From c2f79ab2ad216f25f07d232bc691a9b3bc11b981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Lambert Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:01:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update Prometheus documentation to indicate on by default --- doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md b/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md index 6ea0ac0d495..08cd23682d1 100644 --- a/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md +++ b/doc/administration/monitoring/prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md @@ -17,10 +17,7 @@ GitLab monitors its own internal service metrics, and makes them available at th `/-/metrics` endpoint. Unlike other [Prometheus] exporters, in order to access it, the client IP needs to be [included in a whitelist][whitelist]. -Currently the embedded Prometheus server is not automatically configured to -collect metrics from this endpoint. We recommend setting up another Prometheus -server, because the embedded server configuration is overwritten once every -[reconfigure of GitLab][reconfigure]. In the future this will not be required. +For Omnibus and Chart installations, these metrics are automatically enabled and collected as of [GitLab 9.4](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/merge_requests/1702). For source installations or earlier verisons, these metrics will need to be enabled manually and collected by a Prometheus server. ## Unicorn Metrics available