diff --git a/hack/cluster-monitoring/deploy b/hack/cluster-monitoring/deploy
index 818db48c6bb66ee16fd7ff0200ca7cc0891a7d4f..a4f7c184403f2cd93569b3fd61443c15ecfaecde 100755
--- a/hack/cluster-monitoring/deploy
+++ b/hack/cluster-monitoring/deploy
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ if [ -z "${KUBECONFIG}" ]; then
     export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config
 fi
 
+# CAUTION - setting NAMESPACE will deploy most components to the given namespace
+# however some are hardcoded to 'monitoring'. Only use if you have reviewed all manifests.
+
 if [ -z "${NAMESPACE}" ]; then
     NAMESPACE=monitoring
 fi
diff --git a/hack/cluster-monitoring/teardown b/hack/cluster-monitoring/teardown
index ac4d222d005a83b284e1133d09ce779e69a494cc..b2c4c544bbdf19bb7047d720b45f20bd5e668f81 100755
--- a/hack/cluster-monitoring/teardown
+++ b/hack/cluster-monitoring/teardown
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ if [ -z "${KUBECONFIG}" ]; then
     export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config
 fi
 
+# CAUTION - NAMESPACE must match its value when deploy script was run.
+# Some resources are always deployed to the monitoring namespace. 
+
 if [ -z "${NAMESPACE}" ]; then
     NAMESPACE=monitoring
 fi