diff --git a/app/vmselect/main.go b/app/vmselect/main.go
index c2563f489..7ced1af79 100644
--- a/app/vmselect/main.go
+++ b/app/vmselect/main.go
@@ -381,13 +381,7 @@ func RequestHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 			return true
 		}
 		return true
-	case "/api/v1/rules":
-		// Return dumb placeholder for https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#rules
-		rulesRequests.Inc()
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
-		fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s", `{"status":"success","data":{"groups":[]}}`)
-		return true
-	case "prometheus/rules":
+	case "/api/v1/rules", "/rules":
 		// Return dumb placeholder for https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#rules
 		rulesRequests.Inc()
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index d909970f8..f1dec890e 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ sort: 15
 * FEATURE: add `-search.maxSamplesPerSeries` command-line flag for limiting the number of raw samples a single query can process per each time series. This option can protect from out of memory errors when a query processes tens of millions of raw samples per series. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1067).
 * FEATURE: add `-search.maxSamplesPerQuery` command-line flag for limiting the number of raw samples a single query can process across all the time series. This option can protect from heavy queries, which select too big number of raw samples. Thanks to @jiangxinlingdu for [the initial pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1478).
 
-* BUGFIX: vmbackup: automatically set default `us-east1` S3 region if it is missing. This should simplify using S3-compatible services such as MinIO for backups. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1449).
+* BUGFIX: vmselect: return dummy response at `/rules` page in the same way as for `/api/v1/rules` page. The `/rules` page is requested by Grafana 8. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1493) for details.
+* BUGFIX: vmbackup: automatically set default `us-east-1` S3 region if it is missing. This should simplify using S3-compatible services such as MinIO for backups. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1449).
 * BUGFIX: vmselect: prevent from possible deadlock when multiple `target` query args are passed to [Graphite Render API](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-render-api-usage).
 * BUGFIX: return series with `a op b` labels and `N` values for `(a op b) default N` if `(a op b)` returns series with all NaN values. Previously such series were removed.