diff --git a/contrib/grafana/Oathkeeper-Dashboard.json b/contrib/grafana/Oathkeeper-Dashboard.json
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+{
+  "__inputs": [
+    {
+      "name": "PROMETHEUS",
+      "label": "prometheus",
+      "description": "",
+      "type": "datasource",
+      "pluginId": "prometheus",
+      "pluginName": "Prometheus"
+    }
+  ],
+  "__requires": [
+    {
+      "type": "grafana",
+      "id": "grafana",
+      "name": "Grafana",
+      "version": "6.7.1"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "panel",
+      "id": "graph",
+      "name": "Graph",
+      "version": ""
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "datasource",
+      "id": "prometheus",
+      "name": "Prometheus",
+      "version": "1.0.0"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "panel",
+      "id": "stat",
+      "name": "Stat",
+      "version": ""
+    }
+  ],
+  "annotations": {
+    "list": [
+      {
+        "$$hashKey": "object:123",
+        "builtIn": 1,
+        "datasource": "-- Grafana --",
+        "enable": true,
+        "hide": true,
+        "iconColor": "rgba(0, 211, 255, 1)",
+        "name": "Annotations & Alerts",
+        "type": "dashboard"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "editable": true,
+  "gnetId": null,
+  "graphTooltip": 0,
+  "id": null,
+  "links": [],
+  "panels": [
+    {
+      "datasource": "${PROMETHEUS}",
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 5,
+        "w": 8,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 0
+      },
+      "id": 6,
+      "options": {
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "fieldOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "mean"
+          ],
+          "defaults": {
+            "mappings": [],
+            "thresholds": {
+              "mode": "absolute",
+              "steps": [
+                {
+                  "color": "rgb(255, 255, 255)",
+                  "value": null
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          },
+          "overrides": [],
+          "values": false
+        },
+        "graphMode": "area",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "orientation": "auto"
+      },
+      "pluginVersion": "6.7.1",
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "expr": "sum(irate(ory_oathkeeper_requests_total[5m])) by (instance)",
+          "interval": "",
+          "legendFormat": "",
+          "refId": "A"
+        }
+      ],
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+      "timeShift": null,
+      "title": "Total RPS",
+      "type": "stat"
+    },
+    {
+      "datasource": "${PROMETHEUS}",
+      "gridPos": {
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+        "w": 8,
+        "x": 8,
+        "y": 0
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+      "options": {
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "fieldOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "mean"
+          ],
+          "defaults": {
+            "mappings": [],
+            "thresholds": {
+              "mode": "absolute",
+              "steps": [
+                {
+                  "color": "green",
+                  "value": null
+                },
+                {
+                  "color": "red",
+                  "value": 80
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          },
+          "overrides": [],
+          "values": false
+        },
+        "graphMode": "area",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "orientation": "auto"
+      },
+      "pluginVersion": "6.7.1",
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "expr": "sum(irate(ory_oathkeeper_requests_total{status_code=\"200\"}[5m])) by (instance)",
+          "interval": "",
+          "legendFormat": "",
+          "refId": "A"
+        }
+      ],
+      "timeFrom": null,
+      "timeShift": null,
+      "title": "Allowed RPS",
+      "type": "stat"
+    },
+    {
+      "cacheTimeout": null,
+      "datasource": "${PROMETHEUS}",
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 5,
+        "w": 8,
+        "x": 16,
+        "y": 0
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+      "id": 8,
+      "links": [],
+      "options": {
+        "colorMode": "value",
+        "fieldOptions": {
+          "calcs": [
+            "mean"
+          ],
+          "defaults": {
+            "mappings": [
+              {
+                "$$hashKey": "object:311",
+                "id": 0,
+                "op": "=",
+                "text": "0",
+                "type": 1,
+                "value": "null"
+              }
+            ],
+            "nullValueMode": "connected",
+            "thresholds": {
+              "mode": "absolute",
+              "steps": [
+                {
+                  "color": "dark-red",
+                  "value": null
+                }
+              ]
+            },
+            "unit": "none"
+          },
+          "overrides": [],
+          "values": false
+        },
+        "graphMode": "area",
+        "justifyMode": "auto",
+        "orientation": "horizontal"
+      },
+      "pluginVersion": "6.7.1",
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "expr": "sum(irate(ory_oathkeeper_requests_total{status_code!=\"200\"}[5m])) by (instance)",
+          "interval": "",
+          "legendFormat": "",
+          "refId": "A"
+        }
+      ],
+      "timeFrom": null,
+      "timeShift": null,
+      "title": "Denied RPS",
+      "type": "stat"
+    },
+    {
+      "aliasColors": {},
+      "bars": false,
+      "dashLength": 10,
+      "dashes": false,
+      "datasource": "${PROMETHEUS}",
+      "fill": 1,
+      "fillGradient": 0,
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 9,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 0,
+        "y": 5
+      },
+      "hiddenSeries": false,
+      "id": 2,
+      "legend": {
+        "alignAsTable": true,
+        "avg": true,
+        "current": false,
+        "max": false,
+        "min": false,
+        "rightSide": true,
+        "show": true,
+        "total": false,
+        "values": true
+      },
+      "lines": true,
+      "linewidth": 1,
+      "nullPointMode": "null",
+      "options": {
+        "dataLinks": []
+      },
+      "percentage": false,
+      "pointradius": 2,
+      "points": false,
+      "renderer": "flot",
+      "seriesOverrides": [],
+      "spaceLength": 10,
+      "stack": false,
+      "steppedLine": false,
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "expr": "sum(irate(ory_oathkeeper_requests_total[5m])) by (instance, request)",
+          "interval": "",
+          "legendFormat": "{{ instance }} - {{ request }}",
+          "refId": "A"
+        }
+      ],
+      "thresholds": [],
+      "timeFrom": null,
+      "timeRegions": [],
+      "timeShift": null,
+      "title": "RPS",
+      "tooltip": {
+        "shared": true,
+        "sort": 0,
+        "value_type": "individual"
+      },
+      "type": "graph",
+      "xaxis": {
+        "buckets": null,
+        "mode": "time",
+        "name": null,
+        "show": true,
+        "values": []
+      },
+      "yaxes": [
+        {
+          "$$hashKey": "object:373",
+          "format": "short",
+          "label": null,
+          "logBase": 1,
+          "max": null,
+          "min": null,
+          "show": true
+        },
+        {
+          "$$hashKey": "object:374",
+          "format": "short",
+          "label": null,
+          "logBase": 1,
+          "max": null,
+          "min": null,
+          "show": true
+        }
+      ],
+      "yaxis": {
+        "align": false,
+        "alignLevel": null
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "aliasColors": {},
+      "bars": false,
+      "dashLength": 10,
+      "dashes": false,
+      "datasource": "${PROMETHEUS}",
+      "fill": 1,
+      "fillGradient": 0,
+      "gridPos": {
+        "h": 9,
+        "w": 12,
+        "x": 12,
+        "y": 5
+      },
+      "hiddenSeries": false,
+      "id": 4,
+      "legend": {
+        "alignAsTable": true,
+        "avg": true,
+        "current": false,
+        "max": false,
+        "min": false,
+        "rightSide": true,
+        "show": true,
+        "total": false,
+        "values": true
+      },
+      "lines": true,
+      "linewidth": 1,
+      "nullPointMode": "null",
+      "options": {
+        "dataLinks": []
+      },
+      "percentage": false,
+      "pointradius": 2,
+      "points": false,
+      "renderer": "flot",
+      "seriesOverrides": [],
+      "spaceLength": 10,
+      "stack": false,
+      "steppedLine": false,
+      "targets": [
+        {
+          "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.90, avg(rate(ory_oathkeeper_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le, instance))",
+          "interval": "",
+          "legendFormat": "{{ instance }} - p90",
+          "refId": "A"
+        },
+        {
+          "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.95, avg(rate(ory_oathkeeper_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le, instance))",
+          "interval": "",
+          "legendFormat": "{{ instance }} - p95",
+          "refId": "B"
+        },
+        {
+          "expr": "histogram_quantile(0.99, avg(rate(ory_oathkeeper_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le, instance))",
+          "interval": "",
+          "legendFormat": "{{ instance }} - p99",
+          "refId": "C"
+        },
+        {
+          "expr": "histogram_quantile(1, avg(rate(ory_oathkeeper_request_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])) by (le, instance))",
+          "interval": "",
+          "legendFormat": "{{ instance }} - p100",
+          "refId": "D"
+        }
+      ],
+      "thresholds": [],
+      "timeFrom": null,
+      "timeRegions": [],
+      "timeShift": null,
+      "title": "Latencies",
+      "tooltip": {
+        "shared": true,
+        "sort": 0,
+        "value_type": "individual"
+      },
+      "type": "graph",
+      "xaxis": {
+        "buckets": null,
+        "mode": "time",
+        "name": null,
+        "show": true,
+        "values": []
+      },
+      "yaxes": [
+        {
+          "$$hashKey": "object:454",
+          "decimals": 0,
+          "format": "s",
+          "label": null,
+          "logBase": 1,
+          "max": null,
+          "min": null,
+          "show": true
+        },
+        {
+          "$$hashKey": "object:455",
+          "format": "short",
+          "label": null,
+          "logBase": 1,
+          "max": null,
+          "min": null,
+          "show": true
+        }
+      ],
+      "yaxis": {
+        "align": false,
+        "alignLevel": null
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "schemaVersion": 22,
+  "style": "dark",
+  "tags": [],
+  "templating": {
+    "list": []
+  },
+  "time": {
+    "from": "now-1h",
+    "to": "now"
+  },
+  "timepicker": {},
+  "timezone": "",
+  "title": "Oathkeeper",
+  "uid": "5xCfOseWk",
+  "variables": {
+    "list": []
+  },
+  "version": 3
+}
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diff --git a/docs/docs/configure-deploy.md b/docs/docs/configure-deploy.md
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@@ -369,3 +369,61 @@ $ docker rm -f ory-oathkeeper-demo
 $ docker rmi -f ory-oathkeeper-demo
 $ rm -rf oathkeeper-demo
 ```
+
+## Monitoring
+
+Oathkeeper provides an endpoint for Prometheus to scrape as a target. This endpoint can
+be accessed by default at:
+[http://localhost:9000/metrics](http://localhost:9000/metrics):
+
+You can adjust the settings within Oathkeeper's config.
+```shell
+$ cat << EOF > config.yaml
+serve:
+  prometheus:
+    port: 9000
+    host: localhost
+    metrics_path: /metrics
+EOF
+```
+
+Prometheus can easily be run as a docker container. More information are available on [https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus). Start with setting up a prometheus configuration:
+
+
+```shell
+$ cat << EOF > prometheus.yml
+global:
+  scrape_interval: 15s # By default, scrape targets every 15 seconds.
+
+scrape_configs:
+  - job_name: 'prometheus'
+    scrape_interval: 15s
+    static_configs:
+      - targets: ['localhost:9090']
+  - job_name: 'oathkeeper'
+    scrape_interval: 15s
+    metrics_path: /metrics
+    static_configs:
+      # The target needs to match what you've configured above
+      - targets: ['localhost:9000']
+```
+
+Then start the prometheus server and access it on [http://localhost:9090](http://localhost:9090).
+
+```shell
+$ docker run \
+  --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
+  -v ./prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
+  --name prometheus \
+  -d \ 
+  --net=host
+  -p 9090:9090 \
+  prom/prometheus
+```
+
+Now where you have a basic monitoring setup running you can extend it by building up nice visualizations eg. using Grafana. More information are available on [https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/grafana/](https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/grafana/).
+
+We have a pre built Dashboard which you can use to get started quickly:
+[Oathkeeper-Dashboard.json](https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper/tree/master/contrib/grafana/Oathkeeper-Dashboard.json).
+
+<img alt="ORY Oathkeeper with Prometheus and Grafana" src={useBaseUrl('img/docs/grafana.png')} />
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