From 49c39ab388550cae1c7954a08da1b00a56430263 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 16:10:25 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] docs/FAQ.md: add `can I use VictoriaMetrics instead of
 Prometheus?`

The question has been extracted from https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1284
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 docs/FAQ.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/FAQ.md b/docs/FAQ.md
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@@ -238,3 +238,12 @@ Memory usage for VictoriaMetrics components can be tuned according to the follow
 * [Capacity planning for cluster VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#capacity-planning)
 * [Troubleshooting for vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#troubleshooting)
 * [Troubleshooting for single-node VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#troubleshooting)
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+
+### Can I use VictoriaMetrics instead of Prometheus?
+
+Yes in most cases. VictoriaMetrics can substitute Prometheus in the following aspects:
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+* Prometheus-compatible service discovery and target scraping can be done with [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html) and with single-node VictoriaMetrics - see [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-scrape-prometheus-exporters-such-as-node-exporter).
+* Prometheus-compatible alerting rules and recording rules can be processed with [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html).
+* Prometheus-compatible querying in Grafana is supported by VictoriaMetrics. See [these docs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#grafana-setup).