diff --git a/cmd/cmd b/cmd/cmd
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..69d9884
Binary files /dev/null and b/cmd/cmd differ
diff --git a/cmd/mqtt2prometheus.go b/cmd/mqtt2prometheus.go
index 6adcb00..52cbbc5 100644
--- a/cmd/mqtt2prometheus.go
+++ b/cmd/mqtt2prometheus.go
@@ -151,9 +151,16 @@ func main() {
 		time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)
 	}
 
-	prometheus.MustRegister(ingest.Collector())
-	prometheus.MustRegister(collector)
-	http.Handle("/metrics", promhttp.Handler())
+	var gatherer prometheus.Gatherer
+	if cfg.EnableProfiling {
+		gatherer = prometheus.DefaultGatherer
+	} else {
+		reg := prometheus.NewRegistry()
+		reg.MustRegister(ingest.Collector())
+		reg.MustRegister(collector)
+		gatherer = reg
+	}
+	http.Handle("/metrics", promhttp.HandlerFor(gatherer, promhttp.HandlerOpts{}))
 	s := &http.Server{
 		Addr:    getListenAddress(),
 		Handler: http.DefaultServeMux,
diff --git a/config.yaml.dist b/config.yaml.dist
index 05abbc8..560e10a 100644
--- a/config.yaml.dist
+++ b/config.yaml.dist
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ mqtt:
   # device_id_regex: "(.*/)?(?P<deviceid>.*)"
   # The MQTT QoS level
   qos: 0
+# Export internal profiling metrics including CPU, Memory, uptime, open file
+# descriptors, as well as metrics exported by Go runtime such as information about
+# heap and garbage collection stats.
+enable_profiling_metrics: false
 cache:
   # Timeout. Each received metric will be presented for this time if no update is send via MQTT.
   # Set the timeout to -1 to disable the deletion of metrics from the cache. The exporter presents the ingest timestamp
diff --git a/pkg/config/config.go b/pkg/config/config.go
index 46b37b0..110a322 100644
--- a/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -89,10 +89,11 @@ func MustNewRegexp(pattern string) *Regexp {
 }
 
 type Config struct {
-	JsonParsing *JsonParsingConfig `yaml:"json_parsing,omitempty"`
-	Metrics     []MetricConfig     `yaml:"metrics"`
-	MQTT        *MQTTConfig        `yaml:"mqtt,omitempty"`
-	Cache       *CacheConfig       `yaml:"cache,omitempty"`
+	JsonParsing     *JsonParsingConfig `yaml:"json_parsing,omitempty"`
+	Metrics         []MetricConfig     `yaml:"metrics"`
+	MQTT            *MQTTConfig        `yaml:"mqtt,omitempty"`
+	Cache           *CacheConfig       `yaml:"cache,omitempty"`
+	EnableProfiling bool               `yaml:"enable_profiling_metrics,omitempty"`
 }
 
 type CacheConfig struct {