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## Unicorn Workers
-It's possible to increase the amount of unicorn workers and this will usually help for to reduce the response time of the applications and increase the ability to handle parallel requests.
+It's possible to increase the amount of unicorn workers and this will usually help to reduce the response time of the applications and increase the ability to handle parallel requests.
For most instances we recommend using: CPU cores + 1 = unicorn workers.
So for a machine with 2 cores, 3 unicorn workers is ideal.
@@ -148,8 +148,18 @@ Sidekiq processes the background jobs with a multithreaded process.
This process starts with the entire Rails stack (200MB+) but it can grow over time due to memory leaks.
On a very active server (10,000 active users) the Sidekiq process can use 1GB+ of memory.
+## Prometheus and its exporters
+
+As of Omnibus GitLab 9.0, [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io) and its related
+exporters are enabled by default, to enable easy and in depth monitoring of
+GitLab. Approximately 200MB of memory will be consumed by these processes, with
+default settings.
+
+If you would like to disable Prometheus and it's exporters or read more information
+about it, check the [Prometheus documentation](../administration/monitoring/prometheus/index.md).
+
## Supported web browsers
We support the current and the previous major release of Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, Safari and Microsoft browsers (Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11).
-Each time a new browser version is released, we begin supporting that version and stop supporting the third most recent version.
+Each time a new browser version is released, we begin supporting that version and stop supporting the third most recent version. \ No newline at end of file