diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index a4034b65e6e..989c46e557a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v7.0.0-alpha2...master[Check the HEAD d
 - Change lookup_fields from metricset.host to service.address {pull}15883[15883]
 - Add dedot for cloudwatch metric name. {issue}15916[15916] {pull}15917[15917]
 - Fixed issue `logstash-xpack` module suddenly ceasing to monitor Logstash. {issue}15974[15974] {pull}16044[16044]
+- Fix skipping protocol scheme by light modules. {pull}16205[pull]
 
 *Packetbeat*
 
diff --git a/metricbeat/mb/lightmetricset.go b/metricbeat/mb/lightmetricset.go
index dee1d0afb7b..11e49cd5c77 100644
--- a/metricbeat/mb/lightmetricset.go
+++ b/metricbeat/mb/lightmetricset.go
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 package mb
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net/url"
+
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/common"
@@ -83,7 +86,8 @@ func (m *LightMetricSet) Registration(r *Register) (MetricSetRegistration, error
 		// At this point host parser was already run, we need to run this again
 		// with the overriden defaults
 		if registration.HostParser != nil {
-			base.hostData, err = registration.HostParser(base.module, base.host)
+			host := m.useHostURISchemeIfPossible(base.host, base.hostData.URI)
+			base.hostData, err = registration.HostParser(base.module, host)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "host parser failed on light metricset factory for '%s/%s'", m.Module, m.Name)
 			}
@@ -96,6 +100,18 @@ func (m *LightMetricSet) Registration(r *Register) (MetricSetRegistration, error
 	return registration, nil
 }
 
+// useHostURISchemeIfPossible method parses given URI to extract protocol scheme and prepend it to the host.
+// It prevents from skipping protocol scheme (e.g. https) while executing HostParser.
+func (m *LightMetricSet) useHostURISchemeIfPossible(host, uri string) string {
+	u, err := url.ParseRequestURI(uri)
+	if err == nil {
+		if u.Scheme != "" {
+			return fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s", u.Scheme, u.Host)
+		}
+	}
+	return host
+}
+
 // baseModule does the configuration overrides in the base module configuration
 // taking into account the light metric set default configurations
 func (m *LightMetricSet) baseModule(from Module) (*BaseModule, error) {
diff --git a/metricbeat/mb/lightmodules_test.go b/metricbeat/mb/lightmodules_test.go
index e7a933cc47a..90f81242651 100644
--- a/metricbeat/mb/lightmodules_test.go
+++ b/metricbeat/mb/lightmodules_test.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 package mb
 
 import (
+	"net/url"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -287,6 +288,96 @@ func TestNewModuleFromConfig(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestLightMetricSet_VerifyHostDataURI(t *testing.T) {
+	const hostEndpoint = "ceph-restful:8003"
+	const sampleHttpsEndpoint = "https://" + hostEndpoint
+
+	r := NewRegister()
+	r.MustAddMetricSet("http", "json", newMetricSetWithOption,
+		WithHostParser(func(module Module, host string) (HostData, error) {
+			u, err := url.Parse(host)
+			if err != nil {
+				return HostData{}, err
+			}
+			return HostData{
+				Host: u.Host,
+				URI:  host,
+			}, nil
+		}))
+	r.SetSecondarySource(NewLightModulesSource("testdata/lightmodules"))
+
+	config, err := common.NewConfigFrom(
+		common.MapStr{
+			"module":     "httpextended",
+			"metricsets": []string{"extends"},
+			"hosts":      []string{sampleHttpsEndpoint},
+		})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	_, metricSets, err := NewModule(config, r)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, metricSets, 1)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, hostEndpoint, metricSets[0].Host())
+	assert.Equal(t, sampleHttpsEndpoint, metricSets[0].HostData().URI)
+}
+
+func TestLightMetricSet_WithoutHostParser(t *testing.T) {
+	const sampleHttpsEndpoint = "https://ceph-restful:8003"
+
+	r := NewRegister()
+	r.MustAddMetricSet("http", "json", newMetricSetWithOption)
+	r.SetSecondarySource(NewLightModulesSource("testdata/lightmodules"))
+
+	config, err := common.NewConfigFrom(
+		common.MapStr{
+			"module":     "httpextended",
+			"metricsets": []string{"extends"},
+			"hosts":      []string{sampleHttpsEndpoint},
+		})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	_, metricSets, err := NewModule(config, r)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, metricSets, 1)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, sampleHttpsEndpoint, metricSets[0].Host())
+	assert.Equal(t, sampleHttpsEndpoint, metricSets[0].HostData().URI)
+}
+
+func TestLightMetricSet_VerifyHostDataURI_NonParsableHost(t *testing.T) {
+	const (
+		postgresHost     = "host1:5432"
+		postgresEndpoint = "postgres://user1:pass@host1:5432?connect_timeout=2"
+		postgresParsed   = "connect_timeout=3 host=host1 password=pass port=5432 user=user1"
+	)
+
+	r := NewRegister()
+	r.MustAddMetricSet("http", "json", newMetricSetWithOption,
+		WithHostParser(func(module Module, host string) (HostData, error) {
+			return HostData{
+				Host: postgresHost,
+				URI:  postgresParsed,
+			}, nil
+		}))
+	r.SetSecondarySource(NewLightModulesSource("testdata/lightmodules"))
+
+	config, err := common.NewConfigFrom(
+		common.MapStr{
+			"module":     "httpextended",
+			"metricsets": []string{"extends"},
+			"hosts":      []string{postgresEndpoint},
+		})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	_, metricSets, err := NewModule(config, r)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, metricSets, 1)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, postgresHost, metricSets[0].Host())
+	assert.Equal(t, postgresParsed, metricSets[0].HostData().URI)
+}
+
 func TestNewModulesCallModuleFactory(t *testing.T) {
 	logp.TestingSetup()
 
diff --git a/metricbeat/mb/testdata/lightmodules/httpextended/extends/manifest.yml b/metricbeat/mb/testdata/lightmodules/httpextended/extends/manifest.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a56f13a3c7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metricbeat/mb/testdata/lightmodules/httpextended/extends/manifest.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+default: true
+input:
+  module: http
+  metricset: json
diff --git a/metricbeat/mb/testdata/lightmodules/httpextended/module.yml b/metricbeat/mb/testdata/lightmodules/httpextended/module.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..93ecaa59ba1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metricbeat/mb/testdata/lightmodules/httpextended/module.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+name: httpextended
+metricsets:
+- extends