diff --git a/docs/sources/installation/configuration.md b/docs/sources/installation/configuration.md index 16dcc21ca3d..0aa0a69258f 100644 --- a/docs/sources/installation/configuration.md +++ b/docs/sources/installation/configuration.md @@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ export GF_AUTH_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=newS3cretKey ## instance_name -Set the name of the grafana-server instance. Used in logging and internal metrics and in -clustering info. Defaults to: `${HOSTNAME}`, which will be replaced with +Set the name of the grafana-server instance. Used in logging, internal metrics, and clustering info. Defaults to: `${HOSTNAME}`, which will be replaced with environment variable `HOSTNAME`, if that is empty or does not exist Grafana will try to use system calls to get the machine name.