diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index da7fdaac..588bd3f3 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.54
 	github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.5.0
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.15.1
+	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.4.0 // indirect
 	github.com/segmentio/ksuid v1.0.4
 	github.com/spaolacci/murmur3 v1.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/spf13/cast v1.5.1
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 0078248c..c1cdc91b 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1463,6 +1463,8 @@ github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.1.0/go.mod h1:xMI15A0UPsDsEKsMN9yxemIoYk6T
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.2.0/go.mod h1:xMI15A0UPsDsEKsMN9yxemIoYk6Tm2C1GtYGdfGttqA=
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.3.0 h1:UBgGFHqYdG/TPFD1B1ogZywDqEkwp3fBMvqdiQ7Xew4=
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.3.0/go.mod h1:LDGWKZIo7rky3hgvBe+caln+Dr3dPggB5dvjtD7w9+w=
+github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.4.0 h1:5lQXD3cAg1OXBf4Wq03gTrXHeaV0TQvGfUooCfx1yqY=
+github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.4.0/go.mod h1:oMQmHW1/JoDwqLtg57MGgP/Fb1CJEYF2imWWhWtMkYU=
 github.com/prometheus/common v0.0.0-20181113130724-41aa239b4cce/go.mod h1:daVV7qP5qjZbuso7PdcryaAu0sAZbrN9i7WWcTMWvro=
 github.com/prometheus/common v0.0.0-20181126121408-4724e9255275/go.mod h1:daVV7qP5qjZbuso7PdcryaAu0sAZbrN9i7WWcTMWvro=
 github.com/prometheus/common v0.2.0/go.mod h1:TNfzLD0ON7rHzMJeJkieUDPYmFC7Snx/y86RQel1bk4=
diff --git a/xmetrics/registry.go b/xmetrics/registry.go
index 225a8989..61cabbcb 100644
--- a/xmetrics/registry.go
+++ b/xmetrics/registry.go
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ type Registry interface {
 	PrometheusProvider
 	provider.Provider
 	prometheus.Gatherer
+
+	NewPrometheusGaugeEx(namespace, subsystem, name string) prometheus.Gauge
+	NewPrometheusGauge(name string) prometheus.Gauge
 }
 
 // registry is the internal Registry implementation
@@ -97,7 +100,7 @@ func (r *registry) NewGaugeVecEx(namespace, subsystem, name string) *prometheus.
 			return gaugeVec
 		}
 
-		panic(fmt.Errorf("The preregistered metric %s is not a gauge", key))
+		panic(fmt.Errorf("the preregistered metric %s is not a gauge", key))
 	}
 
 	gaugeVec := prometheus.NewGaugeVec(
@@ -125,6 +128,30 @@ func (r *registry) NewGauge(name string) metrics.Gauge {
 	return gokitprometheus.NewGauge(r.NewGaugeVec(name))
 }
 
+func (r *registry) NewPrometheusGauge(name string) prometheus.Gauge {
+	return r.NewPrometheusGaugeEx(r.namespace, r.subsystem, name)
+}
+
+func (r *registry) NewPrometheusGaugeEx(namespace, subsystem, name string) prometheus.Gauge {
+
+	gauge := prometheus.NewGauge(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+		Namespace: namespace,
+		Subsystem: subsystem,
+		Name:      name,
+		Help:      name,
+	})
+
+	if err := r.Register(gauge); err != nil {
+		if already, ok := err.(prometheus.AlreadyRegisteredError); ok {
+			return already.ExistingCollector.(prometheus.Gauge)
+		} else {
+			panic(err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return gauge
+}
+
 func (r *registry) NewHistogramVec(name string) *prometheus.HistogramVec {
 	return r.NewHistogramVecEx(r.namespace, r.subsystem, name)
 }