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 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.
 Alternatively they can be self-scraped by setting `-selfScrapeInterval` command-line flag to duration greater than 0.
-For example, `-scrapeInterval=10s` would enable self-scraping of `/metrics` page with 10 seconds interval.
+For example, `-selfScrapeInterval=10s` would enable self-scraping of `/metrics` page with 10 seconds interval.
 
 There are officials Grafana dashboards for [single-node VictoriaMetrics](https://grafana.com/dashboards/10229) and [clustered VictoriaMetrics](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/11176).