diff --git a/cmd/kube-proxy/app/server.go b/cmd/kube-proxy/app/server.go
index f0edc12c75b..6b2549751df 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-proxy/app/server.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-proxy/app/server.go
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ type Options struct {
 	master string
 	// healthzPort is the port to be used by the healthz server.
 	healthzPort int32
+	// metricsPort is the port to be used by the metrics server.
+	metricsPort int32
 
 	scheme *runtime.Scheme
 	codecs serializer.CodecFactory
@@ -134,8 +136,9 @@ func (o *Options) AddFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	fs.Var(utilflag.IPVar{Val: &o.config.BindAddress}, "bind-address", "The IP address for the proxy server to serve on (set to `0.0.0.0` for all IPv4 interfaces and `::` for all IPv6 interfaces)")
 	fs.StringVar(&o.master, "master", o.master, "The address of the Kubernetes API server (overrides any value in kubeconfig)")
 	fs.Int32Var(&o.healthzPort, "healthz-port", o.healthzPort, "The port to bind the health check server. Use 0 to disable.")
-	fs.Var(utilflag.IPVar{Val: &o.config.HealthzBindAddress}, "healthz-bind-address", "The IP address and port for the health check server to serve on (set to `0.0.0.0` for all IPv4 interfaces and `::` for all IPv6 interfaces)")
-	fs.Var(utilflag.IPVar{Val: &o.config.MetricsBindAddress}, "metrics-bind-address", "The IP address and port for the metrics server to serve on (set to `0.0.0.0` for all IPv4 interfaces and `::` for all IPv6 interfaces)")
+	fs.Var(utilflag.IPVar{Val: &o.config.HealthzBindAddress}, "healthz-bind-address", "The IP address for the health check server to serve on (set to `0.0.0.0` for all IPv4 interfaces and `::` for all IPv6 interfaces)")
+	fs.Int32Var(&o.metricsPort, "metrics-port", o.metricsPort, "The port to bind the metrics server. Use 0 to disable.")
+	fs.Var(utilflag.IPVar{Val: &o.config.MetricsBindAddress}, "metrics-bind-address", "The IP address for the metrics server to serve on (set to `0.0.0.0` for all IPv4 interfaces and `::` for all IPv6 interfaces)")
 	fs.Int32Var(o.config.OOMScoreAdj, "oom-score-adj", utilpointer.Int32PtrDerefOr(o.config.OOMScoreAdj, int32(qos.KubeProxyOOMScoreAdj)), "The oom-score-adj value for kube-proxy process. Values must be within the range [-1000, 1000]")
 	fs.StringVar(&o.config.ResourceContainer, "resource-container", o.config.ResourceContainer, "Absolute name of the resource-only container to create and run the Kube-proxy in (Default: /kube-proxy).")
 	fs.MarkDeprecated("resource-container", "This feature will be removed in a later release.")
@@ -183,6 +186,7 @@ func NewOptions() *Options {
 	return &Options{
 		config:      new(kubeproxyconfig.KubeProxyConfiguration),
 		healthzPort: ports.ProxyHealthzPort,
+		metricsPort: ports.ProxyStatusPort,
 		scheme:      scheme.Scheme,
 		codecs:      scheme.Codecs,
 		CleanupIPVS: true,
@@ -194,6 +198,7 @@ func (o *Options) Complete() error {
 	if len(o.ConfigFile) == 0 && len(o.WriteConfigTo) == 0 {
 		klog.Warning("WARNING: all flags other than --config, --write-config-to, and --cleanup are deprecated. Please begin using a config file ASAP.")
 		o.applyDeprecatedHealthzPortToConfig()
+		o.applyDeprecatedMetricsPortToConfig()
 	}
 
 	// Load the config file here in Complete, so that Validate validates the fully-resolved config.
@@ -306,6 +311,20 @@ func (o *Options) applyDeprecatedHealthzPortToConfig() {
 	o.config.HealthzBindAddress = fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", o.config.HealthzBindAddress, o.healthzPort)
 }
 
+func (o *Options) applyDeprecatedMetricsPortToConfig() {
+	if o.metricsPort == 0 {
+		o.config.MetricsBindAddress = ""
+		return
+	}
+
+	index := strings.Index(o.config.MetricsBindAddress, ":")
+	if index != -1 {
+		o.config.MetricsBindAddress = o.config.MetricsBindAddress[0:index]
+	}
+
+	o.config.MetricsBindAddress = fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", o.config.MetricsBindAddress, o.metricsPort)
+}
+
 // loadConfigFromFile loads the contents of file and decodes it as a
 // KubeProxyConfiguration object.
 func (o *Options) loadConfigFromFile(file string) (*kubeproxyconfig.KubeProxyConfiguration, error) {