diff --git a/pkg/controller/observer.go b/pkg/controller/observer.go
index 91a73e77..15b48d9f 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/observer.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/observer.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
 	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 )
 
@@ -73,6 +74,38 @@ func (c *CanaryObserver) queryMetric(query string) (*vectorQueryResponse, error)
 	return &values, nil
 }
 
+// GetScalar runs the promql query and returns the first value found
+func (c *CanaryObserver) GetScalar(query string) (float64, error) {
+	if c.metricsServer == "fake" {
+		return 100, nil
+	}
+
+	query = strings.Replace(query, "\n","",-1)
+	query = strings.Replace(query, " ","",-1)
+
+	var value *float64
+	result, err := c.queryMetric(query)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	for _, v := range result.Data.Result {
+		metricValue := v.Value[1]
+		switch metricValue.(type) {
+		case string:
+			f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(metricValue.(string), 64)
+			if err != nil {
+				return 0, err
+			}
+			value = &f
+		}
+	}
+	if value == nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("no values found for query %s", query)
+	}
+	return *value, nil
+}
+
 // GetDeploymentCounter returns the requests success rate using istio_requests_total metric
 func (c *CanaryObserver) GetDeploymentCounter(name string, namespace string, metric string, interval string) (float64, error) {
 	if c.metricsServer == "fake" {
diff --git a/pkg/controller/scheduler.go b/pkg/controller/scheduler.go
index d928fed1..ebb92189 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/scheduler.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/scheduler.go
@@ -436,6 +436,24 @@ func (c *Controller) analyseCanary(r *flaggerv1.Canary) bool {
 				return false
 			}
 		}
+
+		if metric.Query != "" {
+			val, err := c.observer.GetScalar(metric.Query)
+			if err != nil {
+				if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no values found") {
+					c.recordEventWarningf(r, "Halt advancement no values found for metric %s probably %s.%s is not receiving traffic",
+						metric.Name, r.Spec.TargetRef.Name, r.Namespace)
+				} else {
+					c.recordEventErrorf(r, "Metrics server %s query failed: %v", c.observer.metricsServer, err)
+				}
+				return false
+			}
+			if val > float64(metric.Threshold) {
+				c.recordEventWarningf(r, "Halt %s.%s advancement %s %.2f > %v",
+					r.Name, r.Namespace, metric.Name, val, metric.Threshold)
+				return false
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	return true