diff --git a/stable/joomla/Chart.yaml b/stable/joomla/Chart.yaml
index 730f6e338a..e374dc63d3 100644
--- a/stable/joomla/Chart.yaml
+++ b/stable/joomla/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: joomla
-version: 3.3.2
+version: 3.4.0
 appVersion: 3.9.0
 description: PHP content management system (CMS) for publishing web content
 keywords:
diff --git a/stable/joomla/README.md b/stable/joomla/README.md
index 2347c0a274..bfaf3a8c0d 100644
--- a/stable/joomla/README.md
+++ b/stable/joomla/README.md
@@ -114,6 +114,15 @@ The following table lists the configurable parameters of the Joomla! chart and t
 | `nodeSelector`                       | Node labels for pod assignment                              | `{}`                                           |
 | `tolerations`                        | List of node taints to tolerate                             | `[]`                                           |
 | `affinity`                           | Map of node/pod affinities                                  | `{}`                                           |
+| `podAnnotations`                | Pod annotations                                   | `{}`                                                       |
+| `metrics.enabled`                          | Start a side-car prometheus exporter                                                                           | `false`                                              |
+| `metrics.image.registry`                   | Apache exporter image registry                                                                                  | `docker.io`                                          |
+| `metrics.image.repository`                 | Apache exporter image name                                                                                      | `lusotycoon/apache-exporter`                           |
+| `metrics.image.tag`                        | Apache exporter image tag                                                                                       | `v0.5.0`                                            |
+| `metrics.image.pullPolicy`                 | Image pull policy                                                                                              | `IfNotPresent`                                       |
+| `metrics.image.pullSecrets`                | Specify docker-registry secret names as an array                                                               | `nil`                                                |
+| `metrics.podAnnotations`                   | Additional annotations for Metrics exporter pod                                                                | `{prometheus.io/scrape: "true", prometheus.io/port: "9117"}`                                                   |
+| `metrics.resources`                        | Exporter resource requests/limit                                                                               | {}                        |
 
 The above parameters map to the env variables defined in [bitnami/joomla](http://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-joomla). For more information please refer to the [bitnami/joomla](http://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-joomla) image documentation.
 
diff --git a/stable/joomla/templates/_helpers.tpl b/stable/joomla/templates/_helpers.tpl
index 1a7e5a7372..90fb598eb4 100644
--- a/stable/joomla/templates/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/stable/joomla/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -52,3 +52,13 @@ We truncate at 63 chars because some Kubernetes name fields are limited to this
 {{- define "joomla.mariadb.fullname" -}}
 {{- printf "%s-%s" .Release.Name "mariadb" | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
 {{- end -}}
+
+{{/*
+Return the proper image name (for the metrics image)
+*/}}
+{{- define "metrics.image" -}}
+{{- $registryName :=  .Values.metrics.image.registry -}}
+{{- $repositoryName := .Values.metrics.image.repository -}}
+{{- $tag := .Values.metrics.image.tag | toString -}}
+{{- printf "%s/%s:%s" $registryName $repositoryName $tag -}}
+{{- end -}}
diff --git a/stable/joomla/templates/deployment.yaml b/stable/joomla/templates/deployment.yaml
index 1032233c8e..78b7ad1de5 100644
--- a/stable/joomla/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/stable/joomla/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ spec:
         app: {{ template "joomla.fullname" . }}
         chart: {{ template "joomla.chart" . }}
         release: {{ .Release.Name | quote }}
+{{- if or .Values.podAnnotations .Values.metrics.enabled }}
+      annotations:
+  {{- if .Values.podAnnotations }}
+{{ toYaml .Values.podAnnotations | indent 8 }}
+  {{- end }}
+  {{- if .Values.metrics.podAnnotations }}
+{{ toYaml .Values.metrics.podAnnotations | indent 8 }}
+  {{- end }}
+{{- end }}
     spec:
       {{- if .Values.image.pullSecrets }}
       imagePullSecrets:
@@ -27,8 +36,12 @@ spec:
         - name: {{ . }}
       {{- end}}
       {{- end }}
+      hostAliases:
+      - ip: "127.0.0.1"
+        hostnames:
+        - "status.localhost"
       containers:
-      - name: {{ template "joomla.fullname" . }}
+      - name: joomla
         image: {{ template "joomla.image" . }}
         imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.image.pullPolicy | quote }}
         env:
@@ -129,6 +142,29 @@ spec:
           mountPath: /bitnami/joomla
         - name: apache-data
           mountPath: /bitnami/apache
+{{- if .Values.metrics.enabled }}
+      - name: metrics
+        image: {{ template "metrics.image" . }}
+        imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.metrics.image.pullPolicy | quote }}
+        command: [ '/bin/apache_exporter', '-scrape_uri', 'http://status.localhost:80/server-status/?auto']
+        ports:
+        - name: metrics
+          containerPort: 9117
+        livenessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /metrics
+            port: metrics
+          initialDelaySeconds: 15
+          timeoutSeconds: 5
+        readinessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /metrics
+            port: metrics
+          initialDelaySeconds: 5
+          timeoutSeconds: 1
+        resources:
+  {{ toYaml .Values.metrics.resources | indent 10 }}
+{{- end }}
       volumes:
       - name: joomla-data
       {{- if .Values.persistence.enabled }}
diff --git a/stable/joomla/values.yaml b/stable/joomla/values.yaml
index 56438a5992..e7300be7ef 100644
--- a/stable/joomla/values.yaml
+++ b/stable/joomla/values.yaml
@@ -254,3 +254,33 @@ tolerations: []
 ## Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#affinity-and-anti-affinity
 ##
 affinity: {}
+
+## Pod annotations
+## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations/
+##
+podAnnotations: {}
+## Prometheus Exporter / Metrics
+##
+metrics:
+  enabled: false
+
+  image:
+    registry: docker.io
+    repository: lusotycoon/apache-exporter
+    tag: v0.5.0
+    pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+    ## Optionally specify an array of imagePullSecrets.
+    ## Secrets must be manually created in the namespace.
+    ## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/pull-image-private-registry/
+    ##
+    # pullSecrets:
+    #   - myRegistrKeySecretName
+
+    ## Metrics exporter pod Annotation and Labels
+  podAnnotations:
+    prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
+    prometheus.io/port: "9117"
+  ## Metrics exporter resource requests and limits
+  ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/
+  ##
+  # resources: {}