diff --git a/app/vmagent/opentsdbhttp/request_handler.go b/app/vmagent/opentsdbhttp/request_handler.go
index 7d2d409eb2..e49f0274f1 100644
--- a/app/vmagent/opentsdbhttp/request_handler.go
+++ b/app/vmagent/opentsdbhttp/request_handler.go
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 package opentsdbhttp
 
 import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmagent/common"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmagent/remotewrite"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/auth"
+	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/httpserver"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/prompbmarshal"
 	parserCommon "github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/protoparser/common"
 	parser "github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/protoparser/opentsdbhttp"
@@ -20,18 +25,28 @@ var (
 // InsertHandler processes HTTP OpenTSDB put requests.
 // See http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/api_http/put.html
 func InsertHandler(req *http.Request) error {
+	path := strings.Replace(req.URL.Path, "//", "/", -1)
+	p, err := httpserver.ParsePath(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		// Cannot parse multitenant path. Skip it - probably it will be parsed later.
+		return err
+	}
+	if p.Prefix != "insert" {
+		return errors.New(fmt.Sprintf(`unsupported multitenant prefix: %q; expected "insert"`, p.Prefix))
+	}
+	at, err := auth.NewToken(p.AuthToken)
 	extraLabels, err := parserCommon.GetExtraLabels(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	return writeconcurrencylimiter.Do(func() error {
 		return parser.ParseStream(req, func(rows []parser.Row) error {
-			return insertRows(rows, extraLabels)
+			return insertRows(at, rows, extraLabels)
 		})
 	})
 }
 
-func insertRows(rows []parser.Row, extraLabels []prompbmarshal.Label) error {
+func insertRows(at *auth.Token, rows []parser.Row, extraLabels []prompbmarshal.Label) error {
 	ctx := common.GetPushCtx()
 	defer common.PutPushCtx(ctx)
 
@@ -65,7 +80,7 @@ func insertRows(rows []parser.Row, extraLabels []prompbmarshal.Label) error {
 	ctx.WriteRequest.Timeseries = tssDst
 	ctx.Labels = labels
 	ctx.Samples = samples
-	remotewrite.Push(nil, &ctx.WriteRequest)
+	remotewrite.Push(at, &ctx.WriteRequest)
 	rowsInserted.Add(len(rows))
 	rowsPerInsert.Update(float64(len(rows)))
 	return nil