Update instructions for enabling native histograms#2533
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As native histograms are stable in Prometheus, the feature flag was deprecated and made a no-op in Prometheus 3.9.0. Update the documentation to cover newer Prometheus versions.
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| ## Use native histograms and exponential histograms | ||
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| For Prometheus, you enable [native histograms](https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/metric_types/#histogram) by [enabling the `native-histograms` feature in your Prometheus collector](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/#native-histograms). | ||
| For Prometheus, you enable [native histograms](https://prometheus.io/docs/specs/native_histograms/) with the `--enable-feature=native-histograms` feature flag (Prometheus <= 3.8.0) or with the `scrape_native_histograms` config setting (Prometheus >= 3.8.0). |
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As native histograms are stable in Prometheus, the feature flag was deprecated and made a no-op in Prometheus 3.9.0.
Update the documentation to cover newer Prometheus versions.