diff --git a/app/views/admin/application_settings/_form.html.haml b/app/views/admin/application_settings/_form.html.haml
index 0d79ca7dc52..c4c68cd7891 100644
--- a/app/views/admin/application_settings/_form.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/admin/application_settings/_form.html.haml
@@ -221,7 +221,11 @@
   %fieldset
     %legend Metrics
     %p
-      These settings require a restart to take effect.
+      Setup InfluxDB to measure a wide variety of statistics like the time spent
+      in running SQL queries. These settings require a
+      = link_to 'restart', help_page_path('administration/restart_gitlab')
+      to take effect.
+      = link_to icon('question-circle'), help_page_path('administration/monitoring/performance/introduction')
     .form-group
       .col-sm-offset-2.col-sm-10
         .checkbox