diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/README.rst b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/README.rst
index 1adadfcb208d..6c4889fb3925 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/README.rst
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/README.rst
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ insights via dashboards, charts, and alerts.
 This package currently supports all Monitoring API operations other than
 writing custom metrics.
 
-.. _Stackdriver Monitoring: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/
 .. _Monitoring API docs: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rest/
 
 List available metric types:
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/nox.py b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/nox.py
index b9d48d7814dc..ad69f1c610b3 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/nox.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/nox.py
@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ def lint(session):
     session.run('flake8', 'google/cloud/monitoring')
 
 
+@nox.session
+def lint_setup_py(session):
+    """Verify that setup.py is valid (including RST check)."""
+    session.interpreter = 'python3.6'
+    session.install('docutils', 'Pygments')
+    session.run(
+        'python', 'setup.py', 'check', '--restructuredtext', '--strict')
+
+
 @nox.session
 def cover(session):
     """Run the final coverage report.