diff --git a/app/app.go b/app/app.go
index 0157540..43e32c8 100644
--- a/app/app.go
+++ b/app/app.go
@@ -169,6 +169,24 @@ func (a *App) makeMetricsProxy() *proxmetrics.Fetcher {
 	)
 }
 
+func (a *App) makeStatusHandler() *proxmetrics.StatusHandler {
+	_, local4, _ := net.ParseCIDR("127.0.0.1/32") // nolint:errcheck
+	_, local6, _ := net.ParseCIDR("::1/128")      // nolint:errcheck
+	allowed := []*config.CIDR{
+		{
+			IpNet: local4,
+		},
+		{
+			IpNet: local6,
+		},
+	}
+	return proxmetrics.NewStatusHandler(
+		proxmetrics.NewStatusCollector(a.gslocConsul),
+		append(allowed, a.cnf.MetricsConfig.AllowedInspect...),
+		a.cnf.MetricsConfig.TrustXFF,
+	)
+}
+
 func (a *App) loadGslocConsul() error {
 	if a.onlyServeDns {
 		a.entry.Info("Only serve DNS: no gsloc consul for api")
@@ -264,7 +282,7 @@ func (a *App) Run() error {
 			grpcServer := servers.NewHTTPServer(
 				a.cnf.HTTPServer,
 				a.hcHandler, a.grpcServer,
-				a.makeMetricsProxy(), proxmetrics.NewStatusCollector(a.gslocConsul),
+				a.makeMetricsProxy(), a.makeStatusHandler(),
 			)
 			grpcServer.Run(a.ctx)
 		}()
diff --git a/config/metrics.go b/config/metrics.go
index 2c8b699..7b416de 100644
--- a/config/metrics.go
+++ b/config/metrics.go
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import (
 var validateNameForPath = regexp.MustCompile(`(\s|_)`).MatchString
 
 type MetricsConfig struct {
+	AllowedInspect     []*CIDR             `yaml:"allowed_inspect"`
+	TrustXFF           bool                `yaml:"trust_xff"`
 	ProxyMetricsConfig *ProxyMetricsConfig `yaml:"proxy"`
 }
 
@@ -22,6 +24,15 @@ func (u *MetricsConfig) init() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (u *MetricsConfig) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error {
+	type plain MetricsConfig
+	err := unmarshal((*plain)(u))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return u.init()
+}
+
 type ProxyMetricsConfig struct {
 	Targets []*ProxyMetricsTarget `yaml:"targets"`
 }
diff --git a/proxmetrics/status.go b/proxmetrics/status.go
index 3ced6e6..5cc00d0 100644
--- a/proxmetrics/status.go
+++ b/proxmetrics/status.go
@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@ package proxmetrics
 
 import (
 	gslbsvc "github.com/orange-cloudfoundry/gsloc-go-sdk/gsloc/services/gslb/v1"
+	"github.com/orange-cloudfoundry/gsloc/config"
 	"github.com/orange-cloudfoundry/gsloc/disco"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp"
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	"net"
 	"net/http"
+	"strings"
 )
 
 type StatusCollector struct {
@@ -14,12 +17,58 @@ type StatusCollector struct {
 	gslocConsul *disco.GslocConsul
 }
 
-func StatusHandler(collector *StatusCollector) http.Handler {
+type StatusHandler struct {
+	metricHandler  http.Handler
+	allowedInspect []*config.CIDR
+	trustXFF       bool
+}
+
+func NewStatusHandler(collector *StatusCollector, allowedInspect []*config.CIDR, trustXFF bool) *StatusHandler {
 	registry := prometheus.NewRegistry()
 	registry.MustRegister(collector)
-	return promhttp.InstrumentMetricHandler(
-		registry, promhttp.HandlerFor(registry, promhttp.HandlerOpts{}),
-	)
+	return &StatusHandler{
+		metricHandler: promhttp.InstrumentMetricHandler(
+			registry, promhttp.HandlerFor(registry, promhttp.HandlerOpts{}),
+		),
+		allowedInspect: allowedInspect,
+		trustXFF:       trustXFF,
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *StatusHandler) isAllowedInspect(req *http.Request) bool {
+	if s.remoteAddrIsAllowed(req.RemoteAddr) {
+		return true
+	}
+	if !s.trustXFF || req.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-For") == "" {
+		return false
+	}
+	allIps := strings.Split(req.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-For"), ",")
+	if s.remoteAddrIsAllowed(allIps[0]) {
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func (s *StatusHandler) remoteAddrIsAllowed(remoteAddr string) bool {
+	if strings.Contains(remoteAddr, ":") {
+		remoteAddr, _, _ = net.SplitHostPort(remoteAddr) // nolint: errcheck
+	}
+	remoteAddrIp := net.ParseIP(remoteAddr)
+	for _, cidr := range s.allowedInspect {
+		if cidr.IpNet.Contains(remoteAddrIp) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func (s *StatusHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	if !s.isAllowedInspect(r) {
+		http.Error(w, "Not allowed", http.StatusForbidden)
+		return
+	}
+	s.metricHandler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
+	return
 }
 
 func NewStatusCollector(gslocConsul *disco.GslocConsul) *StatusCollector {
diff --git a/servers/http.go b/servers/http.go
index 2dcf3ca..4cc352b 100644
--- a/servers/http.go
+++ b/servers/http.go
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ import (
 )
 
 type HTTPServer struct {
-	mux             *mux.Router
-	cnf             *config.HTTPServerConfig
-	hcker           *healthchecks.HcHandler
-	grpcServ        *grpc.Server
-	metricsFetcher  *proxmetrics.Fetcher
-	statusCollector *proxmetrics.StatusCollector
+	mux            *mux.Router
+	cnf            *config.HTTPServerConfig
+	hcker          *healthchecks.HcHandler
+	grpcServ       *grpc.Server
+	metricsFetcher *proxmetrics.Fetcher
+	statusHandler  *proxmetrics.StatusHandler
 }
 
 func NewHTTPServer(
@@ -29,15 +29,15 @@ func NewHTTPServer(
 	hcker *healthchecks.HcHandler,
 	grpcServ *grpc.Server,
 	metricsFetcher *proxmetrics.Fetcher,
-	statusCollector *proxmetrics.StatusCollector,
+	statusHandler *proxmetrics.StatusHandler,
 ) *HTTPServer {
 	return &HTTPServer{
-		mux:             mux.NewRouter(),
-		cnf:             cnf,
-		hcker:           hcker,
-		grpcServ:        grpcServ,
-		metricsFetcher:  metricsFetcher,
-		statusCollector: statusCollector,
+		mux:            mux.NewRouter(),
+		cnf:            cnf,
+		hcker:          hcker,
+		grpcServ:       grpcServ,
+		metricsFetcher: metricsFetcher,
+		statusHandler:  statusHandler,
 	}
 }
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func (s *HTTPServer) ServeHTTP(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request
 
 func (s *HTTPServer) Run(ctx context.Context) {
 	s.mux.Path("/metrics").Handler(s.metricsFetcher)
-	s.mux.Path("/metrics/status").Handler(proxmetrics.StatusHandler(s.statusCollector))
+	s.mux.Path("/metrics/status").Handler(s.statusHandler)
 	s.mux.Methods("POST").Path("/hc/{fqdn}/member/{ip}").Handler(s.hcker)
 
 	srvTls := &http.Server{