It's a VM built-in feature at ingestion time. In case two independent Prometheus instances send the same metric within the same time interval, only the first on

It's a VM built-in feature at ingestion time. In case two independent Prometheus instances send the same metric within the same time interval, only the first one will be stored. https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetri...