diff --git a/app/vmctl/flags.go b/app/vmctl/flags.go
index 0f7b89152..348d983b8 100644
--- a/app/vmctl/flags.go
+++ b/app/vmctl/flags.go
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ const (
 	influxFilterTimeEnd             = "influx-filter-time-end"
 	influxMeasurementFieldSeparator = "influx-measurement-field-separator"
 	influxSkipDatabaseLabel         = "influx-skip-database-label"
+	influxPrometheusMode            = "influx-prometheus-mode"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -264,6 +265,11 @@ var (
 			Usage: "Wether to skip adding the label 'db' to timeseries.",
 			Value: false,
 		},
+		&cli.BoolFlag{
+			Name:  influxPrometheusMode,
+			Usage: "Wether to restore the original timeseries name previously written from Prometheus to InfluxDB v1 via remote_write.",
+			Value: false,
+		},
 	}
 )
 
diff --git a/app/vmctl/influx.go b/app/vmctl/influx.go
index b05b2a48a..ee2462c5e 100644
--- a/app/vmctl/influx.go
+++ b/app/vmctl/influx.go
@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@ type influxProcessor struct {
 	cc          int
 	separator   string
 	skipDbLabel bool
+	promMode    bool
 }
 
-func newInfluxProcessor(ic *influx.Client, im *vm.Importer, cc int, separator string, skipDbLabel bool) *influxProcessor {
+func newInfluxProcessor(ic *influx.Client, im *vm.Importer, cc int, separator string, skipDbLabel bool, promMode bool) *influxProcessor {
 	if cc < 1 {
 		cc = 1
 	}
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ func newInfluxProcessor(ic *influx.Client, im *vm.Importer, cc int, separator st
 		cc:          cc,
 		separator:   separator,
 		skipDbLabel: skipDbLabel,
+		promMode:    promMode,
 	}
 }
 
@@ -101,6 +103,8 @@ func (ip *influxProcessor) run(silent, verbose bool) error {
 }
 
 const dbLabel = "db"
+const nameLabel = "__name__"
+const valueField = "value"
 
 func (ip *influxProcessor) do(s *influx.Series) error {
 	cr, err := ip.ic.FetchDataPoints(s)
@@ -122,6 +126,8 @@ func (ip *influxProcessor) do(s *influx.Series) error {
 	for i, lp := range s.LabelPairs {
 		if lp.Name == dbLabel {
 			containsDBLabel = true
+		} else if lp.Name == nameLabel && s.Field == valueField && ip.promMode {
+			name = lp.Value
 		}
 		labels[i] = vm.LabelPair{
 			Name:  lp.Name,
diff --git a/app/vmctl/main.go b/app/vmctl/main.go
index 26d7ad3b3..3c37fdd24 100644
--- a/app/vmctl/main.go
+++ b/app/vmctl/main.go
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ func main() {
 						importer,
 						c.Int(influxConcurrency),
 						c.String(influxMeasurementFieldSeparator),
-						c.Bool(influxSkipDatabaseLabel))
+						c.Bool(influxSkipDatabaseLabel),
+						c.Bool(influxPrometheusMode))
 					return processor.run(c.Bool(globalSilent), c.Bool(globalVerbose))
 				},
 			},