diff --git a/app/vmalert/remotewrite/client.go b/app/vmalert/remotewrite/client.go
index 6c012a350..ac3dffa65 100644
--- a/app/vmalert/remotewrite/client.go
+++ b/app/vmalert/remotewrite/client.go
@@ -123,14 +123,12 @@ func (c *Client) Push(s prompbmarshal.TimeSeries) error {
 	case <-c.doneCh:
 		rwErrors.Inc()
 		droppedRows.Add(len(s.Samples))
-		droppedBytes.Add(s.Size())
 		return fmt.Errorf("client is closed")
 	case c.input <- s:
 		return nil
 	default:
 		rwErrors.Inc()
 		droppedRows.Add(len(s.Samples))
-		droppedBytes.Add(s.Size())
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to push timeseries - queue is full (%d entries). "+
 			"Queue size is controlled by -remoteWrite.maxQueueSize flag",
 			c.maxQueueSize)
@@ -195,7 +193,6 @@ var (
 	sentRows            = metrics.NewCounter(`vmalert_remotewrite_sent_rows_total`)
 	sentBytes           = metrics.NewCounter(`vmalert_remotewrite_sent_bytes_total`)
 	droppedRows         = metrics.NewCounter(`vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_rows_total`)
-	droppedBytes        = metrics.NewCounter(`vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_bytes_total`)
 	sendDuration        = metrics.NewFloatCounter(`vmalert_remotewrite_send_duration_seconds_total`)
 	bufferFlushDuration = metrics.NewHistogram(`vmalert_remotewrite_flush_duration_seconds`)
 
@@ -276,8 +273,11 @@ L:
 	}
 
 	rwErrors.Inc()
-	droppedRows.Add(len(wr.Timeseries))
-	droppedBytes.Add(len(b))
+	rows := 0
+	for _, ts := range wr.Timeseries {
+		rows += len(ts.Samples)
+	}
+	droppedRows.Add(rows)
 	logger.Errorf("attempts to send remote-write request failed - dropping %d time series",
 		len(wr.Timeseries))
 }
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 15bb378d3..aaa01c9d2 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Released at 2023-11-15
 * BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): do not send requests to configured remote systems when `-datasource.*`, `-remoteWrite.*`, `-remoteRead.*` or `-notifier.*` command-line flags refer files with invalid auth configs. Previously such requests were sent without properly set auth headers. Now the requests are sent only after the files are updated with valid auth configs. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5153).
 * BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): properly maintain alerts state in [replay mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#rules-backfilling) if alert's `for` param was bigger than replay request range (usually a couple of hours). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5186) for details.
 * BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): increment `vmalert_remotewrite_errors_total` metric if all retries to send remote-write request failed. Before, this metric was incremented only if remote-write client's buffer is overloaded.
-* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): increment `vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_rows_total` and `vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_bytes_total` metrics if remote-write client's buffer is overloaded. Before, these metrics were incremented only after unsuccessful HTTP calls.
+* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html): increment `vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_rows_total` metric if remote-write client's buffer is overloaded. Before, these metrics were incremented only after unsuccessful HTTP calls.
 * BUGFIX: `vmselect`: improve performance and memory usage during query processing on machines with big number of CPU cores. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5087).
 * BUGFIX: dashboards: fix vminsert/vmstorage/vmselect metrics filtering when dashboard is used to display data from many sub-clusters with unique job names. Before, only one specific job could have been accounted for component-specific panels, instead of all available jobs for the component.
 * BUGFIX: dashboards: respect `job` and `instance` filters for `alerts` annotation in cluster and single-node dashboards.