diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4a57537498ce1f14ecd04ed4fd7c6283f23f633a..1df7590fd02ce906c43b0e057724e08338e068c6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.0.2] - 2021-06-30
+### Fixed
+- dockermon textfile metrics documentation string now correctly prefixed with `# `
+
 ## [1.0.1] - 2021-06-30
 ### Changed
 - change default output metric directory (singular->plural)
diff --git a/src/metric-generators/dockermon.sh b/src/metric-generators/dockermon.sh
index fd99ad76e679a377f7bbace083d8b948c3787b9f..f8444e9cd420f7e4ab17de4c90f5749225bb9f94 100755
--- a/src/metric-generators/dockermon.sh
+++ b/src/metric-generators/dockermon.sh
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ for i_container in ${CONTAINERS}; do
   CONTAINER_RESTART_COUNTS+=("${i_container_restart_count}")
 done
 
-printf 'HELP %s Number of container restarts.\n' "${METRIC_NAME}"
-printf 'TYPE %s counter\n' "${METRIC_NAME}"
+printf '# HELP %s Number of container restarts.\n' "${METRIC_NAME}"
+printf '# TYPE %s counter\n' "${METRIC_NAME}"
 for ((indx=0; indx<${#CONTAINER_IDS[*]}; indx++)); do
   printf '%s{id="%s",name="%s"} %d\n' "${METRIC_NAME}" "${CONTAINER_IDS[${indx}]}" \
     "${CONTAINER_NAMES[${indx}]}" "${CONTAINER_RESTART_COUNTS[${indx}]}"