diff --git a/kedify-agent/templates/agent-deployment.yaml b/kedify-agent/templates/agent-deployment.yaml
index e227648e..a0022a2a 100644
--- a/kedify-agent/templates/agent-deployment.yaml
+++ b/kedify-agent/templates/agent-deployment.yaml
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ spec:
             - name: PRP_REQUIRES_ANNOTATED_PODS
               value: {{ .Values.agent.features.prpRequiresAnnotatedPods | quote }}
             {{- end }}
+            - name: METRICS_WATCH_NAMESPACE
+              value: {{ .Values.agent.metricsWatchNamespace | quote }}
             - name: RBAC_READ_NODES
               value: {{ .Values.agent.rbac.readNodes | quote }}
             - name: RBAC_READ_PODS
diff --git a/kedify-agent/values.yaml b/kedify-agent/values.yaml
index b491e337..88ee6ae4 100644
--- a/kedify-agent/values.yaml
+++ b/kedify-agent/values.yaml
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ agent:
     pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
   imagePullSecrets: []
 
+  # comma-separated list of namespaces where pod utilization metrics should be collected
+  # or if unset denotes all namespaces, the collecting itself needs to be also enabled by KubernetesMetricsScraping flag
+  metricsWatchNamespace: ""
   # if anything else than 'false', the log will not print the ascii logo
   noBanner: false
   # if anything else than 'false', the log will not contain colors