diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 528199e882fb4c062283cb6155ae34507a9f734f..425b2d402dcc44b7e8ce549ed0b1337094daea09 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ If you are migrating from `release-0.7` branch or earlier please read [what chan
       - [Authentication problem](#authentication-problem)
       - [Authorization problem](#authorization-problem)
     - [kube-state-metrics resource usage](#kube-state-metrics-resource-usage)
+    - [Error retrieving kube-proxy metrics](#error-retrieving-kube-proxy-metrics)
   - [Contributing](#contributing)
   - [License](#license)
 
@@ -770,6 +771,13 @@ config. They default to:
     }
 ```
 
+### Error retrieving kube-proxy metrics
+By default, kubeadm will configure kube-proxy to listen on 127.0.0.1 for metrics. Because of this prometheus would not be able to scrape these metrics. This would have to be changed to 0.0.0.0 in one of the following two places:
+
+1. Before cluster initialization, the config file passed to kubeadm init should have KubeProxyConfiguration manifest with the field metricsBindAddress set to 0.0.0.0:10249
+2. If the k8s cluster is already up and running, we'll have to modify the configmap kube-proxy in the namespace kube-system and set the metricsBindAddress field. After this kube-proxy daemonset would have to be restarted with
+`kubectl -n kube-system rollout restart daemonset kube-proxy`
+
 ## Contributing
 
 All `.yaml` files in the `/manifests` folder are generated via
diff --git a/examples/kubeProxy.jsonnet b/examples/kubeProxy.jsonnet
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03a7b3c74b5c81f116c729f7e888a835ce6a08ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/kubeProxy.jsonnet
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+local kp = (import 'kube-prometheus/main.libsonnet') + {
+  values+:: {
+    common+: {
+      namespace: 'monitoring',
+    },
+
+    kubernetesControlPlane+: {
+      kubeProxy: true,
+    },
+  },
+};
+
+{ ['00namespace-' + name]: kp.kubePrometheus[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.kubePrometheus) } +
+{ ['0prometheus-operator-' + name]: kp.prometheusOperator[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.prometheusOperator) } +
+{ ['node-exporter-' + name]: kp.nodeExporter[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.nodeExporter) } +
+{ ['kube-state-metrics-' + name]: kp.kubeStateMetrics[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.kubeStateMetrics) } +
+{ ['alertmanager-' + name]: kp.alertmanager[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.alertmanager) } +
+{ ['prometheus-' + name]: kp.prometheus[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.prometheus) } +
+{ ['grafana-' + name]: kp.grafana[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.grafana) } +
+{ ['kubernetes-' + name]: kp.kubernetesControlPlane[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.kubernetesControlPlane) }
diff --git a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/k8s-control-plane.libsonnet b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/k8s-control-plane.libsonnet
index e7323aeab058179fd9461eca42d703c1ad437967..08cdfb2084f271bce38d1f7bfa1e6fa16523996d 100644
--- a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/k8s-control-plane.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/k8s-control-plane.libsonnet
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ local defaults = {
       hostNetworkInterfaceSelector: 'device!~"veth.+"',
     },
   },
+  kubeProxy: false,
 };
 
 function(params) {
@@ -251,6 +252,45 @@ function(params) {
     },
   },
 
+  [if (defaults + params).kubeProxy then 'podMonitorKubeProxy']: {
+    apiVersion: 'monitoring.coreos.com/v1',
+    kind: 'PodMonitor',
+    metadata: {
+      labels: {
+        'k8s-app': 'kube-proxy',
+      },
+      name: 'kube-proxy',
+      namespace: k8s._config.namespace,
+    },
+    spec: {
+      jobLabel: 'k8s-app',
+      namespaceSelector: {
+        matchNames: [
+          'kube-system',
+        ],
+      },
+      selector: {
+        matchLabels: {
+          'k8s-app': 'kube-proxy',
+        },
+      },
+      podMetricsEndpoints: [{
+        honorLabels: true,
+        targetPort: 10249,
+        relabelings: [
+          {
+            action: 'replace',
+            regex: '(.*)',
+            replacement: '$1',
+            sourceLabels: ['__meta_kubernetes_pod_node_name'],
+            targetLabel: 'instance',
+          },
+        ],
+      }],
+    },
+  },
+
+
   serviceMonitorCoreDNS: {
     apiVersion: 'monitoring.coreos.com/v1',
     kind: 'ServiceMonitor',