diff --git a/app/vmalert/datasource/vm.go b/app/vmalert/datasource/vm.go
index f7a149c53a..defab53543 100644
--- a/app/vmalert/datasource/vm.go
+++ b/app/vmalert/datasource/vm.go
@@ -151,7 +151,9 @@ func (s *VMStorage) Query(ctx context.Context, query string) ([]Metric, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	defer func() {
+		_ = resp.Body.Close()
+	}()
 
 	parseFn := parsePrometheusResponse
 	if s.dataSourceType.name != prometheusType {
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index b1603ead8d..162ca7c719 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ sort: 15
 Thanks to @johnseekins!
 * FEATURE: improved new time series registration speed on systems with many CPU cores. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1244). Thanks to @waldoweng for the idea and [draft implementation](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/1243).
 * FEATURE: vmagent: list user-visible endpoints at `http://vmagent:8429/`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1251).
+* FEATURE: vmalert: use the same technique as Grafana for determining evaluation timestamps for recording rules. This should make consistent graphs for series generated by recording rules compared to graphs generated for queries from recording rules in Grafana. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1232).
 
 * BUGFIX: vmagent: properly update `role: endpoints` and `role: endpointslices` scrape targets if the underlying service changes in `kubernetes_sd_config`. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1240).
 * BUGFIX: vmagent: apply `scrape_timeout` on receiving the first response byte from `stream_parse: true` scrape targets. Previously it was applied to receiving and *processing* the full response stream. This could result in false timeout errors when scrape target exposes millions of metrics as described [here](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1017#issuecomment-767235047).