diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 891d78f5a..5e37f5a31 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 .git
+.venv
 autotest
 build
 dist
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index a422d3ffb..39195c3ae 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ RUN apt-get update \
   && apt-get clean \
   && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
 
+ENV PROMETHEUS_MULTIPROC_DIR /var/tmp/prometheus_multiproc_dir
+RUN mkdir $PROMETHEUS_MULTIPROC_DIR  # make sure this is writable by webserver user
+
 RUN mkdir /opt/eoxserver/
 WORKDIR /opt/eoxserver
 COPY . .
diff --git a/autotest/autotest/settings.py b/autotest/autotest/settings.py
index d7c8733ad..86f1d85a5 100644
--- a/autotest/autotest/settings.py
+++ b/autotest/autotest/settings.py
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@
 ]
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
+    'django_prometheus.middleware.PrometheusBeforeMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@
     'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
     # # For management of the per/request cache system.
     # 'eoxserver.backends.middleware.BackendsCacheMiddleware',
+    'django_prometheus.middleware.PrometheusAfterMiddleware'
 ]
 
 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
@@ -219,6 +221,7 @@
     # Enable for better schema and data-migrations
     # Enable for debugging
     # 'django_extensions',
+    'django_prometheus',
     # Enable EOxServer:
     'eoxserver.core',
     'eoxserver.services',
diff --git a/autotest/autotest/urls.py b/autotest/autotest/urls.py
index f63efe4f7..f6e3331af 100644
--- a/autotest/autotest/urls.py
+++ b/autotest/autotest/urls.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     from django.urls import include, re_path
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.conf.urls.static import static
+import django_prometheus.exports
 
 from eoxserver.services.opensearch.urls import urlpatterns as opensearch
 from eoxserver.webclient.urls import urlpatterns as webclient
@@ -30,4 +31,9 @@
     re_path(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
     # Enable the admin:
     re_path(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
+    re_path(
+        r'^metrics$',
+        django_prometheus.exports.ExportToDjangoView,
+        name="prometheus-django-metrics",
+    ),
 ] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
diff --git a/eoxserver/instance_template/project_name/settings.py b/eoxserver/instance_template/project_name/settings.py
index f606a5a7b..dfd01fbbe 100644
--- a/eoxserver/instance_template/project_name/settings.py
+++ b/eoxserver/instance_template/project_name/settings.py
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@
 ]
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
+    'django_prometheus.middleware.PrometheusBeforeMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
@@ -179,6 +180,7 @@
     'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
     # # For management of the per/request cache system.
     # 'eoxserver.backends.middleware.BackendsCacheMiddleware',
+    'django_prometheus.middleware.PrometheusAfterMiddleware',
 ]
 
 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
@@ -217,6 +219,7 @@
     #'south',
     # Enable for debugging
     #'django_extensions',
+   'django_prometheus',
     # Enable EOxServer:
     'eoxserver.core',
     'eoxserver.services',
diff --git a/eoxserver/instance_template/project_name/urls.py b/eoxserver/instance_template/project_name/urls.py
index d6a4967c2..87464a0c0 100644
--- a/eoxserver/instance_template/project_name/urls.py
+++ b/eoxserver/instance_template/project_name/urls.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
     from django.urls import include, re_path
 
 from django.contrib import admin
+import django_prometheus.exports
 
 from eoxserver.views import index
 
@@ -58,4 +59,9 @@
     re_path(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
     # Enable the admin:
     re_path(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
+    re_path(
+        r'^metrics$',
+        django_prometheus.exports.ExportToDjangoView,
+        name="prometheus-django-metrics",
+    ),
 ]
diff --git a/gunicorn.conf.py b/gunicorn.conf.py
index c2f6ac844..65ef93020 100644
--- a/gunicorn.conf.py
+++ b/gunicorn.conf.py
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 import os
 import multiprocessing
 
+from prometheus_client import multiprocess
+
 
 chdir = os.environ.get('INSTANCE_DIR', '')
 bind = ':8000'
 workers = multiprocessing.cpu_count() * 2 + 1
 worker_class = 'sync'
 timeout = 600
+
+
+def child_exit(server, worker):
+    multiprocess.mark_process_dead(worker.pid)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index da3894e74..839b2975b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ def fullsplit(path, result=None):
         "python-dateutil",
         "django-model-utils<5.0.0",
         "django-utils-six==2.0",
+        "django-prometheus",
         'tzdata',
         "zipstream",
         "psycopg2",