diff --git a/doc/development/instrumentation.md b/doc/development/instrumentation.md
index 105e2f1242aea0d0183833ea4824221d7c290c48..b8669964c84b74858fd6c285b47507ffa04d0a50 100644
--- a/doc/development/instrumentation.md
+++ b/doc/development/instrumentation.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ namespace you can use the `configure` class method. This method simply yields
 the supplied block while passing `Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation` as its
 argument. An example:
 
-```
+```ruby
 Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation.configure do |conf|
   conf.instrument_method(Foo, :bar)
   conf.instrument_method(Foo, :baz)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Method instrumentation should be added in the initializer
 
 Instrumenting a single method:
 
-```
+```ruby
 Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation.configure do |conf|
   conf.instrument_method(User, :find_by)
 end
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ end
 
 Instrumenting an entire class hierarchy:
 
-```
+```ruby
 Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation.configure do |conf|
   conf.instrument_class_hierarchy(ActiveRecord::Base)
 end
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ end
 
 Instrumenting all public class methods:
 
-```
+```ruby
 Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation.configure do |conf|
   conf.instrument_methods(User)
 end
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ end
 The easiest way to check if a method has been instrumented is to check its
 source location. For example:
 
-```
+```ruby
 method = Rugged::TagCollection.instance_method(:[])
 
 method.source_location