diff --git a/roles/prometheus/defaults/main.yml b/roles/prometheus/defaults/main.yml
index fb1e301a6..28cac4f80 100644
--- a/roles/prometheus/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/prometheus/defaults/main.yml
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ prometheus_static_targets_files:
   - prometheus/targets/*.yml
   - prometheus/targets/*.json
 
+prometheus_scrape_config_files:
+  - prometheus/targets/*.yml
+  - prometheus/targets/*.json
+
 # yamllint disable rule:line-length
 prometheus_alert_rules:  # noqa yaml[line-length]  # noqa line-length
   - alert: Watchdog
diff --git a/roles/prometheus/meta/argument_specs.yml b/roles/prometheus/meta/argument_specs.yml
index 9a58cb49d..555c652ee 100644
--- a/roles/prometheus/meta/argument_specs.yml
+++ b/roles/prometheus/meta/argument_specs.yml
@@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ argument_specs:
         default:
           - "prometheus/targets/*.yml"
           - "prometheus/targets/*.json"
+      prometheus_scrape_config_files:
+        description:
+          - "List of folders where ansible will look for files containing custom scrape config configuration files which will be copied to C({{ prometheus_config_dir }}/scrapes/)."
+        type: "list"
+        elements: "str"
+        default:
+          - "prometheus/scrapes/*.yml"
+          - "prometheus/scrapes/*.json"
       prometheus_stop_timeout:
         description:
           - "How long to wait for Prometheus to shutdown. This is passed as a systemd TimeoutStopSec time spec."
diff --git a/roles/prometheus/tasks/configure.yml b/roles/prometheus/tasks/configure.yml
index cd220f1cc..52fb6262a 100644
--- a/roles/prometheus/tasks/configure.yml
+++ b/roles/prometheus/tasks/configure.yml
@@ -70,3 +70,13 @@
     group: prometheus
     mode: 0640
   with_fileglob: "{{ prometheus_static_targets_files }}"
+
+- name: Copy prometheus scrape config files
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
+    src: "{{ item }}"
+    dest: "{{ prometheus_config_dir }}/scrapes/"
+    force: true
+    owner: root
+    group: prometheus
+    mode: 0640
+  with_fileglob: "{{ prometheus_static_scrape_files }}"
diff --git a/roles/prometheus/tasks/install.yml b/roles/prometheus/tasks/install.yml
index 47a874048..44f3aaa58 100644
--- a/roles/prometheus/tasks/install.yml
+++ b/roles/prometheus/tasks/install.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     - "{{ prometheus_config_dir }}"
     - "{{ prometheus_config_dir }}/rules"
     - "{{ prometheus_config_dir }}/file_sd"
+    - "{{ prometheus_config_dir }}/scrapes"
 
 - name: Get prometheus binary
   when:
diff --git a/roles/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2 b/roles/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2
index fb0be5d2f..a37ae12e8 100644
--- a/roles/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2
+++ b/roles/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2
@@ -34,3 +34,8 @@ alerting:
 
 scrape_configs:
   {{ prometheus_scrape_configs | to_nice_yaml(indent=2,sort_keys=False) | indent(2,False) }}
+
+{% if prometheus_scrape_config_files != [] %}
+scrape_config_files:
+  {{ prometheus_scrape_config_files | to_nice_yaml(indent=2) | indent(2,False) }}
+{% endif %}