From: Baptiste Mille-Mathias <baptiste.millemathias@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 22:32:18 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: add a link to guide "multi-target exporter pattern" (#878)
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add a link to guide "multi-target exporter pattern" (#878)

it helps getting the grasp of the purpose of the relabel_config.

Signed-off-by: Baptiste Mille-Mathias <baptiste.millemathias@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 36008ae..b70d505 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ This can be further limited by the `timeout` in the Blackbox exporter config fil
 
 ## Prometheus Configuration
 
+Blackbox exporter implements the multi-target exporter pattern, so we advice
+to read the guide [Understanding and using the multi-target exporter pattern
+](https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/multi-target-exporter/) to get the general
+idea about the configuration.
+
 The blackbox exporter needs to be passed the target as a parameter, this can be
 done with relabelling.