docs/admin/monitoring: document reference dashboard requires VM

As reported on IRC.
What exactly Prometheus takes offense with isn’t clear yet.
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You may use the eponymous [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/)
or anything compatible with it like e.g. [VictoriaMetrics](https://victoriametrics.com/).
The latter claims better performance and storage efficiency and
our reference Grafana dashboard is also better tested with VictoriaMetrics.
Should any issues with Prometheus proper pop up, patches to resolve it are very welcome.
The latter claims better performance and storage efficiency.
However, at the moment our reference dashboard only works with VictoriaMetrics,
thus if you wish to use use the reference as an easy dropin template you must
use VictoriaMetrics.
Patches to allow the dashboard to work with plain Prometheus are welcome though.
Both of them can usually be easily installed via distro-packages or docker.
Depending on your distro or installation method the preferred way to change the CLI arguments and the location of config files may differ; consult the documentation of your chosen method to find out.