diff --git a/7project/backend/app/app.py b/7project/backend/app/app.py
index af85d4f..30578b1 100644
--- a/7project/backend/app/app.py
+++ b/7project/backend/app/app.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from datetime import datetime
 
 from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
+from prometheus_fastapi_instrumentator import Instrumentator, metrics
 from starlette.requests import Request
 
 from app.services import bank_scraper
@@ -15,11 +16,11 @@ from app.api.auth import router as auth_router
 from app.api.csas import router as csas_router
 from app.api.categories import router as categories_router
 from app.api.transactions import router as transactions_router
-from app.services.user_service import auth_backend, current_active_verified_user, fastapi_users, get_oauth_provider, UserManager, get_jwt_strategy
+from app.services.user_service import auth_backend, current_active_verified_user, fastapi_users, get_oauth_provider, \
+    UserManager, get_jwt_strategy
 from app.core.security import extract_bearer_token, is_token_revoked, decode_and_verify_jwt
 from app.services.user_service import SECRET
 
-
 from fastapi import FastAPI
 import sentry_sdk
 from fastapi_users.db import SQLAlchemyUserDatabase
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@ sentry_sdk.init(
 )
 
 fastApi = FastAPI()
-app = fastApi
 
 # CORS for frontend dev server
 fastApi.add_middleware(
@@ -46,11 +46,21 @@ fastApi.add_middleware(
     allow_headers=["*"],
 )
 
+prometheus = Instrumentator().instrument(fastApi)
+
+prometheus.expose(
+    fastApi,
+    endpoint="/metrics",
+    include_in_schema=True,
+)
+
 fastApi.include_router(auth_router)
 fastApi.include_router(categories_router)
 fastApi.include_router(transactions_router)
 
 logging.basicConfig(filename='app.log', level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s %(message)s')
+
+
 @fastApi.middleware("http")
 async def auth_guard(request: Request, call_next):
     # Enforce revoked/expired JWTs are rejected globally
@@ -88,6 +98,7 @@ async def log_traffic(request: Request, call_next):
     logging.info(str(log_params))
     return response
 
+
 fastApi.include_router(
     fastapi_users.get_oauth_router(
         get_oauth_provider("MojeID"),
@@ -114,6 +125,7 @@ fastApi.include_router(
 
 fastApi.include_router(csas_router)
 
+
 # Liveness/root endpoint
 @fastApi.get("/", include_in_schema=False)
 async def root():
@@ -132,8 +144,9 @@ async def debug_scrape_csas_all():
     return {"status": "queued", "action": "csas_scrape_all", "task_id": getattr(task, 'id', None)}
 
 
-@fastApi.post("/debug/scrape/csas/{user_id}", tags=["debug"]) 
+@fastApi.post("/debug/scrape/csas/{user_id}", tags=["debug"])
 async def debug_scrape_csas_user(user_id: str, user: User = Depends(current_active_verified_user)):
     logging.info("[Debug] Queueing CSAS scrape for single user via HTTP endpoint (Celery) | user_id=%s", user_id)
     task = load_transactions.delay(user_id)
-    return {"status": "queued", "action": "csas_scrape_single", "user_id": user_id, "task_id": getattr(task, 'id', None)}
+    return {"status": "queued", "action": "csas_scrape_single", "user_id": user_id,
+            "task_id": getattr(task, 'id', None)}
diff --git a/7project/backend/requirements.txt b/7project/backend/requirements.txt
index d0699ef..d7f5316 100644
--- a/7project/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/7project/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ MarkupSafe==3.0.2
 multidict==6.6.4
 packaging==25.0
 pamqp==3.3.0
+prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator==7.1.0
+prometheus_client==0.23.1
 prompt_toolkit==3.0.52
 propcache==0.3.2
 pwdlib==0.2.1
diff --git a/7project/charts/myapp-chart/templates/monitoring.yaml b/7project/charts/myapp-chart/templates/monitoring.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..804d804
--- /dev/null
+++ b/7project/charts/myapp-chart/templates/monitoring.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: fastapi-servicemonitor
+  labels:
+    release: prometheus
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: {{ .Values.app.name }}
+  endpoints:
+    - port: 8000
+      path: /metrics
+      interval: 15s
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