diff --git a/app/vmagent/main.go b/app/vmagent/main.go
index e7c9b92a8..48b145055 100644
--- a/app/vmagent/main.go
+++ b/app/vmagent/main.go
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ func requestHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 		influxQueryRequests.Inc()
 		influxutils.WriteDatabaseNames(w)
 		return true
-	case "/opentelemetry/api/v1/push":
+	case "/opentelemetry/api/v1/push", "/opentelemetry/v1/metrics":
 		opentelemetryPushRequests.Inc()
 		if err := opentelemetry.InsertHandler(nil, r); err != nil {
 			opentelemetryPushErrors.Inc()
diff --git a/app/vminsert/main.go b/app/vminsert/main.go
index a5d54553c..0779f675b 100644
--- a/app/vminsert/main.go
+++ b/app/vminsert/main.go
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ func RequestHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 		addInfluxResponseHeaders(w)
 		influxutils.WriteDatabaseNames(w)
 		return true
-	case "/opentelemetry/api/v1/push":
+	case "/opentelemetry/api/v1/push", "/opentelemetry/v1/metrics":
 		opentelemetryPushRequests.Inc()
 		if err := opentelemetry.InsertHandler(r); err != nil {
 			opentelemetryPushErrors.Inc()
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 671390f3f..e995d3d23 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ See also [LTS releases](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/LTS-releases.html).
 
 * BUGFIX: downgrade Go builder from `1.22.0` to `1.21.7`, since `1.22.0` contains [the bug](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/65705), which can lead to deadlocked HTTP connections to remote storage systems, scrape targets and service discovery endpoints at [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/). This may result in incorrect service discovery, target scraping and failed sending samples to remote storage.
 * BUGFIX: all VictoriaMetrics components: return back periodic closing of incoming connections to `-httpListenAddr` every 2 minutes, which was disabled in [v1.98.0](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.98.0) when addressing [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1304#issuecomment-1636997037). See [this comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1304#issuecomment-1961891450) for details on why the periodic closing of incoming connections has been returned back.
+* BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): accept OpenTelemetry data at `/opentelemetry/v1/metrics`, since the `/v1/metrics` suffix is hardcoded at [OpenTelemetry protocol specification](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/#otlphttp-request).
 * BUGFIX: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html): fix possible deadlock when [sharding among remote storages](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/#sharding-among-remote-storages) is enabled with `-remoteWrite.shardByURL` command-line flag. Thanks to @penguinlav for [the fix](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5834) for [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5833).
 * BUGFIX: fix the misleading error `0ms is out of allowed range [0 ...` when passing `step=0` to [/api/v1/query](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#instant-query)
   or [/api/v1/query_range](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyconcepts/#range-query). See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5795).