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 ## Notes
 
+### ingress-nginx servicemonitor
+
+For unknown reasons the servicemonitor is not create on helm install and therefore no metrics will be scraped by prometheus.
+Use `helm upgrade -n ingress-nginx ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx` to force an update of t the release.
+
 ### Linode
 
 PROXY protocol needs to be enabled for ingress-nginx to see the clients IP in ingress log.