diff --git a/ansible/roles/monasca/defaults/main.yml b/ansible/roles/monasca/defaults/main.yml
index 1ed3eb343a..5eac1a4e95 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/monasca/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/monasca/defaults/main.yml
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ monasca_metric_pipeline_threads: 2
 ####################
 # Docker
 ####################
+
+# NOTE(dszumski): Binary support for Monasca images is not yet available in Kolla
 monasca_install_type: "{{ kolla_install_type }}"
 monasca_tag: "{{ openstack_release }}"
 
diff --git a/doc/source/reference/index.rst b/doc/source/reference/index.rst
index 7427439c8f..61da4607b0 100644
--- a/doc/source/reference/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/reference/index.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Projects Deployment References
    ironic-guide
    manila-guide
    manila-hnas-guide
+   monasca-guide
    nova-fake-driver
    swift-guide
    bifrost
diff --git a/doc/source/reference/monasca-guide.rst b/doc/source/reference/monasca-guide.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..864ce1ae6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/reference/monasca-guide.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+.. _monasca-guide:
+
+================
+Monasca in Kolla
+================
+
+Overview
+~~~~~~~~
+
+Monasca provides monitoring and logging as-a-service for OpenStack. It
+consists of a large number of micro-services coupled together by Apache
+Kafka. If it is enabled in Kolla, it is automatically configured to collect
+logs and metrics from across the control plane. These logs and metrics
+are accessible from the Monasca APIs to anyone with credentials for
+the OpenStack project to which they are posted.
+
+Monasca is not just for the control plane. Monitoring data can just as
+easily be gathered from tenant deployments, by for example baking the
+Monasca Agent into the tenant image, or installing it post-deployment
+using an orchestration tool.
+
+Finally, one of the key tenets of Monasca is that it is scalable. In Kolla
+Ansible, the deployment has been designed from the beginning to work in a
+highly available configuration across multiple nodes. Traffic is typically
+balanced across multiple instances of a service by HAProxy, or in other
+cases using the native load balancing mechanism provided by the service.
+For example, topic partitions in Kafka. Of course, if you start out with
+a single server that's fine too, and if you find that you need to improve
+capacity later on down the line, adding additional nodes should be a
+fairly straightforward exercise.
+
+Pre-deployment Configuration
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Enable Monasca in ``/etc/kolla/globals.yml``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   enable_monasca: "yes"
+
+Currently Monasca is only supported using the ``source`` install type Kolla
+images. If you are using the ``binary`` install type you should set the
+following override in ``/etc/kolla/globals.yml``:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   monasca_install_type: "source"
+
+Until the Monasca Kafka client is upgraded it is currently required
+to run Kafka in compatibility mode. This can be achieved by adding some
+custom Kafka configuration:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   echo "log.message.format.version=0.9.0.0" >> /etc/kolla/config/kafka.server.properties
+
+Finally it should be noted that support for Kibana and Grafana integration has
+not yet been enabled. This will be added in the future.
+
+Building images
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To build any custom images required by Monasca see the instructions in the
+Kolla repo: `kolla/doc/source/admin/template-override/monasca.rst`. The
+remaining images may be pulled from Docker Hub, but if you need to build
+them manually you can use the following commands:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   $ kolla-build -t source monasca
+   $ kolla-build kafka zookeeper storm elasticsearch logstash kibana grafana
+
+If you want to deploy Monasca standalone you will also need the following
+images:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   $ kolla-build cron fluentd mariadb kolla-toolbox keystone memcached keepalived haproxy
+
+Note that deploying Monasca standalone isn't fully supported yet, and it's
+likely that you'll want to integrate with an external Keystone deployment
+for tight integration with your OpenStack deployment,
+
+Deployment
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Run the deploy as usual:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   $ kolla-ansible deploy
+
+System requirements and performance impact
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Monasca will deploy the following Docker containers:
+
+* Apache Kafka
+* Apache Storm
+* Apache Zookeeper
+* Elasticsearch
+* Grafana
+* InfluxDB
+* Kibana
+* Monasca Agent Collector
+* Monasca Agent Forwarder
+* Monasca Agent Statsd
+* Monasca API
+* Monasca Log API
+* Monasca Log Transformer (Logstash)
+* Monasca Log Metrics (Logstash)
+* Monasca Log Perister (Logstash)
+* Monasca Notification
+* Monasca Persister
+* Monasca Thresh (Apache Storm topology)
+
+In addition to these, Monasca will also utilise Kolla deployed MariaDB,
+Keystone, Memcached and HAProxy/Keepalived. The Monasca Agent containers
+will, by default, be deployed on all nodes managed by Kolla Ansible. This
+includes all nodes in the control plane as well as compute, storage and
+monitoring nodes.
+
+Whilst these services will run on an all-in-one deployment, in a production
+environment it is recommended to use at least one dedicated monitoring node
+to avoid the risk of starving core OpenStack services of resources. As a
+general rule of thumb, for a standalone monitoring server running Monasca
+in a production environment, you will need at least 32GB RAM and a recent
+multi-core CPU. You will also need enough space to store metrics and logs,
+and to buffer these in Kafka. Whilst Kafka is happy with spinning disks,
+you will likely want to use SSDs to back InfluxDB and Elasticsearch.
+
+Security Impact
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Monasca API and the Monasca Log API will be exposed on public endpoints
+via HAProxy/Keepalived.
+
+If you are using the multi-tenant capabilities of Monasca there is a risk
+that tenants could gain access to other tenants logs and metrics. This could
+include logs and metrics for the control plane which could reveal sensitive
+information about the size and nature of the deployment.
+
+A full evaluation of attack vectors is outside the scope of this document.
+
+Assignee
+~~~~~~~~
+
+Monasca support in Kolla was contributed by StackHPC Ltd. and the Kolla
+community. If you have any issues with the deployment please ask in the
+Kolla IRC channel.