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 cAdvisor supports exporting stats to [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.com). See the [documentation](docs/influxdb.md) for more information and examples.
 
+cAdvisor also exposes container stats as [Prometheus](http://prometheus.io) metrics. See the [documentation](docs/prometheus.md) for more information.
+
 [Heapster](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/heapster) enables cluster wide monitoring of containers using cAdvisor.
 
 ## Web UI
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+# Monitoring cAdvisor with Prometheus
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+cAdvisor exposes container statistics as [Prometheus](http://prometheus.io) metrics out of the box. By default, these metrics are served under the `/metrics` HTTP endpoint. This endpoint may be customized by setting the `-prometheus_endpoint` command-line flag.
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+To monitor cAdvisor with Prometheus, simply configure one or more jobs in Prometheus which scrape the relevant cAdvisor processes at that metrics endpoint. For details, see Prometheus's [Configuration](http://prometheus.io/docs/operating/configuration/) documentation, as well as the [Getting started](http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/getting_started/) guide.