diff --git a/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/core/monitoring/server/process.go b/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/core/monitoring/server/process.go
index 753fe3602b59..87a6ae8493c0 100644
--- a/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/core/monitoring/server/process.go
+++ b/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/core/monitoring/server/process.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
 
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/metricbeat/mb/parse"
+	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/agent/application/paths"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/agent/program"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/artifact"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/core/monitoring/beats"
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ var (
 	}
 )
 
-func processHandler() func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) error {
+func processHandler(statsHandler func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) error) func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) error {
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) error {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
 
@@ -62,6 +63,11 @@ func processHandler() func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) error {
 			return errorfWithStatus(http.StatusNotFound, "productID not found")
 		}
 
+		if id == paths.BinaryName {
+			// proxy stats for elastic agent process
+			return statsHandler(w, r)
+		}
+
 		metricsBytes, statusCode, metricsErr := processMetrics(r.Context(), id)
 		if metricsErr != nil {
 			return metricsErr
diff --git a/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/core/monitoring/server/server.go b/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/core/monitoring/server/server.go
index 25703d1524df..47c18d617a3d 100644
--- a/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/core/monitoring/server/server.go
+++ b/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/core/monitoring/server/server.go
@@ -44,11 +44,12 @@ func New(
 
 func exposeMetricsEndpoint(log *logger.Logger, config *common.Config, ns func(string) *monitoring.Namespace, routesFetchFn func() *sorted.Set, enableProcessStats bool) (*api.Server, error) {
 	r := mux.NewRouter()
-	r.Handle("/stats", createHandler(statsHandler(ns("stats"))))
+	statsHandler := statsHandler(ns("stats"))
+	r.Handle("/stats", createHandler(statsHandler))
 
 	if enableProcessStats {
 		r.HandleFunc("/processes", processesHandler(routesFetchFn))
-		r.Handle("/processes/{processID}", createHandler(processHandler()))
+		r.Handle("/processes/{processID}", createHandler(processHandler(statsHandler)))
 	}
 
 	mux := http.NewServeMux()