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       refresh_interval: 10m
 ```
 
+To scrape the containers add following docker labels to them:
+
+* `PROMETHEUS_EXPORTER_PORT` specify the container port where prometheus scrapes (mandatory)
+* `PROMETHEUS_EXPORTER_SERVER_NAME` specify the hostname here, per default ip is used (optional)
+* `PROMETHEUS_EXPORTER_PATH` specify alternative scrape path here (optional)
+
 That's it.  You should begin seeing the program scraping the
 AWS APIs and writing the discovery file (by default it does
 that every minute, and by default Prometheus will reload the