diff --git a/config/config.exs b/config/config.exs
index 9a10b0ff7..e13257fb6 100644
--- a/config/config.exs
+++ b/config/config.exs
@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ config :pleroma, :instance,
   welcome_message: nil,
   max_report_comment_size: 1000,
   safe_dm_mentions: false,
-  healthcheck: false
+  healthcheck: false,
+  instrumentation: false
 
 config :pleroma, :app_account_creation, enabled: true, max_requests: 25, interval: 1800
 
diff --git a/docs/config.md b/docs/config.md
index 450d73fda..868d66872 100644
--- a/docs/config.md
+++ b/docs/config.md
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ config :pleroma, Pleroma.Emails.Mailer,
 * `max_report_comment_size`: The maximum size of the report comment (Default: `1000`)
 * `safe_dm_mentions`: If set to true, only mentions at the beginning of a post will be used to address people in direct messages. This is to prevent accidental mentioning of people when talking about them (e.g. "@friend hey i really don't like @enemy"). (Default: `false`)
 * `healthcheck`: if set to true, system data will be shown on ``/api/pleroma/healthcheck``.
+* `instrumentation`: enable instrumenters for Prometheus metrics
 
 ## :app_account_creation
 REST API for creating an account settings
diff --git a/lib/pleroma/application.ex b/lib/pleroma/application.ex
index eeb415084..1b71896dc 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/application.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/application.ex
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ defmodule Pleroma.Application do
     import Cachex.Spec
 
     Pleroma.Config.DeprecationWarnings.warn()
-    setup_instrumenters()
+
+    if Pleroma.Config.get([:instance, :instrumentation]) do
+      setup_instrumenters()
+    end
 
     # Define workers and child supervisors to be supervised
     children =