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@@ -26,3 +26,9 @@ MetricsAPI is an extremely lightweight API built with Flask that I created to mo
 - Network up/down
 
 ## Installation
+### Dependencies
+To run MetricsAPI you will need to install Flask.
+
+MetricsAPI gets its data from shell commands. You will need to install the following with you package manager:
+`sysstat
+sensors`