diff --git a/beacon_node/http_server/Cargo.toml b/beacon_node/http_server/Cargo.toml
index fb8bf9f4b..098c3e1c9 100644
--- a/beacon_node/http_server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/beacon_node/http_server/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ fork_choice = { path = "../../eth2/fork_choice" }
 grpcio = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["protobuf-codec"] }
 persistent = "^0.4"
 protobuf = "2.0.2"
-prometheus = "^0.6"
+prometheus = { version = "^0.6", features = ["process"] }
 clap = "2.32.0"
 store = { path = "../store" }
 dirs = "1.0.3"
diff --git a/beacon_node/http_server/src/metrics.rs b/beacon_node/http_server/src/metrics.rs
index 2c6cda0ea..bfa80ec55 100644
--- a/beacon_node/http_server/src/metrics.rs
+++ b/beacon_node/http_server/src/metrics.rs
@@ -90,9 +90,13 @@ fn handle_metrics<T: BeaconChainTypes + 'static>(req: &mut Request) -> IronResul
     let validator_count = beacon_chain.head().beacon_state.validator_registry.len();
     local_metrics.validator_count.set(validator_count as i64);
 
-    // Gather the metrics.
     let mut buffer = vec![];
     let encoder = TextEncoder::new();
+
+    // Gather `DEFAULT_REGISTRY` metrics.
+    encoder.encode(&prometheus::gather(), &mut buffer).unwrap();
+
+    // Gather metrics from our registry.
     let metric_families = r.gather();
     encoder.encode(&metric_families, &mut buffer).unwrap();