diff --git a/bitnami/cassandra/Chart.yaml b/bitnami/cassandra/Chart.yaml
index a457b71628..c03147a0ad 100644
--- a/bitnami/cassandra/Chart.yaml
+++ b/bitnami/cassandra/Chart.yaml
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ name: cassandra
 sources:
   - https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/cassandra
   - http://cassandra.apache.org
-version: 9.5.0
+version: 9.6.0
diff --git a/bitnami/cassandra/README.md b/bitnami/cassandra/README.md
index cefe95881e..74f127a2cf 100644
--- a/bitnami/cassandra/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/cassandra/README.md
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and
 | `metrics.serviceMonitor.labels`              | Used to pass Labels that are required by the installed Prometheus Operator                                         | `{}`                         |
 | `metrics.containerPorts.http`                | HTTP Port on the Host and Container                                                                                | `8080`                       |
 | `metrics.containerPorts.jmx`                 | JMX Port on the Host and Container                                                                                 | `5555`                       |
+| `metrics.configuration`                      | Configure Cassandra-exporter with a custom config.yml file                                                         | `""`                         |
 
 
 ### TLS/SSL parameters
diff --git a/bitnami/cassandra/templates/_helpers.tpl b/bitnami/cassandra/templates/_helpers.tpl
index 9fe73bf3eb..5c715383dc 100644
--- a/bitnami/cassandra/templates/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/bitnami/cassandra/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -252,3 +252,10 @@ otherwise it generates a new one.
 
     {{- printf "%s###%s###%s" $ca $crt $key -}}
 {{- end }}
+
+{{/*
+Get the metrics config map name.
+*/}}
+{{- define "cassandra.metricsConfConfigMap" -}}
+    {{- printf "%s-metrics-conf" (include "common.names.fullname" . ) | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- end -}}
diff --git a/bitnami/cassandra/templates/metrics-configmap.yaml b/bitnami/cassandra/templates/metrics-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ab56852f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitnami/cassandra/templates/metrics-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: {{ printf "%s-metrics-conf" (include "common.names.fullname" .) | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" }}
+  namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace | quote }}
+  labels: {{- include "common.labels.standard" . | nindent 4 }}
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: cassandra
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: cassandra-exporter
+    {{- if .Values.commonLabels }}
+    {{- include "common.tplvalues.render" ( dict "value" .Values.commonLabels "context" $ ) | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
+  {{- if .Values.commonAnnotations }}
+  annotations: {{- include "common.tplvalues.render" ( dict "value" .Values.commonAnnotations "context" $ ) | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+data:
+  config.yml: |-
+    {{- include "common.tplvalues.render" (dict "value" .Values.metrics.configuration "context" $) | nindent 4 }}
diff --git a/bitnami/cassandra/templates/statefulset.yaml b/bitnami/cassandra/templates/statefulset.yaml
index 286928925a..3d1c4038b8 100644
--- a/bitnami/cassandra/templates/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/bitnami/cassandra/templates/statefulset.yaml
@@ -490,8 +490,11 @@ spec:
             failureThreshold: {{ .Values.metrics.readinessProbe.failureThreshold }}
             successThreshold: {{ .Values.metrics.readinessProbe.successThreshold }}
           {{- end }}
-          {{- if .Values.metrics.extraVolumeMounts }}
           volumeMounts:
+            - name: metrics-conf
+              mountPath: /opt/bitnami/cassandra-exporter/config.yml
+              subPath: config.yml
+          {{- if .Values.metrics.extraVolumeMounts }}
             {{- include "common.tplvalues.render" (dict "value" .Values.metrics.extraVolumeMounts "context" $) | nindent 12 }}
           {{- end }}
         {{- end }}
@@ -499,6 +502,9 @@ spec:
         {{- include "common.tplvalues.render" (dict "value" .Values.sidecars "context" $) | nindent 8 }}
         {{- end }}
       volumes:
+        - name: metrics-conf
+          configMap:
+            name: {{ include "cassandra.metricsConfConfigMap" . }}
         {{- if (include "cassandra.tlsEncryption" . ) }}
         - name: certs
           secret:
diff --git a/bitnami/cassandra/values.yaml b/bitnami/cassandra/values.yaml
index b6356efd1c..1b0a0aa707 100644
--- a/bitnami/cassandra/values.yaml
+++ b/bitnami/cassandra/values.yaml
@@ -770,6 +770,67 @@ metrics:
     http: 8080
     jmx: 5555
 
+  ## @param metrics.configuration [string] Configure Cassandra-exporter with a custom config.yml file
+  ## ref: https://github.com/criteo/cassandra_exporter/blob/master/config.yml
+  ##
+  configuration: |
+    host: localhost:{{ .Values.metrics.containerPorts.jmx }}
+    ssl: False
+    user:
+    password:
+    listenPort: {{ .Values.metrics.containerPorts.http }}
+    blacklist:
+      # To profile the duration of jmx call you can start the program with the following options
+      # > java -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel=trace -jar cassandra_exporter.jar config.yml --oneshot
+      #
+      # To get intuition of what is done by cassandra when something is called you can look in cassandra
+      # https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/metrics
+      # Please avoid to scrape frequently those calls that are iterating over all sstables
+      
+      # Unaccessible metrics (not enough privilege)
+      - java:lang:memorypool:.*usagethreshold.*
+      
+      # Leaf attributes not interesting for us but that are presents in many path
+      - .*:999thpercentile
+      - .*:95thpercentile
+      - .*:fifteenminuterate
+      - .*:fiveminuterate
+      - .*:durationunit
+      - .*:rateunit
+      - .*:stddev
+      - .*:meanrate
+      - .*:mean
+      - .*:min
+      
+      # Path present in many metrics but uninterresting
+      - .*:viewlockacquiretime:.*
+      - .*:viewreadtime:.*
+      - .*:cas[a-z]+latency:.*
+      - .*:colupdatetimedeltahistogram:.*
+      
+      # Mostly for RPC, do not scrap them
+      - org:apache:cassandra:db:.*
+      
+      # columnfamily is an alias for Table metrics
+      # https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/8b3a60b9a7dbefeecc06bace617279612ec7092d/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/metrics/TableMetrics.java#L162
+      - org:apache:cassandra:metrics:columnfamily:.*
+      
+      # Should we export metrics for system keyspaces/tables ?
+      - org:apache:cassandra:metrics:[^:]+:system[^:]*:.*
+      
+      # Don't scrap us
+      - com:criteo:nosql:cassandra:exporter:.*
+    
+    maxScrapFrequencyInSec:
+      50:
+        - .*
+    
+      # Refresh those metrics only every hour as it is costly for cassandra to retrieve them
+      3600:
+        - .*:snapshotssize:.*
+        - .*:estimated.*
+        - .*:totaldiskspaceused:.*
+
 ## @section TLS/SSL parameters
 ##