diff --git a/cluster/apps/monitoring/external-monitors/essential-node-exporter.yaml b/cluster/apps/monitoring/external-monitors/essential-node-exporter.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf0abf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cluster/apps/monitoring/external-monitors/essential-node-exporter.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+kind: Service
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: essential-node-exporter
+  namespace: monitoring
+  labels:
+    app: essential-node-exporter
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+  - name: metrics
+    port: 9100
+    targetPort: 9100
+---
+kind: Endpoints
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: essential-node-exporter
+  namespace: monitoring
+subsets:
+- addresses:
+  - ip: 192.168.10.41
+  ports:
+  - name: metrics
+    port: 9100
+---
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: essential-node-exporter
+  namespace: monitoring
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: essential-node-exporter
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 60s
+    scrapeTimeout: 15s
+    path: /metrics
+    relabelings:
+    - targetLabel: job
+      replacement: node-exporter
+    - targetLabel: instance
+      replacement: essential
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diff --git a/cluster/apps/monitoring/external-monitors/kustomization.yaml b/cluster/apps/monitoring/external-monitors/kustomization.yaml
index 66ed3df..cd8cb83 100644
--- a/cluster/apps/monitoring/external-monitors/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/cluster/apps/monitoring/external-monitors/kustomization.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 resources:
 - ./air-quality.yaml
-- ./air-quality-dashboard.yaml
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+- ./air-quality-dashboard.yaml
+- ./essential-node-exporter.yaml
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