diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 78d1944..209cd68 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -949,6 +949,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rocket_codegen",
  "rocket_dyn_templates",
  "rocket_i18n",
+ "rocket_prometheus",
  "sequoia-openpgp",
  "serde",
  "serde_derive",
@@ -2067,6 +2068,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "yansi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "prometheus"
+version = "0.13.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b7f64969ffd5dd8f39bd57a68ac53c163a095ed9d0fb707146da1b27025a3504"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if 1.0.0",
+ "fnv",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "memchr",
+ "parking_lot",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quick-error"
 version = "1.2.3"
@@ -2505,6 +2520,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "rocket",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rocket_prometheus"
+version = "0.9.0"
+source = "git+https://github.com/sd2k/rocket_prometheus?branch=async#a913a451555ba1344e88c9e730c4164b20032c40"
+dependencies = [
+ "prometheus",
+ "rocket",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustc-demangle"
 version = "0.1.21"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6a37cb8..1666c11 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ num_cpus = "1.0"
 ring = "0.13"
 base64 = "0.10"
 uuid = { version = "0.7", features = [ "v4" ] }
-# rocket_prometheus = "0.2"
+rocket_prometheus = { git = "https://github.com/sd2k/rocket_prometheus", branch = "async" }
 lazy_static = "1.3.0"
 gettext-macros = "0.6"
 gettext-utils = "0.1"
diff --git a/src/counters.rs b/src/counters.rs
index fca1552..01803ba 100644
--- a/src/counters.rs
+++ b/src/counters.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
-// use rocket_prometheus::prometheus;
+use rocket_prometheus::prometheus;
 
 use crate::anonymize_utils;
 
 use crate::database::types::Email;
 
-// TODO this module is a stub at the moment for rocket 0.5 migration. reintroduce later on?
-
 lazy_static! {
     static ref KEY_UPLOAD: LabelCounter =
         LabelCounter::new("hagrid_key_upload", "Uploaded keys", &["result"]);
@@ -20,7 +18,6 @@ lazy_static! {
         LabelCounter::new("hagrid_key_address_unpublished", "Unpublished email addresses", &["domain"]);
 }
 
-/*
 pub fn register_counters(registry: &prometheus::Registry) {
     KEY_UPLOAD.register(registry);
 
@@ -29,7 +26,6 @@ pub fn register_counters(registry: &prometheus::Registry) {
     KEY_ADDRESS_PUBLISHED.register(registry);
     KEY_ADDRESS_UNPUBLISHED.register(registry);
 }
-*/
 
 pub fn inc_key_upload(upload_result: &str) {
     KEY_UPLOAD.inc(&[upload_result]);
@@ -51,24 +47,21 @@ pub fn inc_address_unpublished(email: &Email) {
 }
 
 struct LabelCounter {
-    // prometheus_counter: prometheus::IntCounterVec,
+    prometheus_counter: prometheus::IntCounterVec,
 }
 
 impl LabelCounter {
     fn new(name: &str, help: &str, labels: &[&str]) -> Self {
-        // let opts = prometheus::Opts::new(name, help);
-        // let prometheus_counter = prometheus::IntCounterVec::new(opts, labels).unwrap();
-        // Self { prometheus_counter }
-        Self { }
+        let opts = prometheus::Opts::new(name, help);
+        let prometheus_counter = prometheus::IntCounterVec::new(opts, labels).unwrap();
+        Self { prometheus_counter }
     }
 
-    /*
     fn register(&self, registry: &prometheus::Registry) {
         registry.register(Box::new(self.prometheus_counter.clone())).unwrap();
     }
-    */
 
     fn inc(&self, values: &[&str]) {
-        // self.prometheus_counter.with_label_values(values).inc();
+        self.prometheus_counter.with_label_values(values).inc();
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/web/mod.rs b/src/web/mod.rs
index 44631dd..aa916b8 100644
--- a/src/web/mod.rs
+++ b/src/web/mod.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use rocket::response::{Responder, Response};
 use rocket::response::status::Custom;
 use rocket_dyn_templates::{Engines, Template};
 use rocket_i18n::I18n;
+use rocket_prometheus::PrometheusMetrics;
 use hyperx::header::{ContentDisposition, DispositionType, DispositionParam, Charset};
 
 use gettext_macros::{compile_i18n, include_i18n};
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 use crate::mail;
 use crate::tokens;
+use crate::counters;
 use crate::i18n_helpers::describe_query_error;
 use crate::template_helpers::TemplateOverrides;
 use crate::i18n::I18NHelper;
@@ -404,7 +406,7 @@ fn rocket_factory(mut rocket: rocket::Rocket<rocket::Build>) -> Result<rocket::R
     let localized_template_list = configure_localized_template_list(figment)?;
     println!("{:?}", localized_template_list);
 
-    // let prometheus = configure_prometheus(rocket.config());
+    let prometheus = configure_prometheus(figment);
 
     rocket = rocket
        .attach(Template::custom(|engines: &mut Engines| {
@@ -423,18 +425,15 @@ fn rocket_factory(mut rocket: rocket::Rocket<rocket::Build>) -> Result<rocket::R
        .manage(localized_template_list)
        .mount("/", routes);
 
-    /*
     if let Some(prometheus) = prometheus {
         rocket = rocket
             .attach(prometheus.clone())
             .mount("/metrics", prometheus);
     }
-    */
 
     Ok(rocket)
 }
 
-/*
 fn configure_prometheus(config: &Figment) -> Option<PrometheusMetrics> {
     if !config.extract_inner("enable_prometheus").unwrap_or(false) {
         return None;
@@ -443,7 +442,6 @@ fn configure_prometheus(config: &Figment) -> Option<PrometheusMetrics> {
     counters::register_counters(&prometheus.registry());
     return Some(prometheus);
 }
-*/
 
 fn configure_db_service(config: &Figment) -> Result<KeyDatabase> {
     let keys_internal_dir: PathBuf = config.extract_inner("keys_internal_dir")?;