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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Official documentation for DCGM-Exporter can be found on [docs.nvidia.com](https
 To gather metrics on a GPU node, simply start the `dcgm-exporter` container:
 
 ```shell
-docker run -d --gpus all --rm -p 9400:9400 nvcr.io/nvidia/k8s/dcgm-exporter:3.3.9-3.6.1-ubuntu22.04
+docker run -d --gpus all --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --rm -p 9400:9400 nvcr.io/nvidia/k8s/dcgm-exporter:3.3.9-3.6.1-ubuntu22.04
 curl localhost:9400/metrics
 # HELP DCGM_FI_DEV_SM_CLOCK SM clock frequency (in MHz).
 # TYPE DCGM_FI_DEV_SM_CLOCK gauge