diff --git a/apps/base/k8up-system/kustomization.yaml b/apps/base/k8up-system/kustomization.yaml
index 5122f9e..9331753 100644
--- a/apps/base/k8up-system/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/apps/base/k8up-system/kustomization.yaml
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ kind: Kustomization
 
 resources:
   - namespace.yaml
+  - vmservicescrape.yaml
diff --git a/apps/base/k8up-system/vmservicescrape.yaml b/apps/base/k8up-system/vmservicescrape.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1319e2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/base/k8up-system/vmservicescrape.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+# Scrape the k8up operator metrics (k8up-metrics Service, port http :8080).
+apiVersion: operator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1
+kind: VMServiceScrape
+metadata:
+  name: k8up
+  namespace: k8up-system
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: k8up
+      app.kubernetes.io/instance: k8up
+  endpoints:
+    - port: http
+      path: /metrics