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 A VERY simple PHP, Prometheus & Grafana setup to get started with business metrics
 
+## Pre-Requisites
+
+You will need to install the composer packages, which are used by this example project.
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 ## Docker compose services
 
 Assuming you have installed `docker` and `docker-compose` on your machine, go to the root directory of this project and run
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 ### Grafana
 
-* The default configuration from the [grafana/grafana:latest](https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana) docker image is used.
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+* The default configuration from the [grafana/grafana:latest](https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana) docker image is used.