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 If you would like to change which targets should be monitored or make configuration changes edit the [/prom/prometheus.yml](https://github.com/vegasbrianc/prometheus/blob/version-2/prometheus/prometheus.yml) file. The targets section is where you define what should be monitored by Prometheus. The names defined in this file are actually sourced from the service name in the docker-compose file. If you wish to change names of the services you can add the "container_name" parameter in the `docker-compose.yml` file. 
 
 ## Configuration
-In order to pull GitHub stats consistently it is recommended you create a personal access token inside of GitHub. This token will allow you to query the GitHub API more frequently than a public user. [Create GitHub Token](https://github.com/settings/tokens). 
+In order to pull GitHub stats consistently it is recommended you create a personal access token inside of GitHub. This token will allow you to query the GitHub API more frequently than a public user. [Create GitHub Token](https://github.com/settings/tokens). It is only necessary to give the repo scope to the token permission.
 
 <img src="https://github.com/vegasbrianc/github-monitoring/blob/master/images/github_token.png" width="400" heighth="400">