diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1c4cfc9ae5..8e2df248bd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Note: This CHANGELOG is only for the monitoring team to track all monitoring related changes. Please see OpenShift release notes for official changes.
 
+## 4.16
+
+- [#2302](https://github.com/openshift/cluster-monitoring-operator/issues/2302) Enable feature `extra-scrape-metrics` in Prometheus user-workload
+
 ## 4.15
 
 - [#2022](https://github.com/openshift/cluster-monitoring-operator/pull/2022) Add support to switch to metrics server from prometheus-adapter when the `MetricsServer` feature gate is enabled.
diff --git a/assets/prometheus-user-workload/prometheus.yaml b/assets/prometheus-user-workload/prometheus.yaml
index f6317dcc0e..18fc956811 100644
--- a/assets/prometheus-user-workload/prometheus.yaml
+++ b/assets/prometheus-user-workload/prometheus.yaml
@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ spec:
       name: secret-grpc-tls
   - name: prometheus
     terminationMessagePolicy: FallbackToLogsOnError
-  enableFeatures: []
+  enableFeatures:
+  - extra-scrape-metrics
   enforcedNamespaceLabel: namespace
   externalLabels: {}
   ignoreNamespaceSelectors: true
diff --git a/jsonnet/components/prometheus-user-workload.libsonnet b/jsonnet/components/prometheus-user-workload.libsonnet
index 9e247b3f91..5a7fed24b6 100644
--- a/jsonnet/components/prometheus-user-workload.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/components/prometheus-user-workload.libsonnet
@@ -292,6 +292,8 @@ function(params)
 
     prometheus+: {
       spec+: {
+        // Enable experimental additional scrape metrics feature
+        enableFeatures+: ['extra-scrape-metrics'],
         overrideHonorTimestamps: true,
         overrideHonorLabels: true,
         ignoreNamespaceSelectors: true,
diff --git a/test/e2e/config_test.go b/test/e2e/config_test.go
index 25ee44dea6..474cbf66e4 100644
--- a/test/e2e/config_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/config_test.go
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ func TestUserWorkloadMonitorPrometheusK8Config(t *testing.T) {
 					expectCatchAllToleration(),
 					expectMatchingRequests(podName, containerName, mem, cpu),
 					// Set by default.
-					expectContainerArg("--enable-feature=exemplar-storage", containerName),
+					expectContainerArg("--enable-feature=extra-scrape-metrics,exemplar-storage", containerName),
 					// Set via the config above.
 					expectContainerArg("--log.level=debug", containerName),
 					expectContainerArg("--storage.tsdb.retention.time=10h", containerName),