From 719aec406487c9eb7942ce8c6a12a046218e93e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Enck <enckse@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:03:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] clarify metric setup to use 'scrape_configs' section of yaml
 and use an array for target

---
 docs/metrics-howto.rst | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/metrics-howto.rst b/docs/metrics-howto.rst
index 7390ab85c..143cd0f42 100644
--- a/docs/metrics-howto.rst
+++ b/docs/metrics-howto.rst
@@ -21,13 +21,12 @@ How to monitor Synapse metrics using Prometheus
 
 3. Add a prometheus target for synapse.
 
-   It needs to set the ``metrics_path`` to a non-default value::
+   It needs to set the ``metrics_path`` to a non-default value (under ``scrape_configs``)::
 
     - job_name: "synapse"
       metrics_path: "/_synapse/metrics"
       static_configs:
-        - targets:
-            "my.server.here:9092"
+        - targets: ["my.server.here:9092"]
 
    If your prometheus is older than 1.5.2, you will need to replace 
    ``static_configs`` in the above with ``target_groups``.