diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 34630f581d6d..06b45869c134 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ Main (unreleased)
 
 - Added support for replaying not sent data for `loki.write` when WAL is enabled. (@thepalbi)
 
+- Make the result of 'discovery.kubelet' support pods that without ports, such as k8s control plane static pods. (@masonmei)
+
 - Added support for unicode strings in `pyroscope.ebpf` python profiles. (@korniltsev)
 
 - Improved resilience of graph evaluation in presence of slow components. (@thampiotr)
diff --git a/component/discovery/kubelet/kubelet.go b/component/discovery/kubelet/kubelet.go
index 53032c424968..ff952e2ada6e 100644
--- a/component/discovery/kubelet/kubelet.go
+++ b/component/discovery/kubelet/kubelet.go
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ const (
 	podNameLabel                  = metaLabelPrefix + "pod_name"
 	podIPLabel                    = metaLabelPrefix + "pod_ip"
 	podContainerNameLabel         = metaLabelPrefix + "pod_container_name"
+	podContainerIDLabel           = metaLabelPrefix + "pod_container_id"
 	podContainerImageLabel        = metaLabelPrefix + "pod_container_image"
 	podContainerPortNameLabel     = metaLabelPrefix + "pod_container_port_name"
 	podContainerPortNumberLabel   = metaLabelPrefix + "pod_container_port_number"
@@ -214,6 +215,27 @@ func (d *Discovery) buildPodTargetGroup(pod v1.Pod) *targetgroup.Group {
 	containers := append(pod.Spec.Containers, pod.Spec.InitContainers...)
 	for i, c := range containers {
 		isInit := i >= len(pod.Spec.Containers)
+		cStatuses := &pod.Status.ContainerStatuses
+		if isInit {
+			cStatuses = &pod.Status.InitContainerStatuses
+		}
+		cID := d.findPodContainerID(cStatuses, c.Name)
+
+		// If no ports are defined for the container, create an anonymous
+		// target per container.
+		if len(c.Ports) == 0 {
+			// We don't have a port so we just set the address label to the pod IP.
+			// The user has to add a port manually.
+			tg.Targets = append(tg.Targets, model.LabelSet{
+				model.AddressLabel:     lv(pod.Status.PodIP),
+				podContainerNameLabel:  lv(c.Name),
+				podContainerIDLabel:    lv(cID),
+				podContainerImageLabel: lv(c.Image),
+				podContainerIsInit:     lv(strconv.FormatBool(isInit)),
+			})
+			continue
+		}
+
 		for _, port := range c.Ports {
 			ports := strconv.FormatUint(uint64(port.ContainerPort), 10)
 			addr := net.JoinHostPort(pod.Status.PodIP, ports)
@@ -221,6 +243,7 @@ func (d *Discovery) buildPodTargetGroup(pod v1.Pod) *targetgroup.Group {
 			tg.Targets = append(tg.Targets, model.LabelSet{
 				model.AddressLabel:            lv(addr),
 				podContainerNameLabel:         lv(c.Name),
+				podContainerIDLabel:           lv(cID),
 				podContainerImageLabel:        lv(c.Image),
 				podContainerPortNumberLabel:   lv(ports),
 				podContainerPortNameLabel:     lv(port.Name),
@@ -233,6 +256,23 @@ func (d *Discovery) buildPodTargetGroup(pod v1.Pod) *targetgroup.Group {
 	return tg
 }
 
+func (p *Discovery) findPodContainerStatus(statuses *[]v1.ContainerStatus, containerName string) (*v1.ContainerStatus, error) {
+	for _, s := range *statuses {
+		if s.Name == containerName {
+			return &s, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot find container with name %v", containerName)
+}
+
+func (p *Discovery) findPodContainerID(statuses *[]v1.ContainerStatus, containerName string) string {
+	cStatus, err := p.findPodContainerStatus(statuses, containerName)
+	if err != nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return cStatus.ContainerID
+}
+
 func (d *Discovery) podInTargetNamespaces(pod v1.Pod) bool {
 	for _, ns := range d.targetNamespaces {
 		if pod.Namespace == ns {
diff --git a/component/discovery/kubelet/kubelet_test.go b/component/discovery/kubelet/kubelet_test.go
index dd73a42d1b3d..b7d2c750d9d2 100644
--- a/component/discovery/kubelet/kubelet_test.go
+++ b/component/discovery/kubelet/kubelet_test.go
@@ -88,3 +88,20 @@ func newPod(name, namespace string) v1.Pod {
 		},
 	}
 }
+
+func TestDiscoveryPodWithoutPod(t *testing.T) {
+	pod1 := newPod("pod-1", "namespace-1")
+	pod2 := newPod("pod-2", "namespace-2")
+	pod1.Spec.Containers[0].Ports = []v1.ContainerPort{}
+
+	podList1 := v1.PodList{
+		Items: []v1.Pod{pod1, pod2},
+	}
+
+	kubeletDiscovery, err := NewKubeletDiscovery(DefaultConfig)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	_, err = kubeletDiscovery.refresh(podList1)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, kubeletDiscovery.discoveredPodSources, 2)
+}