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 }
 ```
 
+## Metrics
+
+The etcd client optionally exposes RPC metrics through [go-grpc-prometheus](https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-prometheus). See the [examples](https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/clientv3/example_metrics_test.go).
+
 ## Examples
 
 More code examples can be found at [GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/coreos/etcd/clientv3).