diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f5994254
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Taken from https://docs.github.com/en/actions/publishing-packages/publishing-docker-images
+name: Create and publish a Docker image
+
+on:
+  push:
+
+env:
+    REGISTRY: ghcr.io
+    IMAGE_NAME: ${{ github.repository }}
+
+jobs:
+    build-and-push-image:
+        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+        # Sets the permissions granted to the GITHUB_TOKEN for the actions in this job.
+        permissions:
+            contents: read
+            packages: write
+
+        steps:
+            - name: "Checkout repository"
+              uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+            - name: Log in to the Container registry
+              uses: docker/login-action@65b78e6e13532edd9afa3aa52ac7964289d1a9c1
+              with:
+                registry: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}
+                username: ${{ github.actor }}
+                password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+            - name: Extract metadata (tags, labels) for Docker
+              id: meta
+              uses: docker/metadata-action@9ec57ed1fcdbf14dcef7dfbe97b2010124a938b7
+              with:
+                images: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}/${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }}
+
+            - name: Build and push Docker image
+              uses: docker/build-push-action@f2a1d5e99d037542a71f64918e516c093c6f3fc4
+              with:
+                context: .
+                push: true
+                tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
+                labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 58c9c4b8..85946aa2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,12 +1,40 @@
-ARG ARCH="amd64"
-ARG OS="linux"
-FROM quay.io/prometheus/busybox-${OS}-${ARCH}:glibc
-LABEL maintainer="The Prometheus Authors <prometheus-developers@googlegroups.com>"
+# ARG ARCH="arm64"
+# ARG OS="linux"
+# FROM quay.io/prometheus/busybox-${OS}-${ARCH}:glibc
+# LABEL maintainer="The Prometheus Authors <prometheus-developers@googlegroups.com>"
 
-ARG ARCH="amd64"
-ARG OS="linux"
-COPY .build/${OS}-${ARCH}/json_exporter /bin/json_exporter
+# ARG ARCH="arm64"
+# ARG OS="linux"
+# COPY .build/${OS}-${ARCH}/json_exporter /bin/json_exporter
+
+FROM golang:1.19 as builder
+
+# Create and change to the app directory.
+WORKDIR /app
+
+# Retrieve application dependencies.
+# This allows the container build to reuse cached dependencies.
+# Expecting to copy go.mod and if present go.sum.
+COPY go.* ./
+RUN go mod download
+
+# Copy local code to the container image.
+COPY . ./
+
+# Build the binary.
+RUN go build -v -o json_exporter
+
+# Use the official Debian slim image for a lean production container.
+# https://hub.docker.com/_/debian
+# https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-build/#use-multi-stage-builds
+FROM debian:buster-slim
+RUN set -x && apt-get update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y \
+    ca-certificates && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Copy the binary to the production image from the builder stage.
+COPY --from=builder /app/json_exporter /app/json_exporter
 
 EXPOSE      7979
 USER        nobody
-ENTRYPOINT  [ "/bin/json_exporter" ]
+ENTRYPOINT  [ "/app/json_exporter" ]
diff --git a/exporter/collector.go b/exporter/collector.go
index 4effc10f..080f5dda 100644
--- a/exporter/collector.go
+++ b/exporter/collector.go
@@ -57,17 +57,27 @@ func (mc JSONMetricCollector) Collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
 				continue
 			}
 
-			if floatValue, err := SanitizeValue(value); err == nil {
-				metric := prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
+			floatValue, err := SanitizeValue(value)
+			if err == nil {
+				ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
 					m.Desc,
 					m.ValueType,
 					floatValue,
 					extractLabels(mc.Logger, mc.Data, m.LabelsJSONPaths)...,
 				)
-				ch <- timestampMetric(mc.Logger, m, mc.Data, metric)
 			} else {
-				level.Error(mc.Logger).Log("msg", "Failed to convert extracted value to float64", "path", m.KeyJSONPath, "value", value, "err", err, "metric", m.Desc)
-				continue
+				intValue, err := SanitizeHexIntValue(value)
+				if err == nil {
+					ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
+						m.Desc,
+						m.ValueType,
+						float64(intValue),
+						extractLabels(mc.Logger, mc.Data, m.LabelsJSONPaths)...,
+					)
+				} else {
+					level.Error(mc.Logger).Log("msg", "Failed to convert extracted value to float64", "path", m.KeyJSONPath, "value", value, "err", err, "metric", m.Desc)
+					continue
+				}
 			}
 
 		case config.ObjectScrape:
@@ -91,7 +101,8 @@ func (mc JSONMetricCollector) Collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
 						continue
 					}
 
-					if floatValue, err := SanitizeValue(value); err == nil {
+					floatValue, err := SanitizeValue(value)
+					if err == nil {
 						metric := prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
 							m.Desc,
 							m.ValueType,
@@ -100,8 +111,18 @@ func (mc JSONMetricCollector) Collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
 						)
 						ch <- timestampMetric(mc.Logger, m, jdata, metric)
 					} else {
-						level.Error(mc.Logger).Log("msg", "Failed to convert extracted value to float64", "path", m.ValueJSONPath, "value", value, "err", err, "metric", m.Desc)
-						continue
+						intValue, err := SanitizeHexIntValue(value)
+						if err == nil {
+							ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
+								m.Desc,
+								m.ValueType,
+								float64(intValue),
+								extractLabels(mc.Logger, mc.Data, m.LabelsJSONPaths)...,
+							)
+						} else {
+							level.Error(mc.Logger).Log("msg", "Failed to convert extracted value to float64", "path", m.ValueJSONPath, "value", value, "err", err, "metric", m.Desc)
+							continue
+						}
 					}
 				}
 			} else {
diff --git a/exporter/util.go b/exporter/util.go
index 8374ddce..32571a56 100644
--- a/exporter/util.go
+++ b/exporter/util.go
@@ -74,6 +74,23 @@ func SanitizeIntValue(s string) (int64, error) {
 	return value, fmt.Errorf(resultErr)
 }
 
+func SanitizeHexIntValue(s string) (int64, error) {
+	var err error
+	var value int64
+	var resultErr string
+
+ 	// remove 0x suffix if found in the input string
+ 	cleaned := strings.Replace(s, "0x", "", -1)
+	cleaned = strings.Replace(cleaned, "\"", "", -1)
+
+	if value, err = strconv.ParseInt(cleaned, 16, 64); err == nil {
+		return value, nil
+	}
+	resultErr = fmt.Sprintf("%s", err)
+
+	return value, fmt.Errorf(resultErr)
+}
+
 func CreateMetricsList(c config.Module) ([]JSONMetric, error) {
 	var (
 		metrics   []JSONMetric
diff --git a/exporter/util_test.go b/exporter/util_test.go
index 90392849..3688d193 100644
--- a/exporter/util_test.go
+++ b/exporter/util_test.go
@@ -48,6 +48,27 @@ func TestSanitizeValue(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestSanitizeValueHex(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		Input          string
+		ExpectedOutput int64
+		ShouldSucceed  bool
+	}{
+		{"0x1d55195", 30757269, true},
+		{"\"0x1d55195\"", 30757269, true},
+	}
+
+	for i, test := range tests {
+		actualOutput, err := SanitizeHexIntValue(test.Input)
+		if err != nil && test.ShouldSucceed {
+			t.Fatalf("Value snitization test %d failed with an unexpected error.\nINPUT:\n%q\nERR:\n%s", i, test.Input, err)
+		}
+		if test.ShouldSucceed && actualOutput != test.ExpectedOutput {
+			t.Fatalf("Value sanitization test %d fails unexpectedly.\nGOT:\n%d\nEXPECTED:\n%d", i, actualOutput, test.ExpectedOutput)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func TestSanitizeValueNaN(t *testing.T) {
 	actualOutput, err := SanitizeValue("<nil>")
 	if err != nil {