diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 755265ce..2f059a32 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Lightweight data provider (2.2.1)
+# Lightweight data provider (2.3.0)
 
 # Overview
 This component serves as a data provider for [th2-data-services](https://github.com/th2-net/th2-data-services). It will connect to the cassandra database via [cradle api](https://github.com/th2-net/cradleapi) and expose the data stored in there as REST resources.
@@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ spec:
 #   codecUsePinAttributes: true # send raw message to specified codec (true) or send to all codecs (false) 
 #   responseFormats: string list # resolve data for selected formats only. (allowed values: BASE_64, PARSED)
 #   flushSseAfter: 0 # number of SSE emitted before flushing data to the output stream. 0 means flush after each event
+#   gzipCompressionLevel: -1 # integer value of gzip compression level. This option is used when user requests data via HTTP with enabled commpression. 
+#      * -1: default compression level
+#      * 0: no compression
+#      * 1: best speed
+#      * 9: best compression
 
   pins: # pins are used to communicate with codec components to parse message data
     - name: to_codec
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 303d2b64..a1773c17 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 kotlin.code.style=official
 
-release_version=2.2.1
+release_version=2.3.0
 description='th2 Lightweight data provider component'
 vcs_url=https://github.com/th2-net/th2-lw-data-provider
 docker_image_name=
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/com/exactpro/th2/lwdataprovider/configuration/Configuration.kt b/src/main/kotlin/com/exactpro/th2/lwdataprovider/configuration/Configuration.kt
index 7eadff03..ed80f6ab 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/com/exactpro/th2/lwdataprovider/configuration/Configuration.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/com/exactpro/th2/lwdataprovider/configuration/Configuration.kt
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ class CustomConfigurationClass(
     val listOfMessageAsSingleMessage: Boolean? = null,
     val useTransportMode: Boolean? = null,
     val flushSseAfter: Int? = null,
+    val gzipCompressionLevel: Int? = null,
 )
 
 class Configuration(customConfiguration: CustomConfigurationClass) {
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ class Configuration(customConfiguration: CustomConfigurationClass) {
     val listOfMessageAsSingleMessage: Boolean = VariableBuilder.getVariable(customConfiguration::listOfMessageAsSingleMessage, true)
     val useTransportMode: Boolean = VariableBuilder.getVariable(customConfiguration::useTransportMode, false)
     val flushSseAfter: Int = VariableBuilder.getVariable(customConfiguration::flushSseAfter, 0)
+    val gzipCompressionLevel: Int = VariableBuilder.getVariable(customConfiguration::gzipCompressionLevel, -1)
     init {
         require(bufferPerQuery <= maxBufferDecodeQueue) {
             "buffer per queue ($bufferPerQuery) must be less or equal to the total buffer size ($maxBufferDecodeQueue)"
@@ -86,6 +88,9 @@ class Configuration(customConfiguration: CustomConfigurationClass) {
         require(flushSseAfter >= 0) {
             "flushSseAfter must be positive integer or zero"
         }
+        require(gzipCompressionLevel <= 9 && gzipCompressionLevel >= -1) {
+            "gzipCompressionLevel must be integer in the [-1, 9] range"
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/com/exactpro/th2/lwdataprovider/http/HttpServer.kt b/src/main/kotlin/com/exactpro/th2/lwdataprovider/http/HttpServer.kt
index 9ad097c8..1492b323 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/com/exactpro/th2/lwdataprovider/http/HttpServer.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/com/exactpro/th2/lwdataprovider/http/HttpServer.kt
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.util.compression.CompressionPool
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.compression.DeflaterPool
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ThreadPool.SizedThreadPool
 import java.time.Instant
-import java.util.zip.Deflater
 import kotlin.math.pow
 
 class HttpServer(private val context: Context) {
@@ -156,7 +155,9 @@ class HttpServer(private val context: Context) {
                 handler.setup(this, javalinContext)
             }
             setupExceptionHandlers(this)
-            jettyServer()?.server()?.insertHandler(createGzipHandler())
+            jettyServer()?.server()?.let { server ->
+                server.insertHandler(createGzipHandler(server, configuration.gzipCompressionLevel))
+            }
         }.start(configuration.hostname, configuration.port)
 
         logger.info { "serving on: http://${configuration.hostname}:${configuration.port}" }
@@ -261,18 +262,12 @@ class HttpServer(private val context: Context) {
     }
 }
 
-private fun configureGzip(server: Server) {
-    // copied from GzipHandler.doStart
-    val capacity = server.getBean(SizedThreadPool::class.java)?.maxThreads
-        ?: CompressionPool.DEFAULT_CAPACITY
-
-    val pool = DeflaterPool(capacity, Deflater.BEST_SPEED, true)
-    server.addBean(pool, true)
-    server.insertHandler(createGzipHandler())
-}
-
-private fun createGzipHandler(): GzipHandler {
+private fun createGzipHandler(server: Server, gzipCompressionLevel: Int): GzipHandler {
     return GzipHandler().apply {
+        // copied from DeflaterPool.ensurePool method
+        val capacity = server.getBean(SizedThreadPool::class.java)?.maxThreads ?: CompressionPool.DEFAULT_CAPACITY
+
+        deflaterPool = DeflaterPool(capacity, gzipCompressionLevel, true)
         setExcludedMimeTypes(*excludedMimeTypes.asSequence()
             .filter { it != "text/event-stream" }
             .toList().toTypedArray())