diff --git a/examples/prometheus-thanos.jsonnet b/examples/prometheus-thanos.jsonnet
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6dca5439ae4fdad8effbc99f1acc5ff80cd7166f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/prometheus-thanos.jsonnet
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+local kp =
+  (import 'kube-prometheus/main.libsonnet') +
+  // Uncomment the following imports to enable its patches
+  // (import 'kube-prometheus/addons/anti-affinity.libsonnet') +
+  // (import 'kube-prometheus/addons/managed-cluster.libsonnet') +
+  // (import 'kube-prometheus/addons/node-ports.libsonnet') +
+  // (import 'kube-prometheus/addons/static-etcd.libsonnet') +
+  // (import 'kube-prometheus/addons/custom-metrics.libsonnet') +
+  // (import 'kube-prometheus/addons/external-metrics.libsonnet') +
+  // (import 'kube-prometheus/addons/pyrra.libsonnet') +
+  {
+    values+:: {
+      common+: {
+        namespace: 'monitoring',
+      },
+      prometheus+: {
+        thanos: {
+          baseImage: 'quay.io/thanos/thanos',
+            version: 'v0.8.1',
+            objectStorageConfig: {
+              key: 'thanos.yaml',
+              name: 'thanos-objstore-config',
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  };
+
+{ 'setup/0namespace-namespace': kp.kubePrometheus.namespace } +
+{
+  ['setup/prometheus-operator-' + name]: kp.prometheusOperator[name]
+  for name in std.filter((function(name) name != 'serviceMonitor' && name != 'prometheusRule'), std.objectFields(kp.prometheusOperator))
+} +
+// { 'setup/pyrra-slo-CustomResourceDefinition': kp.pyrra.crd } +
+// serviceMonitor and prometheusRule are separated so that they can be created after the CRDs are ready
+{ 'prometheus-operator-serviceMonitor': kp.prometheusOperator.serviceMonitor } +
+{ 'prometheus-operator-prometheusRule': kp.prometheusOperator.prometheusRule } +
+{ 'kube-prometheus-prometheusRule': kp.kubePrometheus.prometheusRule } +
+{ ['alertmanager-' + name]: kp.alertmanager[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.alertmanager) } +
+{ ['blackbox-exporter-' + name]: kp.blackboxExporter[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.blackboxExporter) } +
+{ ['grafana-' + name]: kp.grafana[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.grafana) } +
+// { ['pyrra-' + name]: kp.pyrra[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.pyrra) if name != 'crd' } +
+{ ['kube-state-metrics-' + name]: kp.kubeStateMetrics[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.kubeStateMetrics) } +
+{ ['kubernetes-' + name]: kp.kubernetesControlPlane[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.kubernetesControlPlane) }
+{ ['node-exporter-' + name]: kp.nodeExporter[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.nodeExporter) } +
+{ ['prometheus-' + name]: kp.prometheus[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.prometheus) } +
+{ ['prometheus-adapter-' + name]: kp.prometheusAdapter[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.prometheusAdapter) }
diff --git a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/prometheus.libsonnet b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/prometheus.libsonnet
index 15d16c286df36afb54cb325e2d46b958c42f1344..35fa5808654e7586d14a4a9620822902a318648b 100644
--- a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/prometheus.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/prometheus.libsonnet
@@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ function(params) {
           port: 9090,
           protocol: 'TCP',
         }],
-      }, {
+      }] + ( if p._config.thanos != null then
+      [{
         from: [{
           podSelector: {
             matchLabels: {
@@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ function(params) {
           port: 10901,
           protocol: 'TCP',
         }],
-      }],
+      }] else []),
     },
   },