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@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ metrics:
     database: 0
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-You can see that this requires a local database to be running. The aggregator will store the metrics in Redis so that it can serve them up without delay.
+You can see that this requires a database to be running. The aggregator will store the metrics in Redis so that it can serve them up without delay.
 
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