diff --git a/modules/monitoring-accessing-the-metrics-of-your-service.adoc b/modules/monitoring-accessing-the-metrics-of-your-service.adoc
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@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 
 Once you have enabled monitoring your own services, deployed a service, and set up metrics collection for it, you can access the metrics of the service as a cluster administrator, as a developer, or as a user with view permissions for the project.
 
+[NOTE]
+====
+The Grafana instance shipped within {product-title} Monitoring is read-only and displays only infrastructure-related dashboards.
+====
+
 .Prerequisites
 
 * You need to deploy the service that you want to monitor.