diff --git a/stable/prometheus/Chart.yaml b/stable/prometheus/Chart.yaml
index 894afdbe1c..b4258b3c58 100755
--- a/stable/prometheus/Chart.yaml
+++ b/stable/prometheus/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: prometheus
-version: 7.1.4
+version: 7.2.0
 appVersion: 2.4.3
 description: Prometheus is a monitoring system and time series database.
 home: https://prometheus.io/
diff --git a/stable/prometheus/README.md b/stable/prometheus/README.md
index 0a411496b4..1edc1800d1 100644
--- a/stable/prometheus/README.md
+++ b/stable/prometheus/README.md
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ Parameter | Description | Default
 `serverFiles.alerts` | Prometheus server alerts configuration | `{}`
 `serverFiles.rules` | Prometheus server rules configuration | `{}`
 `serverFiles.prometheus.yml` | Prometheus server scrape configuration | example configuration
+`extraScrapeConfigs` | Prometheus server additional scrape configuration | ""
 `networkPolicy.enabled` | Enable NetworkPolicy | `false` |
 
 Specify each parameter using the `--set key=value[,key=value]` argument to `helm install`. For example,
diff --git a/stable/prometheus/templates/server-configmap.yaml b/stable/prometheus/templates/server-configmap.yaml
index 65f35907c0..1dde995387 100644
--- a/stable/prometheus/templates/server-configmap.yaml
+++ b/stable/prometheus/templates/server-configmap.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ data:
 {{- end }}
 {{ toYaml $value | default "{}" | indent 4 }}
 {{- if eq $key "prometheus.yml" -}}
+{{- if $root.Values.extraScrapeConfigs }}
+{{ tpl $root.Values.extraScrapeConfigs $root | indent 4 }}
+{{- end -}}
 {{- if $root.Values.alertmanager.enabled }}
     alerting:
       alertmanagers:
diff --git a/stable/prometheus/values.yaml b/stable/prometheus/values.yaml
index 72d5bd6330..d0f4c2462c 100644
--- a/stable/prometheus/values.yaml
+++ b/stable/prometheus/values.yaml
@@ -1053,6 +1053,25 @@ serverFiles:
             action: replace
             target_label: kubernetes_pod_name
 
+# adds additional scrape configs to prometheus.yml
+# must be a string so you have to add a | after extraScrapeConfigs:
+# example adds prometheus-blackbox-exporter scrape config
+extraScrapeConfigs:
+  # - job_name: 'prometheus-blackbox-exporter'
+  #   metrics_path: /probe
+  #   params:
+  #     module: [http_2xx]
+  #   static_configs:
+  #     - targets:
+  #       - https://example.com
+  #   relabel_configs:
+  #     - source_labels: [__address__]
+  #       target_label: __param_target
+  #     - source_labels: [__param_target]
+  #       target_label: instance
+  #     - target_label: __address__
+  #       replacement: prometheus-blackbox-exporter:9115
+
 networkPolicy:
   ## Enable creation of NetworkPolicy resources.
   ##