bytes of a single line accepted by /api/v1/import; the line length can be limited with 'max_rows_per_line' query arg passed to /api/v1/export
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 104857600)
+     The maximum length in bytes of a single line accepted by /api/v1/import; the line length can be limited with 'max_rows_per_line' query arg passed to /api/v1/export
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 104857600)
   -influx.databaseNames array
-    	Comma-separated list of database names to return from /query and /influx/query API. This can be needed for accepting data from Telegraf plugins such as https://github.com/fangli/fluent-plugin-influxdb
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Comma-separated list of database names to return from /query and /influx/query API. This can be needed for accepting data from Telegraf plugins such as https://github.com/fangli/fluent-plugin-influxdb
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -influx.maxLineSize size
-    	The maximum size in bytes for a single InfluxDB line during parsing
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 262144)
+     The maximum size in bytes for a single InfluxDB line during parsing
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 262144)
+  -influxDBLabel string
+     Default label for the DB name sent over '?db={db_name}' query parameter (default "db")
   -influxListenAddr string
-    	TCP and UDP address to listen for InfluxDB line protocol data. Usually :8189 must be set. Doesn't work if empty. This flag isn't needed when ingesting data over HTTP - just send it to http://<vmagent>:8429/write
+     TCP and UDP address to listen for InfluxDB line protocol data. Usually :8189 must be set. Doesn't work if empty. This flag isn't needed when ingesting data over HTTP - just send it to http://<vmagent>:8429/write
   -influxMeasurementFieldSeparator string
-    	Separator for '{measurement}{separator}{field_name}' metric name when inserted via InfluxDB line protocol (default "_")
+     Separator for '{measurement}{separator}{field_name}' metric name when inserted via InfluxDB line protocol (default "_")
   -influxSkipMeasurement
-    	Uses '{field_name}' as a metric name while ignoring '{measurement}' and '-influxMeasurementFieldSeparator'
+     Uses '{field_name}' as a metric name while ignoring '{measurement}' and '-influxMeasurementFieldSeparator'
   -influxSkipSingleField
-    	Uses '{measurement}' instead of '{measurement}{separator}{field_name}' for metic name if InfluxDB line contains only a single field
+     Uses '{measurement}' instead of '{measurement}{separator}{field_name}' for metic name if InfluxDB line contains only a single field
   -influxTrimTimestamp duration
-    	Trim timestamps for InfluxDB line protocol data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1ms. Higher duration (i.e. 1s) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1ms)
+     Trim timestamps for InfluxDB line protocol data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1ms. Higher duration (i.e. 1s) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1ms)
   -insert.maxQueueDuration duration
-    	The maximum duration for waiting in the queue for insert requests due to -maxConcurrentInserts (default 1m0s)
+     The maximum duration for waiting in the queue for insert requests due to -maxConcurrentInserts (default 1m0s)
+  -kafka.consumer.topic array
+     Kafka topic names for data consumption.
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -kafka.consumer.topic.basicAuth.password array
+     Optional basic auth password for -kafka.consumer.topic. Must be used in conjunction with any supported auth methods for kafka client, specified by flag -kafka.consumer.topic.options='security.protocol=SASL_SSL;sasl.mechanisms=PLAIN'
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -kafka.consumer.topic.basicAuth.username array
+     Optional basic auth username for -kafka.consumer.topic. Must be used in conjunction with any supported auth methods for kafka client, specified by flag -kafka.consumer.topic.options='security.protocol=SASL_SSL;sasl.mechanisms=PLAIN'
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -kafka.consumer.topic.brokers array
+     List of brokers to connect for given topic, e.g. -kafka.consumer.topic.broker=host-1:9092;host-2:9092
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -kafka.consumer.topic.defaultFormat string
+     Expected data format in the topic if -kafka.consumer.topic.format is skipped. (default "promremotewrite")
+  -kafka.consumer.topic.format array
+     data format for corresponding kafka topic. Valid formats: influx, prometheus, promremotewrite, graphite, jsonline
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -kafka.consumer.topic.groupID array
+     Defines group.id for topic
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -kafka.consumer.topic.isGzipped array
+     Enables gzip setting for topic messages payload. Only prometheus, jsonline and influx formats accept gzipped messages.
+     Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -kafka.consumer.topic.options array
+     Optional key=value;key1=value2 settings for topic consumer. See full configuration options at https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md.
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -loggerDisableTimestamps
-    	Whether to disable writing timestamps in logs
+     Whether to disable writing timestamps in logs
   -loggerErrorsPerSecondLimit int
-    	Per-second limit on the number of ERROR messages. If more than the given number of errors are emitted per second, the remaining errors are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
+     Per-second limit on the number of ERROR messages. If more than the given number of errors are emitted per second, the remaining errors are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
   -loggerFormat string
-    	Format for logs. Possible values: default, json (default "default")
+     Format for logs. Possible values: default, json (default "default")
   -loggerLevel string
-    	Minimum level of errors to log. Possible values: INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC (default "INFO")
+     Minimum level of errors to log. Possible values: INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC (default "INFO")
   -loggerOutput string
-    	Output for the logs. Supported values: stderr, stdout (default "stderr")
+     Output for the logs. Supported values: stderr, stdout (default "stderr")
   -loggerTimezone string
-    	Timezone to use for timestamps in logs. Timezone must be a valid IANA Time Zone. For example: America/New_York, Europe/Berlin, Etc/GMT+3 or Local (default "UTC")
+     Timezone to use for timestamps in logs. Timezone must be a valid IANA Time Zone. For example: America/New_York, Europe/Berlin, Etc/GMT+3 or Local (default "UTC")
   -loggerWarnsPerSecondLimit int
-    	Per-second limit on the number of WARN messages. If more than the given number of warns are emitted per second, then the remaining warns are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
+     Per-second limit on the number of WARN messages. If more than the given number of warns are emitted per second, then the remaining warns are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
   -maxConcurrentInserts int
-    	The maximum number of concurrent inserts. Default value should work for most cases, since it minimizes the overhead for concurrent inserts. This option is tigthly coupled with -insert.maxQueueDuration (default 16)
+     The maximum number of concurrent inserts. Default value should work for most cases, since it minimizes the overhead for concurrent inserts. This option is tigthly coupled with -insert.maxQueueDuration (default 16)
   -maxInsertRequestSize size
-    	The maximum size in bytes of a single Prometheus remote_write API request
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 33554432)
+     The maximum size in bytes of a single Prometheus remote_write API request
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 33554432)
   -memory.allowedBytes size
-    	Allowed size of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. This option overrides -memory.allowedPercent if set to a non-zero value. Too low a value may increase the cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache resulting in higher disk IO usage
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
+     Allowed size of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. This option overrides -memory.allowedPercent if set to a non-zero value. Too low a value may increase the cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache resulting in higher disk IO usage
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
   -memory.allowedPercent float
-    	Allowed percent of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. See also -memory.allowedBytes. Too low a value may increase cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache which will result in higher disk IO usage (default 60)
+     Allowed percent of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. See also -memory.allowedBytes. Too low a value may increase cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache which will result in higher disk IO usage (default 60)
   -metricsAuthKey string
-    	Auth key for /metrics. It overrides httpAuth settings
+     Auth key for /metrics. It must be passed via authKey query arg. It overrides httpAuth.* settings
   -opentsdbHTTPListenAddr string
-    	TCP address to listen for OpentTSDB HTTP put requests. Usually :4242 must be set. Doesn't work if empty
+     TCP address to listen for OpentTSDB HTTP put requests. Usually :4242 must be set. Doesn't work if empty
   -opentsdbListenAddr string
-    	TCP and UDP address to listen for OpentTSDB metrics. Telnet put messages and HTTP /api/put messages are simultaneously served on TCP port. Usually :4242 must be set. Doesn't work if empty
+     TCP and UDP address to listen for OpentTSDB metrics. Telnet put messages and HTTP /api/put messages are simultaneously served on TCP port. Usually :4242 must be set. Doesn't work if empty
   -opentsdbTrimTimestamp duration
-    	Trim timestamps for OpenTSDB 'telnet put' data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1s. Higher duration (i.e. 1m) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1s)
+     Trim timestamps for OpenTSDB 'telnet put' data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1s. Higher duration (i.e. 1m) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1s)
   -opentsdbhttp.maxInsertRequestSize size
-    	The maximum size of OpenTSDB HTTP put request
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 33554432)
+     The maximum size of OpenTSDB HTTP put request
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 33554432)
   -opentsdbhttpTrimTimestamp duration
-    	Trim timestamps for OpenTSDB HTTP data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1ms. Higher duration (i.e. 1s) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1ms)
+     Trim timestamps for OpenTSDB HTTP data to this duration. Minimum practical duration is 1ms. Higher duration (i.e. 1s) may be used for reducing disk space usage for timestamp data (default 1ms)
   -pprofAuthKey string
-    	Auth key for /debug/pprof. It overrides httpAuth settings
-  -promscrape.cluster.memberNum int
-    	The number of number in the cluster of scrapers. It must be an unique value in the range 0 ... promscrape.cluster.membersCount-1 across scrapers in the cluster
+     Auth key for /debug/pprof. It must be passed via authKey query arg. It overrides httpAuth.* settings
+  -promscrape.cluster.memberNum string
+     The number of number in the cluster of scrapers. It must be an unique value in the range 0 ... promscrape.cluster.membersCount-1 across scrapers in the cluster. Can be specified as pod name of Kubernetes StatefulSet - pod-name-Num, where Num is a numeric part of pod name (default "0")
   -promscrape.cluster.membersCount int
-    	The number of members in a cluster of scrapers. Each member must have an unique -promscrape.cluster.memberNum in the range 0 ... promscrape.cluster.membersCount-1 . Each member then scrapes roughly 1/N of all the targets. By default cluster scraping is disabled, i.e. a single scraper scrapes all the targets
+     The number of members in a cluster of scrapers. Each member must have an unique -promscrape.cluster.memberNum in the range 0 ... promscrape.cluster.membersCount-1 . Each member then scrapes roughly 1/N of all the targets. By default cluster scraping is disabled, i.e. a single scraper scrapes all the targets
   -promscrape.cluster.replicationFactor int
-    	The number of members in the cluster, which scrape the same targets. If the replication factor is greater than 2, then the deduplication must be enabled at remote storage side. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication (default 1)
+     The number of members in the cluster, which scrape the same targets. If the replication factor is greater than 2, then the deduplication must be enabled at remote storage side. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication (default 1)
   -promscrape.config string
-    	Optional path to Prometheus config file with 'scrape_configs' section containing targets to scrape. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-scrape-prometheus-exporters-such-as-node-exporter for details
+     Optional path to Prometheus config file with 'scrape_configs' section containing targets to scrape. The path can point to local file and to http url. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-scrape-prometheus-exporters-such-as-node-exporter for details
   -promscrape.config.dryRun
-    	Checks -promscrape.config file for errors and unsupported fields and then exits. Returns non-zero exit code on parsing errors and emits these errors to stderr. See also -promscrape.config.strictParse command-line flag. Pass -loggerLevel=ERROR if you don't need to see info messages in the output.
+     Checks -promscrape.config file for errors and unsupported fields and then exits. Returns non-zero exit code on parsing errors and emits these errors to stderr. See also -promscrape.config.strictParse command-line flag. Pass -loggerLevel=ERROR if you don't need to see info messages in the output.
   -promscrape.config.strictParse
-    	Whether to allow only supported fields in -promscrape.config . By default unsupported fields are silently skipped
+     Whether to deny unsupported fields in -promscrape.config . Set to false in order to silently skip unsupported fields (default true)
   -promscrape.configCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in '-promscrape.config' file. By default the checking is disabled. Send SIGHUP signal in order to force config check for changes
+     Interval for checking for changes in '-promscrape.config' file. By default the checking is disabled. Send SIGHUP signal in order to force config check for changes
   -promscrape.consul.waitTime duration
-    	Wait time used by Consul service discovery. Default value is used if not set
+     Wait time used by Consul service discovery. Default value is used if not set
   -promscrape.consulSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in Consul. This works only if consul_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#consul_sd_config for details (default 30s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in Consul. This works only if consul_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#consul_sd_config for details (default 30s)
   -promscrape.digitaloceanSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in digital ocean. This works only if digitalocean_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#digitalocean_sd_config for details (default 1m0s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in digital ocean. This works only if digitalocean_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#digitalocean_sd_config for details (default 1m0s)
   -promscrape.disableCompression
-    	Whether to disable sending 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' request headers to all the scrape targets. This may reduce CPU usage on scrape targets at the cost of higher network bandwidth utilization. It is possible to set 'disable_compression: true' individually per each 'scrape_config' section in '-promscrape.config' for fine grained control
+     Whether to disable sending 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' request headers to all the scrape targets. This may reduce CPU usage on scrape targets at the cost of higher network bandwidth utilization. It is possible to set 'disable_compression: true' individually per each 'scrape_config' section in '-promscrape.config' for fine grained control
   -promscrape.disableKeepAlive
-    	Whether to disable HTTP keep-alive connections when scraping all the targets. This may be useful when targets has no support for HTTP keep-alive connection. It is possible to set 'disable_keepalive: true' individually per each 'scrape_config' section in '-promscrape.config' for fine grained control. Note that disabling HTTP keep-alive may increase load on both vmagent and scrape targets
+     Whether to disable HTTP keep-alive connections when scraping all the targets. This may be useful when targets has no support for HTTP keep-alive connection. It is possible to set 'disable_keepalive: true' individually per each 'scrape_config' section in '-promscrape.config' for fine grained control. Note that disabling HTTP keep-alive may increase load on both vmagent and scrape targets
   -promscrape.discovery.concurrency int
-    	The maximum number of concurrent requests to Prometheus autodiscovery API (Consul, Kubernetes, etc.) (default 100)
+     The maximum number of concurrent requests to Prometheus autodiscovery API (Consul, Kubernetes, etc.) (default 100)
   -promscrape.discovery.concurrentWaitTime duration
-    	The maximum duration for waiting to perform API requests if more than -promscrape.discovery.concurrency requests are simultaneously performed (default 1m0s)
+     The maximum duration for waiting to perform API requests if more than -promscrape.discovery.concurrency requests are simultaneously performed (default 1m0s)
   -promscrape.dnsSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in dns. This works only if dns_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#dns_sd_config for details (default 30s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in dns. This works only if dns_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#dns_sd_config for details (default 30s)
   -promscrape.dockerSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in docker. This works only if docker_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#docker_sd_config for details (default 30s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in docker. This works only if docker_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#docker_sd_config for details (default 30s)
   -promscrape.dockerswarmSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in dockerswarm. This works only if dockerswarm_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#dockerswarm_sd_config for details (default 30s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in dockerswarm. This works only if dockerswarm_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#dockerswarm_sd_config for details (default 30s)
   -promscrape.dropOriginalLabels
-    	Whether to drop original labels for scrape targets at /targets and /api/v1/targets pages. This may be needed for reducing memory usage when original labels for big number of scrape targets occupy big amounts of memory. Note that this reduces debuggability for improper per-target relabeling configs
+     Whether to drop original labels for scrape targets at /targets and /api/v1/targets pages. This may be needed for reducing memory usage when original labels for big number of scrape targets occupy big amounts of memory. Note that this reduces debuggability for improper per-target relabeling configs
   -promscrape.ec2SDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in ec2. This works only if ec2_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#ec2_sd_config for details (default 1m0s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in ec2. This works only if ec2_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#ec2_sd_config for details (default 1m0s)
   -promscrape.eurekaSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in eureka. This works only if eureka_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#eureka_sd_config for details (default 30s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in eureka. This works only if eureka_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#eureka_sd_config for details (default 30s)
   -promscrape.fileSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in 'file_sd_config'. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#file_sd_config for details (default 30s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in 'file_sd_config'. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#file_sd_config for details (default 5m0s)
   -promscrape.gceSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in gce. This works only if gce_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#gce_sd_config for details (default 1m0s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in gce. This works only if gce_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#gce_sd_config for details (default 1m0s)
   -promscrape.httpSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in http endpoint service discovery. This works only if http_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#http_sd_config for details (default 1m0s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in http endpoint service discovery. This works only if http_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#http_sd_config for details (default 1m0s)
   -promscrape.kubernetes.apiServerTimeout duration
-    	How frequently to reload the full state from Kuberntes API server (default 30m0s)
+     How frequently to reload the full state from Kubernetes API server (default 30m0s)
   -promscrape.kubernetesSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in Kubernetes API server. This works only if kubernetes_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#kubernetes_sd_config for details (default 30s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in Kubernetes API server. This works only if kubernetes_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#kubernetes_sd_config for details (default 30s)
   -promscrape.maxDroppedTargets int
-    	The maximum number of droppedTargets to show at /api/v1/targets page. Increase this value if your setup drops more scrape targets during relabeling and you need investigating labels for all the dropped targets. Note that the increased number of tracked dropped targets may result in increased memory usage (default 1000)
+     The maximum number of droppedTargets to show at /api/v1/targets page. Increase this value if your setup drops more scrape targets during relabeling and you need investigating labels for all the dropped targets. Note that the increased number of tracked dropped targets may result in increased memory usage (default 1000)
+  -promscrape.maxResponseHeadersSize size
+     The maximum size of http response headers from Prometheus scrape targets
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 4096)
   -promscrape.maxScrapeSize size
-    	The maximum size of scrape response in bytes to process from Prometheus targets. Bigger responses are rejected
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 16777216)
+     The maximum size of scrape response in bytes to process from Prometheus targets. Bigger responses are rejected
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 16777216)
   -promscrape.minResponseSizeForStreamParse size
-    	The minimum target response size for automatic switching to stream parsing mode, which can reduce memory usage. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 1000000)
+     The minimum target response size for automatic switching to stream parsing mode, which can reduce memory usage. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 1000000)
   -promscrape.noStaleMarkers
-    	Whether to disable sending Prometheus stale markers for metrics when scrape target disappears. This option may reduce memory usage if stale markers aren't needed for your setup. This option also disables populating the scrape_series_added metric. See https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/jobs_instances/#automatically-generated-labels-and-time-series
+     Whether to disable sending Prometheus stale markers for metrics when scrape target disappears. This option may reduce memory usage if stale markers aren't needed for your setup. This option also disables populating the scrape_series_added metric. See https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/jobs_instances/#automatically-generated-labels-and-time-series
   -promscrape.openstackSDCheckInterval duration
-    	Interval for checking for changes in openstack API server. This works only if openstack_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#openstack_sd_config for details (default 30s)
+     Interval for checking for changes in openstack API server. This works only if openstack_sd_configs is configured in '-promscrape.config' file. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#openstack_sd_config for details (default 30s)
   -promscrape.seriesLimitPerTarget int
-    	Optional limit on the number of unique time series a single scrape target can expose. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter for more info
+     Optional limit on the number of unique time series a single scrape target can expose. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter for more info
   -promscrape.streamParse
-    	Whether to enable stream parsing for metrics obtained from scrape targets. This may be useful for reducing memory usage when millions of metrics are exposed per each scrape target. It is posible to set 'stream_parse: true' individually per each 'scrape_config' section in '-promscrape.config' for fine grained control
+     Whether to enable stream parsing for metrics obtained from scrape targets. This may be useful for reducing memory usage when millions of metrics are exposed per each scrape target. It is posible to set 'stream_parse: true' individually per each 'scrape_config' section in '-promscrape.config' for fine grained control
   -promscrape.suppressDuplicateScrapeTargetErrors
-    	Whether to suppress 'duplicate scrape target' errors; see https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#troubleshooting for details
+     Whether to suppress 'duplicate scrape target' errors; see https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#troubleshooting for details
   -promscrape.suppressScrapeErrors
-    	Whether to suppress scrape errors logging. The last error for each target is always available at '/targets' page even if scrape errors logging is suppressed
+     Whether to suppress scrape errors logging. The last error for each target is always available at '/targets' page even if scrape errors logging is suppressed
+  -remoteWrite.aws.accessKey array
+     Optional AWS AccessKey to use for -remoteWrite.url if -remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4 is set. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -remoteWrite.aws.region array
+     Optional AWS region to use for -remoteWrite.url if -remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4 is set. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -remoteWrite.aws.roleARN array
+     Optional AWS roleARN to use for -remoteWrite.url if -remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4 is set. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -remoteWrite.aws.secretKey array
+     Optional AWS SecretKey to use for -remoteWrite.url if -remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4 is set. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+  -remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4 array
+     Enables SigV4 request signing for -remoteWrite.url. It is expected that other -remoteWrite.aws.* command-line flags are set if sigv4 request signing is enabled. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.basicAuth.password array
-    	Optional basic auth password to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional basic auth password to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.basicAuth.passwordFile array
-    	Optional path to basic auth password to use for -remoteWrite.url. The file is re-read every second. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional path to basic auth password to use for -remoteWrite.url. The file is re-read every second. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.basicAuth.username array
-    	Optional basic auth username to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional basic auth username to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.bearerToken array
-    	Optional bearer auth token to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional bearer auth token to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.bearerTokenFile array
-    	Optional path to bearer token file to use for -remoteWrite.url. The token is re-read from the file every second. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional path to bearer token file to use for -remoteWrite.url. The token is re-read from the file every second. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.flushInterval duration
-    	Interval for flushing the data to remote storage. This option takes effect only when less than 10K data points per second are pushed to -remoteWrite.url (default 1s)
+     Interval for flushing the data to remote storage. This option takes effect only when less than 10K data points per second are pushed to -remoteWrite.url (default 1s)
   -remoteWrite.label array
-    	Optional label in the form 'name=value' to add to all the metrics before sending them to -remoteWrite.url. Pass multiple -remoteWrite.label flags in order to add multiple labels to metrics before sending them to remote storage
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional label in the form 'name=value' to add to all the metrics before sending them to -remoteWrite.url. Pass multiple -remoteWrite.label flags in order to add multiple labels to metrics before sending them to remote storage
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.maxBlockSize size
-    	The maximum size in bytes of unpacked request to send to remote storage. It shouldn't exceed -maxInsertRequestSize from VictoriaMetrics
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 8388608)
+     The maximum block size to send to remote storage. Bigger blocks may improve performance at the cost of the increased memory usage. See also -remoteWrite.maxRowsPerBlock
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 8388608)
   -remoteWrite.maxDailySeries int
-    	The maximum number of unique series vmagent can send to remote storage systems during the last 24 hours. Excess series are logged and dropped. This can be useful for limiting series churn rate. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter
+     The maximum number of unique series vmagent can send to remote storage systems during the last 24 hours. Excess series are logged and dropped. This can be useful for limiting series churn rate. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter
   -remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL size
-    	The maximum file-based buffer size in bytes at -remoteWrite.tmpDataPath for each -remoteWrite.url. When buffer size reaches the configured maximum, then old data is dropped when adding new data to the buffer. Buffered data is stored in ~500MB chunks, so the minimum practical value for this flag is 500000000. Disk usage is unlimited if the value is set to 0
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
+     The maximum file-based buffer size in bytes at -remoteWrite.tmpDataPath for each -remoteWrite.url. When buffer size reaches the configured maximum, then old data is dropped when adding new data to the buffer. Buffered data is stored in ~500MB chunks, so the minimum practical value for this flag is 500MB. Disk usage is unlimited if the value is set to 0
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
   -remoteWrite.maxHourlySeries int
-    	The maximum number of unique series vmagent can send to remote storage systems during the last hour. Excess series are logged and dropped. This can be useful for limiting series cardinality. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter
+     The maximum number of unique series vmagent can send to remote storage systems during the last hour. Excess series are logged and dropped. This can be useful for limiting series cardinality. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter
+  -remoteWrite.maxRowsPerBlock int
+     The maximum number of samples to send in each block to remote storage. Higher number may improve performance at the cost of the increased memory usage. See also -remoteWrite.maxBlockSize (default 10000)
   -remoteWrite.multitenantURL array
-    	Base path for multitenant remote storage URL to write data to. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#multitenancy for details. Example url: http://<vminsert>:8480 . Pass multiple -remoteWrite.multitenantURL flags in order to replicate data to multiple remote storage systems. See also -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Base path for multitenant remote storage URL to write data to. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#multitenancy for details. Example url: http://<vminsert>:8480 . Pass multiple -remoteWrite.multitenantURL flags in order to replicate data to multiple remote storage systems. See also -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.oauth2.clientID array
-    	Optional OAuth2 clientID to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional OAuth2 clientID to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.oauth2.clientSecret array
-    	Optional OAuth2 clientSecret to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional OAuth2 clientSecret to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.oauth2.clientSecretFile array
-    	Optional OAuth2 clientSecretFile to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional OAuth2 clientSecretFile to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.oauth2.scopes array
-    	Optional OAuth2 scopes to use for -remoteWrite.url. Scopes must be delimited by ';'. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional OAuth2 scopes to use for -remoteWrite.url. Scopes must be delimited by ';'. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.oauth2.tokenUrl array
-    	Optional OAuth2 tokenURL to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional OAuth2 tokenURL to use for -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.proxyURL array
-    	Optional proxy URL for writing data to -remoteWrite.url. Supported proxies: http, https, socks5. Example: -remoteWrite.proxyURL=socks5://proxy:1234
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional proxy URL for writing data to -remoteWrite.url. Supported proxies: http, https, socks5. Example: -remoteWrite.proxyURL=socks5://proxy:1234
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.queues int
-    	The number of concurrent queues to each -remoteWrite.url. Set more queues if default number of queues isn't enough for sending high volume of collected data to remote storage. Default value is 2 * numberOfAvailableCPUs (default 8)
+     The number of concurrent queues to each -remoteWrite.url. Set more queues if default number of queues isn't enough for sending high volume of collected data to remote storage. Default value is 2 * numberOfAvailableCPUs (default 8)
   -remoteWrite.rateLimit array
-    	Optional rate limit in bytes per second for data sent to -remoteWrite.url. By default the rate limit is disabled. It can be useful for limiting load on remote storage when big amounts of buffered data is sent after temporary unavailability of the remote storage
-    	Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional rate limit in bytes per second for data sent to -remoteWrite.url. By default the rate limit is disabled. It can be useful for limiting load on remote storage when big amounts of buffered data is sent after temporary unavailability of the remote storage
+     Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.relabelConfig string
-    	Optional path to file with relabel_config entries. These entries are applied to all the metrics before sending them to -remoteWrite.url. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling for details
+     Optional path to file with relabel_config entries. The path can point either to local file or to http url. These entries are applied to all the metrics before sending them to -remoteWrite.url. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling for details
   -remoteWrite.relabelDebug
-    	Whether to log metrics before and after relabeling with -remoteWrite.relabelConfig. If the -remoteWrite.relabelDebug is enabled, then the metrics aren't sent to remote storage. This is useful for debugging the relabeling configs
+     Whether to log metrics before and after relabeling with -remoteWrite.relabelConfig. If the -remoteWrite.relabelDebug is enabled, then the metrics aren't sent to remote storage. This is useful for debugging the relabeling configs
   -remoteWrite.roundDigits array
-    	Round metric values to this number of decimal digits after the point before writing them to remote storage. Examples: -remoteWrite.roundDigits=2 would round 1.236 to 1.24, while -remoteWrite.roundDigits=-1 would round 126.78 to 130. By default digits rounding is disabled. Set it to 100 for disabling it for a particular remote storage. This option may be used for improving data compression for the stored metrics
-    	Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Round metric values to this number of decimal digits after the point before writing them to remote storage. Examples: -remoteWrite.roundDigits=2 would round 1.236 to 1.24, while -remoteWrite.roundDigits=-1 would round 126.78 to 130. By default digits rounding is disabled. Set it to 100 for disabling it for a particular remote storage. This option may be used for improving data compression for the stored metrics
+     Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.sendTimeout array
-    	Timeout for sending a single block of data to -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Timeout for sending a single block of data to -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.showURL
-    	Whether to show -remoteWrite.url in the exported metrics. It is hidden by default, since it can contain sensitive info such as auth key
+     Whether to show -remoteWrite.url in the exported metrics. It is hidden by default, since it can contain sensitive info such as auth key
   -remoteWrite.significantFigures array
-    	The number of significant figures to leave in metric values before writing them to remote storage. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures . Zero value saves all the significant figures. This option may be used for improving data compression for the stored metrics. See also -remoteWrite.roundDigits
-    	Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     The number of significant figures to leave in metric values before writing them to remote storage. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures . Zero value saves all the significant figures. This option may be used for improving data compression for the stored metrics. See also -remoteWrite.roundDigits
+     Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.tlsCAFile array
-    	Optional path to TLS CA file to use for verifying connections to -remoteWrite.url. By default system CA is used. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional path to TLS CA file to use for verifying connections to -remoteWrite.url. By default system CA is used. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.tlsCertFile array
-    	Optional path to client-side TLS certificate file to use when connecting to -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional path to client-side TLS certificate file to use when connecting to -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.tlsInsecureSkipVerify array
-    	Whether to skip tls verification when connecting to -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Whether to skip tls verification when connecting to -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.tlsKeyFile array
-    	Optional path to client-side TLS certificate key to use when connecting to -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional path to client-side TLS certificate key to use when connecting to -remoteWrite.url. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.tlsServerName array
-    	Optional TLS server name to use for connections to -remoteWrite.url. By default the server name from -remoteWrite.url is used. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional TLS server name to use for connections to -remoteWrite.url. By default the server name from -remoteWrite.url is used. If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.tmpDataPath string
-    	Path to directory where temporary data for remote write component is stored. See also -remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL (default "vmagent-remotewrite-data")
+     Path to directory where temporary data for remote write component is stored. See also -remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL (default "vmagent-remotewrite-data")
   -remoteWrite.url array
-    	Remote storage URL to write data to. It must support Prometheus remote_write API. It is recommended using VictoriaMetrics as remote storage. Example url: http://<victoriametrics-host>:8428/api/v1/write . Pass multiple -remoteWrite.url flags in order to replicate data to multiple remote storage systems. See also -remoteWrite.multitenantURL
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Remote storage URL to write data to. It must support Prometheus remote_write API. It is recommended using VictoriaMetrics as remote storage. Example url: http://<victoriametrics-host>:8428/api/v1/write . Pass multiple -remoteWrite.url flags in order to replicate data to multiple remote storage systems. See also -remoteWrite.multitenantURL
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig array
-    	Optional path to relabel config for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url
-    	Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Optional path to relabel config for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url. The path can point either to local file or to http url
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -remoteWrite.urlRelabelDebug array
-    	Whether to log metrics before and after relabeling with -remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig. If the -remoteWrite.urlRelabelDebug is enabled, then the metrics aren't sent to the corresponding -remoteWrite.url. This is useful for debugging the relabeling configs
-    	Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
+     Whether to log metrics before and after relabeling with -remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig. If the -remoteWrite.urlRelabelDebug is enabled, then the metrics aren't sent to the corresponding -remoteWrite.url. This is useful for debugging the relabeling configs
+     Supports array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -sortLabels
-    	Whether to sort labels for incoming samples before writing them to all the configured remote storage systems. This may be needed for reducing memory usage at remote storage when the order of labels in incoming samples is random. For example, if m{k1="v1",k2="v2"} may be sent as m{k2="v2",k1="v1"}Enabled sorting for labels can slow down ingestion performance a bit
+     Whether to sort labels for incoming samples before writing them to all the configured remote storage systems. This may be needed for reducing memory usage at remote storage when the order of labels in incoming samples is random. For example, if m{k1="v1",k2="v2"} may be sent as m{k2="v2",k1="v1"}Enabled sorting for labels can slow down ingestion performance a bit
   -tls
-    	Whether to enable TLS (aka HTTPS) for incoming requests. -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set
+     Whether to enable TLS for incoming HTTP requests at -httpListenAddr (aka https). -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set
   -tlsCertFile string
-    	Path to file with TLS certificate. Used only if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs as RSA certs are slower
+     Path to file with TLS certificate if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs as RSA certs are slower. The provided certificate file is automatically re-read every second, so it can be dynamically updated
+  -tlsCipherSuites array
+     Optional list of TLS cipher suites for incoming requests over HTTPS if -tls is set. See the list of supported cipher suites at https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/tls#pkg-constants
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -tlsKeyFile string
-    	Path to file with TLS key. Used only if -tls is set
+     Path to file with TLS key if -tls is set. The provided key file is automatically re-read every second, so it can be dynamically updated
   -version
-    	Show VictoriaMetrics version
+     Show VictoriaMetrics version
 ```

app/vmagent/influx/request_handler.go

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ var (
 	measurementFieldSeparator = flag.String("influxMeasurementFieldSeparator", "_", "Separator for '{measurement}{separator}{field_name}' metric name when inserted via InfluxDB line protocol")
 	skipSingleField           = flag.Bool("influxSkipSingleField", false, "Uses '{measurement}' instead of '{measurement}{separator}{field_name}' for metic name if InfluxDB line contains only a single field")
 	skipMeasurement           = flag.Bool("influxSkipMeasurement", false, "Uses '{field_name}' as a metric name while ignoring '{measurement}' and '-influxMeasurementFieldSeparator'")
+	dbLabel                   = flag.String("influxDBLabel", "db", "Default label for the DB name sent over '?db={db_name}' query parameter")
 )
 
 var (
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ func insertRows(at *auth.Token, db string, rows []parser.Row, extraLabels []prom
 		hasDBKey := false
 		for j := range r.Tags {
 			tag := &r.Tags[j]
-			if tag.Key == "db" {
+			if tag.Key == *dbLabel {
 				hasDBKey = true
 			}
 			commonLabels = append(commonLabels, prompbmarshal.Label{
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ func insertRows(at *auth.Token, db string, rows []parser.Row, extraLabels []prom
 		}
 		if len(db) > 0 && !hasDBKey {
 			commonLabels = append(commonLabels, prompbmarshal.Label{
-				Name:  "db",
+				Name:  *dbLabel,
 				Value: db,
 			})
 		}

app/vmagent/main.go

@@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ var (
 		"Telnet put messages and HTTP /api/put messages are simultaneously served on TCP port. "+
 		"Usually :4242 must be set. Doesn't work if empty")
 	opentsdbHTTPListenAddr = flag.String("opentsdbHTTPListenAddr", "", "TCP address to listen for OpentTSDB HTTP put requests. Usually :4242 must be set. Doesn't work if empty")
+	configAuthKey          = flag.String("configAuthKey", "", "Authorization key for accessing /config page. It must be passed via authKey query arg")
 	dryRun                 = flag.Bool("dryRun", false, "Whether to check only config files without running vmagent. The following files are checked: "+
 		"-promscrape.config, -remoteWrite.relabelConfig, -remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig . "+
-		"Unknown config entries are allowed in -promscrape.config by default. This can be changed with -promscrape.config.strictParse")
+		"Unknown config entries aren't allowed in -promscrape.config by default. This can be changed by passing -promscrape.config.strictParse=false command-line flag")
 )
 
 var (
@@ -153,16 +154,17 @@ func requestHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 		if r.Method != "GET" {
 			return false
 		}
+		w.Header().Add("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, "<h2>vmagent</h2>")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, "See docs at <a href='https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html'>https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html</a></br>")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Useful endpoints:</br>")
 		httpserver.WriteAPIHelp(w, [][2]string{
-			{"/targets", "discovered targets list"},
-			{"/api/v1/targets", "advanced information about discovered targets in JSON format"},
-			{"/config", "-promscrape.config contents"},
-			{"/metrics", "available service metrics"},
-			{"/flags", "command-line flags"},
-			{"/-/reload", "reload configuration"},
+			{"targets", "discovered targets list"},
+			{"api/v1/targets", "advanced information about discovered targets in JSON format"},
+			{"config", "-promscrape.config contents"},
+			{"metrics", "available service metrics"},
+			{"flags", "command-line flags"},
+			{"-/reload", "reload configuration"},
 		})
 		return true
 	}
@@ -235,40 +237,56 @@ func requestHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 			return true
 		}
 		// See https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/metrics/#submit-metrics
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		w.WriteHeader(202)
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"status":"ok"}`)
 		return true
 	case "/datadog/api/v1/validate":
 		datadogValidateRequests.Inc()
 		// See https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/authentication/#validate-api-key
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"valid":true}`)
 		return true
 	case "/datadog/api/v1/check_run":
 		datadogCheckRunRequests.Inc()
 		// See https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/service-checks/#submit-a-service-check
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		w.WriteHeader(202)
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"status":"ok"}`)
 		return true
 	case "/datadog/intake/":
 		datadogIntakeRequests.Inc()
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, `{}`)
 		return true
 	case "/targets":
 		promscrapeTargetsRequests.Inc()
 		promscrape.WriteHumanReadableTargetsStatus(w, r)
 		return true
+	case "/target_response":
+		promscrapeTargetResponseRequests.Inc()
+		if err := promscrape.WriteTargetResponse(w, r); err != nil {
+			promscrapeTargetResponseErrors.Inc()
+			httpserver.Errorf(w, r, "%s", err)
+			return true
+		}
+		return true
 	case "/config":
+		if *configAuthKey != "" && r.FormValue("authKey") != *configAuthKey {
+			err := &httpserver.ErrorWithStatusCode{
+				Err:        fmt.Errorf("The provided authKey doesn't match -configAuthKey"),
+				StatusCode: http.StatusUnauthorized,
+			}
+			httpserver.Errorf(w, r, "%s", err)
+			return true
+		}
 		promscrapeConfigRequests.Inc()
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=utf-8")
 		promscrape.WriteConfigData(w)
 		return true
 	case "/api/v1/targets":
 		promscrapeAPIV1TargetsRequests.Inc()
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		state := r.FormValue("state")
 		promscrape.WriteAPIV1Targets(w, state)
 		return true
@@ -382,19 +400,19 @@ func processMultitenantRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, path stri
 	case "datadog/api/v1/validate":
 		datadogValidateRequests.Inc()
 		// See https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/authentication/#validate-api-key
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"valid":true}`)
 		return true
 	case "datadog/api/v1/check_run":
 		datadogCheckRunRequests.Inc()
 		// See https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/service-checks/#submit-a-service-check
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		w.WriteHeader(202)
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"status":"ok"}`)
 		return true
 	case "datadog/intake/":
 		datadogIntakeRequests.Inc()
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, `{}`)
 		return true
 	default:
@@ -434,6 +452,9 @@ var (
 	promscrapeTargetsRequests      = metrics.NewCounter(`vmagent_http_requests_total{path="/targets"}`)
 	promscrapeAPIV1TargetsRequests = metrics.NewCounter(`vmagent_http_requests_total{path="/api/v1/targets"}`)
 
+	promscrapeTargetResponseRequests = metrics.NewCounter(`vmagent_http_requests_total{path="/target_response"}`)
+	promscrapeTargetResponseErrors   = metrics.NewCounter(`vmagent_http_request_errors_total{path="/target_response"}`)
+
 	promscrapeConfigRequests = metrics.NewCounter(`vmagent_http_requests_total{path="/config"}`)
 
 	promscrapeConfigReloadRequests = metrics.NewCounter(`vmagent_http_requests_total{path="/-/reload"}`)

app/vmagent/native/request_handler.go

@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ func InsertHandler(at *auth.Token, req *http.Request) error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	isGzip := req.Header.Get("Content-Encoding") == "gzip"
 	return writeconcurrencylimiter.Do(func() error {
-		return parser.ParseStream(req, func(block *parser.Block) error {
+		return parser.ParseStream(req.Body, isGzip, func(block *parser.Block) error {
 			return insertRows(at, block, extraLabels)
 		})
 	})

app/vmagent/remotewrite/client.go

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/awsapi"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/flagutil"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/persistentqueue"
@@ -59,6 +60,18 @@ var (
 		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url")
 	oauth2Scopes = flagutil.NewArray("remoteWrite.oauth2.scopes", "Optional OAuth2 scopes to use for -remoteWrite.url. Scopes must be delimited by ';'. "+
 		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url")
+
+	awsUseSigv4 = flagutil.NewArrayBool("remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4", "Enables SigV4 request signing for -remoteWrite.url. "+
+		"It is expected that other -remoteWrite.aws.* command-line flags are set if sigv4 request signing is enabled. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url")
+	awsRegion = flagutil.NewArray("remoteWrite.aws.region", "Optional AWS region to use for -remoteWrite.url if -remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4 is set. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url")
+	awsRoleARN = flagutil.NewArray("remoteWrite.aws.roleARN", "Optional AWS roleARN to use for -remoteWrite.url if -remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4 is set. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url")
+	awsAccessKey = flagutil.NewArray("remoteWrite.aws.accessKey", "Optional AWS AccessKey to use for -remoteWrite.url if -remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4 is set. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url")
+	awsSecretKey = flagutil.NewArray("remoteWrite.aws.secretKey", "Optional AWS SecretKey to use for -remoteWrite.url if -remoteWrite.aws.useSigv4 is set. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url")
 )
 
 type client struct {
@@ -69,6 +82,7 @@ type client struct {
 
 	sendBlock func(block []byte) bool
 	authCfg   *promauth.Config
+	awsCfg    *awsapi.Config
 
 	rl rateLimiter
 
@@ -78,6 +92,7 @@ type client struct {
 	requestsOKCount *metrics.Counter
 	errorsCount     *metrics.Counter
 	packetsDropped  *metrics.Counter
+	rateLimit       *metrics.Gauge
 	retriesCount    *metrics.Counter
 	sendDuration    *metrics.FloatCounter
 
@@ -88,13 +103,17 @@ type client struct {
 func newHTTPClient(argIdx int, remoteWriteURL, sanitizedURL string, fq *persistentqueue.FastQueue, concurrency int) *client {
 	authCfg, err := getAuthConfig(argIdx)
 	if err != nil {
-		logger.Panicf("FATAL: cannot initialize auth config: %s", err)
+		logger.Panicf("FATAL: cannot initialize auth config for remoteWrite.url=%q: %s", remoteWriteURL, err)
 	}
 	tlsCfg := authCfg.NewTLSConfig()
+	awsCfg, err := getAWSAPIConfig(argIdx)
+	if err != nil {
+		logger.Fatalf("FATAL: cannot initialize AWS Config for remoteWrite.url=%q: %s", remoteWriteURL, err)
+	}
 	tr := &http.Transport{
-		Dial:                statDial,
+		DialContext:         statDial,
 		TLSClientConfig:     tlsCfg,
-		TLSHandshakeTimeout: 5 * time.Second,
+		TLSHandshakeTimeout: 10 * time.Second,
 		MaxConnsPerHost:     2 * concurrency,
 		MaxIdleConnsPerHost: 2 * concurrency,
 		IdleConnTimeout:     time.Minute,
@@ -105,16 +124,17 @@ func newHTTPClient(argIdx int, remoteWriteURL, sanitizedURL string, fq *persiste
 		if !strings.Contains(pURL, "://") {
 			logger.Fatalf("cannot parse -remoteWrite.proxyURL=%q: it must start with `http://`, `https://` or `socks5://`", pURL)
 		}
-		urlProxy, err := url.Parse(pURL)
+		pu, err := url.Parse(pURL)
 		if err != nil {
 			logger.Fatalf("cannot parse -remoteWrite.proxyURL=%q: %s", pURL, err)
 		}
-		tr.Proxy = http.ProxyURL(urlProxy)
+		tr.Proxy = http.ProxyURL(pu)
 	}
 	c := &client{
 		sanitizedURL:   sanitizedURL,
 		remoteWriteURL: remoteWriteURL,
 		authCfg:        authCfg,
+		awsCfg:         awsCfg,
 		fq:             fq,
 		hc: &http.Client{
 			Transport: tr,
@@ -135,6 +155,9 @@ func (c *client) init(argIdx, concurrency int, sanitizedURL string) {
 
 	c.bytesSent = metrics.GetOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf(`vmagent_remotewrite_bytes_sent_total{url=%q}`, c.sanitizedURL))
 	c.blocksSent = metrics.GetOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf(`vmagent_remotewrite_blocks_sent_total{url=%q}`, c.sanitizedURL))
+	c.rateLimit = metrics.GetOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmagent_remotewrite_rate_limit{url=%q}`, c.sanitizedURL), func() float64 {
+		return float64(rateLimit.GetOptionalArgOrDefault(argIdx, 0))
+	})
 	c.requestDuration = metrics.GetOrCreateHistogram(fmt.Sprintf(`vmagent_remotewrite_duration_seconds{url=%q}`, c.sanitizedURL))
 	c.requestsOKCount = metrics.GetOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf(`vmagent_remotewrite_requests_total{url=%q, status_code="2XX"}`, c.sanitizedURL))
 	c.errorsCount = metrics.GetOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf(`vmagent_remotewrite_errors_total{url=%q}`, c.sanitizedURL))
@@ -165,7 +188,7 @@ func getAuthConfig(argIdx int) (*promauth.Config, error) {
 	if username != "" || password != "" || passwordFile != "" {
 		basicAuthCfg = &promauth.BasicAuthConfig{
 			Username:     username,
-			Password:     password,
+			Password:     promauth.NewSecret(password),
 			PasswordFile: passwordFile,
 		}
 	}
@@ -179,7 +202,7 @@ func getAuthConfig(argIdx int) (*promauth.Config, error) {
 	if clientSecretFile != "" || clientSecret != "" {
 		oauth2Cfg = &promauth.OAuth2Config{
 			ClientID:         oauth2ClientID.GetOptionalArg(argIdx),
-			ClientSecret:     clientSecret,
+			ClientSecret:     promauth.NewSecret(clientSecret),
 			ClientSecretFile: clientSecretFile,
 			TokenURL:         oauth2TokenURL.GetOptionalArg(argIdx),
 			Scopes:           strings.Split(oauth2Scopes.GetOptionalArg(argIdx), ";"),
@@ -201,6 +224,21 @@ func getAuthConfig(argIdx int) (*promauth.Config, error) {
 	return authCfg, nil
 }
 
+func getAWSAPIConfig(argIdx int) (*awsapi.Config, error) {
+	if !awsUseSigv4.GetOptionalArg(argIdx) {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	region := awsRegion.GetOptionalArg(argIdx)
+	roleARN := awsRoleARN.GetOptionalArg(argIdx)
+	accessKey := awsAccessKey.GetOptionalArg(argIdx)
+	secretKey := awsSecretKey.GetOptionalArg(argIdx)
+	cfg, err := awsapi.NewConfig(region, roleARN, accessKey, secretKey)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return cfg, nil
+}
+
 func (c *client) runWorker() {
 	var ok bool
 	var block []byte
@@ -250,11 +288,15 @@ func (c *client) sendBlockHTTP(block []byte) bool {
 	retriesCount := 0
 	c.bytesSent.Add(len(block))
 	c.blocksSent.Inc()
+	sigv4Hash := ""
+	if c.awsCfg != nil {
+		sigv4Hash = awsapi.HashHex(block)
+	}
 
 again:
 	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", c.remoteWriteURL, bytes.NewBuffer(block))
 	if err != nil {
-		logger.Panicf("BUG: unexected error from http.NewRequest(%q): %s", c.sanitizedURL, err)
+		logger.Panicf("BUG: unexpected error from http.NewRequest(%q): %s", c.sanitizedURL, err)
 	}
 	h := req.Header
 	h.Set("User-Agent", "vmagent")
@@ -264,7 +306,12 @@ again:
 	if ah := c.authCfg.GetAuthHeader(); ah != "" {
 		req.Header.Set("Authorization", ah)
 	}
-
+	if c.awsCfg != nil {
+		if err := c.awsCfg.SignRequest(req, "aps", sigv4Hash); err != nil {
+			// there is no need in retry, request will be rejected by client.Do and retried by code below
+			logger.Warnf("cannot sign remoteWrite request with AWS sigv4: %s", err)
+		}
+	}
 	startTime := time.Now()
 	resp, err := c.hc.Do(req)
 	c.requestDuration.UpdateDuration(startTime)
@@ -295,6 +342,17 @@ again:
 	}
 	metrics.GetOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf(`vmagent_remotewrite_requests_total{url=%q, status_code="%d"}`, c.sanitizedURL, statusCode)).Inc()
 	if statusCode == 409 || statusCode == 400 {
+		body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+		_ = resp.Body.Close()
+		l := logger.WithThrottler("remoteWriteRejected", 5*time.Second)
+		if err != nil {
+			l.Errorf("sending a block with size %d bytes to %q was rejected (skipping the block): status code %d; "+
+				"failed to read response body: %s",
+				len(block), c.sanitizedURL, statusCode, err)
+		} else {
+			l.Errorf("sending a block with size %d bytes to %q was rejected (skipping the block): status code %d; response body: %s",
+				len(block), c.sanitizedURL, statusCode, string(body))
+		}
 		// Just drop block on 409 and 400 status codes like Prometheus does.
 		// See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/873
 		// and https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1149

app/vmagent/remotewrite/pendingseries.go

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/decimal"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/fasttime"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/flagutil"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/persistentqueue"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promrelabel"
@@ -20,16 +21,10 @@ import (
 var (
 	flushInterval = flag.Duration("remoteWrite.flushInterval", time.Second, "Interval for flushing the data to remote storage. "+
 		"This option takes effect only when less than 10K data points per second are pushed to -remoteWrite.url")
-	maxUnpackedBlockSize = flagutil.NewBytes("remoteWrite.maxBlockSize", 8*1024*1024, "The maximum size in bytes of unpacked request to send to remote storage. "+
-		"It shouldn't exceed -maxInsertRequestSize from VictoriaMetrics")
+	maxUnpackedBlockSize = flagutil.NewBytes("remoteWrite.maxBlockSize", 8*1024*1024, "The maximum block size to send to remote storage. Bigger blocks may improve performance at the cost of the increased memory usage. See also -remoteWrite.maxRowsPerBlock")
+	maxRowsPerBlock      = flag.Int("remoteWrite.maxRowsPerBlock", 10000, "The maximum number of samples to send in each block to remote storage. Higher number may improve performance at the cost of the increased memory usage. See also -remoteWrite.maxBlockSize")
 )
 
-// the maximum number of rows to send per each block.
-const maxRowsPerBlock = 10000
-
-// the maximum number of labels to send per each block.
-const maxLabelsPerBlock = 10 * maxRowsPerBlock
-
 type pendingSeries struct {
 	mu sync.Mutex
 	wr writeRequest
@@ -153,10 +148,13 @@ func (wr *writeRequest) adjustSampleValues() {
 
 func (wr *writeRequest) push(src []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries) {
 	tssDst := wr.tss
+	maxSamplesPerBlock := *maxRowsPerBlock
+	// Allow up to 10x of labels per each block on average.
+	maxLabelsPerBlock := 10 * maxSamplesPerBlock
 	for i := range src {
 		tssDst = append(tssDst, prompbmarshal.TimeSeries{})
 		wr.copyTimeSeries(&tssDst[len(tssDst)-1], &src[i])
-		if len(wr.samples) >= maxRowsPerBlock || len(wr.labels) >= maxLabelsPerBlock {
+		if len(wr.samples) >= maxSamplesPerBlock || len(wr.labels) >= maxLabelsPerBlock {
 			wr.tss = tssDst
 			wr.flush()
 			tssDst = wr.tss
@@ -213,7 +211,22 @@ func pushWriteRequest(wr *prompbmarshal.WriteRequest, pushBlock func(block []byt
 		writeRequestBufPool.Put(bb)
 	}
 
-	// Too big block. Recursively split it into smaller parts.
+	// Too big block. Recursively split it into smaller parts if possible.
+	if len(wr.Timeseries) == 1 {
+		// A single time series left. Recursively split its samples into smaller parts if possible.
+		samples := wr.Timeseries[0].Samples
+		if len(samples) == 1 {
+			logger.Warnf("dropping a sample for metric with too long labels exceeding -remoteWrite.maxBlockSize=%d bytes", maxUnpackedBlockSize.N)
+			return
+		}
+		n := len(samples) / 2
+		wr.Timeseries[0].Samples = samples[:n]
+		pushWriteRequest(wr, pushBlock)
+		wr.Timeseries[0].Samples = samples[n:]
+		pushWriteRequest(wr, pushBlock)
+		wr.Timeseries[0].Samples = samples
+		return
+	}
 	timeseries := wr.Timeseries
 	n := len(timeseries) / 2
 	wr.Timeseries = timeseries[:n]

app/vmagent/remotewrite/relabel.go

@@ -15,12 +15,14 @@ import (
 var (
 	unparsedLabelsGlobal = flagutil.NewArray("remoteWrite.label", "Optional label in the form 'name=value' to add to all the metrics before sending them to -remoteWrite.url. "+
 		"Pass multiple -remoteWrite.label flags in order to add multiple labels to metrics before sending them to remote storage")
-	relabelConfigPathGlobal = flag.String("remoteWrite.relabelConfig", "", "Optional path to file with relabel_config entries. These entries are applied to all the metrics "+
+	relabelConfigPathGlobal = flag.String("remoteWrite.relabelConfig", "", "Optional path to file with relabel_config entries. "+
+		"The path can point either to local file or to http url. These entries are applied to all the metrics "+
 		"before sending them to -remoteWrite.url. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#relabeling for details")
 	relabelDebugGlobal = flag.Bool("remoteWrite.relabelDebug", false, "Whether to log metrics before and after relabeling with -remoteWrite.relabelConfig. "+
 		"If the -remoteWrite.relabelDebug is enabled, then the metrics aren't sent to remote storage. This is useful for debugging the relabeling configs")
-	relabelConfigPaths = flagutil.NewArray("remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig", "Optional path to relabel config for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url")
-	relabelDebug       = flagutil.NewArrayBool("remoteWrite.urlRelabelDebug", "Whether to log metrics before and after relabeling with -remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig. "+
+	relabelConfigPaths = flagutil.NewArray("remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig", "Optional path to relabel config for the corresponding -remoteWrite.url. "+
+		"The path can point either to local file or to http url")
+	relabelDebug = flagutil.NewArrayBool("remoteWrite.urlRelabelDebug", "Whether to log metrics before and after relabeling with -remoteWrite.urlRelabelConfig. "+
 		"If the -remoteWrite.urlRelabelDebug is enabled, then the metrics aren't sent to the corresponding -remoteWrite.url. "+
 		"This is useful for debugging the relabeling configs")
 )

app/vmagent/remotewrite/remotewrite.go

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ var (
 		"It is hidden by default, since it can contain sensitive info such as auth key")
 	maxPendingBytesPerURL = flagutil.NewBytes("remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL", 0, "The maximum file-based buffer size in bytes at -remoteWrite.tmpDataPath "+
 		"for each -remoteWrite.url. When buffer size reaches the configured maximum, then old data is dropped when adding new data to the buffer. "+
-		"Buffered data is stored in ~500MB chunks, so the minimum practical value for this flag is 500000000. "+
+		"Buffered data is stored in ~500MB chunks, so the minimum practical value for this flag is 500MB. "+
 		"Disk usage is unlimited if the value is set to 0")
 	significantFigures = flagutil.NewArrayInt("remoteWrite.significantFigures", "The number of significant figures to leave in metric values before writing them "+
 		"to remote storage. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures . Zero value saves all the significant figures. "+
@@ -171,12 +171,12 @@ func newRemoteWriteCtxs(at *auth.Token, urls []string) []*remoteWriteCtx {
 		logger.Panicf("BUG: urls must be non-empty")
 	}
 
-	maxInmemoryBlocks := memory.Allowed() / len(urls) / maxRowsPerBlock / 100
-	if maxInmemoryBlocks > 400 {
+	maxInmemoryBlocks := memory.Allowed() / len(urls) / *maxRowsPerBlock / 100
+	if maxInmemoryBlocks / *queues > 100 {
 		// There is no much sense in keeping higher number of blocks in memory,
 		// since this means that the producer outperforms consumer and the queue
 		// will continue growing. It is better storing the queue to file.
-		maxInmemoryBlocks = 400
+		maxInmemoryBlocks = 100 * *queues
 	}
 	if maxInmemoryBlocks < 2 {
 		maxInmemoryBlocks = 2
@@ -274,6 +274,9 @@ func PushWithAuthToken(at *auth.Token, wr *prompbmarshal.WriteRequest) {
 		rctx = getRelabelCtx()
 	}
 	tss := wr.Timeseries
+	maxSamplesPerBlock := *maxRowsPerBlock
+	// Allow up to 10x of labels per each block on average.
+	maxLabelsPerBlock := 10 * maxSamplesPerBlock
 	for len(tss) > 0 {
 		// Process big tss in smaller blocks in order to reduce the maximum memory usage
 		samplesCount := 0
@@ -283,7 +286,7 @@ func PushWithAuthToken(at *auth.Token, wr *prompbmarshal.WriteRequest) {
 			samplesCount += len(tss[i].Samples)
 			labelsCount += len(tss[i].Labels)
 			i++
-			if samplesCount >= maxRowsPerBlock || labelsCount >= maxLabelsPerBlock {
+			if samplesCount >= maxSamplesPerBlock || labelsCount >= maxLabelsPerBlock {
 				break
 			}
 		}
@@ -301,11 +304,7 @@ func PushWithAuthToken(at *auth.Token, wr *prompbmarshal.WriteRequest) {
 		}
 		sortLabelsIfNeeded(tssBlock)
 		tssBlock = limitSeriesCardinality(tssBlock)
-		if len(tssBlock) > 0 {
-			for _, rwctx := range rwctxs {
-				rwctx.Push(tssBlock)
-			}
-		}
+		pushBlockToRemoteStorages(rwctxs, tssBlock)
 		if rctx != nil {
 			rctx.reset()
 		}
@@ -315,6 +314,23 @@ func PushWithAuthToken(at *auth.Token, wr *prompbmarshal.WriteRequest) {
 	}
 }
 
+func pushBlockToRemoteStorages(rwctxs []*remoteWriteCtx, tssBlock []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries) {
+	if len(tssBlock) == 0 {
+		// Nothing to push
+		return
+	}
+	// Push block to remote storages in parallel in order to reduce the time needed for sending the data to multiple remote storage systems.
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	for _, rwctx := range rwctxs {
+		wg.Add(1)
+		go func(rwctx *remoteWriteCtx) {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			rwctx.Push(tssBlock)
+		}(rwctx)
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+}
+
 // sortLabelsIfNeeded sorts labels if -sortLabels command-line flag is set.
 func sortLabelsIfNeeded(tss []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries) {
 	if !*sortLabels {
@@ -374,6 +390,8 @@ var labelsHashBufPool bytesutil.ByteBufferPool
 func logSkippedSeries(labels []prompbmarshal.Label, flagName string, flagValue int) {
 	select {
 	case <-logSkippedSeriesTicker.C:
+		// Do not use logger.WithThrottler() here, since this will increase CPU usage
+		// because every call to logSkippedSeries will result to a call to labelsToString.
 		logger.Warnf("skip series %s because %s=%d reached", labelsToString(labels), flagName, flagValue)
 	default:
 	}

app/vmagent/remotewrite/statconn.go

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package remotewrite
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"net"
+	"sync"
 	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
@@ -9,9 +11,26 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
 )
 
-func statDial(networkUnused, addr string) (conn net.Conn, err error) {
+func getStdDialer() *net.Dialer {
+	stdDialerOnce.Do(func() {
+		stdDialer = &net.Dialer{
+			Timeout:   30 * time.Second,
+			KeepAlive: 30 * time.Second,
+			DualStack: netutil.TCP6Enabled(),
+		}
+	})
+	return stdDialer
+}
+
+var (
+	stdDialer     *net.Dialer
+	stdDialerOnce sync.Once
+)
+
+func statDial(ctx context.Context, networkUnused, addr string) (conn net.Conn, err error) {
 	network := netutil.GetTCPNetwork()
-	conn, err = net.DialTimeout(network, addr, 5*time.Second)
+	d := getStdDialer()
+	conn, err = d.DialContext(ctx, network, addr)
 	dialsTotal.Inc()
 	if err != nil {
 		dialErrors.Inc()

app/vmalert/Makefile

@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ vmalert-ppc64le-prod:
 vmalert-386-prod:
 	APP_NAME=vmalert $(MAKE) app-via-docker-386
 
+vmalert-darwin-amd64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=vmalert $(MAKE) app-via-docker-darwin-amd64
+
+vmalert-darwin-arm64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=vmalert $(MAKE) app-via-docker-darwin-arm64
+
+vmalert-windows-amd64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=vmalert $(MAKE) app-via-docker-windows-amd64
+
 package-vmalert:
 	APP_NAME=vmalert $(MAKE) package-via-docker
 
@@ -70,6 +79,13 @@ run-vmalert: vmalert
 		-evaluationInterval=3s \
 		-rule.configCheckInterval=10s
 
+run-vmalert-sd: vmalert
+	./bin/vmalert -rule=app/vmalert/config/testdata/rules2-good.rules \
+		-datasource.url=http://localhost:8428 \
+		-remoteWrite.url=http://localhost:8428 \
+		-notifier.config=app/vmalert/notifier/testdata/mixed.good.yaml \
+		-configCheckInterval=10s
+
 replay-vmalert: vmalert
 	./bin/vmalert -rule=app/vmalert/config/testdata/rules-replay-good.rules \
 		-datasource.url=http://localhost:8428 \
@@ -102,6 +118,3 @@ vmalert-pure:
 
 vmalert-windows-amd64:
 	GOARCH=amd64 APP_NAME=vmalert $(MAKE) app-local-windows-with-goarch
-
-vmalert-windows-amd64-prod:
-	APP_NAME=vmalert $(MAKE) app-via-docker-windows-amd64

app/vmalert/alerting.go

@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/config"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/notifier"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
 )
 
 // AlertingRule is basic alert entity
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ type AlertingRule struct {
 	alerts map[uint64]*notifier.Alert
 	// stores last moment of time Exec was called
 	lastExecTime time.Time
+	// stores the duration of the last Exec call
+	lastExecDuration time.Duration
 	// stores last error that happened in Exec func
 	// resets on every successful Exec
 	// may be used as Health state
@@ -50,15 +52,15 @@ type AlertingRule struct {
 }
 
 type alertingRuleMetrics struct {
-	errors  *gauge
-	pending *gauge
-	active  *gauge
-	samples *gauge
+	errors  *utils.Gauge
+	pending *utils.Gauge
+	active  *utils.Gauge
+	samples *utils.Gauge
 }
 
 func newAlertingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rule) *AlertingRule {
 	ar := &AlertingRule{
-		Type:         cfg.Type,
+		Type:         group.Type,
 		RuleID:       cfg.ID,
 		Name:         cfg.Alert,
 		Expr:         cfg.Expr,
@@ -69,16 +71,16 @@ func newAlertingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rule
 		GroupName:    group.Name,
 		EvalInterval: group.Interval,
 		q: qb.BuildWithParams(datasource.QuerierParams{
-			DataSourceType:     &cfg.Type,
+			DataSourceType:     &group.Type,
 			EvaluationInterval: group.Interval,
-			ExtraLabels:        group.ExtraFilterLabels,
+			QueryParams:        group.Params,
 		}),
 		alerts:  make(map[uint64]*notifier.Alert),
 		metrics: &alertingRuleMetrics{},
 	}
 
 	labels := fmt.Sprintf(`alertname=%q, group=%q, id="%d"`, ar.Name, group.Name, ar.ID())
-	ar.metrics.pending = getOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_alerts_pending{%s}`, labels),
+	ar.metrics.pending = utils.GetOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_alerts_pending{%s}`, labels),
 		func() float64 {
 			ar.mu.RLock()
 			defer ar.mu.RUnlock()
@@ -90,7 +92,7 @@ func newAlertingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rule
 			}
 			return float64(num)
 		})
-	ar.metrics.active = getOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_alerts_firing{%s}`, labels),
+	ar.metrics.active = utils.GetOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_alerts_firing{%s}`, labels),
 		func() float64 {
 			ar.mu.RLock()
 			defer ar.mu.RUnlock()
@@ -102,7 +104,7 @@ func newAlertingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rule
 			}
 			return float64(num)
 		})
-	ar.metrics.errors = getOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_alerting_rules_error{%s}`, labels),
+	ar.metrics.errors = utils.GetOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_alerting_rules_error{%s}`, labels),
 		func() float64 {
 			ar.mu.RLock()
 			defer ar.mu.RUnlock()
@@ -111,7 +113,7 @@ func newAlertingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rule
 			}
 			return 1
 		})
-	ar.metrics.samples = getOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_alerting_rules_last_evaluation_samples{%s}`, labels),
+	ar.metrics.samples = utils.GetOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_alerting_rules_last_evaluation_samples{%s}`, labels),
 		func() float64 {
 			ar.mu.RLock()
 			defer ar.mu.RUnlock()
@@ -122,10 +124,10 @@ func newAlertingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rule
 
 // Close unregisters rule metrics
 func (ar *AlertingRule) Close() {
-	metrics.UnregisterMetric(ar.metrics.active.name)
-	metrics.UnregisterMetric(ar.metrics.pending.name)
-	metrics.UnregisterMetric(ar.metrics.errors.name)
-	metrics.UnregisterMetric(ar.metrics.samples.name)
+	ar.metrics.active.Unregister()
+	ar.metrics.pending.Unregister()
+	ar.metrics.errors.Unregister()
+	ar.metrics.samples.Unregister()
 }
 
 // String implements Stringer interface
@@ -139,6 +141,53 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) ID() uint64 {
 	return ar.RuleID
 }
 
+type labelSet struct {
+	// origin labels from series
+	// used for templating
+	origin map[string]string
+	// processed labels with additional data
+	// used as Alert labels
+	processed map[string]string
+}
+
+// toLabels converts labels from given Metric
+// to labelSet which contains original and processed labels.
+func (ar *AlertingRule) toLabels(m datasource.Metric, qFn notifier.QueryFn) (*labelSet, error) {
+	ls := &labelSet{
+		origin:    make(map[string]string, len(m.Labels)),
+		processed: make(map[string]string),
+	}
+	for _, l := range m.Labels {
+		// drop __name__ to be consistent with Prometheus alerting
+		if l.Name == "__name__" {
+			continue
+		}
+		ls.origin[l.Name] = l.Value
+		ls.processed[l.Name] = l.Value
+	}
+
+	extraLabels, err := notifier.ExecTemplate(qFn, ar.Labels, notifier.AlertTplData{
+		Labels: ls.origin,
+		Value:  m.Values[0],
+		Expr:   ar.Expr,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to expand labels: %s", err)
+	}
+	for k, v := range extraLabels {
+		ls.processed[k] = v
+	}
+
+	// set additional labels to identify group and rule name
+	if ar.Name != "" {
+		ls.processed[alertNameLabel] = ar.Name
+	}
+	if !*disableAlertGroupLabel && ar.GroupName != "" {
+		ls.processed[alertGroupNameLabel] = ar.GroupName
+	}
+	return ls, nil
+}
+
 // ExecRange executes alerting rule on the given time range similarly to Exec.
 // It doesn't update internal states of the Rule and meant to be used just
 // to get time series for backfilling.
@@ -153,24 +202,7 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) ExecRange(ctx context.Context, start, end time.Time) ([]
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("`query` template isn't supported in replay mode")
 	}
 	for _, s := range series {
-		// extra labels could contain templates, so we expand them first
-		labels, err := expandLabels(s, qFn, ar)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to expand labels: %s", err)
-		}
-		for k, v := range labels {
-			// apply extra labels to datasource
-			// so the hash key will be consistent on restore
-			s.SetLabel(k, v)
-		}
-		// set additional labels to identify group and rule name
-		if ar.Name != "" {
-			s.SetLabel(alertNameLabel, ar.Name)
-		}
-		if !*disableAlertGroupLabel && ar.GroupName != "" {
-			s.SetLabel(alertGroupNameLabel, ar.GroupName)
-		}
-		a, err := ar.newAlert(s, time.Time{}, qFn) // initial alert
+		a, err := ar.newAlert(s, nil, time.Time{}, qFn) // initial alert
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create alert: %s", err)
 		}
@@ -189,9 +221,10 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) ExecRange(ctx context.Context, start, end time.Time) ([]
 			if at.Sub(prevT) > ar.EvalInterval {
 				// reset to Pending if there are gaps > EvalInterval between DPs
 				a.State = notifier.StatePending
-				a.Start = at
-			} else if at.Sub(a.Start) >= ar.For {
+				a.ActiveAt = at
+			} else if at.Sub(a.ActiveAt) >= ar.For {
 				a.State = notifier.StateFiring
+				a.Start = at
 			}
 			prevT = at
 			result = append(result, ar.alertToTimeSeries(a, s.Timestamps[i])...)
@@ -200,15 +233,21 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) ExecRange(ctx context.Context, start, end time.Time) ([]
 	return result, nil
 }
 
+// resolvedRetention is the duration for which a resolved alert instance
+// is kept in memory state and consequently repeatedly sent to the AlertManager.
+const resolvedRetention = 15 * time.Minute
+
 // Exec executes AlertingRule expression via the given Querier.
 // Based on the Querier results AlertingRule maintains notifier.Alerts
-func (ar *AlertingRule) Exec(ctx context.Context) ([]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, error) {
-	qMetrics, err := ar.q.Query(ctx, ar.Expr)
+func (ar *AlertingRule) Exec(ctx context.Context, ts time.Time) ([]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, error) {
+	start := time.Now()
+	qMetrics, err := ar.q.Query(ctx, ar.Expr, ts)
 	ar.mu.Lock()
 	defer ar.mu.Unlock()
 
+	ar.lastExecTime = start
+	ar.lastExecDuration = time.Since(start)
 	ar.lastExecError = err
-	ar.lastExecTime = time.Now()
 	ar.lastExecSamples = len(qMetrics)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to execute query %q: %w", ar.Expr, err)
@@ -216,60 +255,55 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) Exec(ctx context.Context) ([]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, e
 
 	for h, a := range ar.alerts {
 		// cleanup inactive alerts from previous Exec
-		if a.State == notifier.StateInactive {
+		if a.State == notifier.StateInactive && ts.Sub(a.ResolvedAt) > resolvedRetention {
 			delete(ar.alerts, h)
 		}
 	}
 
-	qFn := func(query string) ([]datasource.Metric, error) { return ar.q.Query(ctx, query) }
+	qFn := func(query string) ([]datasource.Metric, error) { return ar.q.Query(ctx, query, ts) }
 	updated := make(map[uint64]struct{})
 	// update list of active alerts
 	for _, m := range qMetrics {
-		// extra labels could contain templates, so we expand them first
-		labels, err := expandLabels(m, qFn, ar)
+		ls, err := ar.toLabels(m, qFn)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to expand labels: %s", err)
 		}
-		for k, v := range labels {
-			// apply extra labels to datasource
-			// so the hash key will be consistent on restore
-			m.SetLabel(k, v)
-		}
-		// set additional labels to identify group and rule name
-		// set additional labels to identify group and rule name
-		if ar.Name != "" {
-			m.SetLabel(alertNameLabel, ar.Name)
-		}
-		if !*disableAlertGroupLabel && ar.GroupName != "" {
-			m.SetLabel(alertGroupNameLabel, ar.GroupName)
-		}
-		h := hash(m)
+		h := hash(ls.processed)
 		if _, ok := updated[h]; ok {
 			// duplicate may be caused by extra labels
 			// conflicting with the metric labels
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("labels %v: %w", m.Labels, errDuplicate)
+			ar.lastExecError = fmt.Errorf("labels %v: %w", ls.processed, errDuplicate)
+			return nil, ar.lastExecError
 		}
 		updated[h] = struct{}{}
 		if a, ok := ar.alerts[h]; ok {
+			if a.State == notifier.StateInactive {
+				// alert could be in inactive state for resolvedRetention
+				// so when we again receive metrics for it - we switch it
+				// back to notifier.StatePending
+				a.State = notifier.StatePending
+				a.ActiveAt = ts
+			}
 			if a.Value != m.Values[0] {
 				// update Value field with latest value
 				a.Value = m.Values[0]
 				// and re-exec template since Value can be used
 				// in annotations
-				a.Annotations, err = a.ExecTemplate(qFn, ar.Annotations)
+				a.Annotations, err = a.ExecTemplate(qFn, ls.origin, ar.Annotations)
 				if err != nil {
 					return nil, err
 				}
 			}
 			continue
 		}
-		a, err := ar.newAlert(m, ar.lastExecTime, qFn)
+		a, err := ar.newAlert(m, ls, ar.lastExecTime, qFn)
 		if err != nil {
 			ar.lastExecError = err
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create alert: %w", err)
 		}
 		a.ID = h
 		a.State = notifier.StatePending
+		a.ActiveAt = ts
 		ar.alerts[h] = a
 	}
 
@@ -283,28 +317,19 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) Exec(ctx context.Context) ([]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, e
 				delete(ar.alerts, h)
 				continue
 			}
-			a.State = notifier.StateInactive
+			if a.State == notifier.StateFiring {
+				a.State = notifier.StateInactive
+				a.ResolvedAt = ts
+			}
 			continue
 		}
-		if a.State == notifier.StatePending && time.Since(a.Start) >= ar.For {
+		if a.State == notifier.StatePending && time.Since(a.ActiveAt) >= ar.For {
 			a.State = notifier.StateFiring
+			a.Start = ts
 			alertsFired.Inc()
 		}
 	}
-	return ar.toTimeSeries(ar.lastExecTime.Unix()), nil
-}
-
-func expandLabels(m datasource.Metric, q notifier.QueryFn, ar *AlertingRule) (map[string]string, error) {
-	metricLabels := make(map[string]string)
-	for _, l := range m.Labels {
-		metricLabels[l.Name] = l.Value
-	}
-	tpl := notifier.AlertTplData{
-		Labels: metricLabels,
-		Value:  m.Values[0],
-		Expr:   ar.Expr,
-	}
-	return notifier.ExecTemplate(q, ar.Labels, tpl)
+	return ar.toTimeSeries(ts.Unix()), nil
 }
 
 func (ar *AlertingRule) toTimeSeries(timestamp int64) []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries {
@@ -337,42 +362,43 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) UpdateWith(r Rule) error {
 }
 
 // TODO: consider hashing algorithm in VM
-func hash(m datasource.Metric) uint64 {
+func hash(labels map[string]string) uint64 {
 	hash := fnv.New64a()
-	labels := m.Labels
-	sort.Slice(labels, func(i, j int) bool {
-		return labels[i].Name < labels[j].Name
-	})
-	for _, l := range labels {
+	keys := make([]string, 0, len(labels))
+	for k := range labels {
+		keys = append(keys, k)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(keys)
+	for _, k := range keys {
 		// drop __name__ to be consistent with Prometheus alerting
-		if l.Name == "__name__" {
+		if k == "__name__" {
 			continue
 		}
-		hash.Write([]byte(l.Name))
-		hash.Write([]byte(l.Value))
+		name, value := k, labels[k]
+		hash.Write([]byte(name))
+		hash.Write([]byte(value))
 		hash.Write([]byte("\xff"))
 	}
 	return hash.Sum64()
 }
 
-func (ar *AlertingRule) newAlert(m datasource.Metric, start time.Time, qFn notifier.QueryFn) (*notifier.Alert, error) {
-	a := &notifier.Alert{
-		GroupID: ar.GroupID,
-		Name:    ar.Name,
-		Labels:  map[string]string{},
-		Value:   m.Values[0],
-		Start:   start,
-		Expr:    ar.Expr,
-	}
-	for _, l := range m.Labels {
-		// drop __name__ to be consistent with Prometheus alerting
-		if l.Name == "__name__" {
-			continue
-		}
-		a.Labels[l.Name] = l.Value
-	}
+func (ar *AlertingRule) newAlert(m datasource.Metric, ls *labelSet, start time.Time, qFn notifier.QueryFn) (*notifier.Alert, error) {
 	var err error
-	a.Annotations, err = a.ExecTemplate(qFn, ar.Annotations)
+	if ls == nil {
+		ls, err = ar.toLabels(m, qFn)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to expand labels: %s", err)
+		}
+	}
+	a := &notifier.Alert{
+		GroupID:  ar.GroupID,
+		Name:     ar.Name,
+		Labels:   ls.processed,
+		Value:    m.Values[0],
+		ActiveAt: start,
+		Expr:     ar.Expr,
+	}
+	a.Annotations, err = a.ExecTemplate(qFn, ls.origin, ar.Annotations)
 	return a, err
 }
 
@@ -387,34 +413,54 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) AlertAPI(id uint64) *APIAlert {
 	return ar.newAlertAPI(*a)
 }
 
-// RuleAPI returns Rule representation in form
-// of APIAlertingRule
-func (ar *AlertingRule) RuleAPI() APIAlertingRule {
-	var lastErr string
+// ToAPI returns Rule representation in form
+// of APIRule
+func (ar *AlertingRule) ToAPI() APIRule {
+	r := APIRule{
+		Type:           "alerting",
+		DatasourceType: ar.Type.String(),
+		Name:           ar.Name,
+		Query:          ar.Expr,
+		Duration:       ar.For.Seconds(),
+		Labels:         ar.Labels,
+		Annotations:    ar.Annotations,
+		LastEvaluation: ar.lastExecTime,
+		EvaluationTime: ar.lastExecDuration.Seconds(),
+		Health:         "ok",
+		State:          "inactive",
+		Alerts:         ar.AlertsToAPI(),
+		LastSamples:    ar.lastExecSamples,
+
+		// encode as strings to avoid rounding in JSON
+		ID:      fmt.Sprintf("%d", ar.ID()),
+		GroupID: fmt.Sprintf("%d", ar.GroupID),
+	}
 	if ar.lastExecError != nil {
-		lastErr = ar.lastExecError.Error()
+		r.LastError = ar.lastExecError.Error()
+		r.Health = "err"
 	}
-	return APIAlertingRule{
-		// encode as strings to avoid rounding
-		ID:          fmt.Sprintf("%d", ar.ID()),
-		GroupID:     fmt.Sprintf("%d", ar.GroupID),
-		Type:        ar.Type.String(),
-		Name:        ar.Name,
-		Expression:  ar.Expr,
-		For:         ar.For.String(),
-		LastError:   lastErr,
-		LastSamples: ar.lastExecSamples,
-		LastExec:    ar.lastExecTime,
-		Labels:      ar.Labels,
-		Annotations: ar.Annotations,
+	// satisfy APIRule.State logic
+	if len(r.Alerts) > 0 {
+		r.State = notifier.StatePending.String()
+		stateFiring := notifier.StateFiring.String()
+		for _, a := range r.Alerts {
+			if a.State == stateFiring {
+				r.State = stateFiring
+				break
+			}
+		}
 	}
+	return r
 }
 
-// AlertsAPI generates list of APIAlert objects from existing alerts
-func (ar *AlertingRule) AlertsAPI() []*APIAlert {
+// AlertsToAPI generates list of APIAlert objects from existing alerts
+func (ar *AlertingRule) AlertsToAPI() []*APIAlert {
 	var alerts []*APIAlert
 	ar.mu.RLock()
 	for _, a := range ar.alerts {
+		if a.State == notifier.StateInactive {
+			continue
+		}
 		alerts = append(alerts, ar.newAlertAPI(*a))
 	}
 	ar.mu.RUnlock()
@@ -433,7 +479,7 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) newAlertAPI(a notifier.Alert) *APIAlert {
 		Labels:      a.Labels,
 		Annotations: a.Annotations,
 		State:       a.State.String(),
-		ActiveAt:    a.Start,
+		ActiveAt:    a.ActiveAt,
 		Restored:    a.Restored,
 		Value:       strconv.FormatFloat(a.Value, 'f', -1, 32),
 	}
@@ -459,7 +505,7 @@ const (
 	alertGroupNameLabel = "alertgroup"
 )
 
-// alertToTimeSeries converts the given alert with the given timestamp to timeseries
+// alertToTimeSeries converts the given alert with the given timestamp to time series
 func (ar *AlertingRule) alertToTimeSeries(a *notifier.Alert, timestamp int64) []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries {
 	var tss []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries
 	tss = append(tss, alertToTimeSeries(a, timestamp))
@@ -487,11 +533,11 @@ func alertForToTimeSeries(a *notifier.Alert, timestamp int64) prompbmarshal.Time
 		labels[k] = v
 	}
 	labels["__name__"] = alertForStateMetricName
-	return newTimeSeries([]float64{float64(a.Start.Unix())}, []int64{timestamp}, labels)
+	return newTimeSeries([]float64{float64(a.ActiveAt.Unix())}, []int64{timestamp}, labels)
 }
 
 // Restore restores the state of active alerts basing on previously written time series.
-// Restore restores only Start field. Field State will be always Pending and supposed
+// Restore restores only ActiveAt field. Field State will be always Pending and supposed
 // to be updated on next Exec, as well as Value field.
 // Only rules with For > 0 will be restored.
 func (ar *AlertingRule) Restore(ctx context.Context, q datasource.Querier, lookback time.Duration, labels map[string]string) error {
@@ -499,7 +545,8 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) Restore(ctx context.Context, q datasource.Querier, lookb
 		return fmt.Errorf("querier is nil")
 	}
 
-	qFn := func(query string) ([]datasource.Metric, error) { return ar.q.Query(ctx, query) }
+	ts := time.Now()
+	qFn := func(query string) ([]datasource.Metric, error) { return ar.q.Query(ctx, query, ts) }
 
 	// account for external labels in filter
 	var labelsFilter string
@@ -512,21 +559,61 @@ func (ar *AlertingRule) Restore(ctx context.Context, q datasource.Querier, lookb
 	// remote write protocol which is used for state persistence in vmalert.
 	expr := fmt.Sprintf("last_over_time(%s{alertname=%q%s}[%ds])",
 		alertForStateMetricName, ar.Name, labelsFilter, int(lookback.Seconds()))
-	qMetrics, err := q.Query(ctx, expr)
+	qMetrics, err := q.Query(ctx, expr, ts)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
 	for _, m := range qMetrics {
-		a, err := ar.newAlert(m, time.Unix(int64(m.Values[0]), 0), qFn)
+		ls := &labelSet{
+			origin:    make(map[string]string, len(m.Labels)),
+			processed: make(map[string]string, len(m.Labels)),
+		}
+		for _, l := range m.Labels {
+			if l.Name == "__name__" {
+				continue
+			}
+			ls.origin[l.Name] = l.Value
+			ls.processed[l.Name] = l.Value
+		}
+		a, err := ar.newAlert(m, ls, time.Unix(int64(m.Values[0]), 0), qFn)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("failed to create alert: %w", err)
 		}
-		a.ID = hash(m)
+		a.ID = hash(ls.processed)
 		a.State = notifier.StatePending
 		a.Restored = true
 		ar.alerts[a.ID] = a
-		logger.Infof("alert %q (%d) restored to state at %v", a.Name, a.ID, a.Start)
+		logger.Infof("alert %q (%d) restored to state at %v", a.Name, a.ID, a.ActiveAt)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// alertsToSend walks through the current alerts of AlertingRule
+// and returns only those which should be sent to notifier.
+// Isn't concurrent safe.
+func (ar *AlertingRule) alertsToSend(ts time.Time, resolveDuration, resendDelay time.Duration) []notifier.Alert {
+	needsSending := func(a *notifier.Alert) bool {
+		if a.State == notifier.StatePending {
+			return false
+		}
+		if a.ResolvedAt.After(a.LastSent) {
+			return true
+		}
+		return a.LastSent.Add(resendDelay).Before(ts)
+	}
+
+	var alerts []notifier.Alert
+	for _, a := range ar.alerts {
+		if !needsSending(a) {
+			continue
+		}
+		a.End = ts.Add(resolveDuration)
+		if a.State == notifier.StateInactive {
+			a.End = a.ResolvedAt
+		}
+		a.LastSent = ts
+		alerts = append(alerts, *a)
+	}
+	return alerts
+}

app/vmalert/alerting_test.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"reflect"
+	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ func TestAlertingRule_ToTimeSeries(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 		{
 			newTestAlertingRule("for", time.Second),
-			&notifier.Alert{State: notifier.StateFiring, Start: timestamp.Add(time.Second)},
+			&notifier.Alert{State: notifier.StateFiring, ActiveAt: timestamp.Add(time.Second)},
 			[]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries{
 				newTimeSeries([]float64{1}, []int64{timestamp.UnixNano()}, map[string]string{
 					"__name__":      alertMetricName,
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ func TestAlertingRule_ToTimeSeries(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 		{
 			newTestAlertingRule("for pending", 10*time.Second),
-			&notifier.Alert{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: timestamp.Add(time.Second)},
+			&notifier.Alert{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: timestamp.Add(time.Second)},
 			[]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries{
 				newTimeSeries([]float64{1}, []int64{timestamp.UnixNano()}, map[string]string{
 					"__name__":      alertMetricName,
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Exec(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 		},
 		{
-			newTestAlertingRule("single-firing=>inactive=>firing=>inactive=>empty", 0),
+			newTestAlertingRule("single-firing=>inactive=>firing=>inactive=>inactive", 0),
 			[][]datasource.Metric{
 				{metricWithLabels(t, "name", "foo")},
 				{},
@@ -176,7 +177,9 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Exec(t *testing.T) {
 				{},
 				{},
 			},
-			nil,
+			[]testAlert{
+				{labels: []string{"name", "foo"}, alert: &notifier.Alert{State: notifier.StateInactive}},
+			},
 		},
 		{
 			newTestAlertingRule("single-firing=>inactive=>firing=>inactive=>empty=>firing", 0),
@@ -216,8 +219,9 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Exec(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			// 1: fire first alert
 			// 2: fire second alert, set first inactive
-			// 3: fire third alert, set second inactive, delete first one
+			// 3: fire third alert, set second inactive
 			[]testAlert{
+				{labels: []string{"name", "foo"}, alert: &notifier.Alert{State: notifier.StateInactive}},
 				{labels: []string{"name", "foo1"}, alert: &notifier.Alert{State: notifier.StateInactive}},
 				{labels: []string{"name", "foo2"}, alert: &notifier.Alert{State: notifier.StateFiring}},
 			},
@@ -300,7 +304,7 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Exec(t *testing.T) {
 			for _, step := range tc.steps {
 				fq.reset()
 				fq.add(step...)
-				if _, err := tc.rule.Exec(context.TODO()); err != nil {
+				if _, err := tc.rule.Exec(context.TODO(), time.Now()); err != nil {
 					t.Fatalf("unexpected err: %s", err)
 				}
 				// artificial delay between applying steps
@@ -311,10 +315,13 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Exec(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 			expAlerts := make(map[uint64]*notifier.Alert)
 			for _, ta := range tc.expAlerts {
-				labels := ta.labels
-				labels = append(labels, alertNameLabel)
-				labels = append(labels, tc.rule.Name)
-				h := hash(metricWithLabels(t, labels...))
+				labels := make(map[string]string)
+				for i := 0; i < len(ta.labels); i += 2 {
+					k, v := ta.labels[i], ta.labels[i+1]
+					labels[k] = v
+				}
+				labels[alertNameLabel] = tc.rule.Name
+				h := hash(labels)
 				expAlerts[h] = ta.alert
 			}
 			for key, exp := range expAlerts {
@@ -379,9 +386,9 @@ func TestAlertingRule_ExecRange(t *testing.T) {
 				{Values: []float64{1, 1, 1}, Timestamps: []int64{1, 3, 5}},
 			},
 			[]*notifier.Alert{
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(1, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(3, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(5, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(3, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(5, 0)},
 			},
 		},
 		{
@@ -390,9 +397,9 @@ func TestAlertingRule_ExecRange(t *testing.T) {
 				{Values: []float64{1, 1, 1}, Timestamps: []int64{1, 3, 5}},
 			},
 			[]*notifier.Alert{
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(1, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(1, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StateFiring, Start: time.Unix(1, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StateFiring, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0)},
 			},
 		},
 		{
@@ -401,11 +408,11 @@ func TestAlertingRule_ExecRange(t *testing.T) {
 				{Values: []float64{1, 1, 1, 1, 1}, Timestamps: []int64{1, 2, 5, 6, 20}},
 			},
 			[]*notifier.Alert{
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(1, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StateFiring, Start: time.Unix(1, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(5, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StateFiring, Start: time.Unix(5, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(20, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StateFiring, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(5, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StateFiring, ActiveAt: time.Unix(5, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(20, 0)},
 			},
 		},
 		{
@@ -417,15 +424,15 @@ func TestAlertingRule_ExecRange(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 			[]*notifier.Alert{
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(1, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(1, 0)},
-				{State: notifier.StateFiring, Start: time.Unix(1, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0)},
+				{State: notifier.StateFiring, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0)},
 				//
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(1, 0),
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(1, 0),
 					Labels: map[string]string{
 						"foo": "bar",
 					}},
-				{State: notifier.StatePending, Start: time.Unix(5, 0),
+				{State: notifier.StatePending, ActiveAt: time.Unix(5, 0),
 					Labels: map[string]string{
 						"foo": "bar",
 					}},
@@ -478,7 +485,7 @@ func TestAlertingRule_ExecRange(t *testing.T) {
 						a.Labels = make(map[string]string)
 					}
 					a.Labels[alertNameLabel] = tc.rule.Name
-					expTS = append(expTS, tc.rule.alertToTimeSeries(tc.expAlerts[j], timestamp)...)
+					expTS = append(expTS, tc.rule.alertToTimeSeries(a, timestamp)...)
 					j++
 				}
 			}
@@ -509,8 +516,8 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Restore(t *testing.T) {
 				),
 			},
 			map[uint64]*notifier.Alert{
-				hash(datasource.Metric{}): {State: notifier.StatePending,
-					Start: time.Now().Truncate(time.Hour)},
+				hash(nil): {State: notifier.StatePending,
+					ActiveAt: time.Now().Truncate(time.Hour)},
 			},
 		},
 		{
@@ -525,13 +532,13 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Restore(t *testing.T) {
 				),
 			},
 			map[uint64]*notifier.Alert{
-				hash(metricWithLabels(t,
-					alertNameLabel, "metric labels",
-					alertGroupNameLabel, "groupID",
-					"foo", "bar",
-					"namespace", "baz",
-				)): {State: notifier.StatePending,
-					Start: time.Now().Truncate(time.Hour)},
+				hash(map[string]string{
+					alertNameLabel:      "metric labels",
+					alertGroupNameLabel: "groupID",
+					"foo":               "bar",
+					"namespace":         "baz",
+				}): {State: notifier.StatePending,
+					ActiveAt: time.Now().Truncate(time.Hour)},
 			},
 		},
 		{
@@ -546,12 +553,12 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Restore(t *testing.T) {
 				),
 			},
 			map[uint64]*notifier.Alert{
-				hash(metricWithLabels(t,
-					"foo", "bar",
-					"namespace", "baz",
-					"source", "vm",
-				)): {State: notifier.StatePending,
-					Start: time.Now().Truncate(time.Hour)},
+				hash(map[string]string{
+					"foo":       "bar",
+					"namespace": "baz",
+					"source":    "vm",
+				}): {State: notifier.StatePending,
+					ActiveAt: time.Now().Truncate(time.Hour)},
 			},
 		},
 		{
@@ -571,12 +578,12 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Restore(t *testing.T) {
 				),
 			},
 			map[uint64]*notifier.Alert{
-				hash(metricWithLabels(t, "host", "localhost-1")): {State: notifier.StatePending,
-					Start: time.Now().Truncate(time.Hour)},
-				hash(metricWithLabels(t, "host", "localhost-2")): {State: notifier.StatePending,
-					Start: time.Now().Truncate(2 * time.Hour)},
-				hash(metricWithLabels(t, "host", "localhost-3")): {State: notifier.StatePending,
-					Start: time.Now().Truncate(3 * time.Hour)},
+				hash(map[string]string{"host": "localhost-1"}): {State: notifier.StatePending,
+					ActiveAt: time.Now().Truncate(time.Hour)},
+				hash(map[string]string{"host": "localhost-2"}): {State: notifier.StatePending,
+					ActiveAt: time.Now().Truncate(2 * time.Hour)},
+				hash(map[string]string{"host": "localhost-3"}): {State: notifier.StatePending,
+					ActiveAt: time.Now().Truncate(3 * time.Hour)},
 			},
 		},
 	}
@@ -601,8 +608,8 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Restore(t *testing.T) {
 				if got.State != exp.State {
 					t.Fatalf("expected state %d; got %d", exp.State, got.State)
 				}
-				if got.Start != exp.Start {
-					t.Fatalf("expected Start %v; got %v", exp.Start, got.Start)
+				if got.ActiveAt != exp.ActiveAt {
+					t.Fatalf("expected ActiveAt %v; got %v", exp.ActiveAt, got.ActiveAt)
 				}
 			}
 		})
@@ -617,14 +624,14 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Exec_Negative(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// successful attempt
 	fq.add(metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 1, "__name__", "foo", "job", "bar"))
-	_, err := ar.Exec(context.TODO())
+	_, err := ar.Exec(context.TODO(), time.Now())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
 	// label `job` will collide with rule extra label and will make both time series equal
 	fq.add(metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 1, "__name__", "foo", "job", "baz"))
-	_, err = ar.Exec(context.TODO())
+	_, err = ar.Exec(context.TODO(), time.Now())
 	if !errors.Is(err, errDuplicate) {
 		t.Fatalf("expected to have %s error; got %s", errDuplicate, err)
 	}
@@ -633,7 +640,7 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Exec_Negative(t *testing.T) {
 
 	expErr := "connection reset by peer"
 	fq.setErr(errors.New(expErr))
-	_, err = ar.Exec(context.TODO())
+	_, err = ar.Exec(context.TODO(), time.Now())
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected to get err; got nil")
 	}
@@ -655,7 +662,7 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Template(t *testing.T) {
 				metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 1, "instance", "bar"),
 			},
 			map[uint64]*notifier.Alert{
-				hash(metricWithLabels(t, alertNameLabel, "common", "region", "east", "instance", "foo")): {
+				hash(map[string]string{alertNameLabel: "common", "region": "east", "instance": "foo"}): {
 					Annotations: map[string]string{},
 					Labels: map[string]string{
 						alertNameLabel: "common",
@@ -663,7 +670,7 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Template(t *testing.T) {
 						"instance":     "foo",
 					},
 				},
-				hash(metricWithLabels(t, alertNameLabel, "common", "region", "east", "instance", "bar")): {
+				hash(map[string]string{alertNameLabel: "common", "region": "east", "instance": "bar"}): {
 					Annotations: map[string]string{},
 					Labels: map[string]string{
 						alertNameLabel: "common",
@@ -678,39 +685,70 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Template(t *testing.T) {
 				Name: "override label",
 				Labels: map[string]string{
 					"instance": "{{ $labels.instance }}",
-					"region":   "east",
 				},
 				Annotations: map[string]string{
-					"summary":     `Too high connection number for "{{ $labels.instance }}" for region {{ $labels.region }}`,
-					"description": `It is {{ $value }} connections for "{{ $labels.instance }}"`,
+					"summary":     `Too high connection number for "{{ $labels.instance }}"`,
+					"description": `{{ $labels.alertname}}: It is {{ $value }} connections for "{{ $labels.instance }}"`,
 				},
 				alerts: make(map[uint64]*notifier.Alert),
 			},
 			[]datasource.Metric{
-				metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 2, "instance", "foo"),
-				metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 10, "instance", "bar"),
+				metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 2, "instance", "foo", alertNameLabel, "override"),
+				metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 10, "instance", "bar", alertNameLabel, "override"),
 			},
 			map[uint64]*notifier.Alert{
-				hash(metricWithLabels(t, alertNameLabel, "override label", "region", "east", "instance", "foo")): {
+				hash(map[string]string{alertNameLabel: "override label", "instance": "foo"}): {
 					Labels: map[string]string{
 						alertNameLabel: "override label",
 						"instance":     "foo",
-						"region":       "east",
 					},
 					Annotations: map[string]string{
-						"summary":     `Too high connection number for "foo" for region east`,
-						"description": `It is 2 connections for "foo"`,
+						"summary":     `Too high connection number for "foo"`,
+						"description": `override: It is 2 connections for "foo"`,
 					},
 				},
-				hash(metricWithLabels(t, alertNameLabel, "override label", "region", "east", "instance", "bar")): {
+				hash(map[string]string{alertNameLabel: "override label", "instance": "bar"}): {
 					Labels: map[string]string{
 						alertNameLabel: "override label",
 						"instance":     "bar",
-						"region":       "east",
 					},
 					Annotations: map[string]string{
-						"summary":     `Too high connection number for "bar" for region east`,
-						"description": `It is 10 connections for "bar"`,
+						"summary":     `Too high connection number for "bar"`,
+						"description": `override: It is 10 connections for "bar"`,
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			&AlertingRule{
+				Name:      "OriginLabels",
+				GroupName: "Testing",
+				Labels: map[string]string{
+					"instance": "{{ $labels.instance }}",
+				},
+				Annotations: map[string]string{
+					"summary": `Alert "{{ $labels.alertname }}({{ $labels.alertgroup }})" for instance {{ $labels.instance }}`,
+				},
+				alerts: make(map[uint64]*notifier.Alert),
+			},
+			[]datasource.Metric{
+				metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 1,
+					alertNameLabel, "originAlertname",
+					alertGroupNameLabel, "originGroupname",
+					"instance", "foo"),
+			},
+			map[uint64]*notifier.Alert{
+				hash(map[string]string{
+					alertNameLabel:      "OriginLabels",
+					alertGroupNameLabel: "Testing",
+					"instance":          "foo"}): {
+					Labels: map[string]string{
+						alertNameLabel:      "OriginLabels",
+						alertGroupNameLabel: "Testing",
+						"instance":          "foo",
+					},
+					Annotations: map[string]string{
+						"summary": `Alert "originAlertname(originGroupname)" for instance foo`,
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -723,7 +761,7 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Template(t *testing.T) {
 			tc.rule.GroupID = fakeGroup.ID()
 			tc.rule.q = fq
 			fq.add(tc.metrics...)
-			if _, err := tc.rule.Exec(context.TODO()); err != nil {
+			if _, err := tc.rule.Exec(context.TODO(), time.Now()); err != nil {
 				t.Fatalf("unexpected err: %s", err)
 			}
 			for hash, expAlert := range tc.expAlerts {
@@ -743,6 +781,86 @@ func TestAlertingRule_Template(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestAlertsToSend(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Now()
+	f := func(alerts, expAlerts []*notifier.Alert, resolveDuration, resendDelay time.Duration) {
+		t.Helper()
+		ar := &AlertingRule{alerts: make(map[uint64]*notifier.Alert)}
+		for i, a := range alerts {
+			ar.alerts[uint64(i)] = a
+		}
+		gotAlerts := ar.alertsToSend(ts, resolveDuration, resendDelay)
+		if gotAlerts == nil && expAlerts == nil {
+			return
+		}
+		if len(gotAlerts) != len(expAlerts) {
+			t.Fatalf("expected to get %d alerts; got %d instead",
+				len(expAlerts), len(gotAlerts))
+		}
+		sort.Slice(expAlerts, func(i, j int) bool {
+			return expAlerts[i].Name < expAlerts[j].Name
+		})
+		sort.Slice(gotAlerts, func(i, j int) bool {
+			return gotAlerts[i].Name < gotAlerts[j].Name
+		})
+		for i, exp := range expAlerts {
+			got := gotAlerts[i]
+			if got.LastSent != exp.LastSent {
+				t.Fatalf("expected LastSent to be %v; got %v", exp.LastSent, got.LastSent)
+			}
+			if got.End != exp.End {
+				t.Fatalf("expected End to be %v; got %v", exp.End, got.End)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	f( // send firing alert with custom resolve time
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{State: notifier.StateFiring}},
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{LastSent: ts, End: ts.Add(5 * time.Minute)}},
+		5*time.Minute, time.Minute,
+	)
+	f( // resolve inactive alert at the current timestamp
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{State: notifier.StateInactive, ResolvedAt: ts}},
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{LastSent: ts, End: ts}},
+		time.Minute, time.Minute,
+	)
+	f( // mixed case of firing and resolved alerts. Names are added for deterministic sorting
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{Name: "a", State: notifier.StateFiring}, {Name: "b", State: notifier.StateInactive, ResolvedAt: ts}},
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{Name: "a", LastSent: ts, End: ts.Add(5 * time.Minute)}, {Name: "b", LastSent: ts, End: ts}},
+		5*time.Minute, time.Minute,
+	)
+	f( // mixed case of pending and resolved alerts. Names are added for deterministic sorting
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{Name: "a", State: notifier.StatePending}, {Name: "b", State: notifier.StateInactive, ResolvedAt: ts}},
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{Name: "b", LastSent: ts, End: ts}},
+		5*time.Minute, time.Minute,
+	)
+	f( // attempt to send alert that was already sent in the resendDelay interval
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{State: notifier.StateFiring, LastSent: ts.Add(-time.Second)}},
+		nil,
+		time.Minute, time.Minute,
+	)
+	f( // attempt to send alert that was sent out of the resendDelay interval
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{State: notifier.StateFiring, LastSent: ts.Add(-2 * time.Minute)}},
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{LastSent: ts, End: ts.Add(time.Minute)}},
+		time.Minute, time.Minute,
+	)
+	f( // alert must be sent even if resendDelay interval is 0
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{State: notifier.StateFiring, LastSent: ts.Add(-time.Second)}},
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{LastSent: ts, End: ts.Add(time.Minute)}},
+		time.Minute, 0,
+	)
+	f( // inactive alert which has been sent already
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{State: notifier.StateInactive, LastSent: ts.Add(-time.Second), ResolvedAt: ts.Add(-2 * time.Second)}},
+		nil,
+		time.Minute, time.Minute,
+	)
+	f( // inactive alert which has been resolved after last send
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{State: notifier.StateInactive, LastSent: ts.Add(-time.Second), ResolvedAt: ts}},
+		[]*notifier.Alert{{LastSent: ts, End: ts}},
+		time.Minute, time.Minute,
+	)
+}
+
 func newTestRuleWithLabels(name string, labels ...string) *AlertingRule {
 	r := newTestAlertingRule(name, 0)
 	r.Labels = make(map[string]string)

app/vmalert/config/config.go

@@ -5,17 +5,19 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"hash/fnv"
 	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/url"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/notifier"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/envtemplate"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger"
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promutils"
 )
 
 // Group contains list of Rules grouped into
@@ -23,13 +25,14 @@ import (
 type Group struct {
 	Type        datasource.Type `yaml:"type,omitempty"`
 	File        string
-	Name        string             `yaml:"name"`
-	Interval    utils.PromDuration `yaml:"interval"`
-	Rules       []Rule             `yaml:"rules"`
-	Concurrency int                `yaml:"concurrency"`
+	Name        string              `yaml:"name"`
+	Interval    *promutils.Duration `yaml:"interval,omitempty"`
+	Rules       []Rule              `yaml:"rules"`
+	Concurrency int                 `yaml:"concurrency"`
 	// ExtraFilterLabels is a list label filters applied to every rule
 	// request withing a group. Is compatible only with VM datasources.
 	// See https://docs.victoriametrics.com#prometheus-querying-api-enhancements
+	// DEPRECATED: use Params field instead
 	ExtraFilterLabels map[string]string `yaml:"extra_filter_labels"`
 	// Labels is a set of label value pairs, that will be added to every rule.
 	// It has priority over the external labels.
@@ -37,6 +40,8 @@ type Group struct {
 	// Checksum stores the hash of yaml definition for this group.
 	// May be used to detect any changes like rules re-ordering etc.
 	Checksum string
+	// Optional HTTP URL parameters added to each rule request
+	Params url.Values `yaml:"params"`
 
 	// Catches all undefined fields and must be empty after parsing.
 	XXX map[string]interface{} `yaml:",inline"`
@@ -56,12 +61,20 @@ func (g *Group) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error {
 	if g.Type.Get() == "" {
 		g.Type.Set(datasource.NewPrometheusType())
 	}
-	// update rules with empty type.
-	for i, r := range g.Rules {
-		if r.Type.Get() == "" {
-			r.Type.Set(g.Type)
-			r.ID = HashRule(r)
-			g.Rules[i] = r
+
+	// backward compatibility with deprecated `ExtraFilterLabels` param
+	if len(g.ExtraFilterLabels) > 0 {
+		if g.Params == nil {
+			g.Params = url.Values{}
+		}
+		// Sort extraFilters for consistent order for query args across runs.
+		extraFilters := make([]string, 0, len(g.ExtraFilterLabels))
+		for k, v := range g.ExtraFilterLabels {
+			extraFilters = append(extraFilters, fmt.Sprintf("%s=%s", k, v))
+		}
+		sort.Strings(extraFilters)
+		for _, extraFilter := range extraFilters {
+			g.Params.Add("extra_label", extraFilter)
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -76,9 +89,6 @@ func (g *Group) Validate(validateAnnotations, validateExpressions bool) error {
 	if g.Name == "" {
 		return fmt.Errorf("group name must be set")
 	}
-	if len(g.Rules) == 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("group %q can't contain no rules", g.Name)
-	}
 
 	uniqueRules := map[uint64]struct{}{}
 	for _, r := range g.Rules {
@@ -97,9 +107,6 @@ func (g *Group) Validate(validateAnnotations, validateExpressions bool) error {
 			// its needed only for tests.
 			// because correct types must be inherited after unmarshalling.
 			exprValidator := g.Type.ValidateExpr
-			if r.Type.Get() != "" {
-				exprValidator = r.Type.ValidateExpr
-			}
 			if err := exprValidator(r.Expr); err != nil {
 				return fmt.Errorf("invalid expression for rule %q.%q: %w", g.Name, ruleName, err)
 			}
@@ -120,13 +127,12 @@ func (g *Group) Validate(validateAnnotations, validateExpressions bool) error {
 // recording rule or alerting rule.
 type Rule struct {
 	ID          uint64
-	Type        datasource.Type    `yaml:"type,omitempty"`
-	Record      string             `yaml:"record,omitempty"`
-	Alert       string             `yaml:"alert,omitempty"`
-	Expr        string             `yaml:"expr"`
-	For         utils.PromDuration `yaml:"for"`
-	Labels      map[string]string  `yaml:"labels,omitempty"`
-	Annotations map[string]string  `yaml:"annotations,omitempty"`
+	Record      string              `yaml:"record,omitempty"`
+	Alert       string              `yaml:"alert,omitempty"`
+	Expr        string              `yaml:"expr"`
+	For         *promutils.Duration `yaml:"for,omitempty"`
+	Labels      map[string]string   `yaml:"labels,omitempty"`
+	Annotations map[string]string   `yaml:"annotations,omitempty"`
 
 	// Catches all undefined fields and must be empty after parsing.
 	XXX map[string]interface{} `yaml:",inline"`
@@ -162,7 +168,6 @@ func HashRule(r Rule) uint64 {
 		h.Write([]byte("alerting"))
 		h.Write([]byte(r.Alert))
 	}
-	h.Write([]byte(r.Type.Get()))
 	kv := sortMap(r.Labels)
 	for _, i := range kv {
 		h.Write([]byte(i.key))
@@ -194,6 +199,7 @@ func Parse(pathPatterns []string, validateAnnotations, validateExpressions bool)
 		fp = append(fp, matches...)
 	}
 	errGroup := new(utils.ErrGroup)
+	var isExtraFilterLabelsUsed bool
 	var groups []Group
 	for _, file := range fp {
 		uniqueGroups := map[string]struct{}{}
@@ -213,6 +219,9 @@ func Parse(pathPatterns []string, validateAnnotations, validateExpressions bool)
 			}
 			uniqueGroups[g.Name] = struct{}{}
 			g.File = file
+			if len(g.ExtraFilterLabels) > 0 {
+				isExtraFilterLabelsUsed = true
+			}
 			groups = append(groups, g)
 		}
 	}
@@ -222,6 +231,9 @@ func Parse(pathPatterns []string, validateAnnotations, validateExpressions bool)
 	if len(groups) < 1 {
 		logger.Warnf("no groups found in %s", strings.Join(pathPatterns, ";"))
 	}
+	if isExtraFilterLabelsUsed {
+		logger.Warnf("field `extra_filter_labels` is deprecated - use `params` instead")
+	}
 	return groups, nil
 }
 

app/vmalert/config/config_test.go

@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/notifier"
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promutils"
 )
 
 func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
@@ -95,10 +96,6 @@ func TestGroup_Validate(t *testing.T) {
 			group:  &Group{},
 			expErr: "group name must be set",
 		},
-		{
-			group:  &Group{Name: "test"},
-			expErr: "contain no rules",
-		},
 		{
 			group: &Group{Name: "test",
 				Rules: []Rule{
@@ -263,11 +260,10 @@ func TestGroup_Validate(t *testing.T) {
 				Rules: []Rule{
 					{
 						Expr: "sumSeries(time('foo.bar',10))",
-						For:  utils.NewPromDuration(10 * time.Millisecond),
+						For:  promutils.NewDuration(10 * time.Millisecond),
 					},
 					{
 						Expr: "sum(up == 0 ) by (host)",
-						Type: datasource.NewPrometheusType(),
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -279,11 +275,10 @@ func TestGroup_Validate(t *testing.T) {
 				Rules: []Rule{
 					{
 						Expr: "sum(up == 0 ) by (host)",
-						For:  utils.NewPromDuration(10 * time.Millisecond),
+						For:  promutils.NewDuration(10 * time.Millisecond),
 					},
 					{
 						Expr: "sumSeries(time('foo.bar',10))",
-						Type: datasource.NewPrometheusType(),
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -347,7 +342,7 @@ func TestHashRule(t *testing.T) {
 			true,
 		},
 		{
-			Rule{Alert: "alert", Expr: "up == 1", For: utils.NewPromDuration(time.Minute)},
+			Rule{Alert: "alert", Expr: "up == 1", For: promutils.NewDuration(time.Minute)},
 			Rule{Alert: "alert", Expr: "up == 1"},
 			true,
 		},
@@ -478,6 +473,85 @@ concurrency: 16
 rules:
   - alert: ExampleAlertWithFor
     expr: sum by(job) (up == 1)
+`)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("`params` change", func(t *testing.T) {
+		f(t, `
+name: TestGroup
+params:
+    nocache: ["1"]
+rules:
+  - alert: foo
+    expr: sum by(job) (up == 1)
+`, `
+name: TestGroup
+params:
+    nocache: ["0"]
+rules:
+  - alert: foo
+    expr: sum by(job) (up == 1)
 `)
 	})
 }
+
+func TestGroupParams(t *testing.T) {
+	f := func(t *testing.T, data string, expParams url.Values) {
+		t.Helper()
+		var g Group
+		if err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(data), &g); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to unmarshal: %s", err)
+		}
+		got, exp := g.Params.Encode(), expParams.Encode()
+		if got != exp {
+			t.Fatalf("expected to have %q; got %q", exp, got)
+		}
+	}
+
+	t.Run("no params", func(t *testing.T) {
+		f(t, `
+name: TestGroup
+rules:
+  - alert: ExampleAlertAlwaysFiring
+    expr: sum by(job) (up == 1)
+`, url.Values{})
+	})
+
+	t.Run("params", func(t *testing.T) {
+		f(t, `
+name: TestGroup
+params:
+  nocache: ["1"]
+  denyPartialResponse: ["true"]
+rules:
+  - alert: ExampleAlertAlwaysFiring
+    expr: sum by(job) (up == 1)
+`, url.Values{"nocache": {"1"}, "denyPartialResponse": {"true"}})
+	})
+
+	t.Run("extra labels", func(t *testing.T) {
+		f(t, `
+name: TestGroup
+extra_filter_labels:
+  job: victoriametrics
+  env: prod
+rules:
+  - alert: ExampleAlertAlwaysFiring
+    expr: sum by(job) (up == 1)
+`, url.Values{"extra_label": {"env=prod", "job=victoriametrics"}})
+	})
+
+	t.Run("extra labels and params", func(t *testing.T) {
+		f(t, `
+name: TestGroup
+extra_filter_labels:
+  job: victoriametrics
+params:
+  nocache: ["1"]
+  extra_label: ["env=prod"]
+rules:
+  - alert: ExampleAlertAlwaysFiring
+    expr: sum by(job) (up == 1)
+`, url.Values{"nocache": {"1"}, "extra_label": {"env=prod", "job=victoriametrics"}})
+	})
+}

app/vmalert/config/testdata/dir/rules-update0-good.rules

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-groups:
-  - name: TestUpdateGroup
-    interval: 2s
-    concurrency: 2
-    type: prometheus
-    labels:
-      cluster: main
-    rules:
-      - alert: up
-        expr: up == 0
-        for: 30s
-      - alert: up graphite
-        expr: filterSeries(time('host.1',20),'>','0')
-        for: 30s
-        type: graphite

app/vmalert/config/testdata/dir/rules-update1-good.rules

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-groups:
-  - name: TestUpdateGroup
-    interval: 30s
-    type: graphite
-    rules:
-      - alert: up
-        expr: filterSeries(time('host.2',20),'>','0')
-        for: 30s
-      - alert: up graphite
-        expr: filterSeries(time('host.1',20),'>','0')
-        for: 30s
-        type: graphite

app/vmalert/config/testdata/rules0-good.rules

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 groups:
   - name: groupGorSingleAlert
+    params:
+      nocache: ["1"]
+      denyPartialResponse: ["true"]
     rules:
       - alert: VMRows
         for: 10s

app/vmalert/config/testdata/rules2-good.rules

@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@ groups:
   - name: TestGroup
     interval: 2s
     concurrency: 2
-    extra_filter_labels:
+    extra_filter_labels: # deprecated param, use `params` instead
         job: victoriametrics
+    params:
+      denyPartialResponse: ["true"]
+      extra_label: ["env=dev"]
     rules:
       - alert: Conns
         expr: sum(vm_tcplistener_conns) by(instance) > 1
@@ -22,6 +25,7 @@ groups:
           dynamic: '{{ $x := query "up" | first | value }}{{ if eq 1.0 $x }}one{{ else }}unknown{{ end }}'
         annotations:
           description: Job {{ $labels.job }} is up!
+          external: cluster-{{ $externalLabels.cluster }}; replica-{{ $externalLabels.replica }}
           summary: All instances up {{ range query "up" }}
             {{ . | label "instance" }}
             {{ end }}

app/vmalert/config/testdata/rules3-good.rules

@@ -21,10 +21,3 @@ groups:
         annotations:
           summary: Too high connection number for {{$labels.instance}}
           description: "It is {{ $value }} connections for {{$labels.instance}}"
-      - alert: HostDown
-        type: graphite
-        expr: filterSeries(sumSeries(host.receiver.interface.up),'last','=', 0)
-        for: 3m
-        annotations:
-          summary: Too high connection number for {{$labels.instance}}
-          description: "It is {{ $value }} connections for {{$labels.instance}}"

app/vmalert/config/testdata/rules4-good.rules

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+groups:
+  - name: TestEmptyRules
+    interval: 2s
+    concurrency: 2
+    rules:
+
+  - name: TestNoRules
+    type: prometheus

app/vmalert/config/testdata/rules_interval_good.rules

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+groups:
+  - name: groupTest
+    interval: 1s
+    rules:
+      - alert: VMRows
+        for: 2s
+        expr: sum(rate(vm_http_request_errors_total[2s])) > 0
+        labels:
+          label: bar
+          host: "{{ $labels.instance }}"
+        annotations:
+          summary: "{{ $value }}"

app/vmalert/datasource/datasource.go

@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@ package datasource
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"net/url"
 	"time"
 )
 
 // Querier interface wraps Query and QueryRange methods
 type Querier interface {
-	Query(ctx context.Context, query string) ([]Metric, error)
+	Query(ctx context.Context, query string, ts time.Time) ([]Metric, error)
 	QueryRange(ctx context.Context, query string, from, to time.Time) ([]Metric, error)
 }
 
@@ -20,8 +21,7 @@ type QuerierBuilder interface {
 type QuerierParams struct {
 	DataSourceType     *Type
 	EvaluationInterval time.Duration
-	// see https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#prometheus-querying-api-enhancements
-	ExtraLabels map[string]string
+	QueryParams        url.Values
 }
 
 // Metric is the basic entity which should be return by datasource

app/vmalert/datasource/init.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
@@ -12,12 +13,14 @@ import (
 var (
 	addr = flag.String("datasource.url", "", "VictoriaMetrics or vmselect url. Required parameter. "+
 		"E.g. http://127.0.0.1:8428")
-	appendTypePrefix      = flag.Bool("datasource.appendTypePrefix", false, "Whether to add type prefix to -datasource.url based on the query type. Set to true if sending different query types to the vmselect URL.")
+	appendTypePrefix = flag.Bool("datasource.appendTypePrefix", false, "Whether to add type prefix to -datasource.url based on the query type. Set to true if sending different query types to the vmselect URL.")
+
 	basicAuthUsername     = flag.String("datasource.basicAuth.username", "", "Optional basic auth username for -datasource.url")
 	basicAuthPassword     = flag.String("datasource.basicAuth.password", "", "Optional basic auth password for -datasource.url")
 	basicAuthPasswordFile = flag.String("datasource.basicAuth.passwordFile", "", "Optional path to basic auth password to use for -datasource.url")
-	bearerToken           = flag.String("datasource.bearerToken", "", "Optional bearer auth token to use for -datasource.url.")
-	bearerTokenFile       = flag.String("datasource.bearerTokenFile", "", "Optional path to bearer token file to use for -datasource.url.")
+
+	bearerToken     = flag.String("datasource.bearerToken", "", "Optional bearer auth token to use for -datasource.url.")
+	bearerTokenFile = flag.String("datasource.bearerTokenFile", "", "Optional path to bearer token file to use for -datasource.url.")
 
 	tlsInsecureSkipVerify = flag.Bool("datasource.tlsInsecureSkipVerify", false, "Whether to skip tls verification when connecting to -datasource.url")
 	tlsCertFile           = flag.String("datasource.tlsCertFile", "", "Optional path to client-side TLS certificate file to use when connecting to -datasource.url")
@@ -25,12 +28,22 @@ var (
 	tlsCAFile             = flag.String("datasource.tlsCAFile", "", `Optional path to TLS CA file to use for verifying connections to -datasource.url. By default, system CA is used`)
 	tlsServerName         = flag.String("datasource.tlsServerName", "", `Optional TLS server name to use for connections to -datasource.url. By default, the server name from -datasource.url is used`)
 
+	oauth2ClientID         = flag.String("datasource.oauth2.clientID", "", "Optional OAuth2 clientID to use for -datasource.url. ")
+	oauth2ClientSecret     = flag.String("datasource.oauth2.clientSecret", "", "Optional OAuth2 clientSecret to use for -datasource.url.")
+	oauth2ClientSecretFile = flag.String("datasource.oauth2.clientSecretFile", "", "Optional OAuth2 clientSecretFile to use for -datasource.url. ")
+	oauth2TokenURL         = flag.String("datasource.oauth2.tokenUrl", "", "Optional OAuth2 tokenURL to use for -datasource.url.")
+	oauth2Scopes           = flag.String("datasource.oauth2.scopes", "", "Optional OAuth2 scopes to use for -datasource.url. Scopes must be delimited by ';'")
+
 	lookBack  = flag.Duration("datasource.lookback", 0, `Lookback defines how far into the past to look when evaluating queries. For example, if the datasource.lookback=5m then param "time" with value now()-5m will be added to every query.`)
 	queryStep = flag.Duration("datasource.queryStep", 0, "queryStep defines how far a value can fallback to when evaluating queries. "+
 		"For example, if datasource.queryStep=15s then param \"step\" with value \"15s\" will be added to every query."+
 		"If queryStep isn't specified, rule's evaluationInterval will be used instead.")
+	queryTimeAlignment = flag.Bool("datasource.queryTimeAlignment", true, `Whether to align "time" parameter with evaluation interval.`+
+		"Alignment supposed to produce deterministic results despite of number of vmalert replicas or time they were started. See more details here https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1257")
 	maxIdleConnections = flag.Int("datasource.maxIdleConnections", 100, `Defines the number of idle (keep-alive connections) to each configured datasource. Consider setting this value equal to the value: groups_total * group.concurrency. Too low a value may result in a high number of sockets in TIME_WAIT state.`)
-	roundDigits        = flag.Int("datasource.roundDigits", 0, `Adds "round_digits" GET param to datasource requests. `+
+	disableKeepAlive   = flag.Bool("datasource.disableKeepAlive", false, `Whether to disable long-lived connections to the datasource. `+
+		`If true, disables HTTP keep-alives and will only use the connection to the server for a single HTTP request.`)
+	roundDigits = flag.Int("datasource.roundDigits", 0, `Adds "round_digits" GET param to datasource requests. `+
 		`In VM "round_digits" limits the number of digits after the decimal point in response values.`)
 )
 
@@ -40,9 +53,9 @@ type Param struct {
 }
 
 // Init creates a Querier from provided flag values.
-// Provided extraParams will be added as GET params to
+// Provided extraParams will be added as GET params for
 // each request.
-func Init(extraParams []Param) (QuerierBuilder, error) {
+func Init(extraParams url.Values) (QuerierBuilder, error) {
 	if *addr == "" {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("datasource.url is empty")
 	}
@@ -51,19 +64,23 @@ func Init(extraParams []Param) (QuerierBuilder, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create transport: %w", err)
 	}
+	tr.DisableKeepAlives = *disableKeepAlive
 	tr.MaxIdleConnsPerHost = *maxIdleConnections
 	if tr.MaxIdleConns != 0 && tr.MaxIdleConns < tr.MaxIdleConnsPerHost {
 		tr.MaxIdleConns = tr.MaxIdleConnsPerHost
 	}
 
+	if extraParams == nil {
+		extraParams = url.Values{}
+	}
 	if *roundDigits > 0 {
-		extraParams = append(extraParams, Param{
-			Key:   "round_digits",
-			Value: fmt.Sprintf("%d", *roundDigits),
-		})
+		extraParams.Set("round_digits", fmt.Sprintf("%d", *roundDigits))
 	}
 
-	authCfg, err := utils.AuthConfig(*basicAuthUsername, *basicAuthPassword, *basicAuthPasswordFile, *bearerToken, *bearerTokenFile)
+	authCfg, err := utils.AuthConfig(
+		utils.WithBasicAuth(*basicAuthUsername, *basicAuthPassword, *basicAuthPasswordFile),
+		utils.WithBearer(*bearerToken, *bearerTokenFile),
+		utils.WithOAuth(*oauth2ClientID, *oauth2ClientSecret, *oauth2ClientSecretFile, *oauth2TokenURL, *oauth2Scopes))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to configure auth: %w", err)
 	}

app/vmalert/datasource/type.go

@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql"
 )
 
-const graphiteType = "graphite"
-const prometheusType = "prometheus"
-
 // Type represents data source type
 type Type struct {
 	name string
@@ -17,12 +14,16 @@ type Type struct {
 
 // NewPrometheusType returns prometheus datasource type
 func NewPrometheusType() Type {
-	return Type{name: prometheusType}
+	return Type{
+		name: "prometheus",
+	}
 }
 
 // NewGraphiteType returns graphite datasource type
 func NewGraphiteType() Type {
-	return Type{name: graphiteType}
+	return Type{
+		name: "graphite",
+	}
 }
 
 // NewRawType returns datasource type from raw string
@@ -44,19 +45,19 @@ func (t *Type) Set(d Type) {
 // String implements String interface with default value.
 func (t Type) String() string {
 	if t.name == "" {
-		return prometheusType
+		return "prometheus"
 	}
 	return t.name
 }
 
 // ValidateExpr validates query expression with datasource ql.
 func (t *Type) ValidateExpr(expr string) error {
-	switch t.name {
-	case graphiteType:
+	switch t.String() {
+	case "graphite":
 		if _, err := graphiteql.Parse(expr); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("bad graphite expr: %q, err: %w", expr, err)
 		}
-	case "", prometheusType:
+	case "prometheus":
 		if _, err := metricsql.Parse(expr); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("bad prometheus expr: %q, err: %w", expr, err)
 		}
@@ -72,12 +73,13 @@ func (t *Type) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error {
 	if err := unmarshal(&s); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	if s == "" {
+		s = "prometheus"
+	}
 	switch s {
-	case "":
-		s = prometheusType
-	case graphiteType, prometheusType:
+	case "graphite", "prometheus":
 	default:
-		return fmt.Errorf("unknown datasource type=%q, want %q or %q", s, prometheusType, graphiteType)
+		return fmt.Errorf("unknown datasource type=%q, want %q or %q", s, "prometheus", "graphite")
 	}
 	t.name = s
 	return nil

app/vmalert/datasource/vm.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -22,8 +23,7 @@ type VMStorage struct {
 
 	dataSourceType     Type
 	evaluationInterval time.Duration
-	extraLabels        []string
-	extraParams        []Param
+	extraParams        url.Values
 	disablePathAppend  bool
 }
 
@@ -47,9 +47,7 @@ func (s *VMStorage) ApplyParams(params QuerierParams) *VMStorage {
 		s.dataSourceType = *params.DataSourceType
 	}
 	s.evaluationInterval = params.EvaluationInterval
-	for k, v := range params.ExtraLabels {
-		s.extraLabels = append(s.extraLabels, fmt.Sprintf("%s=%s", k, v))
-	}
+	s.extraParams = params.QueryParams
 	return s
 }
 
@@ -73,17 +71,16 @@ func NewVMStorage(baseURL string, authCfg *promauth.Config, lookBack time.Durati
 }
 
 // Query executes the given query and returns parsed response
-func (s *VMStorage) Query(ctx context.Context, query string) ([]Metric, error) {
+func (s *VMStorage) Query(ctx context.Context, query string, ts time.Time) ([]Metric, error) {
 	req, err := s.newRequestPOST()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	ts := time.Now()
-	switch s.dataSourceType.name {
-	case "", prometheusType:
+	switch s.dataSourceType.String() {
+	case "prometheus":
 		s.setPrometheusInstantReqParams(req, query, ts)
-	case graphiteType:
+	case "graphite":
 		s.setGraphiteReqParams(req, query, ts)
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("engine not found: %q", s.dataSourceType.name)
@@ -98,7 +95,7 @@ func (s *VMStorage) Query(ctx context.Context, query string) ([]Metric, error) {
 	}()
 
 	parseFn := parsePrometheusResponse
-	if s.dataSourceType.name != prometheusType {
+	if s.dataSourceType.name != "prometheus" {
 		parseFn = parseGraphiteResponse
 	}
 	return parseFn(req, resp)
@@ -108,7 +105,7 @@ func (s *VMStorage) Query(ctx context.Context, query string) ([]Metric, error) {
 // For Prometheus type see https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#range-queries
 // Graphite type isn't supported.
 func (s *VMStorage) QueryRange(ctx context.Context, query string, start, end time.Time) ([]Metric, error) {
-	if s.dataSourceType.name != prometheusType {
+	if s.dataSourceType.name != "prometheus" {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not supported for QueryRange", s.dataSourceType.name)
 	}
 	req, err := s.newRequestPOST()
@@ -150,7 +147,7 @@ func (s *VMStorage) newRequestPOST() (*http.Request, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 	if s.authCfg != nil {
 		if auth := s.authCfg.GetAuthHeader(); auth != "" {
 			req.Header.Set("Authorization", auth)

app/vmalert/datasource/vm_graphite_api.go

@@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ func (s *VMStorage) setGraphiteReqParams(r *http.Request, query string, timestam
 	}
 	r.URL.Path += graphitePath
 	q := r.URL.Query()
+	for k, vs := range s.extraParams {
+		if q.Has(k) { // extraParams are prior to params in URL
+			q.Del(k)
+		}
+		for _, v := range vs {
+			q.Add(k, v)
+		}
+	}
 	q.Set("format", "json")
 	q.Set("target", query)
 	from := "-5min"

app/vmalert/datasource/vm_prom_api.go

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ func (s *VMStorage) setPrometheusInstantReqParams(r *http.Request, query string,
 	if s.lookBack > 0 {
 		timestamp = timestamp.Add(-s.lookBack)
 	}
-	if s.evaluationInterval > 0 {
+	if *queryTimeAlignment && s.evaluationInterval > 0 {
 		// see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1232
 		timestamp = timestamp.Truncate(s.evaluationInterval)
 	}
@@ -150,20 +150,24 @@ func (s *VMStorage) setPrometheusRangeReqParams(r *http.Request, query string, s
 
 func (s *VMStorage) setPrometheusReqParams(r *http.Request, query string) {
 	q := r.URL.Query()
+	for k, vs := range s.extraParams {
+		if q.Has(k) { // extraParams are prior to params in URL
+			q.Del(k)
+		}
+		for _, v := range vs {
+			q.Add(k, v)
+		}
+	}
 	q.Set("query", query)
-	if s.evaluationInterval > 0 {
-		// set step as evaluationInterval by default
-		q.Set("step", s.evaluationInterval.String())
+	if s.evaluationInterval > 0 { // set step as evaluationInterval by default
+		// always convert to seconds to keep compatibility with older
+		// Prometheus versions. See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1943
+		q.Set("step", fmt.Sprintf("%ds", int(s.evaluationInterval.Seconds())))
 	}
-	if s.queryStep > 0 {
-		// override step with user-specified value
-		q.Set("step", s.queryStep.String())
-	}
-	for _, l := range s.extraLabels {
-		q.Add("extra_label", l)
-	}
-	for _, p := range s.extraParams {
-		q.Add(p.Key, p.Value)
+	if s.queryStep > 0 { // override step with user-specified value
+		// always convert to seconds to keep compatibility with older
+		// Prometheus versions. See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1943
+		q.Set("step", fmt.Sprintf("%ds", int(s.queryStep.Seconds())))
 	}
 	r.URL.RawQuery = q.Encode()
 }

app/vmalert/datasource/vm_test.go

@@ -5,12 +5,14 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
+	"net/url"
 	"reflect"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promauth"
 )
 
@@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ var (
 	basicAuthPass = "bar"
 	baCfg         = &promauth.BasicAuthConfig{
 		Username: basicAuthName,
-		Password: basicAuthPass,
+		Password: promauth.NewSecret(basicAuthPass),
 	}
 	query       = "vm_rows"
 	queryRender = "constantLine(10)"
@@ -87,26 +89,27 @@ func TestVMInstantQuery(t *testing.T) {
 
 	p := NewPrometheusType()
 	pq := s.BuildWithParams(QuerierParams{DataSourceType: &p, EvaluationInterval: 15 * time.Second})
+	ts := time.Now()
 
-	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query); err == nil {
+	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query, ts); err == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected connection error got nil")
 	}
-	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query); err == nil {
+	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query, ts); err == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected invalid response status error got nil")
 	}
-	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query); err == nil {
+	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query, ts); err == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected response body error got nil")
 	}
-	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query); err == nil {
+	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query, ts); err == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected error status got nil")
 	}
-	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query); err == nil {
+	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query, ts); err == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected unknown status got nil")
 	}
-	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query); err == nil {
+	if _, err := pq.Query(ctx, query, ts); err == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected non-vector resultType error  got nil")
 	}
-	m, err := pq.Query(ctx, query)
+	m, err := pq.Query(ctx, query, ts)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected %s", err)
 	}
@@ -132,7 +135,7 @@ func TestVMInstantQuery(t *testing.T) {
 	g := NewGraphiteType()
 	gq := s.BuildWithParams(QuerierParams{DataSourceType: &g})
 
-	m, err = gq.Query(ctx, queryRender)
+	m, err = gq.Query(ctx, queryRender, ts)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected %s", err)
 	}
@@ -435,15 +438,28 @@ func TestRequestParams(t *testing.T) {
 				queryStep: time.Minute,
 			},
 			func(t *testing.T, r *http.Request) {
-				exp := fmt.Sprintf("query=%s&step=%v&time=%d", query, time.Minute, timestamp.Unix())
+				exp := fmt.Sprintf("query=%s&step=%ds&time=%d", query, int(time.Minute.Seconds()), timestamp.Unix())
 				checkEqualString(t, exp, r.URL.RawQuery)
 			},
 		},
 		{
-			"round digits",
+			"step to seconds",
 			false,
 			&VMStorage{
-				extraParams: []Param{{"round_digits", "10"}},
+				evaluationInterval: 3 * time.Hour,
+			},
+			func(t *testing.T, r *http.Request) {
+				evalInterval := 3 * time.Hour
+				tt := timestamp.Truncate(evalInterval)
+				exp := fmt.Sprintf("query=%s&step=%ds&time=%d", query, int(evalInterval.Seconds()), tt.Unix())
+				checkEqualString(t, exp, r.URL.RawQuery)
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			"prometheus extra params",
+			false,
+			&VMStorage{
+				extraParams: url.Values{"round_digits": {"10"}},
 			},
 			func(t *testing.T, r *http.Request) {
 				exp := fmt.Sprintf("query=%s&round_digits=10&time=%d", query, timestamp.Unix())
@@ -451,45 +467,32 @@ func TestRequestParams(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 		},
 		{
-			"extra labels",
-			false,
-			&VMStorage{
-				extraLabels: []string{
-					"env=prod",
-					"query=es=cape",
-				},
-			},
-			func(t *testing.T, r *http.Request) {
-				exp := fmt.Sprintf("extra_label=env%%3Dprod&extra_label=query%%3Des%%3Dcape&query=%s&time=%d", query, timestamp.Unix())
-				checkEqualString(t, exp, r.URL.RawQuery)
-			},
-		},
-		{
-			"extra labels range",
+			"prometheus extra params range",
 			true,
 			&VMStorage{
-				extraLabels: []string{
-					"env=prod",
-					"query=es=cape",
+				extraParams: url.Values{
+					"nocache":      {"1"},
+					"max_lookback": {"1h"},
 				},
 			},
 			func(t *testing.T, r *http.Request) {
-				exp := fmt.Sprintf("end=%d&extra_label=env%%3Dprod&extra_label=query%%3Des%%3Dcape&query=%s&start=%d",
+				exp := fmt.Sprintf("end=%d&max_lookback=1h&nocache=1&query=%s&start=%d",
 					timestamp.Unix(), query, timestamp.Unix())
 				checkEqualString(t, exp, r.URL.RawQuery)
 			},
 		},
 		{
-			"extra params",
+			"graphite extra params",
 			false,
 			&VMStorage{
-				extraParams: []Param{
-					{Key: "nocache", Value: "1"},
-					{Key: "max_lookback", Value: "1h"},
+				dataSourceType: NewGraphiteType(),
+				extraParams: url.Values{
+					"nocache":      {"1"},
+					"max_lookback": {"1h"},
 				},
 			},
 			func(t *testing.T, r *http.Request) {
-				exp := fmt.Sprintf("max_lookback=1h&nocache=1&query=%s&time=%d", query, timestamp.Unix())
+				exp := fmt.Sprintf("format=json&from=-5min&max_lookback=1h&nocache=1&target=%s&until=now", query)
 				checkEqualString(t, exp, r.URL.RawQuery)
 			},
 		},
@@ -501,14 +504,14 @@ func TestRequestParams(t *testing.T) {
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %s", err)
 			}
-			switch tc.vm.dataSourceType.name {
-			case "", prometheusType:
+			switch tc.vm.dataSourceType.String() {
+			case "prometheus":
 				if tc.queryRange {
 					tc.vm.setPrometheusRangeReqParams(req, query, timestamp, timestamp)
 				} else {
 					tc.vm.setPrometheusInstantReqParams(req, query, timestamp)
 				}
-			case graphiteType:
+			case "graphite":
 				tc.vm.setGraphiteReqParams(req, query, timestamp)
 			}
 			tc.checkFn(t, req)
@@ -516,10 +519,63 @@ func TestRequestParams(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestAuthConfig(t *testing.T) {
+	var testCases = []struct {
+		name    string
+		vmFn    func() *VMStorage
+		checkFn func(t *testing.T, r *http.Request)
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "basic auth",
+			vmFn: func() *VMStorage {
+				cfg, err := utils.AuthConfig(utils.WithBasicAuth("foo", "bar", ""))
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Errorf("Error get auth config: %s", err)
+				}
+				return &VMStorage{authCfg: cfg}
+			},
+			checkFn: func(t *testing.T, r *http.Request) {
+				u, p, _ := r.BasicAuth()
+				checkEqualString(t, "foo", u)
+				checkEqualString(t, "bar", p)
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "bearer auth",
+			vmFn: func() *VMStorage {
+				cfg, err := utils.AuthConfig(utils.WithBearer("foo", ""))
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Errorf("Error get auth config: %s", err)
+				}
+				return &VMStorage{authCfg: cfg}
+			},
+			checkFn: func(t *testing.T, r *http.Request) {
+				reqToken := r.Header.Get("Authorization")
+				splitToken := strings.Split(reqToken, "Bearer ")
+				if len(splitToken) != 2 {
+					t.Errorf("expected two items got %d", len(splitToken))
+				}
+				token := splitToken[1]
+				checkEqualString(t, "foo", token)
+			},
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			vm := tt.vmFn()
+			req, err := vm.newRequestPOST()
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %s", err)
+			}
+			tt.checkFn(t, req)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func checkEqualString(t *testing.T, exp, got string) {
 	t.Helper()
 	if got != exp {
-		t.Errorf("expected to get %q; got %q", exp, got)
+		t.Errorf("expected to get: \n%q; \ngot: \n%q", exp, got)
 	}
 }
 

app/vmalert/group.go

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"hash/fnv"
+	"net/url"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
@@ -12,23 +15,26 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/notifier"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/remotewrite"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/decimal"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
 )
 
 // Group is an entity for grouping rules
 type Group struct {
-	mu          sync.RWMutex
-	Name        string
-	File        string
-	Rules       []Rule
-	Type        datasource.Type
-	Interval    time.Duration
-	Concurrency int
-	Checksum    string
+	mu             sync.RWMutex
+	Name           string
+	File           string
+	Rules          []Rule
+	Type           datasource.Type
+	Interval       time.Duration
+	Concurrency    int
+	Checksum       string
+	LastEvaluation time.Time
 
-	ExtraFilterLabels map[string]string
-	Labels            map[string]string
+	Labels map[string]string
+	Params url.Values
 
 	doneCh     chan struct{}
 	finishedCh chan struct{}
@@ -40,15 +46,17 @@ type Group struct {
 }
 
 type groupMetrics struct {
-	iterationTotal    *counter
-	iterationDuration *summary
+	iterationTotal    *utils.Counter
+	iterationDuration *utils.Summary
+	iterationMissed   *utils.Counter
 }
 
 func newGroupMetrics(name, file string) *groupMetrics {
 	m := &groupMetrics{}
 	labels := fmt.Sprintf(`group=%q, file=%q`, name, file)
-	m.iterationTotal = getOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_iteration_total{%s}`, labels))
-	m.iterationDuration = getOrCreateSummary(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_iteration_duration_seconds{%s}`, labels))
+	m.iterationTotal = utils.GetOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_iteration_total{%s}`, labels))
+	m.iterationDuration = utils.GetOrCreateSummary(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_iteration_duration_seconds{%s}`, labels))
+	m.iterationMissed = utils.GetOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_iteration_missed_total{%s}`, labels))
 	return m
 }
 
@@ -71,14 +79,14 @@ func mergeLabels(groupName, ruleName string, set1, set2 map[string]string) map[s
 
 func newGroup(cfg config.Group, qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, defaultInterval time.Duration, labels map[string]string) *Group {
 	g := &Group{
-		Type:              cfg.Type,
-		Name:              cfg.Name,
-		File:              cfg.File,
-		Interval:          cfg.Interval.Duration(),
-		Concurrency:       cfg.Concurrency,
-		Checksum:          cfg.Checksum,
-		ExtraFilterLabels: cfg.ExtraFilterLabels,
-		Labels:            cfg.Labels,
+		Type:        cfg.Type,
+		Name:        cfg.Name,
+		File:        cfg.File,
+		Interval:    cfg.Interval.Duration(),
+		Concurrency: cfg.Concurrency,
+		Checksum:    cfg.Checksum,
+		Params:      cfg.Params,
+		Labels:      cfg.Labels,
 
 		doneCh:     make(chan struct{}),
 		finishedCh: make(chan struct{}),
@@ -121,7 +129,7 @@ func (g *Group) newRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, rule config.Rule) Rule {
 }
 
 // ID return unique group ID that consists of
-// rules file and group name
+// rules file and group Name
 func (g *Group) ID() uint64 {
 	g.mu.RLock()
 	defer g.mu.RUnlock()
@@ -198,7 +206,7 @@ func (g *Group) updateWith(newGroup *Group) error {
 	// group.Start function
 	g.Type = newGroup.Type
 	g.Concurrency = newGroup.Concurrency
-	g.ExtraFilterLabels = newGroup.ExtraFilterLabels
+	g.Params = newGroup.Params
 	g.Labels = newGroup.Labels
 	g.Checksum = newGroup.Checksum
 	g.Rules = newRules
@@ -212,8 +220,8 @@ func (g *Group) close() {
 	close(g.doneCh)
 	<-g.finishedCh
 
-	metrics.UnregisterMetric(g.metrics.iterationDuration.name)
-	metrics.UnregisterMetric(g.metrics.iterationTotal.name)
+	g.metrics.iterationDuration.Unregister()
+	g.metrics.iterationTotal.Unregister()
 	for _, rule := range g.Rules {
 		rule.Close()
 	}
@@ -221,12 +229,19 @@ func (g *Group) close() {
 
 var skipRandSleepOnGroupStart bool
 
-func (g *Group) start(ctx context.Context, nts []notifier.Notifier, rw *remotewrite.Client) {
+func (g *Group) start(ctx context.Context, nts func() []notifier.Notifier, rw *remotewrite.Client) {
 	defer func() { close(g.finishedCh) }()
 
+	e := &executor{
+		rw:                       rw,
+		notifiers:                nts,
+		previouslySentSeriesToRW: make(map[uint64]map[string][]prompbmarshal.Label)}
+
+	evalTS := time.Now()
+
 	// Spread group rules evaluation over time in order to reduce load on VictoriaMetrics.
 	if !skipRandSleepOnGroupStart {
-		randSleep := uint64(float64(g.Interval) * (float64(uint32(g.ID())) / (1 << 32)))
+		randSleep := uint64(float64(g.Interval) * (float64(g.ID()) / (1 << 64)))
 		sleepOffset := uint64(time.Now().UnixNano()) % uint64(g.Interval)
 		if randSleep < sleepOffset {
 			randSleep += uint64(g.Interval)
@@ -245,16 +260,31 @@ func (g *Group) start(ctx context.Context, nts []notifier.Notifier, rw *remotewr
 	}
 
 	logger.Infof("group %q started; interval=%v; concurrency=%d", g.Name, g.Interval, g.Concurrency)
-	e := &executor{rw: rw}
-	for _, nt := range nts {
-		ent := eNotifier{
-			Notifier:         nt,
-			alertsSent:       getOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf("vmalert_alerts_sent_total{addr=%q}", nt.Addr())),
-			alertsSendErrors: getOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf("vmalert_alerts_send_errors_total{addr=%q}", nt.Addr())),
+
+	eval := func(ts time.Time) {
+		g.metrics.iterationTotal.Inc()
+
+		start := time.Now()
+
+		if len(g.Rules) < 1 {
+			g.metrics.iterationDuration.UpdateDuration(start)
+			g.LastEvaluation = start
+			return
 		}
-		e.notifiers = append(e.notifiers, ent)
+
+		resolveDuration := getResolveDuration(g.Interval, *resendDelay, *maxResolveDuration)
+		errs := e.execConcurrently(ctx, g.Rules, ts, g.Concurrency, resolveDuration)
+		for err := range errs {
+			if err != nil {
+				logger.Errorf("group %q: %s", g.Name, err)
+			}
+		}
+		g.metrics.iterationDuration.UpdateDuration(start)
+		g.LastEvaluation = start
 	}
 
+	eval(evalTS)
+
 	t := time.NewTicker(g.Interval)
 	defer t.Stop()
 	for {
@@ -281,49 +311,48 @@ func (g *Group) start(ctx context.Context, nts []notifier.Notifier, rw *remotewr
 			g.mu.Unlock()
 			logger.Infof("group %q re-started; interval=%v; concurrency=%d", g.Name, g.Interval, g.Concurrency)
 		case <-t.C:
-			g.metrics.iterationTotal.Inc()
-			iterationStart := time.Now()
-			resolveDuration := getResolveDuration(g.Interval)
-			errs := e.execConcurrently(ctx, g.Rules, g.Concurrency, resolveDuration)
-			for err := range errs {
-				if err != nil {
-					logger.Errorf("group %q: %s", g.Name, err)
-				}
+			missed := (time.Since(evalTS) / g.Interval) - 1
+			if missed > 0 {
+				g.metrics.iterationMissed.Inc()
 			}
+			evalTS = evalTS.Add((missed + 1) * g.Interval)
 
-			g.metrics.iterationDuration.UpdateDuration(iterationStart)
+			eval(evalTS)
 		}
 	}
 }
 
-// resolveDuration for alerts is equal to 3 interval evaluations
-// so in case if vmalert stops sending updates for some reason,
-// notifier could automatically resolve the alert.
-func getResolveDuration(groupInterval time.Duration) time.Duration {
-	resolveInterval := groupInterval * 3
-	if *maxResolveDuration > 0 && (resolveInterval > *maxResolveDuration) {
-		return *maxResolveDuration
+// getResolveDuration returns the duration after which firing alert
+// can be considered as resolved.
+func getResolveDuration(groupInterval, delta, maxDuration time.Duration) time.Duration {
+	if groupInterval > delta {
+		delta = groupInterval
 	}
-	return resolveInterval
+	resolveDuration := delta * 4
+	if maxDuration > 0 && resolveDuration > maxDuration {
+		resolveDuration = maxDuration
+	}
+	return resolveDuration
 }
 
 type executor struct {
-	notifiers []eNotifier
+	notifiers func() []notifier.Notifier
 	rw        *remotewrite.Client
+
+	previouslySentSeriesToRWMu sync.Mutex
+	// previouslySentSeriesToRW stores series sent to RW on previous iteration
+	// map[ruleID]map[ruleLabels][]prompb.Label
+	// where `ruleID` is ID of the Rule within a Group
+	// and `ruleLabels` is []prompb.Label marshalled to a string
+	previouslySentSeriesToRW map[uint64]map[string][]prompbmarshal.Label
 }
 
-type eNotifier struct {
-	notifier.Notifier
-	alertsSent       *counter
-	alertsSendErrors *counter
-}
-
-func (e *executor) execConcurrently(ctx context.Context, rules []Rule, concurrency int, resolveDuration time.Duration) chan error {
+func (e *executor) execConcurrently(ctx context.Context, rules []Rule, ts time.Time, concurrency int, resolveDuration time.Duration) chan error {
 	res := make(chan error, len(rules))
 	if concurrency == 1 {
 		// fast path
 		for _, rule := range rules {
-			res <- e.exec(ctx, rule, resolveDuration)
+			res <- e.exec(ctx, rule, ts, resolveDuration)
 		}
 		close(res)
 		return res
@@ -336,7 +365,7 @@ func (e *executor) execConcurrently(ctx context.Context, rules []Rule, concurren
 			sem <- struct{}{}
 			wg.Add(1)
 			go func(r Rule) {
-				res <- e.exec(ctx, r, resolveDuration)
+				res <- e.exec(ctx, r, ts, resolveDuration)
 				<-sem
 				wg.Done()
 			}(rule)
@@ -354,54 +383,95 @@ var (
 	execErrors = metrics.NewCounter(`vmalert_execution_errors_total`)
 
 	remoteWriteErrors = metrics.NewCounter(`vmalert_remotewrite_errors_total`)
+	remoteWriteTotal  = metrics.NewCounter(`vmalert_remotewrite_total`)
 )
 
-func (e *executor) exec(ctx context.Context, rule Rule, resolveDuration time.Duration) error {
+func (e *executor) exec(ctx context.Context, rule Rule, ts time.Time, resolveDuration time.Duration) error {
 	execTotal.Inc()
 
-	tss, err := rule.Exec(ctx)
+	tss, err := rule.Exec(ctx, ts)
 	if err != nil {
 		execErrors.Inc()
 		return fmt.Errorf("rule %q: failed to execute: %w", rule, err)
 	}
 
-	if len(tss) > 0 && e.rw != nil {
-		for _, ts := range tss {
-			if err := e.rw.Push(ts); err != nil {
-				remoteWriteErrors.Inc()
-				return fmt.Errorf("rule %q: remote write failure: %w", rule, err)
+	errGr := new(utils.ErrGroup)
+	if e.rw != nil {
+		pushToRW := func(tss []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries) {
+			for _, ts := range tss {
+				remoteWriteTotal.Inc()
+				if err := e.rw.Push(ts); err != nil {
+					remoteWriteErrors.Inc()
+					errGr.Add(fmt.Errorf("rule %q: remote write failure: %w", rule, err))
+				}
 			}
 		}
+		pushToRW(tss)
+		staleSeries := e.getStaleSeries(rule, tss, ts)
+		pushToRW(staleSeries)
 	}
 
 	ar, ok := rule.(*AlertingRule)
 	if !ok {
 		return nil
 	}
-	var alerts []notifier.Alert
-	for _, a := range ar.alerts {
-		switch a.State {
-		case notifier.StateFiring:
-			a.End = time.Now().Add(resolveDuration)
-			alerts = append(alerts, *a)
-		case notifier.StateInactive:
-			// set End to execStart to notify
-			// that it was just resolved
-			a.End = time.Now()
-			alerts = append(alerts, *a)
-		}
-	}
+
+	alerts := ar.alertsToSend(ts, resolveDuration, *resendDelay)
 	if len(alerts) < 1 {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	errGr := new(utils.ErrGroup)
-	for _, nt := range e.notifiers {
-		nt.alertsSent.Add(len(alerts))
+	for _, nt := range e.notifiers() {
 		if err := nt.Send(ctx, alerts); err != nil {
-			nt.alertsSendErrors.Inc()
-			errGr.Add(fmt.Errorf("rule %q: failed to send alerts: %w", rule, err))
+			errGr.Add(fmt.Errorf("rule %q: failed to send alerts to addr %q: %w", rule, nt.Addr(), err))
 		}
 	}
 	return errGr.Err()
 }
+
+// getStaledSeries checks whether there are stale series from previously sent ones.
+func (e *executor) getStaleSeries(rule Rule, tss []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, timestamp time.Time) []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries {
+	ruleLabels := make(map[string][]prompbmarshal.Label, len(tss))
+	for _, ts := range tss {
+		// convert labels to strings so we can compare with previously sent series
+		key := labelsToString(ts.Labels)
+		ruleLabels[key] = ts.Labels
+	}
+
+	rID := rule.ID()
+	var staleS []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries
+	// check whether there are series which disappeared and need to be marked as stale
+	e.previouslySentSeriesToRWMu.Lock()
+	for key, labels := range e.previouslySentSeriesToRW[rID] {
+		if _, ok := ruleLabels[key]; ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		// previously sent series are missing in current series, so we mark them as stale
+		ss := newTimeSeriesPB([]float64{decimal.StaleNaN}, []int64{timestamp.Unix()}, labels)
+		staleS = append(staleS, ss)
+	}
+	// set previous series to current
+	e.previouslySentSeriesToRW[rID] = ruleLabels
+	e.previouslySentSeriesToRWMu.Unlock()
+
+	return staleS
+}
+
+func labelsToString(labels []prompbmarshal.Label) string {
+	var b strings.Builder
+	b.WriteRune('{')
+	for i, label := range labels {
+		if len(label.Name) == 0 {
+			b.WriteString("__name__")
+		} else {
+			b.WriteString(label.Name)
+		}
+		b.WriteRune('=')
+		b.WriteString(strconv.Quote(label.Value))
+		if i < len(labels)-1 {
+			b.WriteRune(',')
+		}
+	}
+	b.WriteRune('}')
+	return b.String()
+}

app/vmalert/group_test.go

@@ -3,14 +3,16 @@ package main
 import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/decimal"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
+	"reflect"
 	"sort"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/config"
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/notifier"
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promutils"
 )
 
 func init() {
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ func TestUpdateWith(t *testing.T) {
 			[]config.Rule{{
 				Alert: "foo",
 				Expr:  "up > 0",
-				For:   utils.NewPromDuration(time.Second),
+				For:   promutils.NewDuration(time.Second),
 				Labels: map[string]string{
 					"bar": "baz",
 				},
@@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ func TestUpdateWith(t *testing.T) {
 			[]config.Rule{{
 				Alert: "foo",
 				Expr:  "up > 10",
-				For:   utils.NewPromDuration(time.Second),
+				For:   promutils.NewDuration(time.Second),
 				Labels: map[string]string{
 					"baz": "bar",
 				},
@@ -108,17 +110,6 @@ func TestUpdateWith(t *testing.T) {
 				{Record: "foo5"},
 			},
 		},
-		{
-			"update datasource type",
-			[]config.Rule{
-				{Alert: "foo1", Type: datasource.NewPrometheusType()},
-				{Alert: "foo3", Type: datasource.NewGraphiteType()},
-			},
-			[]config.Rule{
-				{Alert: "foo1", Type: datasource.NewGraphiteType()},
-				{Alert: "foo10", Type: datasource.NewPrometheusType()},
-			},
-		},
 	}
 
 	for _, tc := range testCases {
@@ -170,10 +161,11 @@ func TestGroupStart(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to parse rules: %s", err)
 	}
-	const evalInterval = time.Millisecond
+
 	fs := &fakeQuerier{}
 	fn := &fakeNotifier{}
 
+	const evalInterval = time.Millisecond
 	g := newGroup(groups[0], fs, evalInterval, map[string]string{"cluster": "east-1"})
 	g.Concurrency = 2
 
@@ -182,7 +174,7 @@ func TestGroupStart(t *testing.T) {
 	m2 := metricWithLabels(t, "instance", inst2, "job", job)
 
 	r := g.Rules[0].(*AlertingRule)
-	alert1, err := r.newAlert(m1, time.Now(), nil)
+	alert1, err := r.newAlert(m1, nil, time.Now(), nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("faield to create alert: %s", err)
 	}
@@ -195,13 +187,9 @@ func TestGroupStart(t *testing.T) {
 	// add service labels
 	alert1.Labels[alertNameLabel] = alert1.Name
 	alert1.Labels[alertGroupNameLabel] = g.Name
-	var labels1 []string
-	for k, v := range alert1.Labels {
-		labels1 = append(labels1, k, v)
-	}
-	alert1.ID = hash(metricWithLabels(t, labels1...))
+	alert1.ID = hash(alert1.Labels)
 
-	alert2, err := r.newAlert(m2, time.Now(), nil)
+	alert2, err := r.newAlert(m2, nil, time.Now(), nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("faield to create alert: %s", err)
 	}
@@ -214,17 +202,13 @@ func TestGroupStart(t *testing.T) {
 	// add service labels
 	alert2.Labels[alertNameLabel] = alert2.Name
 	alert2.Labels[alertGroupNameLabel] = g.Name
-	var labels2 []string
-	for k, v := range alert2.Labels {
-		labels2 = append(labels2, k, v)
-	}
-	alert2.ID = hash(metricWithLabels(t, labels2...))
+	alert2.ID = hash(alert2.Labels)
 
 	finished := make(chan struct{})
 	fs.add(m1)
 	fs.add(m2)
 	go func() {
-		g.start(context.Background(), []notifier.Notifier{fn}, nil)
+		g.start(context.Background(), func() []notifier.Notifier { return []notifier.Notifier{fn} }, nil)
 		close(finished)
 	}()
 
@@ -235,6 +219,12 @@ func TestGroupStart(t *testing.T) {
 	expectedAlerts := []notifier.Alert{*alert1, *alert2}
 	compareAlerts(t, expectedAlerts, gotAlerts)
 
+	gotAlertsNum := fn.getCounter()
+	if gotAlertsNum < len(expectedAlerts)*2 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected to receive at least %d alerts; got %d instead",
+			len(expectedAlerts)*2, gotAlertsNum)
+	}
+
 	// reset previous data
 	fs.reset()
 	// and set only one datapoint for response
@@ -244,7 +234,8 @@ func TestGroupStart(t *testing.T) {
 	time.Sleep(20 * evalInterval)
 
 	gotAlerts = fn.getAlerts()
-	expectedAlerts = []notifier.Alert{*alert1}
+	alert2.State = notifier.StateInactive
+	expectedAlerts = []notifier.Alert{*alert1, *alert2}
 	compareAlerts(t, expectedAlerts, gotAlerts)
 
 	g.close()
@@ -255,22 +246,112 @@ func TestResolveDuration(t *testing.T) {
 	testCases := []struct {
 		groupInterval time.Duration
 		maxDuration   time.Duration
+		resendDelay   time.Duration
 		expected      time.Duration
 	}{
-		{time.Minute, 0, 3 * time.Minute},
-		{3 * time.Minute, 0, 9 * time.Minute},
-		{time.Minute, 2 * time.Minute, 2 * time.Minute},
-		{0, 0, 0},
+		{time.Minute, 0, 0, 4 * time.Minute},
+		{time.Minute, 0, 2 * time.Minute, 8 * time.Minute},
+		{time.Minute, 4 * time.Minute, 4 * time.Minute, 4 * time.Minute},
+		{2 * time.Minute, time.Minute, 2 * time.Minute, time.Minute},
+		{time.Minute, 2 * time.Minute, 1 * time.Minute, 2 * time.Minute},
+		{2 * time.Minute, 0, 1 * time.Minute, 8 * time.Minute},
+		{0, 0, 0, 0},
 	}
-	defaultResolveDuration := *maxResolveDuration
-	defer func() { *maxResolveDuration = defaultResolveDuration }()
+
 	for _, tc := range testCases {
 		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%v-%v-%v", tc.groupInterval, tc.expected, tc.maxDuration), func(t *testing.T) {
-			*maxResolveDuration = tc.maxDuration
-			got := getResolveDuration(tc.groupInterval)
+			got := getResolveDuration(tc.groupInterval, tc.resendDelay, tc.maxDuration)
 			if got != tc.expected {
 				t.Errorf("expected to have %v; got %v", tc.expected, got)
 			}
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestGetStaleSeries(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := time.Now()
+	e := &executor{
+		previouslySentSeriesToRW: make(map[uint64]map[string][]prompbmarshal.Label),
+	}
+	f := func(rule Rule, labels, expLabels [][]prompbmarshal.Label) {
+		t.Helper()
+		var tss []prompbmarshal.TimeSeries
+		for _, l := range labels {
+			tss = append(tss, newTimeSeriesPB([]float64{1}, []int64{ts.Unix()}, l))
+		}
+		staleS := e.getStaleSeries(rule, tss, ts)
+		if staleS == nil && expLabels == nil {
+			return
+		}
+		if len(staleS) != len(expLabels) {
+			t.Fatalf("expected to get %d stale series, got %d",
+				len(expLabels), len(staleS))
+		}
+		for i, exp := range expLabels {
+			got := staleS[i]
+			if !reflect.DeepEqual(exp, got.Labels) {
+				t.Fatalf("expected to get labels: \n%v;\ngot instead: \n%v",
+					exp, got.Labels)
+			}
+			if len(got.Samples) != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("expected to have 1 sample; got %d", len(got.Samples))
+			}
+			if !decimal.IsStaleNaN(got.Samples[0].Value) {
+				t.Fatalf("expected sample value to be %v; got %v", decimal.StaleNaN, got.Samples[0].Value)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	// warn: keep in mind, that executor holds the state, so sequence of f calls matters
+
+	// single series
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "foo")},
+		nil)
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "foo")},
+		nil)
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		nil,
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "foo")})
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		nil,
+		nil)
+
+	// multiple series
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{
+			toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "foo"),
+			toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "bar"),
+		},
+		nil)
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "bar")},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "foo")})
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "bar")},
+		nil)
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		nil,
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "bar")})
+
+	// multiple rules and series
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{
+			toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "foo"),
+			toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "bar"),
+		},
+		nil)
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 2},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{
+			toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "foo"),
+			toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "bar"),
+		},
+		nil)
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "bar")},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "foo")})
+	f(&AlertingRule{RuleID: 1},
+		[][]prompbmarshal.Label{toPromLabels(t, "__name__", "job:foo", "job", "bar")},
+		nil)
+}

app/vmalert/helpers_test.go

@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ func (fq *fakeQuerier) BuildWithParams(_ datasource.QuerierParams) datasource.Qu
 }
 
 func (fq *fakeQuerier) QueryRange(ctx context.Context, q string, _, _ time.Time) ([]datasource.Metric, error) {
-	return fq.Query(ctx, q)
+	return fq.Query(ctx, q, time.Now())
 }
 
-func (fq *fakeQuerier) Query(_ context.Context, _ string) ([]datasource.Metric, error) {
+func (fq *fakeQuerier) Query(_ context.Context, _ string, _ time.Time) ([]datasource.Metric, error) {
 	fq.Lock()
 	defer fq.Unlock()
 	if fq.err != nil {
@@ -61,16 +61,26 @@ func (fq *fakeQuerier) Query(_ context.Context, _ string) ([]datasource.Metric,
 type fakeNotifier struct {
 	sync.Mutex
 	alerts []notifier.Alert
+	// records number of received alerts in total
+	counter int
 }
 
+func (*fakeNotifier) Close()       {}
 func (*fakeNotifier) Addr() string { return "" }
 func (fn *fakeNotifier) Send(_ context.Context, alerts []notifier.Alert) error {
 	fn.Lock()
 	defer fn.Unlock()
+	fn.counter += len(alerts)
 	fn.alerts = alerts
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (fn *fakeNotifier) getCounter() int {
+	fn.Lock()
+	defer fn.Unlock()
+	return fn.counter
+}
+
 func (fn *fakeNotifier) getAlerts() []notifier.Alert {
 	fn.Lock()
 	defer fn.Unlock()
@@ -106,6 +116,21 @@ func metricWithLabels(t *testing.T, labels ...string) datasource.Metric {
 	return m
 }
 
+func toPromLabels(t *testing.T, labels ...string) []prompbmarshal.Label {
+	t.Helper()
+	if len(labels) == 0 || len(labels)%2 != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected to get even number of labels")
+	}
+	var ls []prompbmarshal.Label
+	for i := 0; i < len(labels); i += 2 {
+		ls = append(ls, prompbmarshal.Label{
+			Name:  labels[i],
+			Value: labels[i+1],
+		})
+	}
+	return ls
+}
+
 func compareGroups(t *testing.T, a, b *Group) {
 	t.Helper()
 	if a.Name != b.Name {

app/vmalert/main.go

@@ -35,7 +35,10 @@ absolute path to all .yaml files in root.
 Rule files may contain %{ENV_VAR} placeholders, which are substituted by the corresponding env vars.`)
 
 	rulesCheckInterval = flag.Duration("rule.configCheckInterval", 0, "Interval for checking for changes in '-rule' files. "+
-		"By default the checking is disabled. Send SIGHUP signal in order to force config check for changes")
+		"By default the checking is disabled. Send SIGHUP signal in order to force config check for changes. DEPRECATED - see '-configCheckInterval' instead")
+
+	configCheckInterval = flag.Duration("configCheckInterval", 0, "Interval for checking for changes in '-rule' or '-notifier.config' files. "+
+		"By default the checking is disabled. Send SIGHUP signal in order to force config check for changes.")
 
 	httpListenAddr     = flag.String("httpListenAddr", ":8880", "Address to listen for http connections")
 	evaluationInterval = flag.Duration("evaluationInterval", time.Minute, "How often to evaluate the rules")
@@ -44,17 +47,19 @@ Rule files may contain %{ENV_VAR} placeholders, which are substituted by the cor
 	validateExpressions = flag.Bool("rule.validateExpressions", true, "Whether to validate rules expressions via MetricsQL engine")
 	maxResolveDuration  = flag.Duration("rule.maxResolveDuration", 0, "Limits the maximum duration for automatic alert expiration, "+
 		"which is by default equal to 3 evaluation intervals of the parent group.")
+	resendDelay = flag.Duration("rule.resendDelay", 0, "Minimum amount of time to wait before resending an alert to notifier")
+
 	externalURL         = flag.String("external.url", "", "External URL is used as alert's source for sent alerts to the notifier")
 	externalAlertSource = flag.String("external.alert.source", "", `External Alert Source allows to override the Source link for alerts sent to AlertManager for cases where you want to build a custom link to Grafana, Prometheus or any other service.
 eg. 'explore?orgId=1&left=[\"now-1h\",\"now\",\"VictoriaMetrics\",{\"expr\": \"{{$expr|quotesEscape|crlfEscape|queryEscape}}\"},{\"mode\":\"Metrics\"},{\"ui\":[true,true,true,\"none\"]}]'.If empty '/api/v1/:groupID/alertID/status' is used`)
-	externalLabels = flagutil.NewArray("external.label", "Optional label in the form 'name=value' to add to all generated recording rules and alerts. "+
+	externalLabels = flagutil.NewArray("external.label", "Optional label in the form 'Name=value' to add to all generated recording rules and alerts. "+
 		"Pass multiple -label flags in order to add multiple label sets.")
 
 	remoteReadLookBack = flag.Duration("remoteRead.lookback", time.Hour, "Lookback defines how far to look into past for alerts timeseries."+
 		" For example, if lookback=1h then range from now() to now()-1h will be scanned.")
 	remoteReadIgnoreRestoreErrors = flag.Bool("remoteRead.ignoreRestoreErrors", true, "Whether to ignore errors from remote storage when restoring alerts state on startup.")
 
-	disableAlertGroupLabel = flag.Bool("disableAlertgroupLabel", false, "Whether to disable adding group's name as label to generated alerts and time series.")
+	disableAlertGroupLabel = flag.Bool("disableAlertgroupLabel", false, "Whether to disable adding group's Name as label to generated alerts and time series.")
 
 	dryRun = flag.Bool("dryRun", false, "Whether to check only config files without running vmalert. The rules file are validated. The `-rule` flag must be specified.")
 )
@@ -97,6 +102,9 @@ func main() {
 		if err != nil {
 			logger.Fatalf("failed to init remoteWrite: %s", err)
 		}
+		if rw == nil {
+			logger.Fatalf("remoteWrite.url can't be empty in replay mode")
+		}
 		notifier.InitTemplateFunc(eu)
 		groupsCfg, err := config.Parse(*rulePath, *validateTemplates, *validateExpressions)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -104,8 +112,7 @@ func main() {
 		}
 		// prevent queries from caching and boundaries aligning
 		// when querying VictoriaMetrics datasource.
-		noCache := datasource.Param{Key: "nocache", Value: "1"}
-		q, err := datasource.Init([]datasource.Param{noCache})
+		q, err := datasource.Init(url.Values{"nocache": {"1"}})
 		if err != nil {
 			logger.Fatalf("failed to init datasource: %s", err)
 		}
@@ -162,7 +169,20 @@ func newManager(ctx context.Context) (*manager, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to init datasource: %w", err)
 	}
-	nts, err := notifier.Init(alertURLGeneratorFn)
+
+	labels := make(map[string]string, 0)
+	for _, s := range *externalLabels {
+		if len(s) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		n := strings.IndexByte(s, '=')
+		if n < 0 {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing '=' in `-label`. It must contain label in the form `Name=value`; got %q", s)
+		}
+		labels[s[:n]] = s[n+1:]
+	}
+
+	nts, err := notifier.Init(alertURLGeneratorFn, labels, *externalURL)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to init notifier: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -170,7 +190,7 @@ func newManager(ctx context.Context) (*manager, error) {
 		groups:         make(map[uint64]*Group),
 		querierBuilder: q,
 		notifiers:      nts,
-		labels:         map[string]string{},
+		labels:         labels,
 	}
 	rw, err := remotewrite.Init(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -184,16 +204,6 @@ func newManager(ctx context.Context) (*manager, error) {
 	}
 	manager.rr = rr
 
-	for _, s := range *externalLabels {
-		if len(s) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-		n := strings.IndexByte(s, '=')
-		if n < 0 {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing '=' in `-label`. It must contain label in the form `name=value`; got %q", s)
-		}
-		manager.labels[s[:n]] = s[n+1:]
-	}
 	return manager, nil
 }
 
@@ -233,7 +243,7 @@ func getAlertURLGenerator(externalURL *url.URL, externalAlertSource string, vali
 		"tpl": externalAlertSource,
 	}
 	return func(alert notifier.Alert) string {
-		templated, err := alert.ExecTemplate(nil, m)
+		templated, err := alert.ExecTemplate(nil, nil, m)
 		if err != nil {
 			logger.Errorf("can not exec source template %s", err)
 		}
@@ -252,8 +262,13 @@ See the docs at https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html .
 
 func configReload(ctx context.Context, m *manager, groupsCfg []config.Group, sighupCh <-chan os.Signal) {
 	var configCheckCh <-chan time.Time
-	if *rulesCheckInterval > 0 {
-		ticker := time.NewTicker(*rulesCheckInterval)
+	checkInterval := *configCheckInterval
+	if checkInterval == 0 && *rulesCheckInterval > 0 {
+		logger.Warnf("flag `rule.configCheckInterval` is deprecated - use `configCheckInterval` instead")
+		checkInterval = *rulesCheckInterval
+	}
+	if checkInterval > 0 {
+		ticker := time.NewTicker(checkInterval)
 		configCheckCh = ticker.C
 		defer ticker.Stop()
 	}
@@ -270,6 +285,12 @@ func configReload(ctx context.Context, m *manager, groupsCfg []config.Group, sig
 			configReloads.Inc()
 		case <-configCheckCh:
 		}
+		if err := notifier.Reload(); err != nil {
+			configReloadErrors.Inc()
+			configSuccess.Set(0)
+			logger.Errorf("failed to reload notifier config: %s", err)
+			continue
+		}
 		newGroupsCfg, err := config.Parse(*rulePath, *validateTemplates, *validateExpressions)
 		if err != nil {
 			configReloadErrors.Inc()
@@ -284,13 +305,13 @@ func configReload(ctx context.Context, m *manager, groupsCfg []config.Group, sig
 			// config didn't change - skip it
 			continue
 		}
-		groupsCfg = newGroupsCfg
-		if err := m.update(ctx, groupsCfg, false); err != nil {
+		if err := m.update(ctx, newGroupsCfg, false); err != nil {
 			configReloadErrors.Inc()
 			configSuccess.Set(0)
 			logger.Errorf("error while reloading rules: %s", err)
 			continue
 		}
+		groupsCfg = newGroupsCfg
 		configSuccess.Set(1)
 		configTimestamp.Set(fasttime.UnixTimestamp())
 		logger.Infof("Rules reloaded successfully from %q", *rulePath)

app/vmalert/main_test.go

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/notifier"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/remotewrite"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/procutil"
 )
 
@@ -99,6 +100,8 @@ groups:
 		querierBuilder: &fakeQuerier{},
 		groups:         make(map[uint64]*Group),
 		labels:         map[string]string{},
+		notifiers:      func() []notifier.Notifier { return []notifier.Notifier{&fakeNotifier{}} },
+		rw:             &remotewrite.Client{},
 	}
 
 	syncCh := make(chan struct{})

app/vmalert/manager.go

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package main
 import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
+	"net/url"
+	"sort"
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/config"
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ import (
 // manager controls group states
 type manager struct {
 	querierBuilder datasource.QuerierBuilder
-	notifiers      []notifier.Notifier
+	notifiers      func() []notifier.Notifier
 
 	rw *remotewrite.Client
 	// remote read builder.
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ func (m *manager) AlertAPI(gID, aID uint64) (*APIAlert, error) {
 
 	g, ok := m.groups[gID]
 	if !ok {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("can't find group with id %q", gID)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("can't find group with id %d", gID)
 	}
 	for _, rule := range g.Rules {
 		ar, ok := rule.(*AlertingRule)
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ func (m *manager) AlertAPI(gID, aID uint64) (*APIAlert, error) {
 			return apiAlert, nil
 		}
 	}
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf("can't find alert with id %q in group %q", aID, g.Name)
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("can't find alert with id %d in group %q", aID, g.Name)
 }
 
 func (m *manager) start(ctx context.Context, groupsCfg []config.Group) error {
@@ -85,12 +87,31 @@ func (m *manager) startGroup(ctx context.Context, group *Group, restore bool) er
 }
 
 func (m *manager) update(ctx context.Context, groupsCfg []config.Group, restore bool) error {
+	var rrPresent, arPresent bool
 	groupsRegistry := make(map[uint64]*Group)
 	for _, cfg := range groupsCfg {
+		for _, r := range cfg.Rules {
+			if rrPresent && arPresent {
+				continue
+			}
+			if r.Record != "" {
+				rrPresent = true
+			}
+			if r.Alert != "" {
+				arPresent = true
+			}
+		}
 		ng := newGroup(cfg, m.querierBuilder, *evaluationInterval, m.labels)
 		groupsRegistry[ng.ID()] = ng
 	}
 
+	if rrPresent && m.rw == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("config contains recording rules but `-remoteWrite.url` isn't set")
+	}
+	if arPresent && m.notifiers == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("config contains alerting rules but neither `-notifier.url` nor `-notifier.config` aren't set")
+	}
+
 	type updateItem struct {
 		old *Group
 		new *Group
@@ -142,21 +163,38 @@ func (g *Group) toAPI() APIGroup {
 		// encode as string to avoid rounding
 		ID: fmt.Sprintf("%d", g.ID()),
 
-		Name:              g.Name,
-		Type:              g.Type.String(),
-		File:              g.File,
-		Interval:          g.Interval.String(),
-		Concurrency:       g.Concurrency,
-		ExtraFilterLabels: g.ExtraFilterLabels,
-		Labels:            g.Labels,
+		Name:           g.Name,
+		Type:           g.Type.String(),
+		File:           g.File,
+		Interval:       g.Interval.Seconds(),
+		LastEvaluation: g.LastEvaluation,
+		Concurrency:    g.Concurrency,
+		Params:         urlValuesToStrings(g.Params),
+		Labels:         g.Labels,
 	}
 	for _, r := range g.Rules {
-		switch v := r.(type) {
-		case *AlertingRule:
-			ag.AlertingRules = append(ag.AlertingRules, v.RuleAPI())
-		case *RecordingRule:
-			ag.RecordingRules = append(ag.RecordingRules, v.RuleAPI())
-		}
+		ag.Rules = append(ag.Rules, r.ToAPI())
 	}
 	return ag
 }
+
+func urlValuesToStrings(values url.Values) []string {
+	if len(values) < 1 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	keys := make([]string, 0, len(values))
+	for k := range values {
+		keys = append(keys, k)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(keys)
+
+	var res []string
+	for _, k := range keys {
+		params := values[k]
+		for _, v := range params {
+			res = append(res, fmt.Sprintf("%s=%s", k, v))
+		}
+	}
+	return res
+}

app/vmalert/manager_test.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"math/rand"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/config"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/notifier"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/remotewrite"
 )
 
 func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ func TestManagerUpdateConcurrent(t *testing.T) {
 	m := &manager{
 		groups:         make(map[uint64]*Group),
 		querierBuilder: &fakeQuerier{},
-		notifiers:      []notifier.Notifier{&fakeNotifier{}},
+		notifiers:      func() []notifier.Notifier { return []notifier.Notifier{&fakeNotifier{}} },
 	}
 	paths := []string{
 		"config/testdata/dir/rules0-good.rules",
@@ -113,18 +115,6 @@ func TestManagerUpdate(t *testing.T) {
 			Name: "ExampleAlertAlwaysFiring",
 			Expr: "sum by(job) (up == 1)",
 		}
-		ExampleAlertGraphite = &AlertingRule{
-			Name: "up graphite",
-			Expr: "filterSeries(time('host.1',20),'>','0')",
-			Type: datasource.NewGraphiteType(),
-			For:  defaultEvalInterval,
-		}
-		ExampleAlertGraphite2 = &AlertingRule{
-			Name: "up",
-			Expr: "filterSeries(time('host.2',20),'>','0')",
-			Type: datasource.NewGraphiteType(),
-			For:  defaultEvalInterval,
-		}
 	)
 
 	testCases := []struct {
@@ -226,28 +216,15 @@ func TestManagerUpdate(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 		},
-		{
-			name:       "update prometheus to graphite type",
-			initPath:   "config/testdata/dir/rules-update0-good.rules",
-			updatePath: "config/testdata/dir/rules-update1-good.rules",
-			want: []*Group{
-				{
-					File:     "config/testdata/dir/rules-update1-good.rules",
-					Interval: defaultEvalInterval,
-					Type:     datasource.NewGraphiteType(),
-					Name:     "TestUpdateGroup",
-					Rules: []Rule{
-						ExampleAlertGraphite2,
-						ExampleAlertGraphite,
-					},
-				},
-			},
-		},
 	}
 	for _, tc := range testCases {
 		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.TODO())
-			m := &manager{groups: make(map[uint64]*Group), querierBuilder: &fakeQuerier{}}
+			m := &manager{
+				groups:         make(map[uint64]*Group),
+				querierBuilder: &fakeQuerier{},
+				notifiers:      func() []notifier.Notifier { return []notifier.Notifier{&fakeNotifier{}} },
+			}
 
 			cfgInit := loadCfg(t, []string{tc.initPath}, true, true)
 			if err := m.update(ctx, cfgInit, false); err != nil {
@@ -276,6 +253,80 @@ func TestManagerUpdate(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestManagerUpdateNegative(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := []struct {
+		notifiers []notifier.Notifier
+		rw        *remotewrite.Client
+		cfg       config.Group
+		expErr    string
+	}{
+		{
+			nil,
+			nil,
+			config.Group{Name: "Recording rule only",
+				Rules: []config.Rule{
+					{Record: "record", Expr: "max(up)"},
+				},
+			},
+			"contains recording rules",
+		},
+		{
+			nil,
+			nil,
+			config.Group{Name: "Alerting rule only",
+				Rules: []config.Rule{
+					{Alert: "alert", Expr: "up > 0"},
+				},
+			},
+			"contains alerting rules",
+		},
+		{
+			[]notifier.Notifier{&fakeNotifier{}},
+			nil,
+			config.Group{Name: "Recording and alerting rules",
+				Rules: []config.Rule{
+					{Alert: "alert1", Expr: "up > 0"},
+					{Alert: "alert2", Expr: "up > 0"},
+					{Record: "record", Expr: "max(up)"},
+				},
+			},
+			"contains recording rules",
+		},
+		{
+			nil,
+			&remotewrite.Client{},
+			config.Group{Name: "Recording and alerting rules",
+				Rules: []config.Rule{
+					{Record: "record1", Expr: "max(up)"},
+					{Record: "record2", Expr: "max(up)"},
+					{Alert: "alert", Expr: "up > 0"},
+				},
+			},
+			"contains alerting rules",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range testCases {
+		t.Run(tc.cfg.Name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			m := &manager{
+				groups:         make(map[uint64]*Group),
+				querierBuilder: &fakeQuerier{},
+				rw:             tc.rw,
+			}
+			if tc.notifiers != nil {
+				m.notifiers = func() []notifier.Notifier { return tc.notifiers }
+			}
+			err := m.update(context.Background(), []config.Group{tc.cfg}, false)
+			if err == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("expected to get error; got nil")
+			}
+			if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tc.expErr) {
+				t.Fatalf("expected err to contain %q; got %q", tc.expErr, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func loadCfg(t *testing.T, path []string, validateAnnotations, validateExpressions bool) []config.Group {
 	t.Helper()
 	cfg, err := config.Parse(path, validateAnnotations, validateExpressions)

app/vmalert/metrics.go

@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import "github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
-
-type gauge struct {
-	name string
-	*metrics.Gauge
-}
-
-func getOrCreateGauge(name string, f func() float64) *gauge {
-	return &gauge{
-		name:  name,
-		Gauge: metrics.GetOrCreateGauge(name, f),
-	}
-}
-
-type counter struct {
-	name string
-	*metrics.Counter
-}
-
-func getOrCreateCounter(name string) *counter {
-	return &counter{
-		name:    name,
-		Counter: metrics.GetOrCreateCounter(name),
-	}
-}
-
-type summary struct {
-	name string
-	*metrics.Summary
-}
-
-func getOrCreateSummary(name string) *summary {
-	return &summary{
-		name:    name,
-		Summary: metrics.GetOrCreateSummary(name),
-	}
-}

app/vmalert/notifier/alert.go

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promrelabel"
 )
 
 // Alert the triggered alert
@@ -26,10 +28,16 @@ type Alert struct {
 	State AlertState
 	// Expr contains expression that was executed to generate the Alert
 	Expr string
-	// Start defines the moment of time when Alert has triggered
+	// ActiveAt defines the moment of time when Alert has become active
+	ActiveAt time.Time
+	// Start defines the moment of time when Alert has become firing
 	Start time.Time
 	// End defines the moment of time when Alert supposed to expire
 	End time.Time
+	// ResolvedAt defines the moment when Alert was switched from Firing to Inactive
+	ResolvedAt time.Time
+	// LastSent defines the moment when Alert was sent last time
+	LastSent time.Time
 	// Value stores the value returned from evaluating expression from Expr field
 	Value float64
 	// ID is the unique identifer for the Alert
@@ -70,20 +78,26 @@ type AlertTplData struct {
 	Expr   string
 }
 
-const tplHeader = `{{ $value := .Value }}{{ $labels := .Labels }}{{ $expr := .Expr }}`
+var tplHeaders = []string{
+	"{{ $value := .Value }}",
+	"{{ $labels := .Labels }}",
+	"{{ $expr := .Expr }}",
+	"{{ $externalLabels := .ExternalLabels }}",
+	"{{ $externalURL := .ExternalURL }}",
+}
 
 // ExecTemplate executes the Alert template for given
 // map of annotations.
 // Every alert could have a different datasource, so function
 // requires a queryFunction as an argument.
-func (a *Alert) ExecTemplate(q QueryFn, annotations map[string]string) (map[string]string, error) {
-	tplData := AlertTplData{Value: a.Value, Labels: a.Labels, Expr: a.Expr}
-	return templateAnnotations(annotations, tplData, funcsWithQuery(q))
+func (a *Alert) ExecTemplate(q QueryFn, labels, annotations map[string]string) (map[string]string, error) {
+	tplData := AlertTplData{Value: a.Value, Labels: labels, Expr: a.Expr}
+	return templateAnnotations(annotations, tplData, funcsWithQuery(q), true)
 }
 
 // ExecTemplate executes the given template for given annotations map.
 func ExecTemplate(q QueryFn, annotations map[string]string, tpl AlertTplData) (map[string]string, error) {
-	return templateAnnotations(annotations, tpl, funcsWithQuery(q))
+	return templateAnnotations(annotations, tpl, funcsWithQuery(q), true)
 }
 
 // ValidateTemplates validate annotations for possible template error, uses empty data for template population
@@ -91,22 +105,24 @@ func ValidateTemplates(annotations map[string]string) error {
 	_, err := templateAnnotations(annotations, AlertTplData{
 		Labels: map[string]string{},
 		Value:  0,
-	}, tmplFunc)
+	}, tmplFunc, false)
 	return err
 }
 
-func templateAnnotations(annotations map[string]string, data AlertTplData, funcs template.FuncMap) (map[string]string, error) {
+func templateAnnotations(annotations map[string]string, data AlertTplData, funcs template.FuncMap, execute bool) (map[string]string, error) {
 	var builder strings.Builder
 	var buf bytes.Buffer
 	eg := new(utils.ErrGroup)
 	r := make(map[string]string, len(annotations))
+	tData := tplData{data, externalLabels, externalURL}
+	header := strings.Join(tplHeaders, "")
 	for key, text := range annotations {
 		buf.Reset()
 		builder.Reset()
-		builder.Grow(len(tplHeader) + len(text))
-		builder.WriteString(tplHeader)
+		builder.Grow(len(header) + len(text))
+		builder.WriteString(header)
 		builder.WriteString(text)
-		if err := templateAnnotation(&buf, builder.String(), data, funcs); err != nil {
+		if err := templateAnnotation(&buf, builder.String(), tData, funcs, execute); err != nil {
 			r[key] = text
 			eg.Add(fmt.Errorf("key %q, template %q: %w", key, text, err))
 			continue
@@ -116,14 +132,38 @@ func templateAnnotations(annotations map[string]string, data AlertTplData, funcs
 	return r, eg.Err()
 }
 
-func templateAnnotation(dst io.Writer, text string, data AlertTplData, funcs template.FuncMap) error {
+type tplData struct {
+	AlertTplData
+	ExternalLabels map[string]string
+	ExternalURL    string
+}
+
+func templateAnnotation(dst io.Writer, text string, data tplData, funcs template.FuncMap, execute bool) error {
 	t := template.New("").Funcs(funcs).Option("missingkey=zero")
 	tpl, err := t.Parse(text)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error parsing annotation: %w", err)
 	}
+	if !execute {
+		return nil
+	}
 	if err = tpl.Execute(dst, data); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error evaluating annotation template: %w", err)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+func (a Alert) toPromLabels(relabelCfg *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs) []prompbmarshal.Label {
+	var labels []prompbmarshal.Label
+	for k, v := range a.Labels {
+		labels = append(labels, prompbmarshal.Label{
+			Name:  k,
+			Value: v,
+		})
+	}
+	promrelabel.SortLabels(labels)
+	if relabelCfg != nil {
+		return relabelCfg.Apply(labels, 0, false)
+	}
+	return labels
+}

app/vmalert/notifier/alert_test.go

@@ -1,12 +1,27 @@
 package notifier
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
+	"reflect"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promrelabel"
 )
 
 func TestAlert_ExecTemplate(t *testing.T) {
+	extLabels := make(map[string]string, 0)
+	const (
+		extCluster = "prod"
+		extDC      = "east"
+		extURL     = "https://foo.bar"
+	)
+	extLabels["cluster"] = extCluster
+	extLabels["dc"] = extDC
+	_, err := Init(nil, extLabels, extURL)
+	checkErr(t, err)
+
 	testCases := []struct {
 		name        string
 		alert       *Alert
@@ -74,6 +89,26 @@ func TestAlert_ExecTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 				"desc":    "bar 1;garply 2;",
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			name: "external",
+			alert: &Alert{
+				Value: 1e4,
+				Labels: map[string]string{
+					"job":      "staging",
+					"instance": "localhost",
+				},
+			},
+			annotations: map[string]string{
+				"url":         "{{ $externalURL }}",
+				"summary":     "Issues with {{$labels.instance}} (dc-{{$externalLabels.dc}}) for job {{$labels.job}}",
+				"description": "It is {{ $value }} connections for {{$labels.instance}} (cluster-{{$externalLabels.cluster}})",
+			},
+			expTpl: map[string]string{
+				"url":         extURL,
+				"summary":     fmt.Sprintf("Issues with localhost (dc-%s) for job staging", extDC),
+				"description": fmt.Sprintf("It is 10000 connections for localhost (cluster-%s)", extCluster),
+			},
+		},
 	}
 
 	qFn := func(q string) ([]datasource.Metric, error) {
@@ -98,7 +133,7 @@ func TestAlert_ExecTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	for _, tc := range testCases {
 		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			tpl, err := tc.alert.ExecTemplate(qFn, tc.annotations)
+			tpl, err := tc.alert.ExecTemplate(qFn, tc.alert.Labels, tc.annotations)
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fatal(err)
 			}
@@ -114,3 +149,48 @@ func TestAlert_ExecTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestAlert_toPromLabels(t *testing.T) {
+	fn := func(labels map[string]string, exp []prompbmarshal.Label, relabel *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs) {
+		t.Helper()
+		a := Alert{Labels: labels}
+		got := a.toPromLabels(relabel)
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(got, exp) {
+			t.Fatalf("expected to have: \n%v;\ngot:\n%v",
+				exp, got)
+		}
+	}
+
+	fn(nil, nil, nil)
+	fn(
+		map[string]string{"foo": "bar", "a": "baz"}, // unsorted
+		[]prompbmarshal.Label{{Name: "a", Value: "baz"}, {Name: "foo", Value: "bar"}},
+		nil,
+	)
+
+	pcs, err := promrelabel.ParseRelabelConfigsData([]byte(`
+- target_label: "foo"
+  replacement: "aaa"
+- action: labeldrop
+  regex: "env.*"
+`), false)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	fn(
+		map[string]string{"a": "baz"},
+		[]prompbmarshal.Label{{Name: "a", Value: "baz"}, {Name: "foo", Value: "aaa"}},
+		pcs,
+	)
+	fn(
+		map[string]string{"foo": "bar", "a": "baz"},
+		[]prompbmarshal.Label{{Name: "a", Value: "baz"}, {Name: "foo", Value: "aaa"}},
+		pcs,
+	)
+	fn(
+		map[string]string{"qux": "bar", "env": "prod", "environment": "production"},
+		[]prompbmarshal.Label{{Name: "foo", Value: "aaa"}, {Name: "qux", Value: "bar"}},
+		pcs,
+	)
+}

app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager.go

@@ -7,17 +7,44 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promauth"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promrelabel"
 )
 
 // AlertManager represents integration provider with Prometheus alert manager
 // https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager
 type AlertManager struct {
-	addr          string
-	alertURL      string
-	basicAuthUser string
-	basicAuthPass string
-	argFunc       AlertURLGenerator
-	client        *http.Client
+	addr    string
+	argFunc AlertURLGenerator
+	client  *http.Client
+	timeout time.Duration
+
+	authCfg *promauth.Config
+	// stores already parsed RelabelConfigs object
+	relabelConfigs *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs
+
+	metrics *metrics
+}
+
+type metrics struct {
+	alertsSent       *utils.Counter
+	alertsSendErrors *utils.Counter
+}
+
+func newMetrics(addr string) *metrics {
+	return &metrics{
+		alertsSent:       utils.GetOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf("vmalert_alerts_sent_total{addr=%q}", addr)),
+		alertsSendErrors: utils.GetOrCreateCounter(fmt.Sprintf("vmalert_alerts_send_errors_total{addr=%q}", addr)),
+	}
+}
+
+// Close is a destructor method for AlertManager
+func (am *AlertManager) Close() {
+	am.metrics.alertsSent.Unregister()
+	am.metrics.alertsSendErrors.Unregister()
 }
 
 // Addr returns address where alerts are sent.
@@ -25,17 +52,36 @@ func (am AlertManager) Addr() string { return am.addr }
 
 // Send an alert or resolve message
 func (am *AlertManager) Send(ctx context.Context, alerts []Alert) error {
-	b := &bytes.Buffer{}
-	writeamRequest(b, alerts, am.argFunc)
+	am.metrics.alertsSent.Add(len(alerts))
+	err := am.send(ctx, alerts)
+	if err != nil {
+		am.metrics.alertsSendErrors.Add(len(alerts))
+	}
+	return err
+}
 
-	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", am.alertURL, b)
+func (am *AlertManager) send(ctx context.Context, alerts []Alert) error {
+	b := &bytes.Buffer{}
+	writeamRequest(b, alerts, am.argFunc, am.relabelConfigs)
+
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", am.addr, b)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+
+	if am.timeout > 0 {
+		var cancel context.CancelFunc
+		ctx, cancel = context.WithTimeout(ctx, am.timeout)
+		defer cancel()
+	}
+
 	req = req.WithContext(ctx)
-	if am.basicAuthPass != "" {
-		req.SetBasicAuth(am.basicAuthUser, am.basicAuthPass)
+
+	if am.authCfg != nil {
+		if auth := am.authCfg.GetAuthHeader(); auth != "" {
+			req.Header.Set("Authorization", auth)
+		}
 	}
 	resp, err := am.client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -47,9 +93,9 @@ func (am *AlertManager) Send(ctx context.Context, alerts []Alert) error {
 	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
 		body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
 		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("failed to read response from %q: %w", am.alertURL, err)
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to read response from %q: %w", am.addr, err)
 		}
-		return fmt.Errorf("invalid SC %d from %q; response body: %s", resp.StatusCode, am.alertURL, string(body))
+		return fmt.Errorf("invalid SC %d from %q; response body: %s", resp.StatusCode, am.addr, string(body))
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -60,14 +106,41 @@ type AlertURLGenerator func(Alert) string
 const alertManagerPath = "/api/v2/alerts"
 
 // NewAlertManager is a constructor for AlertManager
-func NewAlertManager(alertManagerURL, user, pass string, fn AlertURLGenerator, c *http.Client) *AlertManager {
-	url := strings.TrimSuffix(alertManagerURL, "/") + alertManagerPath
-	return &AlertManager{
-		addr:          alertManagerURL,
-		alertURL:      url,
-		argFunc:       fn,
-		client:        c,
-		basicAuthUser: user,
-		basicAuthPass: pass,
+func NewAlertManager(alertManagerURL string, fn AlertURLGenerator, authCfg promauth.HTTPClientConfig,
+	relabelCfg *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs, timeout time.Duration) (*AlertManager, error) {
+	tls := &promauth.TLSConfig{}
+	if authCfg.TLSConfig != nil {
+		tls = authCfg.TLSConfig
 	}
+	tr, err := utils.Transport(alertManagerURL, tls.CertFile, tls.KeyFile, tls.CAFile, tls.ServerName, tls.InsecureSkipVerify)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create transport: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	ba := new(promauth.BasicAuthConfig)
+	oauth := new(promauth.OAuth2Config)
+	if authCfg.BasicAuth != nil {
+		ba = authCfg.BasicAuth
+	}
+	if authCfg.OAuth2 != nil {
+		oauth = authCfg.OAuth2
+	}
+
+	aCfg, err := utils.AuthConfig(
+		utils.WithBasicAuth(ba.Username, ba.Password.String(), ba.PasswordFile),
+		utils.WithBearer(authCfg.BearerToken.String(), authCfg.BearerTokenFile),
+		utils.WithOAuth(oauth.ClientID, oauth.ClientSecretFile, oauth.ClientSecretFile, oauth.TokenURL, strings.Join(oauth.Scopes, ";")))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to configure auth: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return &AlertManager{
+		addr:           alertManagerURL,
+		argFunc:        fn,
+		authCfg:        aCfg,
+		relabelConfigs: relabelCfg,
+		client:         &http.Client{Transport: tr},
+		timeout:        timeout,
+		metrics:        newMetrics(alertManagerURL),
+	}, nil
 }

app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 {% import (
     "time"
+
+    "github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promrelabel"
 ) %}
 {% stripspace %}
 
-{% func amRequest(alerts []Alert, generatorURL func(Alert) string) %}
+{% func amRequest(alerts []Alert, generatorURL func(Alert) string, relabelCfg *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs) %}
 [
 {% for i, alert := range alerts %}
 {
@@ -14,8 +16,9 @@
     {% endif %}
     "labels": {
         "alertname":{%q= alert.Name %}
-        {% for k,v := range alert.Labels %}
-            ,{%q= k %}:{%q= v %}
+        {% code lbls := alert.toPromLabels(relabelCfg) %}
+        {% for _, l := range lbls %}
+            ,{%q= l.Name %}:{%q= l.Value %}
         {% endfor %}
     },
     "annotations": {

app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl.go

@@ -7,124 +7,129 @@ package notifier
 //line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:1
 import (
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promrelabel"
 )
 
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:6
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:8
 import (
 	qtio422016 "io"
 
 	qt422016 "github.com/valyala/quicktemplate"
 )
 
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:6
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:8
 var (
 	_ = qtio422016.Copy
 	_ = qt422016.AcquireByteBuffer
 )
 
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:6
-func streamamRequest(qw422016 *qt422016.Writer, alerts []Alert, generatorURL func(Alert) string) {
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:6
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:8
+func streamamRequest(qw422016 *qt422016.Writer, alerts []Alert, generatorURL func(Alert) string, relabelCfg *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs) {
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:8
 	qw422016.N().S(`[`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:8
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:10
 	for i, alert := range alerts {
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:8
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:10
 		qw422016.N().S(`{"startsAt":`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:10
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:12
 		qw422016.N().Q(alert.Start.Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:10
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:12
 		qw422016.N().S(`,"generatorURL":`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:11
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:13
 		qw422016.N().Q(generatorURL(alert))
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:11
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:13
 		qw422016.N().S(`,`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:12
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:14
 		if !alert.End.IsZero() {
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:12
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:14
 			qw422016.N().S(`"endsAt":`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:13
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:15
 			qw422016.N().Q(alert.End.Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:13
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:15
 			qw422016.N().S(`,`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:14
-		}
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:14
-		qw422016.N().S(`"labels": {"alertname":`)
 //line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:16
-		qw422016.N().Q(alert.Name)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:17
-		for k, v := range alert.Labels {
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:17
-			qw422016.N().S(`,`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:18
-			qw422016.N().Q(k)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:18
-			qw422016.N().S(`:`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:18
-			qw422016.N().Q(v)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:19
 		}
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:16
+		qw422016.N().S(`"labels": {"alertname":`)
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:18
+		qw422016.N().Q(alert.Name)
 //line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:19
-		qw422016.N().S(`},"annotations": {`)
+		lbls := alert.toPromLabels(relabelCfg)
+
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:20
+		for _, l := range lbls {
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:20
+			qw422016.N().S(`,`)
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:21
+			qw422016.N().Q(l.Name)
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:21
+			qw422016.N().S(`:`)
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:21
+			qw422016.N().Q(l.Value)
 //line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:22
+		}
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:22
+		qw422016.N().S(`},"annotations": {`)
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:25
 		c := len(alert.Annotations)
 
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:23
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:26
 		for k, v := range alert.Annotations {
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:24
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:27
 			c = c - 1
 
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:25
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:28
 			qw422016.N().Q(k)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:25
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:28
 			qw422016.N().S(`:`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:25
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:28
 			qw422016.N().Q(v)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:25
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:28
 			if c > 0 {
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:25
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:28
 				qw422016.N().S(`,`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:25
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:28
 			}
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:26
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:29
 		}
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:26
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:29
 		qw422016.N().S(`}}`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:29
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
 		if i != len(alerts)-1 {
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:29
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
 			qw422016.N().S(`,`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:29
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
 		}
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:30
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:33
 	}
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:30
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:33
 	qw422016.N().S(`]`)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
 }
 
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
-func writeamRequest(qq422016 qtio422016.Writer, alerts []Alert, generatorURL func(Alert) string) {
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
+func writeamRequest(qq422016 qtio422016.Writer, alerts []Alert, generatorURL func(Alert) string, relabelCfg *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs) {
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
 	qw422016 := qt422016.AcquireWriter(qq422016)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
-	streamamRequest(qw422016, alerts, generatorURL)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
+	streamamRequest(qw422016, alerts, generatorURL, relabelCfg)
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
 	qt422016.ReleaseWriter(qw422016)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
 }
 
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
-func amRequest(alerts []Alert, generatorURL func(Alert) string) string {
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
+func amRequest(alerts []Alert, generatorURL func(Alert) string, relabelCfg *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs) string {
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
 	qb422016 := qt422016.AcquireByteBuffer()
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
-	writeamRequest(qb422016, alerts, generatorURL)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
+	writeamRequest(qb422016, alerts, generatorURL, relabelCfg)
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
 	qs422016 := string(qb422016.B)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
 	qt422016.ReleaseByteBuffer(qb422016)
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
 	return qs422016
-//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:32
+//line app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_request.qtpl:35
 }

app/vmalert/notifier/alertmanager_test.go

@@ -8,11 +8,16 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promauth"
 )
 
 func TestAlertManager_Addr(t *testing.T) {
 	const addr = "http://localhost"
-	am := NewAlertManager(addr, "", "", nil, nil)
+	am, err := NewAlertManager(addr, nil, promauth.HTTPClientConfig{}, nil, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected error: %s", err)
+	}
 	if am.Addr() != addr {
 		t.Errorf("expected to have %q; got %q", addr, am.Addr())
 	}
@@ -75,9 +80,19 @@ func TestAlertManager_Send(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 	srv := httptest.NewServer(mux)
 	defer srv.Close()
-	am := NewAlertManager(srv.URL, baUser, baPass, func(alert Alert) string {
+
+	aCfg := promauth.HTTPClientConfig{
+		BasicAuth: &promauth.BasicAuthConfig{
+			Username: baUser,
+			Password: promauth.NewSecret(baPass),
+		},
+	}
+	am, err := NewAlertManager(srv.URL+alertManagerPath, func(alert Alert) string {
 		return strconv.FormatUint(alert.GroupID, 10) + "/" + strconv.FormatUint(alert.ID, 10)
-	}, srv.Client())
+	}, aCfg, nil, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("unexpected error: %s", err)
+	}
 	if err := am.Send(context.Background(), []Alert{{}, {}}); err == nil {
 		t.Error("expected connection error got nil")
 	}

app/vmalert/notifier/config.go

@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+package notifier
+
+import (
+	"crypto/md5"
+	"fmt"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net/url"
+	"path"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promauth"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promrelabel"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promscrape/discovery/consul"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promscrape/discovery/dns"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promutils"
+)
+
+// Config contains list of supported configuration settings
+// for Notifier
+type Config struct {
+	// Scheme defines the HTTP scheme for Notifier address
+	Scheme string `yaml:"scheme,omitempty"`
+	// PathPrefix is added to URL path before adding alertManagerPath value
+	PathPrefix string `yaml:"path_prefix,omitempty"`
+
+	// ConsulSDConfigs contains list of settings for service discovery via Consul
+	// see https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#consul_sd_config
+	ConsulSDConfigs []consul.SDConfig `yaml:"consul_sd_configs,omitempty"`
+	// DNSSDConfigs ontains list of settings for service discovery via DNS.
+	// See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#dns_sd_config
+	DNSSDConfigs []dns.SDConfig `yaml:"dns_sd_configs,omitempty"`
+
+	// StaticConfigs contains list of static targets
+	StaticConfigs []StaticConfig `yaml:"static_configs,omitempty"`
+
+	// HTTPClientConfig contains HTTP configuration for Notifier clients
+	HTTPClientConfig promauth.HTTPClientConfig `yaml:",inline"`
+	// RelabelConfigs contains list of relabeling rules for entities discovered via SD
+	RelabelConfigs []promrelabel.RelabelConfig `yaml:"relabel_configs,omitempty"`
+	// AlertRelabelConfigs contains list of relabeling rules alert labels
+	AlertRelabelConfigs []promrelabel.RelabelConfig `yaml:"alert_relabel_configs,omitempty"`
+	// The timeout used when sending alerts.
+	Timeout *promutils.Duration `yaml:"timeout,omitempty"`
+
+	// Checksum stores the hash of yaml definition for the config.
+	// May be used to detect any changes to the config file.
+	Checksum string
+
+	// Catches all undefined fields and must be empty after parsing.
+	XXX map[string]interface{} `yaml:",inline"`
+
+	// This is set to the directory from where the config has been loaded.
+	baseDir string
+
+	// stores already parsed RelabelConfigs object
+	parsedRelabelConfigs *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs
+	// stores already parsed AlertRelabelConfigs object
+	parsedAlertRelabelConfigs *promrelabel.ParsedConfigs
+}
+
+// StaticConfig contains list of static targets in the following form:
+// 	targets:
+//  	[ - '<host>' ]
+type StaticConfig struct {
+	Targets []string `yaml:"targets"`
+}
+
+// UnmarshalYAML implements the yaml.Unmarshaler interface.
+func (cfg *Config) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error {
+	type config Config
+	if err := unmarshal((*config)(cfg)); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if cfg.Scheme == "" {
+		cfg.Scheme = "http"
+	}
+	if cfg.Timeout.Duration() == 0 {
+		cfg.Timeout = promutils.NewDuration(time.Second * 10)
+	}
+	rCfg, err := promrelabel.ParseRelabelConfigs(cfg.RelabelConfigs, false)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse relabeling config: %w", err)
+	}
+	cfg.parsedRelabelConfigs = rCfg
+	arCfg, err := promrelabel.ParseRelabelConfigs(cfg.AlertRelabelConfigs, false)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse alert relabeling config: %w", err)
+	}
+	cfg.parsedAlertRelabelConfigs = arCfg
+
+	b, err := yaml.Marshal(cfg)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to marshal configuration for checksum: %w", err)
+	}
+	h := md5.New()
+	h.Write(b)
+	cfg.Checksum = fmt.Sprintf("%x", h.Sum(nil))
+	return nil
+}
+
+func parseConfig(path string) (*Config, error) {
+	data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error reading config file: %w", err)
+	}
+	var cfg *Config
+	err = yaml.Unmarshal(data, &cfg)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if len(cfg.XXX) > 0 {
+		var keys []string
+		for k := range cfg.XXX {
+			keys = append(keys, k)
+		}
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown fields in %s", strings.Join(keys, ", "))
+	}
+	absPath, err := filepath.Abs(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot obtain abs path for %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	cfg.baseDir = filepath.Dir(absPath)
+	return cfg, nil
+}
+
+func parseLabels(target string, metaLabels map[string]string, cfg *Config) (string, []prompbmarshal.Label, error) {
+	labels := mergeLabels(target, metaLabels, cfg)
+	labels = cfg.parsedRelabelConfigs.Apply(labels, 0, false)
+	labels = promrelabel.RemoveMetaLabels(labels[:0], labels)
+	// Remove references to already deleted labels, so GC could clean strings for label name and label value past len(labels).
+	// This should reduce memory usage when relabeling creates big number of temporary labels with long names and/or values.
+	// See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/825 for details.
+	labels = append([]prompbmarshal.Label{}, labels...)
+
+	if len(labels) == 0 {
+		return "", nil, nil
+	}
+	schemeRelabeled := promrelabel.GetLabelValueByName(labels, "__scheme__")
+	if len(schemeRelabeled) == 0 {
+		schemeRelabeled = "http"
+	}
+	addressRelabeled := promrelabel.GetLabelValueByName(labels, "__address__")
+	if len(addressRelabeled) == 0 {
+		return "", nil, nil
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(addressRelabeled, "/") {
+		return "", nil, nil
+	}
+	addressRelabeled = addMissingPort(schemeRelabeled, addressRelabeled)
+	alertsPathRelabeled := promrelabel.GetLabelValueByName(labels, "__alerts_path__")
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(alertsPathRelabeled, "/") {
+		alertsPathRelabeled = "/" + alertsPathRelabeled
+	}
+	u := fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s%s", schemeRelabeled, addressRelabeled, alertsPathRelabeled)
+	if _, err := url.Parse(u); err != nil {
+		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid url %q for scheme=%q (%q), target=%q, metrics_path=%q (%q): %w",
+			u, cfg.Scheme, schemeRelabeled, target, addressRelabeled, alertsPathRelabeled, err)
+	}
+	return u, labels, nil
+}
+
+func addMissingPort(scheme, target string) string {
+	if strings.Contains(target, ":") {
+		return target
+	}
+	if scheme == "https" {
+		target += ":443"
+	} else {
+		target += ":80"
+	}
+	return target
+}
+
+func mergeLabels(target string, metaLabels map[string]string, cfg *Config) []prompbmarshal.Label {
+	// See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#relabel_config
+	m := make(map[string]string)
+	m["__address__"] = target
+	m["__scheme__"] = cfg.Scheme
+	m["__alerts_path__"] = path.Join("/", cfg.PathPrefix, alertManagerPath)
+	for k, v := range metaLabels {
+		m[k] = v
+	}
+	result := make([]prompbmarshal.Label, 0, len(m))
+	for k, v := range m {
+		result = append(result, prompbmarshal.Label{
+			Name:  k,
+			Value: v,
+		})
+	}
+	return result
+}

app/vmalert/notifier/config_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package notifier
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestConfigParseGood(t *testing.T) {
+	f := func(path string) {
+		_, err := parseConfig(path)
+		checkErr(t, err)
+	}
+	f("testdata/mixed.good.yaml")
+	f("testdata/consul.good.yaml")
+	f("testdata/dns.good.yaml")
+	f("testdata/static.good.yaml")
+}
+
+func TestConfigParseBad(t *testing.T) {
+	f := func(path, expErr string) {
+		_, err := parseConfig(path)
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("expected to get non-nil err for config %q", path)
+		}
+		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), expErr) {
+			t.Errorf("expected err to contain %q; got %q instead", expErr, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	f("testdata/unknownFields.bad.yaml", "unknown field")
+	f("non-existing-file", "error reading")
+}

app/vmalert/notifier/config_watcher.go

@@ -0,0 +1,254 @@
+package notifier
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promscrape/discovery/consul"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promscrape/discovery/dns"
+)
+
+// configWatcher supports dynamic reload of Notifier objects
+// from static configuration and service discovery.
+// Use newWatcher to create a new object.
+type configWatcher struct {
+	cfg   *Config
+	genFn AlertURLGenerator
+	wg    sync.WaitGroup
+
+	reloadCh chan struct{}
+	syncCh   chan struct{}
+
+	targetsMu sync.RWMutex
+	targets   map[TargetType][]Target
+}
+
+func newWatcher(path string, gen AlertURLGenerator) (*configWatcher, error) {
+	cfg, err := parseConfig(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	cw := &configWatcher{
+		cfg:       cfg,
+		wg:        sync.WaitGroup{},
+		reloadCh:  make(chan struct{}, 1),
+		syncCh:    make(chan struct{}),
+		genFn:     gen,
+		targetsMu: sync.RWMutex{},
+		targets:   make(map[TargetType][]Target),
+	}
+	return cw, cw.start()
+}
+
+func (cw *configWatcher) notifiers() []Notifier {
+	cw.targetsMu.RLock()
+	defer cw.targetsMu.RUnlock()
+
+	var notifiers []Notifier
+	for _, ns := range cw.targets {
+		for _, n := range ns {
+			notifiers = append(notifiers, n.Notifier)
+		}
+
+	}
+	return notifiers
+}
+
+func (cw *configWatcher) reload(path string) error {
+	select {
+	case cw.reloadCh <- struct{}{}:
+	default:
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	defer func() { <-cw.reloadCh }()
+
+	cfg, err := parseConfig(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if cfg.Checksum == cw.cfg.Checksum {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// stop existing discovery
+	cw.mustStop()
+
+	// re-start cw with new config
+	cw.syncCh = make(chan struct{})
+	cw.cfg = cfg
+	return cw.start()
+}
+
+func (cw *configWatcher) add(typeK TargetType, interval time.Duration, labelsFn getLabels) error {
+	targets, errors := targetsFromLabels(labelsFn, cw.cfg, cw.genFn)
+	for _, err := range errors {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to init notifier for %q: %s", typeK, err)
+	}
+
+	cw.setTargets(typeK, targets)
+
+	cw.wg.Add(1)
+	go func() {
+		defer cw.wg.Done()
+
+		ticker := time.NewTicker(interval)
+		defer ticker.Stop()
+
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-cw.syncCh:
+				return
+			case <-ticker.C:
+			}
+			updateTargets, errors := targetsFromLabels(labelsFn, cw.cfg, cw.genFn)
+			for _, err := range errors {
+				logger.Errorf("failed to init notifier for %q: %s", typeK, err)
+			}
+			cw.setTargets(typeK, updateTargets)
+		}
+	}()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func targetsFromLabels(labelsFn getLabels, cfg *Config, genFn AlertURLGenerator) ([]Target, []error) {
+	metaLabels, err := labelsFn()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, []error{fmt.Errorf("failed to get labels: %s", err)}
+	}
+	var targets []Target
+	var errors []error
+	duplicates := make(map[string]struct{})
+	for _, labels := range metaLabels {
+		target := labels["__address__"]
+		u, processedLabels, err := parseLabels(target, labels, cfg)
+		if err != nil {
+			errors = append(errors, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		if len(u) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		if _, ok := duplicates[u]; ok { // check for duplicates
+			if !*suppressDuplicateTargetErrors {
+				logger.Errorf("skipping duplicate target with identical address %q; "+
+					"make sure service discovery and relabeling is set up properly; "+
+					"original labels: %s; resulting labels: %s",
+					u, labels, processedLabels)
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		duplicates[u] = struct{}{}
+
+		am, err := NewAlertManager(u, genFn, cfg.HTTPClientConfig, cfg.parsedAlertRelabelConfigs, cfg.Timeout.Duration())
+		if err != nil {
+			errors = append(errors, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		targets = append(targets, Target{
+			Notifier: am,
+			Labels:   processedLabels,
+		})
+	}
+	return targets, errors
+}
+
+type getLabels func() ([]map[string]string, error)
+
+func (cw *configWatcher) start() error {
+	if len(cw.cfg.StaticConfigs) > 0 {
+		var targets []Target
+		for _, cfg := range cw.cfg.StaticConfigs {
+			for _, target := range cfg.Targets {
+				address, labels, err := parseLabels(target, nil, cw.cfg)
+				if err != nil {
+					return fmt.Errorf("failed to parse labels for target %q: %s", target, err)
+				}
+				notifier, err := NewAlertManager(address, cw.genFn, cw.cfg.HTTPClientConfig, cw.cfg.parsedRelabelConfigs, cw.cfg.Timeout.Duration())
+				if err != nil {
+					return fmt.Errorf("failed to init alertmanager for addr %q: %s", address, err)
+				}
+				targets = append(targets, Target{
+					Notifier: notifier,
+					Labels:   labels,
+				})
+			}
+		}
+		cw.setTargets(TargetStatic, targets)
+	}
+
+	if len(cw.cfg.ConsulSDConfigs) > 0 {
+		err := cw.add(TargetConsul, *consul.SDCheckInterval, func() ([]map[string]string, error) {
+			var labels []map[string]string
+			for i := range cw.cfg.ConsulSDConfigs {
+				sdc := &cw.cfg.ConsulSDConfigs[i]
+				targetLabels, err := sdc.GetLabels(cw.cfg.baseDir)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("got labels err: %s", err)
+				}
+				labels = append(labels, targetLabels...)
+			}
+			return labels, nil
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to start consulSD discovery: %s", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if len(cw.cfg.DNSSDConfigs) > 0 {
+		err := cw.add(TargetDNS, *dns.SDCheckInterval, func() ([]map[string]string, error) {
+			var labels []map[string]string
+			for i := range cw.cfg.DNSSDConfigs {
+				sdc := &cw.cfg.DNSSDConfigs[i]
+				targetLabels, err := sdc.GetLabels(cw.cfg.baseDir)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("got labels err: %s", err)
+				}
+				labels = append(labels, targetLabels...)
+			}
+			return labels, nil
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to start DNSSD discovery: %s", err)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (cw *configWatcher) mustStop() {
+	close(cw.syncCh)
+	cw.wg.Wait()
+
+	cw.targetsMu.Lock()
+	for _, targets := range cw.targets {
+		for _, t := range targets {
+			t.Close()
+		}
+	}
+	cw.targets = make(map[TargetType][]Target)
+	cw.targetsMu.Unlock()
+
+	for i := range cw.cfg.ConsulSDConfigs {
+		cw.cfg.ConsulSDConfigs[i].MustStop()
+	}
+	cw.cfg = nil
+}
+
+func (cw *configWatcher) setTargets(key TargetType, targets []Target) {
+	cw.targetsMu.Lock()
+	newT := make(map[string]Target)
+	for _, t := range targets {
+		newT[t.Addr()] = t
+	}
+	oldT := cw.targets[key]
+
+	for _, ot := range oldT {
+		if _, ok := newT[ot.Addr()]; !ok {
+			ot.Notifier.Close()
+		}
+	}
+	cw.targets[key] = targets
+	cw.targetsMu.Unlock()
+}

app/vmalert/notifier/config_watcher_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,301 @@
+package notifier
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"math/rand"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestConfigWatcherReload(t *testing.T) {
+	f, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = os.Remove(f.Name()) }()
+
+	writeToFile(t, f.Name(), `
+static_configs:
+  - targets:
+      - localhost:9093
+      - localhost:9094
+`)
+	cw, err := newWatcher(f.Name(), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to start config watcher: %s", err)
+	}
+	defer cw.mustStop()
+	ns := cw.notifiers()
+	if len(ns) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected to have 2 notifiers; got %d %#v", len(ns), ns)
+	}
+
+	f2, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = os.Remove(f2.Name()) }()
+
+	writeToFile(t, f2.Name(), `
+static_configs:
+  - targets:
+      - 127.0.0.1:9093
+`)
+	checkErr(t, cw.reload(f2.Name()))
+
+	ns = cw.notifiers()
+	if len(ns) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected to have 1 notifier; got %d", len(ns))
+	}
+	expAddr := "http://127.0.0.1:9093/api/v2/alerts"
+	if ns[0].Addr() != expAddr {
+		t.Fatalf("expected to get %q; got %q instead", expAddr, ns[0].Addr())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConfigWatcherStart(t *testing.T) {
+	consulSDServer := newFakeConsulServer()
+	defer consulSDServer.Close()
+
+	consulSDFile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = os.Remove(consulSDFile.Name()) }()
+
+	writeToFile(t, consulSDFile.Name(), fmt.Sprintf(`
+scheme: https
+path_prefix: proxy
+consul_sd_configs:
+  - server: %s
+    services:
+      - alertmanager
+`, consulSDServer.URL))
+
+	cw, err := newWatcher(consulSDFile.Name(), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to start config watcher: %s", err)
+	}
+	defer cw.mustStop()
+
+	if len(cw.notifiers()) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected to get 2 notifiers; got %d", len(cw.notifiers()))
+	}
+
+	expAddr1 := fmt.Sprintf("https://%s/proxy/api/v2/alerts", fakeConsulService1)
+	expAddr2 := fmt.Sprintf("https://%s/proxy/api/v2/alerts", fakeConsulService2)
+
+	n1, n2 := cw.notifiers()[0], cw.notifiers()[1]
+	if n1.Addr() != expAddr1 {
+		t.Fatalf("exp address %q; got %q", expAddr1, n1.Addr())
+	}
+	if n2.Addr() != expAddr2 {
+		t.Fatalf("exp address %q; got %q", expAddr2, n2.Addr())
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigWatcherReloadConcurrent supposed to test concurrent
+// execution of configuration update.
+// Should be executed with -race flag
+func TestConfigWatcherReloadConcurrent(t *testing.T) {
+	consulSDServer1 := newFakeConsulServer()
+	defer consulSDServer1.Close()
+	consulSDServer2 := newFakeConsulServer()
+	defer consulSDServer2.Close()
+
+	consulSDFile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = os.Remove(consulSDFile.Name()) }()
+
+	writeToFile(t, consulSDFile.Name(), fmt.Sprintf(`
+consul_sd_configs:
+  - server: %s
+    services:
+      - alertmanager
+  - server: %s
+    services:
+      - consul
+`, consulSDServer1.URL, consulSDServer2.URL))
+
+	staticAndConsulSDFile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = os.Remove(staticAndConsulSDFile.Name()) }()
+
+	writeToFile(t, staticAndConsulSDFile.Name(), fmt.Sprintf(`
+static_configs:
+  - targets:
+      - localhost:9093
+      - localhost:9095
+consul_sd_configs:
+  - server: %s
+    services:
+      - alertmanager
+  - server: %s
+    services:
+      - consul
+`, consulSDServer1.URL, consulSDServer2.URL))
+
+	paths := []string{
+		staticAndConsulSDFile.Name(),
+		consulSDFile.Name(),
+		"testdata/static.good.yaml",
+		"unknownFields.bad.yaml",
+	}
+
+	cw, err := newWatcher(paths[0], nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to start config watcher: %s", err)
+	}
+	defer cw.mustStop()
+
+	const workers = 500
+	const iterations = 10
+	wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
+	wg.Add(workers)
+	for i := 0; i < workers; i++ {
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			for i := 0; i < iterations; i++ {
+				rnd := rand.Intn(len(paths))
+				_ = cw.reload(paths[rnd]) // update can fail and this is expected
+				_ = cw.notifiers()
+			}
+		}()
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+}
+
+func writeToFile(t *testing.T, file, b string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	checkErr(t, ioutil.WriteFile(file, []byte(b), 0644))
+}
+
+func checkErr(t *testing.T, err error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected err: %s", err)
+	}
+}
+
+const (
+	fakeConsulService1 = "127.0.0.1:9093"
+	fakeConsulService2 = "127.0.0.1:9095"
+)
+
+func newFakeConsulServer() *httptest.Server {
+	mux := http.NewServeMux()
+	mux.HandleFunc("/v1/agent/self", func(rw http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+		rw.Write([]byte(`{"Config": {"Datacenter": "dc1"}}`))
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("/v1/catalog/services", func(rw http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+		rw.Header().Set("X-Consul-Index", "1")
+		rw.Write([]byte(`{
+    "alertmanager": [
+        "alertmanager",
+        "__scheme__=http"
+    ]
+}`))
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("/v1/health/service/alertmanager", func(rw http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+		rw.Header().Set("X-Consul-Index", "1")
+		rw.Write([]byte(`
+[
+    {
+        "Node": {
+            "ID": "e8e3629a-3f50-9d6e-aaf8-f173b5b05c72",
+            "Node": "machine",
+            "Address": "127.0.0.1",
+            "Datacenter": "dc1",
+            "TaggedAddresses": {
+                "lan": "127.0.0.1",
+                "lan_ipv4": "127.0.0.1",
+                "wan": "127.0.0.1",
+                "wan_ipv4": "127.0.0.1"
+            },
+            "Meta": {
+                "consul-network-segment": ""
+            },
+            "CreateIndex": 13,
+            "ModifyIndex": 14
+        },
+        "Service": {
+            "ID": "am1",
+            "Service": "alertmanager",
+            "Tags": [
+                "alertmanager",
+                "__scheme__=http"
+            ],
+            "Address": "",
+            "Meta": null,
+            "Port": 9093,
+            "Weights": {
+                "Passing": 1,
+                "Warning": 1
+            },
+            "EnableTagOverride": false,
+            "Proxy": {
+                "Mode": "",
+                "MeshGateway": {},
+                "Expose": {}
+            },
+            "Connect": {},
+            "CreateIndex": 16,
+            "ModifyIndex": 16
+        }
+    },
+    {
+        "Node": {
+            "ID": "e8e3629a-3f50-9d6e-aaf8-f173b5b05c72",
+            "Node": "machine",
+            "Address": "127.0.0.1",
+            "Datacenter": "dc1",
+            "TaggedAddresses": {
+                "lan": "127.0.0.1",
+                "lan_ipv4": "127.0.0.1",
+                "wan": "127.0.0.1",
+                "wan_ipv4": "127.0.0.1"
+            },
+            "Meta": {
+                "consul-network-segment": ""
+            },
+            "CreateIndex": 13,
+            "ModifyIndex": 14
+        },
+        "Service": {
+            "ID": "am2",
+            "Service": "alertmanager",
+            "Tags": [
+                "alertmanager",
+                "bad-node"
+            ],
+            "Address": "",
+            "Meta": null,
+            "Port": 9095,
+            "Weights": {
+                "Passing": 1,
+                "Warning": 1
+            },
+            "EnableTagOverride": false,
+            "Proxy": {
+                "Mode": "",
+                "MeshGateway": {},
+                "Expose": {}
+            },
+            "Connect": {},
+            "CreateIndex": 15,
+            "ModifyIndex": 15
+        }
+    }
+]`))
+	})
+
+	return httptest.NewServer(mux)
+}

app/vmalert/notifier/init.go

@@ -1,17 +1,28 @@
 package notifier
 
 import (
+	"flag"
 	"fmt"
-	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
 
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/flagutil"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promauth"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
 )
 
 var (
-	addrs             = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.url", "Prometheus alertmanager URL. Required parameter. e.g. http://127.0.0.1:9093")
-	basicAuthUsername = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.basicAuth.username", "Optional basic auth username for -notifier.url")
-	basicAuthPassword = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.basicAuth.password", "Optional basic auth password for -notifier.url")
+	configPath                    = flag.String("notifier.config", "", "Path to configuration file for notifiers")
+	suppressDuplicateTargetErrors = flag.Bool("notifier.suppressDuplicateTargetErrors", false, "Whether to suppress 'duplicate target' errors during discovery")
+
+	addrs = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.url", "Prometheus alertmanager URL, e.g. http://127.0.0.1:9093")
+
+	basicAuthUsername     = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.basicAuth.username", "Optional basic auth username for -notifier.url")
+	basicAuthPassword     = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.basicAuth.password", "Optional basic auth password for -notifier.url")
+	basicAuthPasswordFile = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.basicAuth.passwordFile", "Optional path to basic auth password file for -notifier.url")
+
+	bearerToken     = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.bearerToken", "Optional bearer token for -notifier.url")
+	bearerTokenFile = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.bearerTokenFile", "Optional path to bearer token file for -notifier.url")
 
 	tlsInsecureSkipVerify = flagutil.NewArrayBool("notifier.tlsInsecureSkipVerify", "Whether to skip tls verification when connecting to -notifier.url")
 	tlsCertFile           = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.tlsCertFile", "Optional path to client-side TLS certificate file to use when connecting to -notifier.url")
@@ -20,26 +31,160 @@ var (
 		"By default system CA is used")
 	tlsServerName = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.tlsServerName", "Optional TLS server name to use for connections to -notifier.url. "+
 		"By default the server name from -notifier.url is used")
+
+	oauth2ClientID = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.oauth2.clientID", "Optional OAuth2 clientID to use for -notifier.url. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -notifier.url")
+	oauth2ClientSecret = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.oauth2.clientSecret", "Optional OAuth2 clientSecret to use for -notifier.url. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -notifier.url")
+	oauth2ClientSecretFile = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.oauth2.clientSecretFile", "Optional OAuth2 clientSecretFile to use for -notifier.url. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -notifier.url")
+	oauth2TokenURL = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.oauth2.tokenUrl", "Optional OAuth2 tokenURL to use for -notifier.url. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -notifier.url")
+	oauth2Scopes = flagutil.NewArray("notifier.oauth2.scopes", "Optional OAuth2 scopes to use for -notifier.url. Scopes must be delimited by ';'. "+
+		"If multiple args are set, then they are applied independently for the corresponding -notifier.url")
 )
 
-// Init creates a Notifier object based on provided flags.
-func Init(gen AlertURLGenerator) ([]Notifier, error) {
-	if len(*addrs) == 0 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("at least one `-notifier.url` must be set")
+// cw holds a configWatcher for configPath configuration file
+// configWatcher provides a list of Notifier objects discovered
+// from static config or via service discovery.
+// cw is not nil only if configPath is provided.
+var cw *configWatcher
+
+// Reload checks the changes in configPath configuration file
+// and applies changes if any.
+func Reload() error {
+	if cw == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return cw.reload(*configPath)
+}
+
+var staticNotifiersFn func() []Notifier
+
+var (
+	// externalLabels is a global variable for holding external labels configured via flags
+	// It is supposed to be inited via Init function only.
+	externalLabels map[string]string
+	// externalURL is a global variable for holding external URL value configured via flag
+	// It is supposed to be inited via Init function only.
+	externalURL string
+)
+
+// Init returns a function for retrieving actual list of Notifier objects.
+// Init works in two mods:
+//   * configuration via flags (for backward compatibility). Is always static
+//     and don't support live reloads.
+//   * configuration via file. Supports live reloads and service discovery.
+// Init returns an error if both mods are used.
+func Init(gen AlertURLGenerator, extLabels map[string]string, extURL string) (func() []Notifier, error) {
+	if externalLabels != nil || externalURL != "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("BUG: notifier.Init was called multiple times")
 	}
 
+	externalURL = extURL
+	externalLabels = extLabels
+
+	if *configPath == "" && len(*addrs) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	if *configPath != "" && len(*addrs) > 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("only one of -notifier.config or -notifier.url flags must be specified")
+	}
+
+	if len(*addrs) > 0 {
+		notifiers, err := notifiersFromFlags(gen)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create notifier from flag values: %s", err)
+		}
+		staticNotifiersFn = func() []Notifier {
+			return notifiers
+		}
+		return staticNotifiersFn, nil
+	}
+
+	var err error
+	cw, err = newWatcher(*configPath, gen)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to init config watcher: %s", err)
+	}
+	return cw.notifiers, nil
+}
+
+func notifiersFromFlags(gen AlertURLGenerator) ([]Notifier, error) {
 	var notifiers []Notifier
 	for i, addr := range *addrs {
-		cert, key := tlsCertFile.GetOptionalArg(i), tlsKeyFile.GetOptionalArg(i)
-		ca, serverName := tlsCAFile.GetOptionalArg(i), tlsServerName.GetOptionalArg(i)
-		tr, err := utils.Transport(addr, cert, key, ca, serverName, tlsInsecureSkipVerify.GetOptionalArg(i))
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create transport: %w", err)
+		authCfg := promauth.HTTPClientConfig{
+			TLSConfig: &promauth.TLSConfig{
+				CAFile:             tlsCAFile.GetOptionalArg(i),
+				CertFile:           tlsCertFile.GetOptionalArg(i),
+				KeyFile:            tlsKeyFile.GetOptionalArg(i),
+				ServerName:         tlsServerName.GetOptionalArg(i),
+				InsecureSkipVerify: tlsInsecureSkipVerify.GetOptionalArg(i),
+			},
+			BasicAuth: &promauth.BasicAuthConfig{
+				Username:     basicAuthUsername.GetOptionalArg(i),
+				Password:     promauth.NewSecret(basicAuthPassword.GetOptionalArg(i)),
+				PasswordFile: basicAuthPasswordFile.GetOptionalArg(i),
+			},
+			BearerToken:     promauth.NewSecret(bearerToken.GetOptionalArg(i)),
+			BearerTokenFile: bearerTokenFile.GetOptionalArg(i),
+			OAuth2: &promauth.OAuth2Config{
+				ClientID:         oauth2ClientID.GetOptionalArg(i),
+				ClientSecret:     promauth.NewSecret(oauth2ClientSecret.GetOptionalArg(i)),
+				ClientSecretFile: oauth2ClientSecretFile.GetOptionalArg(i),
+				Scopes:           strings.Split(oauth2Scopes.GetOptionalArg(i), ";"),
+				TokenURL:         oauth2TokenURL.GetOptionalArg(i),
+			},
+		}
+
+		addr = strings.TrimSuffix(addr, "/")
+		am, err := NewAlertManager(addr+alertManagerPath, gen, authCfg, nil, time.Minute)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
 		}
-		user, pass := basicAuthUsername.GetOptionalArg(i), basicAuthPassword.GetOptionalArg(i)
-		am := NewAlertManager(addr, user, pass, gen, &http.Client{Transport: tr})
 		notifiers = append(notifiers, am)
 	}
-
 	return notifiers, nil
 }
+
+// Target represents a Notifier and optional
+// list of labels added during discovery.
+type Target struct {
+	Notifier
+	Labels []prompbmarshal.Label
+}
+
+// TargetType defines how the Target was discovered
+type TargetType string
+
+const (
+	// TargetStatic is for targets configured statically
+	TargetStatic TargetType = "static"
+	// TargetConsul is for targets discovered via Consul
+	TargetConsul TargetType = "consulSD"
+	// TargetDNS is for targets discovered via DNS
+	TargetDNS TargetType = "DNSSD"
+)
+
+// GetTargets returns list of static or discovered targets
+// via notifier configuration.
+func GetTargets() map[TargetType][]Target {
+	var targets = make(map[TargetType][]Target)
+
+	if staticNotifiersFn != nil {
+		for _, ns := range staticNotifiersFn() {
+			targets[TargetStatic] = append(targets[TargetStatic], Target{
+				Notifier: ns,
+			})
+		}
+	}
+
+	if cw != nil {
+		cw.targetsMu.RLock()
+		for key, ns := range cw.targets {
+			targets[key] = append(targets[key], ns...)
+		}
+		cw.targetsMu.RUnlock()
+	}
+	return targets
+}

app/vmalert/notifier/notifier.go

@@ -10,4 +10,6 @@ type Notifier interface {
 	Send(ctx context.Context, alerts []Alert) error
 	// Addr returns address where alerts are sent.
 	Addr() string
+	// Close is a destructor for the Notifier
+	Close()
 }

app/vmalert/notifier/template_func.go

@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
+	"net"
 	"net/url"
 	"regexp"
+	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ import (
 	textTpl "text/template"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promutils"
 )
 
 // metric is private copy of datasource.Metric,
@@ -61,6 +64,7 @@ var tmplFunc textTpl.FuncMap
 
 // InitTemplateFunc initiates template helper functions
 func InitTemplateFunc(externalURL *url.URL) {
+	// See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/template_reference/
 	tmplFunc = textTpl.FuncMap{
 		/* Strings */
 
@@ -91,6 +95,24 @@ func InitTemplateFunc(externalURL *url.URL) {
 		// alias for https://golang.org/pkg/strings/#ToLower
 		"toLower": strings.ToLower,
 
+		// stripPort splits string into host and port, then returns only host.
+		"stripPort": func(hostPort string) string {
+			host, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(hostPort)
+			if err != nil {
+				return hostPort
+			}
+			return host
+		},
+
+		// parseDuration parses a duration string such as "1h" into the number of seconds it represents
+		"parseDuration": func(s string) (float64, error) {
+			d, err := promutils.ParseDuration(s)
+			if err != nil {
+				return 0, err
+			}
+			return d.Seconds(), nil
+		},
+
 		/* Numbers */
 
 		// humanize converts given number to a human readable format
@@ -261,6 +283,14 @@ func InitTemplateFunc(externalURL *url.URL) {
 			return m.Labels[label]
 		},
 
+		// sortByLabel sorts the given metrics by provided label key
+		"sortByLabel": func(label string, metrics []metric) []metric {
+			sort.SliceStable(metrics, func(i, j int) bool {
+				return metrics[i].Labels[label] < metrics[j].Labels[label]
+			})
+			return metrics
+		},
+
 		// value returns the value of the given metric.
 		// usually used alongside with `query` template function.
 		"value": func(m metric) float64 {

app/vmalert/notifier/testdata/consul.good.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+consul_sd_configs:
+  - server: localhost:8500
+    scheme: http
+    services:
+      - alertmanager
+  - server: localhost:8500
+    services:
+      - consul
+relabel_configs:
+  - source_labels: [__meta_consul_tags]
+    regex: .*,__scheme__=([^,]+),.*
+    replacement: '${1}'
+    target_label: __scheme__
+alert_relabel_configs:
+  - target_label: "foo"
+    replacement: "aaa"

app/vmalert/notifier/testdata/dns.good.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+dns_sd_configs:
+  - names:
+      - cloudflare.com
+    type: 'A'
+    port: 9093
+relabel_configs:
+  - source_labels: [__meta_dns_name]
+    replacement: '${1}'
+    target_label: dns_name
+alert_relabel_configs:
+  - target_label: "foo"
+    replacement: "aaa"

app/vmalert/notifier/testdata/mixed.good.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+static_configs:
+  - targets:
+      - localhost:9093
+      - localhost:9095
+
+consul_sd_configs:
+  - server: localhost:8500
+    scheme: http
+    services:
+      - alertmanager
+  - server: localhost:8500
+    services:
+      - consul
+
+dns_sd_configs:
+  - names:
+      - cloudflare.com
+    type: 'A'
+    port: 9093
+
+relabel_configs:
+  - source_labels: [__meta_consul_tags]
+    regex: .*,__scheme__=([^,]+),.*
+    replacement: '${1}'
+    target_label: __scheme__
+  - source_labels: [__meta_dns_name]
+    replacement: '${1}'
+    target_label: dns_name

app/vmalert/notifier/testdata/static.good.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+static_configs:
+  - targets:
+      - localhost:9093
+      - localhost:9095
+alert_relabel_configs:
+  - target_label: "foo"
+    replacement: "aaa"

app/vmalert/notifier/testdata/unknownFields.bad.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+scheme: https
+unknown: field
+static_configs:
+  - targets:
+      - localhost:9093

app/vmalert/recording.go

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/config"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
 )
 
 // RecordingRule is a Rule that supposed
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ type RecordingRule struct {
 	mu sync.RWMutex
 	// stores last moment of time Exec was called
 	lastExecTime time.Time
+	// stores the duration of the last Exec call
+	lastExecDuration time.Duration
 	// stores last error that happened in Exec func
 	// resets on every successful Exec
 	// may be used as Health state
@@ -43,8 +45,8 @@ type RecordingRule struct {
 }
 
 type recordingRuleMetrics struct {
-	errors  *gauge
-	samples *gauge
+	errors  *utils.Gauge
+	samples *utils.Gauge
 }
 
 // String implements Stringer interface
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ func (rr *RecordingRule) ID() uint64 {
 
 func newRecordingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rule) *RecordingRule {
 	rr := &RecordingRule{
-		Type:    cfg.Type,
+		Type:    group.Type,
 		RuleID:  cfg.ID,
 		Name:    cfg.Record,
 		Expr:    cfg.Expr,
@@ -68,14 +70,14 @@ func newRecordingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rul
 		GroupID: group.ID(),
 		metrics: &recordingRuleMetrics{},
 		q: qb.BuildWithParams(datasource.QuerierParams{
-			DataSourceType:     &cfg.Type,
+			DataSourceType:     &group.Type,
 			EvaluationInterval: group.Interval,
-			ExtraLabels:        group.ExtraFilterLabels,
+			QueryParams:        group.Params,
 		}),
 	}
 
 	labels := fmt.Sprintf(`recording=%q, group=%q, id="%d"`, rr.Name, group.Name, rr.ID())
-	rr.metrics.errors = getOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_recording_rules_error{%s}`, labels),
+	rr.metrics.errors = utils.GetOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_recording_rules_error{%s}`, labels),
 		func() float64 {
 			rr.mu.RLock()
 			defer rr.mu.RUnlock()
@@ -84,7 +86,7 @@ func newRecordingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rul
 			}
 			return 1
 		})
-	rr.metrics.samples = getOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_recording_rules_last_evaluation_samples{%s}`, labels),
+	rr.metrics.samples = utils.GetOrCreateGauge(fmt.Sprintf(`vmalert_recording_rules_last_evaluation_samples{%s}`, labels),
 		func() float64 {
 			rr.mu.RLock()
 			defer rr.mu.RUnlock()
@@ -95,8 +97,8 @@ func newRecordingRule(qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, group *Group, cfg config.Rul
 
 // Close unregisters rule metrics
 func (rr *RecordingRule) Close() {
-	metrics.UnregisterMetric(rr.metrics.errors.name)
-	metrics.UnregisterMetric(rr.metrics.samples.name)
+	rr.metrics.errors.Unregister()
+	rr.metrics.samples.Unregister()
 }
 
 // ExecRange executes recording rule on the given time range similarly to Exec.
@@ -122,12 +124,13 @@ func (rr *RecordingRule) ExecRange(ctx context.Context, start, end time.Time) ([
 }
 
 // Exec executes RecordingRule expression via the given Querier.
-func (rr *RecordingRule) Exec(ctx context.Context) ([]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, error) {
-	qMetrics, err := rr.q.Query(ctx, rr.Expr)
+func (rr *RecordingRule) Exec(ctx context.Context, ts time.Time) ([]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, error) {
+	qMetrics, err := rr.q.Query(ctx, rr.Expr, ts)
 	rr.mu.Lock()
 	defer rr.mu.Unlock()
 
-	rr.lastExecTime = time.Now()
+	rr.lastExecTime = ts
+	rr.lastExecDuration = time.Since(ts)
 	rr.lastExecError = err
 	rr.lastExecSamples = len(qMetrics)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -193,23 +196,27 @@ func (rr *RecordingRule) UpdateWith(r Rule) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// RuleAPI returns Rule representation in form
-// of APIRecordingRule
-func (rr *RecordingRule) RuleAPI() APIRecordingRule {
-	var lastErr string
-	if rr.lastExecError != nil {
-		lastErr = rr.lastExecError.Error()
-	}
-	return APIRecordingRule{
+// ToAPI returns Rule's representation in form
+// of APIRule
+func (rr *RecordingRule) ToAPI() APIRule {
+	r := APIRule{
+		Type:           "recording",
+		DatasourceType: rr.Type.String(),
+		Name:           rr.Name,
+		Query:          rr.Expr,
+		Labels:         rr.Labels,
+		LastEvaluation: rr.lastExecTime,
+		EvaluationTime: rr.lastExecDuration.Seconds(),
+		Health:         "ok",
+		LastSamples:    rr.lastExecSamples,
 		// encode as strings to avoid rounding
-		ID:          fmt.Sprintf("%d", rr.ID()),
-		GroupID:     fmt.Sprintf("%d", rr.GroupID),
-		Name:        rr.Name,
-		Type:        rr.Type.String(),
-		Expression:  rr.Expr,
-		LastError:   lastErr,
-		LastSamples: rr.lastExecSamples,
-		LastExec:    rr.lastExecTime,
-		Labels:      rr.Labels,
+		ID:      fmt.Sprintf("%d", rr.ID()),
+		GroupID: fmt.Sprintf("%d", rr.GroupID),
 	}
+
+	if rr.lastExecError != nil {
+		r.LastError = rr.lastExecError.Error()
+		r.Health = "err"
+	}
+	return r
 }

app/vmalert/recording_test.go

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ func TestRecoridngRule_Exec(t *testing.T) {
 			fq := &fakeQuerier{}
 			fq.add(tc.metrics...)
 			tc.rule.q = fq
-			tss, err := tc.rule.Exec(context.TODO())
+			tss, err := tc.rule.Exec(context.TODO(), time.Now())
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fatalf("unexpected Exec err: %s", err)
 			}
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ func TestRecoridngRule_ExecNegative(t *testing.T) {
 	expErr := "connection reset by peer"
 	fq.setErr(errors.New(expErr))
 	rr.q = fq
-	_, err := rr.Exec(context.TODO())
+	_, err := rr.Exec(context.TODO(), time.Now())
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected to get err; got nil")
 	}
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ func TestRecoridngRule_ExecNegative(t *testing.T) {
 	fq.add(metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 1, "__name__", "foo", "job", "foo"))
 	fq.add(metricWithValueAndLabels(t, 2, "__name__", "foo", "job", "bar"))
 
-	_, err = rr.Exec(context.TODO())
+	_, err = rr.Exec(context.TODO(), time.Now())
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected to get err; got nil")
 	}

app/vmalert/remoteread/init.go

@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ var (
 	addr = flag.String("remoteRead.url", "", "Optional URL to VictoriaMetrics or vmselect that will be used to restore alerts "+
 		"state. This configuration makes sense only if `vmalert` was configured with `remoteWrite.url` before and has been successfully persisted its state. "+
 		"E.g. http://127.0.0.1:8428. See also -remoteRead.disablePathAppend")
+
 	basicAuthUsername     = flag.String("remoteRead.basicAuth.username", "", "Optional basic auth username for -remoteRead.url")
 	basicAuthPassword     = flag.String("remoteRead.basicAuth.password", "", "Optional basic auth password for -remoteRead.url")
 	basicAuthPasswordFile = flag.String("remoteRead.basicAuth.passwordFile", "", "Optional path to basic auth password to use for -remoteRead.url")
-	bearerToken           = flag.String("remoteRead.bearerToken", "", "Optional bearer auth token to use for -remoteRead.url.")
-	bearerTokenFile       = flag.String("remoteRead.bearerTokenFile", "", "Optional path to bearer token file to use for -remoteRead.url.")
+
+	bearerToken     = flag.String("remoteRead.bearerToken", "", "Optional bearer auth token to use for -remoteRead.url.")
+	bearerTokenFile = flag.String("remoteRead.bearerTokenFile", "", "Optional path to bearer token file to use for -remoteRead.url.")
 
 	tlsInsecureSkipVerify = flag.Bool("remoteRead.tlsInsecureSkipVerify", false, "Whether to skip tls verification when connecting to -remoteRead.url")
 	tlsCertFile           = flag.String("remoteRead.tlsCertFile", "", "Optional path to client-side TLS certificate file to use when connecting to -remoteRead.url")
@@ -26,6 +28,13 @@ var (
 		"By default system CA is used")
 	tlsServerName = flag.String("remoteRead.tlsServerName", "", "Optional TLS server name to use for connections to -remoteRead.url. "+
 		"By default the server name from -remoteRead.url is used")
+
+	oauth2ClientID         = flag.String("remoteRead.oauth2.clientID", "", "Optional OAuth2 clientID to use for -remoteRead.url.")
+	oauth2ClientSecret     = flag.String("remoteRead.oauth2.clientSecret", "", "Optional OAuth2 clientSecret to use for -remoteRead.url.")
+	oauth2ClientSecretFile = flag.String("remoteRead.oauth2.clientSecretFile", "", "Optional OAuth2 clientSecretFile to use for -remoteRead.url.")
+	oauth2TokenURL         = flag.String("remoteRead.oauth2.tokenUrl", "", "Optional OAuth2 tokenURL to use for -remoteRead.url. ")
+	oauth2Scopes           = flag.String("remoteRead.oauth2.scopes", "", "Optional OAuth2 scopes to use for -remoteRead.url. Scopes must be delimited by ';'.")
+
 	disablePathAppend = flag.Bool("remoteRead.disablePathAppend", false, "Whether to disable automatic appending of '/api/v1/query' path to the configured -remoteRead.url.")
 )
 
@@ -39,7 +48,11 @@ func Init() (datasource.QuerierBuilder, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create transport: %w", err)
 	}
-	authCfg, err := utils.AuthConfig(*basicAuthUsername, *basicAuthPassword, *basicAuthPasswordFile, *bearerToken, *bearerTokenFile)
+
+	authCfg, err := utils.AuthConfig(
+		utils.WithBasicAuth(*basicAuthUsername, *basicAuthPassword, *basicAuthPasswordFile),
+		utils.WithBearer(*bearerToken, *bearerTokenFile),
+		utils.WithOAuth(*oauth2ClientID, *oauth2ClientSecret, *oauth2ClientSecretFile, *oauth2TokenURL, *oauth2Scopes))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to configure auth: %w", err)
 	}

app/vmalert/remotewrite/init.go

@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ var (
 	addr = flag.String("remoteWrite.url", "", "Optional URL to VictoriaMetrics or vminsert where to persist alerts state "+
 		"and recording rules results in form of timeseries. For example, if -remoteWrite.url=http://127.0.0.1:8428 is specified, "+
 		"then the alerts state will be written to http://127.0.0.1:8428/api/v1/write . See also -remoteWrite.disablePathAppend")
+
 	basicAuthUsername     = flag.String("remoteWrite.basicAuth.username", "", "Optional basic auth username for -remoteWrite.url")
 	basicAuthPassword     = flag.String("remoteWrite.basicAuth.password", "", "Optional basic auth password for -remoteWrite.url")
 	basicAuthPasswordFile = flag.String("remoteWrite.basicAuth.passwordFile", "", "Optional path to basic auth password to use for -remoteWrite.url")
-	bearerToken           = flag.String("remoteWrite.bearerToken", "", "Optional bearer auth token to use for -remoteWrite.url.")
-	bearerTokenFile       = flag.String("remoteWrite.bearerTokenFile", "", "Optional path to bearer token file to use for -remoteWrite.url.")
+
+	bearerToken     = flag.String("remoteWrite.bearerToken", "", "Optional bearer auth token to use for -remoteWrite.url.")
+	bearerTokenFile = flag.String("remoteWrite.bearerTokenFile", "", "Optional path to bearer token file to use for -remoteWrite.url.")
 
 	maxQueueSize  = flag.Int("remoteWrite.maxQueueSize", 1e5, "Defines the max number of pending datapoints to remote write endpoint")
 	maxBatchSize  = flag.Int("remoteWrite.maxBatchSize", 1e3, "Defines defines max number of timeseries to be flushed at once")
@@ -31,6 +33,13 @@ var (
 		"By default system CA is used")
 	tlsServerName = flag.String("remoteWrite.tlsServerName", "", "Optional TLS server name to use for connections to -remoteWrite.url. "+
 		"By default the server name from -remoteWrite.url is used")
+
+	oauth2ClientID         = flag.String("remoteWrite.oauth2.clientID", "", "Optional OAuth2 clientID to use for -remoteWrite.url.")
+	oauth2ClientSecret     = flag.String("remoteWrite.oauth2.clientSecret", "", "Optional OAuth2 clientSecret to use for -remoteWrite.url.")
+	oauth2ClientSecretFile = flag.String("remoteWrite.oauth2.clientSecretFile", "", "Optional OAuth2 clientSecretFile to use for -remoteWrite.url.")
+	oauth2TokenURL         = flag.String("remoteWrite.oauth2.tokenUrl", "", "Optional OAuth2 tokenURL to use for -notifier.url.")
+	oauth2Scopes           = flag.String("remoteWrite.oauth2.scopes", "", "Optional OAuth2 scopes to use for -notifier.url. Scopes must be delimited by ';'.")
+
 	disablePathAppend = flag.Bool("remoteWrite.disablePathAppend", false, "Whether to disable automatic appending of '/api/v1/write' path to the configured -remoteWrite.url.")
 )
 
@@ -46,7 +55,10 @@ func Init(ctx context.Context) (*Client, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create transport: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	authCfg, err := utils.AuthConfig(*basicAuthUsername, *basicAuthPassword, *basicAuthPasswordFile, *bearerToken, *bearerTokenFile)
+	authCfg, err := utils.AuthConfig(
+		utils.WithBasicAuth(*basicAuthUsername, *basicAuthPassword, *basicAuthPasswordFile),
+		utils.WithBearer(*bearerToken, *bearerTokenFile),
+		utils.WithOAuth(*oauth2ClientID, *oauth2ClientSecret, *oauth2ClientSecretFile, *oauth2TokenURL, *oauth2Scopes))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to configure auth: %w", err)
 	}

app/vmalert/remotewrite/remotewrite.go

@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ func (c *Client) flush(ctx context.Context, wr *prompbmarshal.WriteRequest) {
 
 	droppedRows.Add(len(wr.Timeseries))
 	droppedBytes.Add(len(b))
-	logger.Errorf("all %d attempts to send request failed - dropping %d timeseries",
+	logger.Errorf("all %d attempts to send request failed - dropping %d time series",
 		attempts, len(wr.Timeseries))
 }
 

app/vmalert/replay.go

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ var (
 		"Max number of data points expected in one request. The higher the value, the less requests will be made during replay.")
 	replayRuleRetryAttempts = flag.Int("replay.ruleRetryAttempts", 5,
 		"Defines how many retries to make before giving up on rule if request for it returns an error.")
+	disableProgressBar = flag.Bool("replay.disableProgressBar", false, "Whether to disable rendering progress bars during the replay. "+
+		"Progress bar rendering might be verbose or break the logs parsing, so it is recommended to be disabled when not used in interactive mode.")
 )
 
 func replay(groupsCfg []config.Group, qb datasource.QuerierBuilder, rw *remotewrite.Client) error {
@@ -88,7 +90,10 @@ func (g *Group) replay(start, end time.Time, rw *remotewrite.Client) int {
 		g.Name, g.Interval, iterations, step)
 	for _, rule := range g.Rules {
 		fmt.Printf("> Rule %q (ID: %d)\n", rule, rule.ID())
-		bar := pb.StartNew(iterations)
+		var bar *pb.ProgressBar
+		if !*disableProgressBar {
+			bar = pb.StartNew(iterations)
+		}
 		ri.reset()
 		for ri.next() {
 			n, err := replayRule(rule, ri.s, ri.e, rw)
@@ -96,9 +101,13 @@ func (g *Group) replay(start, end time.Time, rw *remotewrite.Client) int {
 				logger.Fatalf("rule %q: %s", rule, err)
 			}
 			total += n
-			bar.Increment()
+			if bar != nil {
+				bar.Increment()
+			}
+		}
+		if bar != nil {
+			bar.Finish()
 		}
-		bar.Finish()
 		// sleep to let remote storage to flush data on-disk
 		// so chained rules could be calculated correctly
 		time.Sleep(*replayRulesDelay)

app/vmalert/replay_test.go

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/config"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource"
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/utils"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promutils"
 )
 
 type fakeReplayQuerier struct {
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ func TestReplay(t *testing.T) {
 			to:    "2021-01-01T15:02:30.000Z",
 			maxDP: 60,
 			cfg: []config.Group{
-				{Interval: utils.NewPromDuration(time.Minute), Rules: []config.Rule{{Record: "foo", Expr: "sum(up)"}}},
+				{Interval: promutils.NewDuration(time.Minute), Rules: []config.Rule{{Record: "foo", Expr: "sum(up)"}}},
 			},
 			qb: &fakeReplayQuerier{
 				registry: map[string]map[string]struct{}{

app/vmalert/rule.go

@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ package main
 import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
 )
 
 // Rule represents alerting or recording rule
@@ -14,13 +15,15 @@ type Rule interface {
 	// ID returns unique ID that may be used for
 	// identifying this Rule among others.
 	ID() uint64
-	// Exec executes the rule with given context
-	Exec(ctx context.Context) ([]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, error)
+	// Exec executes the rule with given context at the given timestamp
+	Exec(ctx context.Context, ts time.Time) ([]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, error)
 	// ExecRange executes the rule on the given time range
 	ExecRange(ctx context.Context, start, end time.Time) ([]prompbmarshal.TimeSeries, error)
 	// UpdateWith performs modification of current Rule
 	// with fields of the given Rule.
 	UpdateWith(Rule) error
+	// ToAPI converts Rule into APIRule
+	ToAPI() APIRule
 	// Close performs the shutdown procedures for rule
 	// such as metrics unregister
 	Close()

app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl

@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@
           min-height: 75rem;
           padding-top: 4.5rem;
         }
-        pre {
-            overflow: scroll;
-            max-width: 600px;
-            min-height: 30px;
-        }
         .group-heading {
             cursor: pointer;
             padding: 5px;
@@ -32,8 +27,27 @@
          .group-heading:hover {
             background-color: #f8f9fa!important;
         }
+        .table {
+            table-layout: fixed;
+        }
         .table .error-cell{
             word-break: break-word;
+            font-size: 14px;
+        }
+        pre {
+            overflow: scroll;
+            min-height: 30px;
+            max-width: 100%;
+        }
+        pre::-webkit-scrollbar {
+          -webkit-appearance: none;
+          width: 0px;
+          height: 5px;
+        }
+        pre::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
+          border-radius: 5px;
+          background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
+          -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.5);
         }
     </style>
 </head>

app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl.go

@@ -41,11 +41,6 @@ func StreamHeader(qw422016 *qt422016.Writer, title string, pages []NavItem) {
           min-height: 75rem;
           padding-top: 4.5rem;
         }
-        pre {
-            overflow: scroll;
-            max-width: 600px;
-            min-height: 30px;
-        }
         .group-heading {
             cursor: pointer;
             padding: 5px;
@@ -64,44 +59,63 @@ func StreamHeader(qw422016 *qt422016.Writer, title string, pages []NavItem) {
          .group-heading:hover {
             background-color: #f8f9fa!important;
         }
+        .table {
+            table-layout: fixed;
+        }
         .table .error-cell{
             word-break: break-word;
+            font-size: 14px;
+        }
+        pre {
+            overflow: scroll;
+            min-height: 30px;
+            max-width: 100%;
+        }
+        pre::-webkit-scrollbar {
+          -webkit-appearance: none;
+          width: 0px;
+          height: 5px;
+        }
+        pre::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
+          border-radius: 5px;
+          background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
+          -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.5);
         }
     </style>
 </head>
 <body>
     `)
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:41
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:55
 	StreamPrintNavItems(qw422016, title, pages)
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:41
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:55
 	qw422016.N().S(`
     <main class="px-2">
 `)
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 }
 
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 func WriteHeader(qq422016 qtio422016.Writer, title string, pages []NavItem) {
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 	qw422016 := qt422016.AcquireWriter(qq422016)
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 	StreamHeader(qw422016, title, pages)
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 	qt422016.ReleaseWriter(qw422016)
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 }
 
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 func Header(title string, pages []NavItem) string {
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 	qb422016 := qt422016.AcquireByteBuffer()
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 	WriteHeader(qb422016, title, pages)
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 	qs422016 := string(qb422016.B)
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 	qt422016.ReleaseByteBuffer(qb422016)
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 	return qs422016
-//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:43
+//line app/vmalert/tpl/header.qtpl:57
 }

app/vmalert/utils.go

@@ -30,3 +30,20 @@ func newTimeSeries(values []float64, timestamps []int64, labels map[string]strin
 	}
 	return ts
 }
+
+// newTimeSeriesPB creates prompbmarshal.TimeSeries with given
+// values, timestamps and labels.
+// It expects that labels are already sorted.
+func newTimeSeriesPB(values []float64, timestamps []int64, labels []prompbmarshal.Label) prompbmarshal.TimeSeries {
+	ts := prompbmarshal.TimeSeries{
+		Samples: make([]prompbmarshal.Sample, len(values)),
+	}
+	for i := range values {
+		ts.Samples[i] = prompbmarshal.Sample{
+			Value:     values[i],
+			Timestamp: time.Unix(timestamps[i], 0).UnixNano() / 1e6,
+		}
+	}
+	ts.Labels = labels
+	return ts
+}

app/vmalert/utils/auth.go

@@ -1,18 +1,60 @@
 package utils
 
 import (
+	"strings"
+
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promauth"
 )
 
+// AuthConfigOptions options which helps build promauth.Config
+type AuthConfigOptions func(config *promauth.HTTPClientConfig)
+
 // AuthConfig returns promauth.Config based on the given params
-func AuthConfig(baUser, baPass, baFile, bearerToken, bearerTokenFile string) (*promauth.Config, error) {
-	var baCfg *promauth.BasicAuthConfig
-	if baUser != "" || baPass != "" || baFile != "" {
-		baCfg = &promauth.BasicAuthConfig{
-			Username:     baUser,
-			Password:     baPass,
-			PasswordFile: baFile,
+func AuthConfig(filterOptions ...AuthConfigOptions) (*promauth.Config, error) {
+	authCfg := &promauth.HTTPClientConfig{}
+	for _, option := range filterOptions {
+		option(authCfg)
+	}
+
+	return authCfg.NewConfig(".")
+}
+
+// WithBasicAuth returns AuthConfigOptions and initialized promauth.BasicAuthConfig based on given params
+func WithBasicAuth(username, password, passwordFile string) AuthConfigOptions {
+	return func(config *promauth.HTTPClientConfig) {
+		if username != "" || password != "" || passwordFile != "" {
+			config.BasicAuth = &promauth.BasicAuthConfig{
+				Username:     username,
+				Password:     promauth.NewSecret(password),
+				PasswordFile: passwordFile,
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// WithBearer returns AuthConfigOptions and set BearerToken or BearerTokenFile based on given params
+func WithBearer(token, tokenFile string) AuthConfigOptions {
+	return func(config *promauth.HTTPClientConfig) {
+		if token != "" {
+			config.BearerToken = promauth.NewSecret(token)
+		}
+		if tokenFile != "" {
+			config.BearerTokenFile = tokenFile
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// WithOAuth returns AuthConfigOptions and set OAuth params based on given params
+func WithOAuth(clientID, clientSecret, clientSecretFile, tokenURL, scopes string) AuthConfigOptions {
+	return func(config *promauth.HTTPClientConfig) {
+		if clientSecretFile != "" || clientSecret != "" {
+			config.OAuth2 = &promauth.OAuth2Config{
+				ClientID:         clientID,
+				ClientSecret:     promauth.NewSecret(clientSecret),
+				ClientSecretFile: clientSecretFile,
+				TokenURL:         tokenURL,
+				Scopes:           strings.Split(scopes, ";"),
+			}
 		}
 	}
-	return promauth.NewConfig(".", nil, baCfg, bearerToken, bearerTokenFile, nil, nil)
 }

app/vmalert/utils/metrics.go

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package utils
+
+import "github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics"
+
+type namedMetric struct {
+	Name string
+}
+
+// Unregister removes the metric by name from default registry
+func (nm namedMetric) Unregister() {
+	metrics.UnregisterMetric(nm.Name)
+}
+
+// Gauge is a metrics.Gauge with Name
+type Gauge struct {
+	namedMetric
+	*metrics.Gauge
+}
+
+// GetOrCreateGauge creates a new Gauge with the given name
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+	return &Gauge{
+		namedMetric: namedMetric{Name: name},
+		Gauge:       metrics.GetOrCreateGauge(name, f),
+	}
+}
+
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+type Counter struct {
+	namedMetric
+	*metrics.Counter
+}
+
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+func GetOrCreateCounter(name string) *Counter {
+	return &Counter{
+		namedMetric: namedMetric{Name: name},
+		Counter:     metrics.GetOrCreateCounter(name),
+	}
+}
+
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+type Summary struct {
+	namedMetric
+	*metrics.Summary
+}
+
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+func GetOrCreateSummary(name string) *Summary {
+	return &Summary{
+		namedMetric: namedMetric{Name: name},
+		Summary:     metrics.GetOrCreateSummary(name),
+	}
+}

app/vmalert/utils/prom_duration.go

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-package utils
-
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-
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-)
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-	}
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-	}
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-	return nil
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-
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 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/logger"
@@ -24,8 +25,11 @@ var (
 
 func initLinks() {
 	pathPrefix := httpserver.GetPathPrefix()
+	if pathPrefix == "" {
+		pathPrefix = "/"
+	}
 	apiLinks = [][2]string{
-		{path.Join(pathPrefix, "api/v1/groups"), "list all loaded groups and rules"},
+		{path.Join(pathPrefix, "api/v1/rules"), "list all loaded groups and rules"},
 		{path.Join(pathPrefix, "api/v1/alerts"), "list all active alerts"},
 		{path.Join(pathPrefix, "api/v1/groupID/alertID/status"), "get alert status by ID"},
 		{path.Join(pathPrefix, "flags"), "command-line flags"},
@@ -33,9 +37,10 @@ func initLinks() {
 		{path.Join(pathPrefix, "-/reload"), "reload configuration"},
 	}
 	navItems = []tpl.NavItem{
-		{Name: "vmalert", Url: pathPrefix},
+		{Name: "vmalert", Url: path.Join(pathPrefix, "/")},
 		{Name: "Groups", Url: path.Join(pathPrefix, "groups")},
 		{Name: "Alerts", Url: path.Join(pathPrefix, "alerts")},
+		{Name: "Notifiers", Url: path.Join(pathPrefix, "notifiers")},
 		{Name: "Docs", Url: "https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html"},
 	}
 }
@@ -49,6 +54,11 @@ func (rh *requestHandler) handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 		initLinks()
 	})
 
+	pathPrefix := httpserver.GetPathPrefix()
+	if pathPrefix == "" {
+		pathPrefix = "/"
+	}
+
 	switch r.URL.Path {
 	case "/":
 		if r.Method != "GET" {
@@ -57,18 +67,21 @@ func (rh *requestHandler) handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 		WriteWelcome(w)
 		return true
 	case "/alerts":
-		WriteListAlerts(w, rh.groupAlerts())
+		WriteListAlerts(w, pathPrefix, rh.groupAlerts())
 		return true
 	case "/groups":
 		WriteListGroups(w, rh.groups())
 		return true
-	case "/api/v1/groups":
+	case "/notifiers":
+		WriteListTargets(w, notifier.GetTargets())
+		return true
+	case "/api/v1/rules":
 		data, err := rh.listGroups()
 		if err != nil {
 			httpserver.Errorf(w, r, "%s", err)
 			return true
 		}
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		w.Write(data)
 		return true
 	case "/api/v1/alerts":
@@ -77,7 +90,7 @@ func (rh *requestHandler) handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 			httpserver.Errorf(w, r, "%s", err)
 			return true
 		}
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 		w.Write(data)
 		return true
 	case "/-/reload":
@@ -102,22 +115,22 @@ func (rh *requestHandler) handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 				httpserver.Errorf(w, r, "failed to marshal alert: %s", err)
 				return true
 			}
-			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 			w.Write(data)
 			return true
 		}
 
 		// <groupID>/<alertID>/status
-		WriteAlert(w, alert)
+		WriteAlert(w, pathPrefix, alert)
 		return true
 	}
 }
 
 type listGroupsResponse struct {
-	Data struct {
+	Status string `json:"status"`
+	Data   struct {
 		Groups []APIGroup `json:"groups"`
 	} `json:"data"`
-	Status string `json:"status"`
 }
 
 func (rh *requestHandler) groups() []APIGroup {
@@ -136,6 +149,7 @@ func (rh *requestHandler) groups() []APIGroup {
 
 	return groups
 }
+
 func (rh *requestHandler) listGroups() ([]byte, error) {
 	lr := listGroupsResponse{Status: "success"}
 	lr.Data.Groups = rh.groups()
@@ -150,10 +164,10 @@ func (rh *requestHandler) listGroups() ([]byte, error) {
 }
 
 type listAlertsResponse struct {
-	Data struct {
+	Status string `json:"status"`
+	Data   struct {
 		Alerts []*APIAlert `json:"alerts"`
 	} `json:"data"`
-	Status string `json:"status"`
 }
 
 func (rh *requestHandler) groupAlerts() []GroupAlerts {
@@ -168,7 +182,7 @@ func (rh *requestHandler) groupAlerts() []GroupAlerts {
 			if !ok {
 				continue
 			}
-			alerts = append(alerts, a.AlertsAPI()...)
+			alerts = append(alerts, a.AlertsToAPI()...)
 		}
 		if len(alerts) > 0 {
 			groupAlerts = append(groupAlerts, GroupAlerts{
@@ -191,7 +205,7 @@ func (rh *requestHandler) listAlerts() ([]byte, error) {
 			if !ok {
 				continue
 			}
-			lr.Data.Alerts = append(lr.Data.Alerts, a.AlertsAPI()...)
+			lr.Data.Alerts = append(lr.Data.Alerts, a.AlertsToAPI()...)
 		}
 	}
 

app/vmalert/web.qtpl

@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 {% import (
     "time"
     "sort"
+    "path"
 
     "github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/tpl"
+    "github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/notifier"
 ) %}
 
 
@@ -29,14 +31,7 @@
             rOk := make(map[string]int)
             rNotOk := make(map[string]int)
             for _, g := range groups {
-                for _, r := range g.AlertingRules{
-                    if r.LastError != "" {
-                        rNotOk[g.Name]++
-                    } else {
-                        rOk[g.Name]++
-                    }
-                }
-                 for _, r := range g.RecordingRules{
+                for _, r := range g.Rules {
                     if r.LastError != "" {
                         rNotOk[g.Name]++
                     } else {
@@ -50,14 +45,14 @@
         {% for _, g := range groups  %}
               <div class="group-heading{% if rNotOk[g.Name] > 0 %} alert-danger{% endif %}"  data-bs-target="rules-{%s g.ID %}">
                 <span class="anchor" id="group-{%s g.ID %}"></span>
-                <a href="#group-{%s g.ID %}">{%s g.Name %}{% if g.Type != "prometheus" %} ({%s g.Type %}){% endif %} (every {%s g.Interval %})</a>
+                <a href="#group-{%s g.ID %}">{%s g.Name %}{% if g.Type != "prometheus" %} ({%s g.Type %}){% endif %} (every {%f.0 g.Interval %}s)</a>
                  {% if rNotOk[g.Name] > 0 %}<span class="badge bg-danger" title="Number of rules with status Error">{%d rNotOk[g.Name] %}</span> {% endif %}
                 <span class="badge bg-success" title="Number of rules withs status Ok">{%d rOk[g.Name] %}</span>
                 <p class="fs-6 fw-lighter">{%s g.File %}</p>
-                {% if len(g.ExtraFilterLabels) > 0 %}
-                    <div class="fs-6 fw-lighter">Extra filter labels
-                    {% for k, v := range g.ExtraFilterLabels %}
-                            <span class="float-left badge bg-primary">{%s k %}={%s v %}</span>
+                {% if len(g.Params) > 0 %}
+                    <div class="fs-6 fw-lighter">Extra params
+                    {% for _, param := range g.Params %}
+                            <span class="float-left badge bg-primary">{%s param %}</span>
                     {% endfor %}
                     </div>
                 {% endif %}
@@ -66,41 +61,44 @@
                 <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-sm">
                     <thead>
                         <tr>
-                            <th scope="col">Rule</th>
-                            <th scope="col" title="Shows if rule's execution ended with error">Error</th>
-                            <th scope="col" title="How many samples were produced by the rule">Samples</th>
-                            <th scope="col" title="How many seconds ago rule was executed">Updated</th>
+                            <th scope="col" style="width: 60%">Rule</th>
+                            <th scope="col" style="width: 20%" class="text-center" title="How many samples were produced by the rule">Samples</th>
+                            <th scope="col" style="width: 20%" class="text-center" title="How many seconds ago rule was executed">Updated</th>
                         </tr>
                     </thead>
                     <tbody>
-                    {% for _, ar := range g.AlertingRules %}
-                        <tr{% if ar.LastError != "" %} class="alert-danger"{% endif %}>
+                    {% for _, r := range g.Rules %}
+                        <tr{% if r.LastError != "" %} class="alert-danger"{% endif %}>
                             <td>
-                                <b>alert:</b> {%s ar.Name %} (for: {%v ar.For %})<br>
-                                <code><pre>{%s ar.Expression %}</pre></code><br>
-                                {% if len(ar.Labels) > 0 %} <b>Labels:</b>{% endif %}
-                                {% for k, v := range ar.Labels %}
-                                        <span class="ms-1 badge bg-primary">{%s k %}={%s v %}</span>
-                                {% endfor %}
+                                <div class="row">
+                                    <div class="col-12 mb-2">
+                                        {% if r.Type == "alerting" %}
+                                        <b>alert:</b> {%s r.Name %} (for: {%v r.Duration %} seconds)
+                                        {% else %}
+                                        <b>record:</b> {%s r.Name %}
+                                        {% endif %}
+                                    </div>
+                                    <div class="col-12">
+                                        <code><pre>{%s r.Query %}</pre></code>
+                                    </div>
+                                    <div class="col-12 mb-2">
+                                        {% if len(r.Labels) > 0 %} <b>Labels:</b>{% endif %}
+                                        {% for k, v := range r.Labels %}
+                                                <span class="ms-1 badge bg-primary">{%s k %}={%s v %}</span>
+                                        {% endfor %}
+                                    </div>
+                                    {% if r.LastError != "" %}
+                                    <div class="col-12">
+                                        <b>Error:</b>
+                                        <div class="error-cell">
+                                        {%s r.LastError %}
+                                        </div>
+                                    </div>
+                                    {% endif %}
+                                </div>
                             </td>
-                            <td><div class="error-cell">{%s ar.LastError %}</div></td>
-                            <td>{%d ar.LastSamples %}</td>
-                            <td>{%f.3 time.Since(ar.LastExec).Seconds() %}s ago</td>
-                        </tr>
-                    {% endfor %}
-                    {% for _, rr := range g.RecordingRules  %}
-                        <tr>
-                            <td>
-                                <b>record:</b> {%s rr.Name %}<br>
-                                <code><pre>{%s rr.Expression %}</pre></code>
-                                {% if len(rr.Labels) > 0 %} <b>Labels:</b>{% endif %}
-                                {% for k, v := range rr.Labels %}
-                                        <span class="ms-1 badge bg-primary">{%s k %}={%s v %}</span>
-                                {% endfor %}
-                            </td>
-                            <td><div class="error-cell">{%s rr.LastError %}</div></td>
-                            <td>{%d rr.LastSamples %}</td>
-                            <td>{%f.3 time.Since(rr.LastExec).Seconds() %}s ago</td>
+                            <td class="text-center">{%d r.LastSamples %}</td>
+                            <td class="text-center">{%f.3 time.Since(r.LastEvaluation).Seconds() %}s ago</td>
                         </tr>
                     {% endfor %}
                  </tbody>
@@ -119,7 +117,7 @@
 {% endfunc %}
 
 
-{% func ListAlerts(groupAlerts []GroupAlerts) %}
+{% func ListAlerts(pathPrefix string, groupAlerts []GroupAlerts) %}
     {%= tpl.Header("Alerts", navItems) %}
     {% if len(groupAlerts) > 0 %}
          <a class="btn btn-primary" role="button" onclick="collapseAll()">Collapse All</a>
@@ -184,7 +182,7 @@
                                 </td>
                                 <td>{%s ar.Value %}</td>
                                 <td>
-                                    <a href="/{%s g.ID %}/{%s ar.ID %}/status">Details</a>
+                                    <a href="{%s path.Join(pathPrefix, g.ID, ar.ID, "status") %}">Details</a>
                                 </td>
                             </tr>
                         {% endfor %}
@@ -205,7 +203,63 @@
 
 {% endfunc %}
 
-{% func Alert(alert *APIAlert) %}
+{% func ListTargets(targets map[notifier.TargetType][]notifier.Target) %}
+    {%= tpl.Header("Notifiers", navItems) %}
+    {% if len(targets) > 0 %}
+         <a class="btn btn-primary" role="button" onclick="collapseAll()">Collapse All</a>
+         <a class="btn btn-primary" role="button" onclick="expandAll()">Expand All</a>
+
+         {%code
+             var keys []string
+             for key := range targets {
+                 keys = append(keys, string(key))
+             }
+             sort.Strings(keys)
+         %}
+
+         {% for i := range keys  %}
+           {%code typeK, ns := keys[i], targets[notifier.TargetType(keys[i])]
+                count := len(ns)
+            %}
+           <div class="group-heading data-bs-target="rules-{%s typeK %}">
+             <span class="anchor" id="notifiers-{%s typeK %}"></span>
+             <a href="#notifiers-{%s typeK %}">{%s typeK %} ({%d count %})</a>
+         </div>
+         <div class="collapse show" id="notifiers-{%s typeK %}">
+             <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-sm">
+                 <thead>
+                     <tr>
+                         <th scope="col">Labels</th>
+                         <th scope="col">Address</th>
+                     </tr>
+                 </thead>
+                 <tbody>
+                 {% for _, n := range ns %}
+                     <tr>
+                         <td>
+                              {% for _, l := range n.Labels %}
+                                      <span class="ms-1 badge bg-primary">{%s l.Name %}={%s l.Value %}</span>
+                              {% endfor %}
+                          </td>
+                         <td>{%s n.Notifier.Addr() %}</td>
+                     </tr>
+                 {% endfor %}
+              </tbody>
+             </table>
+         </div>
+     {% endfor %}
+
+    {% else %}
+        <div>
+            <p>No items...</p>
+        </div>
+    {% endif %}
+
+    {%= tpl.Footer() %}
+
+{% endfunc %}
+
+{% func Alert(pathPrefix string, alert *APIAlert) %}
     {%= tpl.Header("", navItems) %}
     {%code
         var labelKeys []string
@@ -272,7 +326,7 @@
           Group
         </div>
         <div class="col">
-           <a target="_blank" href="/groups#group-{%s alert.GroupID %}">{%s alert.GroupID %}</a>
+           <a target="_blank" href="{%s path.Join(pathPrefix,"groups") %}#group-{%s alert.GroupID %}">{%s alert.GroupID %}</a>
         </div>
       </div>
     </div>
@@ -302,4 +356,4 @@
 
 {% func badgeRestored() %}
 <span class="badge bg-warning text-dark" title="Alert state was restored after the service restart from remote storage">restored</span>
-{% endfunc %}
+{% endfunc %}

app/vmalert/web_test.go

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ func TestHandler(t *testing.T) {
 	ar := &AlertingRule{
 		Name: "alert",
 		alerts: map[uint64]*notifier.Alert{
-			0: {},
+			0: {State: notifier.StateFiring},
 		},
 	}
 	g := &Group{
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ func TestHandler(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("expected 1 alert got %d", length)
 		}
 	})
-	t.Run("/api/v1/groups", func(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("/api/v1/rules", func(t *testing.T) {
 		lr := listGroupsResponse{}
-		getResp(ts.URL+"/api/v1/groups", &lr, 200)
+		getResp(ts.URL+"/api/v1/rules", &lr, 200)
 		if length := len(lr.Data.Groups); length != 1 {
 			t.Errorf("expected 1 group got %d", length)
 		}

app/vmalert/web_types.go

@@ -4,63 +4,61 @@ import (
 	"time"
 )
 
-// APIAlert represents an notifier.AlertingRule state
+// APIAlert represents a notifier.AlertingRule state
 // for WEB view
+// https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md#get-apiv1rules
 type APIAlert struct {
-	ID          string            `json:"id"`
-	Name        string            `json:"name"`
-	RuleID      string            `json:"rule_id"`
-	GroupID     string            `json:"group_id"`
-	Expression  string            `json:"expression"`
 	State       string            `json:"state"`
+	Name        string            `json:"name"`
 	Value       string            `json:"value"`
-	Labels      map[string]string `json:"labels"`
+	Labels      map[string]string `json:"labels,omitempty"`
 	Annotations map[string]string `json:"annotations"`
 	ActiveAt    time.Time         `json:"activeAt"`
-	SourceLink  string            `json:"source"`
-	Restored    bool              `json:"restored"`
+
+	// Additional fields
+
+	// ID is an unique Alert's ID within a group
+	ID string `json:"id"`
+	// RuleID is an unique Rule's ID within a group
+	RuleID string `json:"rule_id"`
+	// GroupID is an unique Group's ID
+	GroupID string `json:"group_id"`
+	// Expression contains the PromQL/MetricsQL expression
+	// for Rule's evaluation
+	Expression string `json:"expression"`
+	// SourceLink contains a link to a system which should show
+	// why Alert was generated
+	SourceLink string `json:"source"`
+	// Restored shows whether Alert's state was restored on restart
+	Restored bool `json:"restored"`
 }
 
 // APIGroup represents Group for WEB view
+// https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md#get-apiv1rules
 type APIGroup struct {
-	Name              string             `json:"name"`
-	Type              string             `json:"type"`
-	ID                string             `json:"id"`
-	File              string             `json:"file"`
-	Interval          string             `json:"interval"`
-	Concurrency       int                `json:"concurrency"`
-	ExtraFilterLabels map[string]string  `json:"extra_filter_labels"`
-	Labels            map[string]string  `json:"labels,omitempty"`
-	AlertingRules     []APIAlertingRule  `json:"alerting_rules"`
-	RecordingRules    []APIRecordingRule `json:"recording_rules"`
-}
+	// Name is the group name as present in the config
+	Name string `json:"name"`
+	// Rules contains both recording and alerting rules
+	Rules []APIRule `json:"rules"`
+	// Interval is the Group's evaluation interval in float seconds as present in the file.
+	Interval float64 `json:"interval"`
+	// LastEvaluation is the timestamp of the last time the Group was executed
+	LastEvaluation time.Time `json:"lastEvaluation"`
 
-// APIAlertingRule represents AlertingRule for WEB view
-type APIAlertingRule struct {
-	ID          string            `json:"id"`
-	Name        string            `json:"name"`
-	Type        string            `json:"type"`
-	GroupID     string            `json:"group_id"`
-	Expression  string            `json:"expression"`
-	For         string            `json:"for"`
-	LastError   string            `json:"last_error"`
-	LastSamples int               `json:"last_samples"`
-	LastExec    time.Time         `json:"last_exec"`
-	Labels      map[string]string `json:"labels"`
-	Annotations map[string]string `json:"annotations"`
-}
+	// Additional fields
 
-// APIRecordingRule represents RecordingRule for WEB view
-type APIRecordingRule struct {
-	ID          string            `json:"id"`
-	Name        string            `json:"name"`
-	Type        string            `json:"type"`
-	GroupID     string            `json:"group_id"`
-	Expression  string            `json:"expression"`
-	LastError   string            `json:"last_error"`
-	LastSamples int               `json:"last_samples"`
-	LastExec    time.Time         `json:"last_exec"`
-	Labels      map[string]string `json:"labels"`
+	// Type shows the datasource type (prometheus or graphite) of the Group
+	Type string `json:"type"`
+	// ID is a unique Group ID
+	ID string `json:"id"`
+	// File contains a path to the file with Group's config
+	File string `json:"file"`
+	// Concurrency shows how many rules may be evaluated simultaneously
+	Concurrency int `json:"concurrency"`
+	// Params contains HTTP URL parameters added to each Rule's request
+	Params []string `json:"params,omitempty"`
+	// Labels is a set of label value pairs, that will be added to every rule.
+	Labels map[string]string `json:"labels,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // GroupAlerts represents a group of alerts for WEB view
@@ -68,3 +66,43 @@ type GroupAlerts struct {
 	Group  APIGroup
 	Alerts []*APIAlert
 }
+
+// APIRule represents a Rule for WEB view
+// see https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md#get-apiv1rules
+type APIRule struct {
+	// State must be one of these under following scenarios
+	//  "pending": at least 1 alert in the rule in pending state and no other alert in firing state.
+	//  "firing": at least 1 alert in the rule in firing state.
+	//  "inactive": no alert in the rule in firing or pending state.
+	State string `json:"state"`
+	Name  string `json:"name"`
+	// Query represents Rule's `expression` field
+	Query string `json:"query"`
+	// Duration represents Rule's `for` field
+	Duration    float64           `json:"duration"`
+	Labels      map[string]string `json:"labels,omitempty"`
+	Annotations map[string]string `json:"annotations,omitempty"`
+	// LastError contains the error faced while executing the rule.
+	LastError string `json:"lastError"`
+	// EvaluationTime is the time taken to completely evaluate the rule in float seconds.
+	EvaluationTime float64 `json:"evaluationTime"`
+	// LastEvaluation is the timestamp of the last time the rule was executed
+	LastEvaluation time.Time `json:"lastEvaluation"`
+	// Alerts  is the list of all the alerts in this rule that are currently pending or firing
+	Alerts []*APIAlert `json:"alerts,omitempty"`
+	// Health is the health of rule evaluation.
+	// It MUST be one of "ok", "err", "unknown"
+	Health string `json:"health"`
+	// Type of the rule: recording or alerting
+	Type string `json:"type"`
+
+	// Additional fields
+
+	// Type of the rule: recording or alerting
+	DatasourceType string `json:"datasourceType"`
+	LastSamples    int    `json:"lastSamples"`
+	// ID is an unique Alert's ID within a group
+	ID string `json:"id"`
+	// GroupID is an unique Group's ID
+	GroupID string `json:"group_id"`
+}

app/vmauth/Makefile

@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ vmauth-ppc64le-prod:
 vmauth-386-prod:
 	APP_NAME=vmauth $(MAKE) app-via-docker-386
 
+vmauth-darwin-amd64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=vmauth $(MAKE) app-via-docker-darwin-amd64
+
+vmauth-darwin-arm64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=vmauth $(MAKE) app-via-docker-darwin-arm64
+
+vmauth-windows-amd64-prod:
+	APP_NAME=vmauth $(MAKE) app-via-docker-windows-amd64
+
 package-vmauth:
 	APP_NAME=vmauth $(MAKE) package-via-docker
 
@@ -80,6 +89,3 @@ vmauth-pure:
 
 vmauth-windows-amd64:
 	GOARCH=amd64 APP_NAME=vmauth $(MAKE) app-local-windows-with-goarch
-
-vmauth-windows-amd64-prod:
-	APP_NAME=vmauth $(MAKE) app-via-docker-windows-amd64

app/vmauth/README.md

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 # vmauth
 
 `vmauth` is a simple auth proxy, router and [load balancer](#load-balancing) for [VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics).
-It reads auth credentials from `Authorization` http header ([Basic Auth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication) and `Bearer token` is supported),
+It reads auth credentials from `Authorization` http header ([Basic Auth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication), `Bearer token` and [InfluxDB authorization](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1897) is supported),
 matches them against configs pointed by [-auth.config](#auth-config) command-line flag and proxies incoming HTTP requests to the configured per-user `url_prefix` on successful match.
-
+The `-auth.config` can point to either local file or to http url.
 
 ## Quick start
 
 Just download `vmutils-*` archive from [releases page](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases), unpack it
 and pass the following flag to `vmauth` binary in order to start authorizing and routing requests:
 
-```
+```bash
 /path/to/vmauth -auth.config=/path/to/auth/config.yml
 ```
 
@@ -26,12 +26,10 @@ Pass `-help` to `vmauth` in order to see all the supported command-line flags wi
 Feel free [contacting us](mailto:info@victoriametrics.com) if you need customized auth proxy for VictoriaMetrics with the support of LDAP, SSO, RBAC, SAML,
 accounting and rate limiting such as [vmgateway](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway.html).
 
-
 ## Load balancing
 
 Each `url_prefix` in the [-auth.config](#auth-config) may contain either a single url or a list of urls. In the latter case `vmauth` balances load among the configured urls in a round-robin manner. This feature is useful for balancing the load among multiple `vmselect` and/or `vminsert` nodes in [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html).
 
-
 ## Auth config
 
 `-auth.config` is represented in the following simple `yml` format:
@@ -41,8 +39,10 @@ Each `url_prefix` in the [-auth.config](#auth-config) may contain either a singl
 # Username and bearer_token values must be unique.
 
 users:
-  # Requests with the 'Authorization: Bearer XXXX' header are proxied to http://localhost:8428 .
+  # Requests with the 'Authorization: Bearer XXXX' and 'Authorization: Token XXXX'
+  # header are proxied to http://localhost:8428 .
   # For example, http://vmauth:8427/api/v1/query is proxied to http://localhost:8428/api/v1/query
+  # Requests with the Basic Auth username=XXXX are proxied to http://localhost:8428 as well.
 - bearer_token: "XXXX"
   url_prefix: "http://localhost:8428"
 
@@ -117,44 +117,52 @@ users:
   - src_paths: ["/api/v1/write"]
     url_prefix: "http://vminsert:8480/insert/42/prometheus"
     headers:
-    - "X-Scope-OrgID: abc"```
+    - "X-Scope-OrgID: abc"
+```
 
 The config may contain `%{ENV_VAR}` placeholders, which are substituted by the corresponding `ENV_VAR` environment variable values.
 This may be useful for passing secrets to the config.
 
-
 ## Security
 
+It is expected that all the backend services protected by `vmauth` are located in an isolated private network, so they can be accessed by external users only via `vmauth`.
+
 Do not transfer Basic Auth headers in plaintext over untrusted networks. Enable https. This can be done by passing the following `-tls*` command-line flags to `vmauth`:
 
-```
+```bash
   -tls
-    	Whether to enable TLS (aka HTTPS) for incoming requests. -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set
+     Whether to enable TLS (aka HTTPS) for incoming requests. -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set
   -tlsCertFile string
-    	Path to file with TLS certificate. Used only if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs, since RSA certs are slow
+     Path to file with TLS certificate. Used only if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs, since RSA certs are slow
   -tlsKeyFile string
-    	Path to file with TLS key. Used only if -tls is set
+     Path to file with TLS key. Used only if -tls is set
 ```
 
 Alternatively, [https termination proxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLS_termination_proxy) may be put in front of `vmauth`.
 
 It is recommended protecting `/-/reload` endpoint with `-reloadAuthKey` command-line flag, so external users couldn't trigger config reload.
 
-
 ## Monitoring
 
 `vmauth` exports various metrics in Prometheus exposition format at `http://vmauth-host:8427/metrics` page. It is recommended setting up regular scraping of this page
 either via [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html) or via Prometheus, so the exported metrics could be analyzed later.
 
+`vmauth` exports `vmauth_user_requests_total` metric with `username` label. The `username` label value equals to `username` field value set in the `-auth.config` file. It is possible to override or hide the value in the label by specifying `name` field. For example, the following config will result in `vmauth_user_requests_total{username="foobar"}` instead of `vmauth_user_requests_total{username="secret_user"}`:
+
+```yml
+users:
+- username: "secret_user"
+  name: "foobar"
+  # other config options here
+```
 
 ## How to build from sources
 
 It is recommended using [binary releases](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases) - `vmauth` is located in `vmutils-*` archives there.
 
-
 ### Development build
 
-1. [Install Go](https://golang.org/doc/install). The minimum supported version is Go 1.16.
+1. [Install Go](https://golang.org/doc/install). The minimum supported version is Go 1.17.
 2. Run `make vmauth` from the root folder of [the repository](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics).
    It builds `vmauth` binary and puts it into the `bin` folder.
 
@@ -177,33 +185,39 @@ by setting it via `<ROOT_IMAGE>` environment variable. For example, the followin
 ROOT_IMAGE=scratch make package-vmauth
 ```
 
-
 ## Profiling
 
 `vmauth` provides handlers for collecting the following [Go profiles](https://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs):
 
-* Memory profile. It can be collected with the following command:
+* Memory profile. It can be collected with the following command (replace `0.0.0.0` with hostname if needed):
+
+<div class="with-copy" markdown="1">
 
 ```bash
-curl -s http://<vmauth-host>:8427/debug/pprof/heap > mem.pprof
+curl http://0.0.0.0:8427/debug/pprof/heap > mem.pprof
 ```
 
-* CPU profile. It can be collected with the following command:
+</div>
+
+* CPU profile. It can be collected with the following command (replace `0.0.0.0` with hostname if needed):
+
+<div class="with-copy" markdown="1">
 
 ```bash
-curl -s http://<vmauth-host>:8427/debug/pprof/profile > cpu.pprof
+curl http://0.0.0.0:8427/debug/pprof/profile > cpu.pprof
 ```
 
+</div>
+
 The command for collecting CPU profile waits for 30 seconds before returning.
 
 The collected profiles may be analyzed with [go tool pprof](https://github.com/google/pprof).
 
-
 ## Advanced usage
 
 Pass `-help` command-line arg to `vmauth` in order to see all the configuration options:
 
-```
+```bash
 ./vmauth -help
 
 vmauth authenticates and authorizes incoming requests and proxies them to VictoriaMetrics.
@@ -211,68 +225,73 @@ vmauth authenticates and authorizes incoming requests and proxies them to Victor
 See the docs at https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html .
 
   -auth.config string
-    	Path to auth config. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html for details on the format of this auth config
+     Path to auth config. It can point either to local file or to http url. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth.html for details on the format of this auth config
   -enableTCP6
-    	Whether to enable IPv6 for listening and dialing. By default only IPv4 TCP and UDP is used
+     Whether to enable IPv6 for listening and dialing. By default only IPv4 TCP and UDP is used
   -envflag.enable
-    	Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables additionally to command line. Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. Flags are read only from command line if this flag isn't set. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#environment-variables for more details
+     Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables additionally to command line. Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. Flags are read only from command line if this flag isn't set. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#environment-variables for more details
   -envflag.prefix string
-    	Prefix for environment variables if -envflag.enable is set
+     Prefix for environment variables if -envflag.enable is set
+  -eula
+     By specifying this flag, you confirm that you have an enterprise license and accept the EULA https://victoriametrics.com/assets/VM_EULA.pdf
   -fs.disableMmap
-    	Whether to use pread() instead of mmap() for reading data files. By default mmap() is used for 64-bit arches and pread() is used for 32-bit arches, since they cannot read data files bigger than 2^32 bytes in memory. mmap() is usually faster for reading small data chunks than pread()
+     Whether to use pread() instead of mmap() for reading data files. By default mmap() is used for 64-bit arches and pread() is used for 32-bit arches, since they cannot read data files bigger than 2^32 bytes in memory. mmap() is usually faster for reading small data chunks than pread()
   -http.connTimeout duration
-    	Incoming http connections are closed after the configured timeout. This may help to spread the incoming load among a cluster of services behind a load balancer. Please note that the real timeout may be bigger by up to 10% as a protection against the thundering herd problem (default 2m0s)
+     Incoming http connections are closed after the configured timeout. This may help to spread the incoming load among a cluster of services behind a load balancer. Please note that the real timeout may be bigger by up to 10% as a protection against the thundering herd problem (default 2m0s)
   -http.disableResponseCompression
-    	Disable compression of HTTP responses to save CPU resources. By default compression is enabled to save network bandwidth
+     Disable compression of HTTP responses to save CPU resources. By default compression is enabled to save network bandwidth
   -http.idleConnTimeout duration
-    	Timeout for incoming idle http connections (default 1m0s)
+     Timeout for incoming idle http connections (default 1m0s)
   -http.maxGracefulShutdownDuration duration
-    	The maximum duration for a graceful shutdown of the HTTP server. A highly loaded server may require increased value for a graceful shutdown (default 7s)
+     The maximum duration for a graceful shutdown of the HTTP server. A highly loaded server may require increased value for a graceful shutdown (default 7s)
   -http.pathPrefix string
-    	An optional prefix to add to all the paths handled by http server. For example, if '-http.pathPrefix=/foo/bar' is set, then all the http requests will be handled on '/foo/bar/*' paths. This may be useful for proxied requests. See https://www.robustperception.io/using-external-urls-and-proxies-with-prometheus
+     An optional prefix to add to all the paths handled by http server. For example, if '-http.pathPrefix=/foo/bar' is set, then all the http requests will be handled on '/foo/bar/*' paths. This may be useful for proxied requests. See https://www.robustperception.io/using-external-urls-and-proxies-with-prometheus
   -http.shutdownDelay duration
-    	Optional delay before http server shutdown. During this delay, the server returns non-OK responses from /health page, so load balancers can route new requests to other servers
+     Optional delay before http server shutdown. During this delay, the server returns non-OK responses from /health page, so load balancers can route new requests to other servers
   -httpAuth.password string
-    	Password for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if -httpAuth.username is empty
+     Password for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if -httpAuth.username is empty
   -httpAuth.username string
-    	Username for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if empty. See also -httpAuth.password
+     Username for HTTP Basic Auth. The authentication is disabled if empty. See also -httpAuth.password
   -httpListenAddr string
-    	TCP address to listen for http connections (default ":8427")
+     TCP address to listen for http connections (default ":8427")
   -logInvalidAuthTokens
-    	Whether to log requests with invalid auth tokens. Such requests are always counted at vmagent_http_request_errors_total{reason="invalid_auth_token"} metric, which is exposed at /metrics page
+     Whether to log requests with invalid auth tokens. Such requests are always counted at vmauth_http_request_errors_total{reason="invalid_auth_token"} metric, which is exposed at /metrics page
   -loggerDisableTimestamps
-    	Whether to disable writing timestamps in logs
+     Whether to disable writing timestamps in logs
   -loggerErrorsPerSecondLimit int
-    	Per-second limit on the number of ERROR messages. If more than the given number of errors are emitted per second, the remaining errors are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
+     Per-second limit on the number of ERROR messages. If more than the given number of errors are emitted per second, the remaining errors are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
   -loggerFormat string
-    	Format for logs. Possible values: default, json (default "default")
+     Format for logs. Possible values: default, json (default "default")
   -loggerLevel string
-    	Minimum level of errors to log. Possible values: INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC (default "INFO")
+     Minimum level of errors to log. Possible values: INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC (default "INFO")
   -loggerOutput string
-    	Output for the logs. Supported values: stderr, stdout (default "stderr")
+     Output for the logs. Supported values: stderr, stdout (default "stderr")
   -loggerTimezone string
-    	Timezone to use for timestamps in logs. Timezone must be a valid IANA Time Zone. For example: America/New_York, Europe/Berlin, Etc/GMT+3 or Local (default "UTC")
+     Timezone to use for timestamps in logs. Timezone must be a valid IANA Time Zone. For example: America/New_York, Europe/Berlin, Etc/GMT+3 or Local (default "UTC")
   -loggerWarnsPerSecondLimit int
-    	Per-second limit on the number of WARN messages. If more than the given number of warns are emitted per second, then the remaining warns are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
+     Per-second limit on the number of WARN messages. If more than the given number of warns are emitted per second, then the remaining warns are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
   -maxIdleConnsPerBackend int
-    	The maximum number of idle connections vmauth can open per each backend host (default 100)
+     The maximum number of idle connections vmauth can open per each backend host (default 100)
   -memory.allowedBytes size
-    	Allowed size of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. This option overrides -memory.allowedPercent if set to a non-zero value. Too low a value may increase the cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache resulting in higher disk IO usage
-    	Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
+     Allowed size of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. This option overrides -memory.allowedPercent if set to a non-zero value. Too low a value may increase the cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache resulting in higher disk IO usage
+     Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
   -memory.allowedPercent float
-    	Allowed percent of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. See also -memory.allowedBytes. Too low a value may increase cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache which will result in higher disk IO usage (default 60)
+     Allowed percent of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. See also -memory.allowedBytes. Too low a value may increase cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache which will result in higher disk IO usage (default 60)
   -metricsAuthKey string
-    	Auth key for /metrics. It overrides httpAuth settings
+     Auth key for /metrics. It must be passed via authKey query arg. It overrides httpAuth.* settings
   -pprofAuthKey string
-    	Auth key for /debug/pprof. It overrides httpAuth settings
+     Auth key for /debug/pprof. It must be passed via authKey query arg. It overrides httpAuth.* settings
   -reloadAuthKey string
-    	Auth key for /-/reload http endpoint. It must be passed as authKey=...
+     Auth key for /-/reload http endpoint. It must be passed as authKey=...
   -tls
-    	Whether to enable TLS (aka HTTPS) for incoming requests. -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set
+     Whether to enable TLS for incoming HTTP requests at -httpListenAddr (aka https). -tlsCertFile and -tlsKeyFile must be set if -tls is set
   -tlsCertFile string
-    	Path to file with TLS certificate. Used only if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs as RSA certs are slower
+     Path to file with TLS certificate if -tls is set. Prefer ECDSA certs instead of RSA certs as RSA certs are slower. The provided certificate file is automatically re-read every second, so it can be dynamically updated
+  -tlsCipherSuites array
+     Optional list of TLS cipher suites for incoming requests over HTTPS if -tls is set. See the list of supported cipher suites at https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/tls#pkg-constants
+     Supports an array of values separated by comma or specified via multiple flags.
   -tlsKeyFile string
-    	Path to file with TLS key. Used only if -tls is set
+     Path to file with TLS key if -tls is set. The provided key file is automatically re-read every second, so it can be dynamically updated
   -version
-    	Show VictoriaMetrics version
+     Show VictoriaMetrics version
 ```