From 7a5e5f6a89b791f84ed2a4bb49f12f6d4e1bc0fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:53:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add info about using stream aggregation as statsd alternative
 (#4600) (#4621)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
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 docs/stream-aggregation.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/stream-aggregation.md b/docs/stream-aggregation.md
index b277f1003..3a83206cb 100644
--- a/docs/stream-aggregation.md
+++ b/docs/stream-aggregation.md
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ Stream aggregation can be used as [statsd](https://github.com/statsd/statsd) alt
 * [Quantiles over input metrics](#quantiles-over-input-metrics)
 * [Histograms over input metrics](#histograms-over-input-metrics)
 
+Currently, streamin aggregation is available only for [supported data ingestion protocols](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-import-time-series-data)
+and not available for [Statsd metrics format](https://github.com/statsd/statsd/blob/master/docs/metric_types.md).
+
 ### Recording rules alternative
 
 Sometimes [alerting queries](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#alerting-rules) may require non-trivial amounts of CPU, RAM,