# How to extend victoriametrics-promscrape.yaml
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383
**Category:** PMM 2.x
**Created:** [June 30, 2022, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383 "2022-06-30T08:47:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Fan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Fan)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2022, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383/1 "2022-06-30T08:47:12Z")
I remember when PMM use prometheus, I could customize some configuration by creating the file /srv/prometheus/prometheus.base.yml
> [FAQ - Percona Monitoring and Management](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/faq.html#how-do-i-use-a-custom-prometheus-configuration-file)
Now that we are using victoriametics, is it still possible to do this?
Because I want to add some monitoring, such as orchestrator. like
> I merged this [PR](https://github.com/openark/orchestrator/pull/1414) in my own branch
```auto
- job_name: 'orchestrator'
metrics_path: /prometheus/metrics
static_configs:
- targets: ['orc1:3000', 'orc3:3000', 'orc3:3000']
```
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### Author:  [@nurlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/nurlan)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2022, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383/2 "2022-07-04T08:28:51Z")
Hi @Fan,
Yes it should keep working the same way it was working with Prometheus.
Nurlan.
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### Author:  [@Fan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Fan)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383/3 "2022-07-05T03:18:26Z")
Hi @nurlan.
Has this problem been fixed?
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### Author:  [@osysee](https://forums.percona.com/u/osysee)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383/4 "2022-07-08T08:48:33Z")
Hi, @nurlan
Can you explain in detail how to use it?
The file was created in the following path, but it does not work.
/srv/victoriametrics/victoriametrics\_promscape.base.yml
/srv/prometheus/prometheus.base.yml
/srv/victoriametrics/prometheus.base.yml
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### Author:  [@Ali](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ali)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383/5 "2022-07-18T08:05:40Z")
so if this file prometheus.base.yml is not available should I create it? or is there a specific file that should be configured to add other targets to my PMM dashboard I tried looking for /etc/victoriametrics.yml but its says not to edit anything in it.
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### Author:  [@nurlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/nurlan)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383/6 "2022-07-28T14:50:29Z")
Hi @Ali, @osysee ,
Yes, you should create a file `/srv/prometheus/prometheus.base.yml` and then restart PMM.
Then you can check generated file in `/etc/victoriametrics.yml` to make sure that base file is included.
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### Author:  [@Fan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Fan)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383/7 "2022-07-29T01:39:11Z")
Hi @nurlan.
In this topic [Victoriametrics cpu usage looks much higher than prometheus - #9 by Fan](https://forums.percona.com/t/victoriametrics-cpu-usage-looks-much-higher-than-prometheus/12042/9)
Has this problem been fixed?
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### Author:  [@mocart](https://forums.percona.com/u/mocart)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-extend-victoriametrics-promscrape-yaml/16383/8 "2024-11-28T11:38:29Z")
Hi! We are still have problems with sending metrics to another prometheus from PMM (