diff --git a/receiver/prometheusreceiver/internal/metrics.go b/receiver/prometheusreceiver/internal/metrics.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b0c73eecce8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/receiver/prometheusreceiver/internal/metrics.go
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package internal
+
+import (
+	"context"
+
+	"go.opencensus.io/stats"
+	"go.opencensus.io/stats/view"
+	"go.opencensus.io/tag"
+)
+
+var tagInstance, _ = tag.NewKey("instance")
+
+var statUpStatus = stats.Int64("up", "Whether the endpoint is alive or not", stats.UnitDimensionless)
+
+func MetricViews() []*view.View {
+	return []*view.View{
+		{
+			Name:        statUpStatus.Name(),
+			Measure:     statUpStatus,
+			Description: statUpStatus.Description(),
+			TagKeys:     []tag.Key{tagInstance},
+			Aggregation: view.LastValue(),
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+func recordInstanceAsUp(ctx context.Context, instanceValue string) context.Context {
+	ctx, _ = tag.New(ctx, tag.Upsert(tagInstance, instanceValue))
+	stats.Record(ctx, statUpStatus.M(1))
+	return ctx
+}
+
+func recordInstanceAsDown(ctx context.Context, instanceValue string) context.Context {
+	ctx, _ = tag.New(ctx, tag.Upsert(tagInstance, instanceValue))
+	stats.Record(ctx, statUpStatus.M(0))
+	return ctx
+}
diff --git a/receiver/prometheusreceiver/internal/metricsbuilder.go b/receiver/prometheusreceiver/internal/metricsbuilder.go
index fd18f8f900c..d4715d52087 100644
--- a/receiver/prometheusreceiver/internal/metricsbuilder.go
+++ b/receiver/prometheusreceiver/internal/metricsbuilder.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 package internal
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"regexp"
@@ -99,18 +100,27 @@ func (b *metricBuilder) AddDataPoint(ls labels.Labels, t int64, v float64) error
 		delete(lm, model.MetricNameLabel)
 		// See https://www.prometheus.io/docs/concepts/jobs_instances/#automatically-generated-labels-and-time-series
 		// up: 1 if the instance is healthy, i.e. reachable, or 0 if the scrape failed.
-		if metricName == scrapeUpMetricName && v != 1.0 {
-			if v == 0.0 {
+		instanceValue := lm["instance"]
+		if metricName == scrapeUpMetricName {
+			switch v {
+			case 1.0: // The instance is up!
+				recordInstanceAsUp(context.Background(), instanceValue)
+
+			case 0.0: // The instance is definitely down.
+				recordInstanceAsDown(context.Background(), instanceValue)
 				b.logger.Warn("Failed to scrape Prometheus endpoint",
 					zap.Int64("scrape_timestamp", t),
 					zap.String("target_labels", fmt.Sprintf("%v", lm)))
-			} else {
+
+			default: // We got an invalid value for "up"
+				recordInstanceAsDown(context.Background(), instanceValue)
 				b.logger.Warn("The 'up' metric contains invalid value",
 					zap.Float64("value", v),
 					zap.Int64("scrape_timestamp", t),
 					zap.String("target_labels", fmt.Sprintf("%v", lm)))
 			}
 		}
+
 		return nil
 	case b.useStartTimeMetric && b.matchStartTimeMetric(metricName):
 		b.startTime = v
diff --git a/receiver/prometheusreceiver/metrics_receiver.go b/receiver/prometheusreceiver/metrics_receiver.go
index 9d8edb89059..3acb580ed0f 100644
--- a/receiver/prometheusreceiver/metrics_receiver.go
+++ b/receiver/prometheusreceiver/metrics_receiver.go
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ func newPrometheusReceiver(logger *zap.Logger, cfg *Config, next consumer.Metric
 	return pr
 }
 
+var MetricViews = internal.MetricViews
+
 // Start is the method that starts Prometheus scraping and it
 // is controlled by having previously defined a Configuration using perhaps New.
 func (r *pReceiver) Start(_ context.Context, host component.Host) error {
diff --git a/service/telemetry.go b/service/telemetry.go
index 8ac6c91913b..15ce38e1de4 100644
--- a/service/telemetry.go
+++ b/service/telemetry.go
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import (
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/obsreport"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor/batchprocessor"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/kafkareceiver"
+	prometheusreceiver "go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/prometheusreceiver"
 	telemetry2 "go.opentelemetry.io/collector/service/internal/telemetry"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/translator/conventions"
 )
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ func (tel *appTelemetry) init(asyncErrorChannel chan<- error, ballastSizeBytes u
 	views = append(views, kafkareceiver.MetricViews()...)
 	views = append(views, obsreport.Configure(level)...)
 	views = append(views, processMetricsViews.Views()...)
+	views = append(views, prometheusreceiver.MetricViews()...)
 
 	tel.views = views
 	if err = view.Register(views...); err != nil {