diff --git a/charts/kube-vip/templates/daemonset.yaml b/charts/kube-vip/templates/daemonset.yaml
index b28f493..168bf66 100644
--- a/charts/kube-vip/templates/daemonset.yaml
+++ b/charts/kube-vip/templates/daemonset.yaml
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ spec:
           {{- end }}
           {{- end }}
           {{- end }}
+        {{- if and .Values.podMonitor.enabled (hasKey .Values.env "prometheus_server") (regexMatch "^:\\d+$" .Values.env.prometheus_server) }}
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: {{ trimPrefix ":" .Values.env.prometheus_server }}
+          name: monitoring
+          protocol: TCP
+        {{- end }}
         env:
           {{- if eq (include "kube-vip.toBool" .Values.env.cp_enable) "true" }}
           - name: vip_address
diff --git a/charts/kube-vip/templates/pod-monitor.yaml b/charts/kube-vip/templates/pod-monitor.yaml
index 02f8789..b2f6d34 100644
--- a/charts/kube-vip/templates/pod-monitor.yaml
+++ b/charts/kube-vip/templates/pod-monitor.yaml
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ spec:
     matchLabels:
       {{- include "kube-vip.selectorLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
   podMetricsEndpoints:
-  - targetPort: {{ trimPrefix ":" .Values.env.prometheus_server }}
+  - port: monitoring
 {{- end }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/charts/kube-vip/values.yaml b/charts/kube-vip/values.yaml
index 570218f..26947a4 100644
--- a/charts/kube-vip/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/kube-vip/values.yaml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ env:
   svc_enable: "true"
   svc_election: "false"
   vip_leaderelection: "false"
+  # prometheus_server: ":2112"
 
 extraArgs: {}
   # Specify additional arguments to kube-vip