diff --git a/app/vmalert/README.md b/app/vmalert/README.md
index 9e481694bf..d7169df6cd 100644
--- a/app/vmalert/README.md
+++ b/app/vmalert/README.md
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ The shortlist of configuration flags is the following:
   -remoteRead.tlsServerName string
     	Optional TLS server name to use for connections to -remoteRead.url. By default the server name from -remoteRead.url is used
   -remoteRead.url vmalert
-    	Optional URL to VictoriaMetrics or vmselect that will be used to restore alerts state. This configuration makes sense only if vmalert was configured with `remoteWrite.url` before and has been successfully persisted its state. E.g. http://127.0.0.1:8428
+    	Optional URL to VictoriaMetrics or vmselect that will be used to restore alerts state. This configuration makes sense only if vmalert was configured with `remoteWrite.url` before and has been successfully persisted its state. E.g. http://127.0.0.1:8428. See also -remoteRead.disablePathAppend
   -remoteWrite.basicAuth.password string
     	Optional basic auth password for -remoteWrite.url
   -remoteWrite.basicAuth.passwordFile string
diff --git a/app/vmalert/remoteread/init.go b/app/vmalert/remoteread/init.go
index 12a9024723..427b5def20 100644
--- a/app/vmalert/remoteread/init.go
+++ b/app/vmalert/remoteread/init.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ var (
 		"By default system CA is used")
 	tlsServerName = flag.String("remoteRead.tlsServerName", "", "Optional TLS server name to use for connections to -remoteRead.url. "+
 		"By default the server name from -remoteRead.url is used")
-	disablePathAppend = flag.Bool("remoteRead.disablePathAppend", false, "Whether to disable automatic appending of '/api/v1' path to the configured -remoteRead.url.")
+	disablePathAppend = flag.Bool("remoteRead.disablePathAppend", false, "Whether to disable automatic appending of '/api/v1/query' path to the configured -remoteRead.url.")
 )
 
 // Init creates a Querier from provided flag values.
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index b9982efd9c..0059fca23d 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ sort: 15
 * FEATURE: vmagent: properly calculate `scrape_series_added` metric for targets in [stream parsing mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode). Previously it was set to 0 in stream parsing mode. See [more details about this metric](https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/jobs_instances/#automatically-generated-labels-and-time-series).
 * FEATURE: vmagent: expose `promscrape_series_limit_max_series` and `promscrape_series_limit_current_series` metrics at `http://vmagent:8429/metrics` for scrape targets with the [enabled series limiter](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#cardinality-limiter).
 * FEATURE: vmagent: return error if `sample_limit` or `series_limit` options are set when [stream parsing mode](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html#stream-parsing-mode) is enabled, since these limits cannot be applied in stream parsing mode.
+* FEATURE: vmalert: add `-remoteRead.disablePathAppend` command-line flag, which allows specifying the full `-remoteRead.url`. If `-remoteRead.disablePathAppend` is set, then `vmalert` doesn't add `/api/v1/query` suffix to `-remoteRead.url`.
 * FEATURE: add trigonometric functions, which are going to be added in [Prometheus 2.31](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/9239): [acosh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#acosh), [asinh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#asinh), [atan](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#atan), [atanh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#atanh), [cosh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#cosh), [deg](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#deg), [rad](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#rad), [sinh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#sinh), [tan](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#tan), [tanh](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#tanh). Also add `atan2` binary operator. See [this pull request](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/9248).
 * FEATURE: consistently return the same set of time series from [limitk](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/MetricsQL.html#limitk) function. This improves the usability of periodically refreshed graphs.
 
diff --git a/docs/vmalert.md b/docs/vmalert.md
index d630b557de..425e48ffc8 100644
--- a/docs/vmalert.md
+++ b/docs/vmalert.md
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ The shortlist of configuration flags is the following:
   -remoteRead.tlsServerName string
     	Optional TLS server name to use for connections to -remoteRead.url. By default the server name from -remoteRead.url is used
   -remoteRead.url vmalert
-    	Optional URL to VictoriaMetrics or vmselect that will be used to restore alerts state. This configuration makes sense only if vmalert was configured with `remoteWrite.url` before and has been successfully persisted its state. E.g. http://127.0.0.1:8428
+    	Optional URL to VictoriaMetrics or vmselect that will be used to restore alerts state. This configuration makes sense only if vmalert was configured with `remoteWrite.url` before and has been successfully persisted its state. E.g. http://127.0.0.1:8428. See also -remoteRead.disablePathAppend
   -remoteWrite.basicAuth.password string
     	Optional basic auth password for -remoteWrite.url
   -remoteWrite.basicAuth.passwordFile string