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authorJoshua Lambert <joshua@gitlab.com>2017-03-20 11:17:57 -0400
committerJoshua Lambert <joshua@gitlab.com>2017-03-20 11:17:57 -0400
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Update docs to indicate prometheus k8s monitoring is on by default
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diff --git a/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/index.md b/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/index.md
index 69b16b7c483..558275ba244 100644
--- a/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/index.md
+++ b/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/index.md
@@ -96,21 +96,18 @@ Sample Prometheus queries:
> Introduced in GitLab 9.0.
-If your GitLab server is running within Kubernetes, an option is now available
-to monitor the health of each node in the cluster. This is particularly helpful
-if your CI/CD environments run in the same cluster, and you would like enable
-[Prometheus integration][] to monitor them.
+If your GitLab server is running within Kubernetes, Prometheus will collect metrics from each Node in the cluster including performance data on each container. This is particularly helpful if your CI/CD environments run in the same cluster, as you can use the [Prometheus project integration][] to monitor them.
When enabled, the bundled Prometheus server monitors Kubernetes and automatically
[collects metrics][prometheus-cadvisor-metrics] from each Node in the cluster.
-To enable the Kubernetes monitoring:
+To disable the monitoring of Kubernetes:
1. Edit `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`
-1. Add or find and uncomment the following line:
+1. Add or find and uncomment the following line and set it to `false`:
```ruby
- prometheus['monitor_kubernetes'] = true
+ prometheus['monitor_kubernetes'] = false
```
1. Save the file and [reconfigure GitLab][reconfigure] for the changes to
@@ -165,4 +162,4 @@ The GitLab monitor exporter allows you to measure various GitLab metrics.
[reconfigure]: ../../restart_gitlab.md#omnibus-gitlab-reconfigure
[1261]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/merge_requests/1261
[prometheus integration]: ../../../user/project/integrations/prometheus.md
-[rometheus-cadvisor-metrics]: https://github.com/google/cadvisor/blob/master/docs/storage/prometheus.md
+[prometheus-cadvisor-metrics]: https://github.com/google/cadvisor/blob/master/docs/storage/prometheus.md