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+How to monitor Synapse metrics using Prometheus
+===============================================
+
+1: Install prometheus:
+  Follow instructions at http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/install/
+
+2: Enable synapse metrics:
+  Simply setting a (local) port number will enable it. Pick a port.
+  prometheus itself defaults to 9090, so starting just above that for
+  locally monitored services seems reasonable. E.g. 9092:
+
+  Add to homeserver.yaml
+
+    metrics_port: 9092
+
+  Restart synapse
+
+3: Check out synapse-prometheus-config
+  https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-prometheus-config
+
+4: Add ``synapse.html`` and ``synapse.rules``
+  The ``.html`` file needs to appear in prometheus's ``consoles`` directory,
+  and the ``.rules`` file needs to be invoked somewhere in the main config
+  file. A symlink to each from the git checkout into the prometheus directory
+  might be easiest to ensure ``git pull`` keeps it updated.
+
+5: Add a prometheus target for synapse
+  This is easiest if prometheus runs on the same machine as synapse, as it can
+  then just use localhost::
+
+    global: {
+      rule_file: "synapse.rules"
+    }
+
+    job: {
+      name: "synapse"
+
+      target_group: {
+        target: "http://localhost:9092/"
+      }
+    }
+
+6: Start prometheus::
+
+   ./prometheus -config.file=prometheus.conf
+
+7: Wait a few seconds for it to start and perform the first scrape,
+   then visit the console:
+
+    http://server-where-prometheus-runs:9090/consoles/synapse.html