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 [FaaS blog post](http://blog.alexellis.io/functions-as-a-service/)
 
+#### Setup a Prometheus instance
+
+Please review the following quickstart example and edit the configuration in `monitor/prometheus.yml`.
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+* [Quickstart-Prometheus](https://github.com/alexellis/quickstart-prometheus)
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 # Overview
 
 ## the gateway