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diff --git a/doc/administration/monitoring/gitlab_self_monitoring_project/index.md b/doc/administration/monitoring/gitlab_self_monitoring_project/index.md index 884bb44cfda..091da46f316 100644 --- a/doc/administration/monitoring/gitlab_self_monitoring_project/index.md +++ b/doc/administration/monitoring/gitlab_self_monitoring_project/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ All administrators at the time of creation of the project and group will be adde as maintainers of the group and project, and as an admin, you'll be able to add new members to the group in order to give them maintainer access to the project. -This project will be used for self monitoring your GitLab instance. +This project is used to self monitor your GitLab instance. Metrics are not yet +fully integrated, and the dashboard does not aggregate any data on Omnibus installations. GitLab plans +to provide integrated self-monitoring metrics in a future release. You can +currently use the project to configure your own [custom metrics](../../../user/project/integrations/prometheus.md#adding-custom-metrics) using +metrics exposed by the [GitLab exporter](../prometheus/gitlab_metrics.md#metrics-available). ## Creating the self monitoring project @@ -42,7 +46,7 @@ The project will be automatically configured to connect to the instance is present (should be the case if GitLab was installed via Omnibus and you haven't disabled it). -If that's not the case or if you have an external Prometheus instance or an HA setup, +If that's not the case or if you have an external Prometheus instance or a customized setup, you should [configure it manually](../../../user/project/integrations/prometheus.md#manual-configuration-of-prometheus). @@ -70,7 +74,7 @@ project creation to fail with the following error (which appears in the log file when the first admin user is an [external user](../../../user/permissions.md#external-users-core-only): -```text +```plaintext Could not create instance administrators group. Errors: ["You don’t have permission to create groups."] ``` |