diff --git a/deployment/docker/README.md b/deployment/docker/README.md
index ef9318f98..cd012c09a 100644
--- a/deployment/docker/README.md
+++ b/deployment/docker/README.md
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ The list of alerting rules is the following:
   alerting rules related to [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert/) component;
 * [alerts-vmauth.yml](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/deployment/docker/alerts-vmauth.yml):
   alerting rules related to [vmauth](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmauth/) component;
+* [alerts-vlogs.yml](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/deployment/docker/alerts-vlogs.yml):
+    alerting rules related to [VictoriaLogs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/);
 
 Please, also see [how to monitor](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/single-server-victoriametrics/#monitoring) 
 VictoriaMetrics installations.
diff --git a/deployment/docker/alerts-vlogs.yml b/deployment/docker/alerts-vlogs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44c8032c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deployment/docker/alerts-vlogs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# File contains default list of alerts for VictoriaLogs single server.
+# The alerts below are just recommendations and may require some updates
+# and threshold calibration according to every specific setup.
+groups:
+  - name: vlogs
+    interval: 30s
+    concurrency: 2
+    rules:
+      - alert: DiskRunsOutOfSpace
+        expr: |
+          sum(vl_data_size_bytes) by(job, instance) /
+          (
+           sum(vl_free_disk_space_bytes) by(job, instance) +
+           sum(vl_data_size_bytes) by(job, instance)
+          ) > 0.8
+        for: 30m
+        labels:
+          severity: critical
+        annotations:
+          summary: "Instance {{ $labels.instance }} (job={{ $labels.job }}) will run out of disk space soon"
+          description: "Disk utilisation on instance {{ $labels.instance }} is more than 80%.\n
+            Having less than 20% of free disk space could cripple merge processes and overall performance.
+            Consider to limit the ingestion rate, decrease retention or scale the disk space if possible."
+
+      - alert: RequestErrorsToAPI
+        expr: increase(vl_http_errors_total[5m]) > 0
+        for: 15m
+        labels:
+          severity: warning
+        annotations:
+          summary: "Too many errors served for path {{ $labels.path }} (instance {{ $labels.instance }})"
+          description: "Requests to path {{ $labels.path }} are receiving errors.
+            Please verify if clients are sending correct requests."
+
+      - alert: RowsRejectedOnIngestion
+        expr: rate(vl_rows_dropped_total[5m]) > 0
+        for: 15m
+        labels:
+          severity: warning
+        annotations:
+          summary: "Some rows are rejected on \"{{ $labels.instance }}\" on ingestion attempt"
+          description: "VictoriaLogs is rejecting to ingest rows on \"{{ $labels.instance }}\" due to the
+            following reason: \"{{ $labels.reason }}\""
diff --git a/deployment/docker/docker-compose-victorialogs.yml b/deployment/docker/docker-compose-victorialogs.yml
index 591cd7f11..9f3192f0f 100644
--- a/deployment/docker/docker-compose-victorialogs.yml
+++ b/deployment/docker/docker-compose-victorialogs.yml
@@ -69,6 +69,48 @@ services:
       - vm_net
     restart: always
 
+  # vmalert executes alerting and recording rules
+  vmalert:
+    container_name: vmalert
+    image: victoriametrics/vmalert:v1.104.0
+    depends_on:
+      - "victoriametrics"
+      - "alertmanager"
+    ports:
+      - 8880:8880
+    volumes:
+      - ./alerts.yml:/etc/alerts/alerts.yml
+      - ./alerts-health.yml:/etc/alerts/alerts-health.yml
+      - ./alerts-vlogs.yml:/etc/alerts/alerts-vlogs.yml
+      - ./alerts-vmalert.yml:/etc/alerts/alerts-vmalert.yml
+    command:
+      - "--datasource.url=http://victoriametrics:8428/"
+      - "--remoteRead.url=http://victoriametrics:8428/"
+      - "--remoteWrite.url=http://victoriametrics:8428/"
+      - "--notifier.url=http://alertmanager:9093/"
+      - "--rule=/etc/alerts/*.yml"
+      # display source of alerts in grafana
+      - "--external.url=http://127.0.0.1:3000" #grafana outside container
+      - '--external.alert.source=explore?orgId=1&left={"datasource":"VictoriaMetrics","queries":[{"expr":{{.Expr|jsonEscape|queryEscape}},"refId":"A"}],"range":{"from":"{{ .ActiveAt.UnixMilli }}","to":"now"}}'
+    networks:
+      - vm_net
+    restart: always
+
+  # alertmanager receives alerting notifications from vmalert
+  # and distributes them according to --config.file.
+  alertmanager:
+    container_name: alertmanager
+    image: prom/alertmanager:v0.27.0
+    volumes:
+      - ./alertmanager.yml:/config/alertmanager.yml
+    command:
+      - "--config.file=/config/alertmanager.yml"
+    ports:
+      - 9093:9093
+    networks:
+      - vm_net
+    restart: always
+
 volumes:
   vmdata: {}
   vldata: {}
diff --git a/deployment/docker/prometheus-victorialogs.yml b/deployment/docker/prometheus-victorialogs.yml
index 0bbcafe8d..7a20550d5 100644
--- a/deployment/docker/prometheus-victorialogs.yml
+++ b/deployment/docker/prometheus-victorialogs.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ scrape_configs:
   - job_name: 'victoriametrics'
     static_configs:
       - targets: ['victoriametrics:8428']
+  - job_name: 'vmalert'
+    static_configs:
+      - targets: [ 'vmalert:8880' ]
   - job_name: 'victorialogs'
     static_configs:
       - targets: ['victorialogs:9428']
diff --git a/docs/VictoriaLogs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/VictoriaLogs/CHANGELOG.md
index 8d65d811a..a16a6056b 100644
--- a/docs/VictoriaLogs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/VictoriaLogs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ according to [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/quicksta
 
 ## tip
 
+* FEATURE: add basic [alerting rules](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/deployment/docker/alerts-vlogs.yml) for VictoriaLogs process. See details at [monitoring docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/index.html#monitoring).
+
 ## [v0.36.0](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v0.36.0-victorialogs)
 
 Released at 2024-10-16
diff --git a/docs/VictoriaLogs/README.md b/docs/VictoriaLogs/README.md
index e2bc665e8..79975ceb4 100644
--- a/docs/VictoriaLogs/README.md
+++ b/docs/VictoriaLogs/README.md
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ It is recommended to set up monitoring of these metrics via VictoriaMetrics
 (see [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-scrape-prometheus-exporters-such-as-node-exporter)),
 vmagent (see [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/#how-to-collect-metrics-in-prometheus-format)) or via Prometheus.
 
+We recommend setting up [alerts](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/deployment/docker/alerts-vlogs.yml)
+via [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert/) or via Prometheus.
+
 VictoriaLogs emits its own logs to stdout. It is recommended to investigate these logs during troubleshooting.
 
 ## Upgrading