From b0b1e43f929953a5c318d80f6c7d2b215cc0cea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Nelson <daniel.nelson@influxdb.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:07:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Document how to exclude kubernetes annotation

---
 plugins/inputs/docker/README.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/inputs/docker/README.md b/plugins/inputs/docker/README.md
index b482ef3fb..158ed7bcc 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/docker/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/docker/README.md
@@ -57,6 +57,15 @@ to gather stats from the [Engine API](https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/v1.20/)
 When using the `"ENV"` endpoint, the connection is configured using the
 [cli Docker environment variables](https://godoc.org/github.com/moby/moby/client#NewEnvClient).
 
+#### Kubernetes Labels
+
+Kubernetes may add many labels to your containers, if they are not needed you
+may prefer to exclude them:
+```
+  docker_label_exclude = ["annotation.kubernetes*"]
+```
+
+
 ### Measurements & Fields:
 
 Every effort was made to preserve the names based on the JSON response from the