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 ### Monitoring
 
 VictoriaMetrics exports internal metrics in Prometheus format at `/metrics` page.
-These metrics may be collected either via Prometheus by adding the corresponding scrape config to it.
+These metrics may be collected via Prometheus by adding the corresponding scrape config to it.
 Alternatively they can be self-scraped by setting `-selfScrapeInterval` command-line flag to duration greater than 0.
 For example, `-selfScrapeInterval=10s` would enable self-scraping of `/metrics` page with 10 seconds interval.