diff --git a/source/_integrations/rest.markdown b/source/_integrations/rest.markdown
index d2002050fc3..c776fc8fc7f 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/rest.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/rest.markdown
@@ -162,6 +162,11 @@ scan_interval:
   required: false
   type: integer
   default: 30
+encoding:
+  description: The character encoding to use if none provided in the header of the shared data.
+  required: false
+  type: string
+  default: UTF-8
 sensor:
   description: A list of sensors to create from the shared data. All configuration settings that are supported by [RESTful Sensor](/integrations/sensor.rest#configuration-variables) not listed above can be used here.
   required: false
diff --git a/source/_integrations/scrape.markdown b/source/_integrations/scrape.markdown
index 53834dd6ce7..e9569d0d073 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/scrape.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/scrape.markdown
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ scan_interval:
   required: false
   type: integer
   default: 600
+encoding:
+  description: The character encoding to use if none provided in the header of the shared data.
+  required: false
+  type: string
+  default: UTF-8
 sensor:
   description: A list of sensors to create from the shared data. All configuration settings that are supported by [RESTful Sensor](/integrations/sensor.rest#configuration-variables) not listed above can be used here.
   required: true