diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3eb92c7..80fe620 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,20 @@ pkgs          = $(shell go list ./...)
 PREFIX                  ?= $(shell pwd)
 BIN_DIR                 ?= $(shell pwd)
 DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME       ?= ncabatoff/process-exporter
-TAG_VERSION        ?= $(shell git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
+
+BRANCH      ?= $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+BUILDDATE   ?= $(shell date --iso-8601=seconds)
+BUILDUSER   ?= $(shell whoami)@$(shell hostname)
+REVISION    ?= $(shell git rev-parse HEAD)
+TAG_VERSION ?= $(shell git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
+
+VERSION_LDFLAGS := \
+  -X github.com/prometheus/common/version.Branch=$(BRANCH) \
+  -X github.com/prometheus/common/version.BuildDate=$(BUILDDATE) \
+  -X github.com/prometheus/common/version.BuildUser=$(BUILDUSER) \
+  -X github.com/prometheus/common/version.Revision=$(REVISION) \
+  -X main.version=$(TAG_VERSION)
+
 SMOKE_TEST = -config.path packaging/conf/all.yaml -once-to-stdout-delay 1s |grep -q 'namedprocess_namegroup_memory_bytes{groupname="process-exporte",memtype="virtual"}'
 
 all: format vet test build smoke
@@ -26,7 +39,7 @@ vet:
 
 build:
 	@echo ">> building code"
-	cd cmd/process-exporter; CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags "-X main.version=$(TAG_VERSION)" -o ../../process-exporter -a -tags netgo
+	cd cmd/process-exporter; CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags "$(VERSION_LDFLAGS)" -o ../../process-exporter -a -tags netgo
 
 smoke:
 	@echo ">> smoke testing process-exporter"
diff --git a/cmd/process-exporter/main.go b/cmd/process-exporter/main.go
index d4eb09f..b38c477 100644
--- a/cmd/process-exporter/main.go
+++ b/cmd/process-exporter/main.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter/proc"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp"
+	promVersion "github.com/prometheus/common/version"
 )
 
 // Version is set at build time use ldflags.
@@ -276,6 +277,11 @@ func (nmr *nameMapperRegex) MatchAndName(nacl common.ProcAttributes) (bool, stri
 	return false, ""
 }
 
+func init() {
+	promVersion.Version = version
+	prometheus.MustRegister(promVersion.NewCollector("process_exporter"))
+}
+
 func main() {
 	var (
 		listenAddress = flag.String("web.listen-address", ":9256",
@@ -310,7 +316,7 @@ func main() {
 	flag.Parse()
 
 	if *showVersion {
-		fmt.Printf("process-exporter version %s\n", version)
+		fmt.Printf("%s\n", promVersion.Print("process-exporter"))
 		os.Exit(0)
 	}
 
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 2493201..299182c 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/ncabatoff/go-seq v0.0.0-20180805175032-b08ef85ed833
 	github.com/niemeyer/pretty v0.0.0-20200227124842-a10e7caefd8e // indirect
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.8.0
+	github.com/prometheus/common v0.14.0
 	github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.2.0
 	gopkg.in/check.v1 v1.0.0-20200902074654-038fdea0a05b
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.3.0