> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/12621) in GitLab 9.4
GitLab has support for automatically detecting and monitoring HAProxy. This is provided by leveraging the [HAProxy Exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/haproxy_exporter), which translates HAProxy statistics into a Prometheus readable form.
## Configuring Prometheus to monitor for HAProxy metrics
To get started with NGINX monitoring, you should install and configure the [HAProxy exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/haproxy_exporter) which parses these statistics and translates them into a Prometheus monitoring endpoint.
## Specifying the Environment label
In order to isolate and only display relevant metrics for a given environment
however, GitLab needs a method to detect which labels are associated. To do this, GitLab will [look for an `environment` label](index.md#identifying-environments).