diff --git a/birdhouse/components/monitoring/default.env b/birdhouse/components/monitoring/default.env
index c6f781fd..76188073 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/monitoring/default.env
+++ b/birdhouse/components/monitoring/default.env
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ export GRAFANA_VERSION="7.0.3"
 export GRAFANA_DOCKER=grafana/grafana
 export GRAFANA_IMAGE='${GRAFANA_DOCKER}:${GRAFANA_VERSION}'
 
-export PROMETHEUS_VERSION="v2.19.0"
+export PROMETHEUS_VERSION="v2.53.3"
 export PROMETHEUS_DOCKER=prom/prometheus
 export PROMETHEUS_IMAGE='${PROMETHEUS_DOCKER}:${PROMETHEUS_VERSION}'
 
diff --git a/birdhouse/components/monitoring/prometheus.yml.template b/birdhouse/components/monitoring/prometheus.yml.template
index f5d7cd09..737331ed 100644
--- a/birdhouse/components/monitoring/prometheus.yml.template
+++ b/birdhouse/components/monitoring/prometheus.yml.template
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ scrape_configs:
   - targets:
     - ${BIRDHOUSE_FQDN}:9100
 
+scrape_config_files:
+  - "/etc/prometheus/scrape_config.d/*.yml"
+
 rule_files:
 - "/etc/prometheus/*.rules"
 
diff --git a/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/.gitignore b/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..add998b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+scrape_configs.yml
diff --git a/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/docker-compose-extra.yml b/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/docker-compose-extra.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c16e2f8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/docker-compose-extra.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+version: "3.4"
+services:
+  prometheus:
+    volumes:
+      - ./optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/scrape_configs.yml:/etc/prometheus/scrape_config.d/log_parser.yml:ro
diff --git a/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/scrape_configs.yml.template b/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/scrape_configs.yml.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..025cadc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/config/monitoring/scrape_configs.yml.template
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+scrape_configs:
+  - job_name: log_parser
+    honor_labels: true
+    static_configs:
+      - targets:
+        - prometheus-log-parser:${PROMETHEUS_LOG_PARSER_CLIENT_PORT}
diff --git a/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/default.env b/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/default.env
index ec7c0820..35e268b4 100644
--- a/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/default.env
+++ b/birdhouse/optional-components/prometheus-log-parser/default.env
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ export PROMETHEUS_LOG_PARSER_PARSERS_DIR=/parsers.d
 export PROMETHEUS_LOG_PARSER_POLL_DELAY=1 # time in seconds
 export PROMETHEUS_LOG_PARSER_TAIL=t
 
+OPTIONAL_VARS="
+  $OPTIONAL_VARS
+  \$PROMETHEUS_LOG_PARSER_CLIENT_PORT
+"
+
 export DELAYED_EVAL="
   $DELAYED_EVAL
   PROMETHEUS_LOG_PARSER_IMAGE