diff --git a/src/main/jbake/content/blog/2017/06/26/opentracing-appmetrics.adoc b/src/main/jbake/content/blog/2017/06/26/opentracing-appmetrics.adoc
index 8fbc421e..bf9d2a09 100644
--- a/src/main/jbake/content/blog/2017/06/26/opentracing-appmetrics.adoc
+++ b/src/main/jbake/content/blog/2017/06/26/opentracing-appmetrics.adoc
@@ -173,6 +173,13 @@ minikube dashboard
 * Deploy Prometheus - using the https://github.com/coreos/prometheus-operator[Prometheus Operator] project to
 capture metrics from the services
 +
+[NOTE]
+================================================================================================================
+UPDATE (Nov 2017): Due to further improvements in the integration of Prometheus with Kubernetes, it is no longer necessary
+to deploy prometheus-operator, so the first step can be ignored. The most up-to-date instructions can be found
+https://github.com/objectiser/opentracing-prometheus-example[here].
+================================================================================================================
++
 ```
 kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/prometheus-operator/master/bundle.yaml
 
diff --git a/src/main/jbake/content/blog/2017/09/alerts-opentracing.adoc b/src/main/jbake/content/blog/2017/09/alerts-opentracing.adoc
index c872286a..eb482028 100644
--- a/src/main/jbake/content/blog/2017/09/alerts-opentracing.adoc
+++ b/src/main/jbake/content/blog/2017/09/alerts-opentracing.adoc
@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ minikube dashboard
 ```
 
 === DEPLOY PROMETHEUS
-
+[NOTE]
+================================================================================================================
+UPDATE (Nov 2017): Due to further improvements in the integration of Prometheus with Kubernetes, it is no longer necessary
+to deploy prometheus-operator, so the first step can be ignored.
+================================================================================================================
 ```
 kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/prometheus-operator/v0.11.0/bundle.yaml