diff --git a/userspace/falco/configuration.cpp b/userspace/falco/configuration.cpp
index d82ad9b3..0aab9657 100644
--- a/userspace/falco/configuration.cpp
+++ b/userspace/falco/configuration.cpp
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ void falco_configuration::init(string conf_filename, list<string> &cmdline_optio
 		}
 		http_output.options["url"] = url;
 
+		string user_agent;
+		user_agent = m_config->get_scalar<string>("http_output.user_agent","falcosecurity/falco");
+		http_output.options["user_agent"] = user_agent;
+
 		m_outputs.push_back(http_output);
 	}
 
diff --git a/userspace/falco/outputs_http.cpp b/userspace/falco/outputs_http.cpp
index c9c5b851..9f020ee0 100644
--- a/userspace/falco/outputs_http.cpp
+++ b/userspace/falco/outputs_http.cpp
@@ -34,11 +34,14 @@ void falco::outputs::output_http::output(const message *msg)
 		} else {
 			slist1 = curl_slist_append(slist1, "Content-Type: text/plain");
 		}
+        slist1 = curl_slist_append(slist1, m_oc.options["user_agent"].c_str());
+
 		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, slist1);
 		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, m_oc.options["url"].c_str());
 		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, msg->msg.c_str());
 		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, -1L);
 
+
 		res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 
 		if(res != CURLE_OK)
@@ -50,4 +53,4 @@ void falco::outputs::output_http::output(const message *msg)
 		curl_slist_free_all(slist1);
 		slist1 = NULL;
 	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}