diff --git a/prometheus/10-metrics-config.yml b/prometheus/10-metrics-config.yml
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+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: jmx-config
+  namespace: kafka
+apiVersion: v1
+data:
+
+  jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml: |+
+    lowercaseOutputName: true
+    jmxUrl: service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://127.0.0.1:5555/jmxrmi
+    ssl: false
+    whitelistObjectNames: ["kafka.server:*","kafka.controller:*","java.lang:*"]
+    rules:
+      - pattern : kafka.server<type=ReplicaFetcherManager, name=MaxLag, clientId=(.+)><>Value
+      - pattern : kafka.server<type=BrokerTopicMetrics, name=(BytesInPerSec|BytesOutPerSec|MessagesInPerSec), topic=(.+)><>OneMinuteRate
+      - pattern : kafka.server<type=KafkaRequestHandlerPool, name=RequestHandlerAvgIdlePercent><>OneMinuteRate
+      - pattern : kafka.server<type=Produce><>queue-size
+      - pattern : kafka.server<type=ReplicaManager, name=(PartitionCount|UnderReplicatedPartitions)><>(Value|OneMinuteRate)
+      - pattern : kafka.server<type=controller-channel-metrics, broker-id=(.+)><>(.*)
+      - pattern : kafka.server<type=socket-server-metrics, networkProcessor=(.+)><>(.*)
+      - pattern : kafka.server<type=Fetch><>queue-size
+      - pattern : kafka.server<type=SessionExpireListener, name=(.+)><>OneMinuteRate
+      - pattern : kafka.controller<type=KafkaController, name=(.+)><>Value
+      - pattern : java.lang<type=OperatingSystem><>SystemCpuLoad
+      - pattern : java.lang<type=Memory><HeapMemoryUsage>used
+      - pattern : java.lang<type=OperatingSystem><>FreePhysicalMemorySize
+
+  jmx-zookeeper-prometheus.yaml: |+
+    rules:
+    - pattern: "org.apache.ZooKeeperService<name0=ReplicatedServer_id(\\d)><>(\\w+)"
+      name: "zookeeper_$2"
+    - pattern: "org.apache.ZooKeeperService<name0=ReplicatedServer_id(\\d), name1=replica.(\\d)><>(\\w+)"
+      name: "zookeeper_$3"
+      labels:
+        replicaId: "$2"
+    - pattern: "org.apache.ZooKeeperService<name0=ReplicatedServer_id(\\d), name1=replica.(\\d), name2=(\\w+)><>(\\w+)"
+      name: "zookeeper_$4"
+      labels:
+        replicaId: "$2"
+        memberType: "$3"
+    - pattern: "org.apache.ZooKeeperService<name0=ReplicatedServer_id(\\d), name1=replica.(\\d), name2=(\\w+), name3=(\\w+)><>(\\w+)"
+      name: "zookeeper_$4_$5"
+      labels:
+        replicaId: "$2"
+        memberType: "$3"
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diff --git a/prometheus/50-kafka-jmx-exporter-patch.yml b/prometheus/50-kafka-jmx-exporter-patch.yml
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+# meant to be applied using
+# kubectl --namespace kafka patch statefulset kafka --patch "$(cat prometheus/50-kafka-jmx-exporter-patch.yml )"
+apiVersion: apps/v1beta2
+kind: StatefulSet
+metadata:
+  name: kafka
+  namespace: kafka
+spec:
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      annotations:
+        prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
+        prometheus.io/port: "5556"
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: metrics
+        image: solsson/kafka-prometheus-jmx-exporter@sha256:a23062396cd5af1acdf76512632c20ea6be76885dfc20cd9ff40fb23846557e8
+        command:
+        - java
+        - -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
+        - -XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap
+        - -XX:MaxRAMFraction=1
+        - -XshowSettings:vm
+        - -jar
+        - jmx_prometheus_httpserver.jar
+        - "5556"
+        - /etc/jmx-kafka/jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 5556
+        resources:
+          requests:
+            cpu: 0m
+            memory: 60Mi
+          limits:
+            memory: 120Mi
+        volumeMounts:
+        - name: jmx-config
+          mountPath: /etc/jmx-kafka
+      volumes:
+      - name: jmx-config
+        configMap:
+          name: jmx-config