From 7efb38d1dd058dcb9e7051aeaf2019520101576d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <github@rvanderhoff.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:55:48 +0000
Subject: Update metrics-howto.rst

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 docs/metrics-howto.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/metrics-howto.rst b/docs/metrics-howto.rst
index ca10799b00..56e69c1859 100644
--- a/docs/metrics-howto.rst
+++ b/docs/metrics-howto.rst
@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ How to monitor Synapse metrics using Prometheus
   prometheus itself defaults to 9090, so starting just above that for
   locally monitored services seems reasonable. E.g. 9092:
 
-  Add to homeserver.yaml
+  Add to homeserver.yaml::
 
     metrics_port: 9092
 
-  Restart synapse
+  Also ensure that ``enable_metrics`` is set to ``True``.
+  
+  Restart synapse.
 
 3: Add a prometheus target for synapse. It needs to set the ``metrics_path``
    to a non-default value::
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