diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8d2bc64..40e7c91 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ reproxy provides 2 endpoints for this purpose:
 Optional, can be turned on with `--mgmt.enabled`. Exposes 2 endpoints on `mgmt.listen` address:port:
 
 - `GET /routes` - list of all discovered routes
-- `GET /prometheus` - returns prometheus metrics (`http_requests_total`, `response_status` and `http_response_time_seconds`)
+- `GET /metrics` - returns prometheus metrics (`http_requests_total`, `response_status` and `http_response_time_seconds`)
 
 _see also [examples/metrics](https://github.com/umputun/reproxy/examples/metrics)_
 
diff --git a/app/mgmt/server.go b/app/mgmt/server.go
index e259580..5d3d9f9 100644
--- a/app/mgmt/server.go
+++ b/app/mgmt/server.go
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ func (s *Server) Run(ctx context.Context) error {
 
 	handler := http.NewServeMux()
 	handler.HandleFunc("/routes", s.routesCtrl())
-	handler.Handle("/prometheus", promhttp.Handler())
+	handler.Handle("/metrics", promhttp.Handler())
 	h := rest.Wrap(handler,
 		rest.Recoverer(log.Default()),
 		rest.AppInfo("reproxy-mgmt", "umputun", s.Version),
diff --git a/app/mgmt/server_test.go b/app/mgmt/server_test.go
index 38f9bc5..0bf9256 100644
--- a/app/mgmt/server_test.go
+++ b/app/mgmt/server_test.go
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ func TestServer_controllers(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.Contains(t, fmt.Sprintf("%v", data["srv1"][0]), `ping:http://example.com/ping`, data["srv1"][0])
 	}
 	{
-		req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://127.0.0.1:"+strconv.Itoa(port)+"/prometheus", nil)
+		req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://127.0.0.1:"+strconv.Itoa(port)+"/metrics", nil)
 		require.NoError(t, err)
 		resp, err := client.Do(req)
 		require.NoError(t, err)
diff --git a/examples/metrics/prometheus/prometheus.yml b/examples/metrics/prometheus/prometheus.yml
index 0d7000e..7db9c2b 100644
--- a/examples/metrics/prometheus/prometheus.yml
+++ b/examples/metrics/prometheus/prometheus.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ scrape_configs:
     static_configs:
       - targets: ['localhost:9090']
   - job_name: reproxy
-    metrics_path: /prometheus
+    metrics_path: /metrics
     static_configs:
       - targets:
         - reproxy:8081