diff --git a/client/src/app.tsx b/client/src/app.tsx
index d4f62b6..1e315ca 100755
--- a/client/src/app.tsx
+++ b/client/src/app.tsx
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ import {Notifier} from './components/notifier';
 import Error from './components/error';
 import {initRouter} from './router';
 import log from './utils/log';
+import {setContext, Context} from './utils/localStorageHelpers';
 import Button from './components/button';
 import LogoSvg from './art/k8dashSvg';
 import HamburgerSvg from './art/hamburgerSvg';
+import api from './services/api';
 
 type State = {
     content?: ReactNode;
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ class App extends Component<{}, State> {
             this.setState({content, contentDate: Date.now(), hasError: false});
             window.scrollTo(0, 0);
         });
+        this.setContext();
     }
 
     componentDidCatch(err: Error, info: any) { // eslint-disable-line class-methods-use-this
@@ -34,6 +37,12 @@ class App extends Component<{}, State> {
         this.setState({hasError: true});
     }
 
+    setContext() {
+        api.context().then((context: Context) => {
+            setContext(context);
+        });
+    }
+
     render() {
         const {content, contentDate, hasError, menuToggled} = this.state || {};
 
diff --git a/client/src/services/api.ts b/client/src/services/api.ts
index 90eb33d..dc01017 100644
--- a/client/src/services/api.ts
+++ b/client/src/services/api.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ const apis = {
     exec,
     metrics: metricsFactory(),
     oidc: oidcFactory(),
+    context,
 
     clusterRole,
     namespace: namespaceService,
@@ -187,4 +188,8 @@ function logs(namespace: string, name: string, container: string, tailLines: num
     }
 }
 
+function context() {
+    return request('/context');
+}
+
 export default apis;
diff --git a/client/src/utils/localStorageHelpers.ts b/client/src/utils/localStorageHelpers.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d0492a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/utils/localStorageHelpers.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+const CONTEXT = 'context';
+
+export type Context = {
+    protoEnabled?: boolean;
+    promethusEnabled?: boolean;
+}
+
+export function getContextItem(item: string) {
+    return getItem(CONTEXT)[item];
+}
+
+export function setContext(context: Context) {
+    setItem(CONTEXT, {
+        protoEnabled: true,
+        promethusEnabled: false,
+        ...context,
+    });
+}
+
+export function setItem(item: string, object: Object) {
+    localStorage.setItem(item, JSON.stringify(object));
+}
+
+export function getItem(item: string) {
+    return JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(item) || '');
+}
diff --git a/client/src/utils/protoHelpers.ts b/client/src/utils/protoHelpers.ts
index 5a2eda2..949b114 100644
--- a/client/src/utils/protoHelpers.ts
+++ b/client/src/utils/protoHelpers.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import {k8s} from '../proto/proto';
+import {getContextItem} from './localStorageHelpers';
 
 const {Unknown} = k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.runtime;
 const {NodeMetrics} = k8s.io.metrics.pkg.apis.metrics.v1beta1;
@@ -18,36 +19,36 @@ export const kindMap: {
                 | typeof EventList
                 | typeof NodeList
                 | typeof PodList,
-            path: string
+            paths: string[]
         }
     } = {
         NodeMetrics: {
             proto: NodeMetrics,
-            path: '/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/node',
+            paths: ['/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/node'],
         },
         NodeMetricsList: {
             proto: NodeMetricsList,
-            path: '/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/nodes',
+            paths: ['/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/nodes'],
         },
         PodMetrics: {
             proto: PodMetrics,
-            path: '/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/pod',
+            paths: ['/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/pod'],
         },
         PodMetricsList: {
             proto: PodMetricsList,
-            path: '/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/pods',
+            paths: ['/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/pods'],
         },
         EventList: {
             proto: EventList,
-            path: 'api/v1/events',
+            paths: ['api/v1/events'],
         },
         NodeList: {
             proto: NodeList,
-            path: 'api/v1/nodes',
+            paths: ['api/v1/nodes'],
         },
         PodList: {
             proto: PodList,
-            path: 'api/v1/pods',
+            paths: ['api/v1/pods', 'v1beta1/namespaces/kube-system/pods', 'v1/namespaces/kube-system/pods'],
         },
     };
 
@@ -68,22 +69,14 @@ export function protoParser(raw: Uint8Array) {
 }
 
 export function isProtoEnabled(): boolean {
-    return window.localStorage.getItem('protoEnabled') === 'true';
+    return getContextItem('protoEnabled');
 }
 
 export function isProtoEligible(url: string) {
     for (const value of Object.values(kindMap)) {
-        if (url.includes(value.path)) {
+        if (value.paths.some(path => url.includes(path))) {
             return true;
         }
     }
     return false;
 }
-
-export function enableProto(): void {
-    window.localStorage.setItem('protoEnabled', 'true');
-}
-
-export function disableProto(): void {
-    window.localStorage.setItem('protoEnabled', 'false');
-}
diff --git a/server/index.js b/server/index.js
index a7c6734..5b8a4ba 100644
--- a/server/index.js
+++ b/server/index.js
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ const OIDC_SECRET = process.env.OIDC_SECRET;
 const OIDC_URL = process.env.OIDC_URL;
 const OIDC_SCOPES = process.env.OIDC_SCOPES || 'openid email';
 const OIDC_METADATA = JSON.parse(process.env.OIDC_METADATA || '{}');
+const USE_PROTO = process.env.USE_PROTO !== 'false' || true;
 const clientMetadata = Object.assign({client_id: OIDC_CLIENT_ID, client_secret: OIDC_SECRET}, OIDC_METADATA);
 
 console.log('OIDC_URL: ', OIDC_URL || 'None');
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ if (NODE_ENV !== 'production') app.use(cors());
 app.use('/', preAuth, express.static('public'));
 app.get('/oidc', getOidc);
 app.post('/oidc', postOidc);
+app.get('/context', getContext);
 app.use('/*', createProxyMiddleware(proxySettings));
 app.use(handleErrors);
 
@@ -57,6 +59,12 @@ const port = process.env.SERVER_PORT || 4654;
 http.createServer(app).listen(port);
 console.log(`Server started. Listening on port ${port}`);
 
+function getContext(req, res) {
+    res.json({
+        "protoEnabled": USE_PROTO,
+    })
+}
+
 function preAuth(req, res, next) {
     const auth = req.header('Authorization');