diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 110a7d02..9f5233e3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -296,7 +296,6 @@ mappings:
   name: "${2}_total"
   labels:
     provider: "$1"
-mappings:
 - match: "(.*)\\.(.*)--(.*)\\.status\.(.*)\\.count"
   match_type: regex
   name: "request_total"
@@ -403,6 +402,8 @@ mappings:
   observer_type: histogram
   histogram_options:
     buckets: [ 0.01, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1 ]
+    native_histogram_bucket_factor: 1.1
+    native_histogram_max_buckets: 256
   name: "my_timer"
   labels:
     provider: "$2"
@@ -416,6 +417,11 @@ values](https://godoc.org/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus#pkg-var
 are used for the histogram buckets:
 `[.005, .01, .025, .05, .1, .25, .5, 1, 2.5, 5, 10]`.
 `+Inf` is added automatically.
+If your Prometheus server is enabled to scrape native histograms (v2.40.0+), 
+then you can set the `native_histogram_bucket_factor` to configure precision of the
+buckets in the sparse histogram. More about this in the original [client_golang docs](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/blob/449b46435075e6e069e05af920fe028b941033cf/prometheus/histogram.go#L399-L430).
+Also, a configuration of the maximum number of buckets can be set with `native_histogram_max_buckets`, this
+avoids the histograms to grow too large in memory. More about this in the original [client_golang docs](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/blob/449b46435075e6e069e05af920fe028b941033cf/prometheus/histogram.go#L443-L467).
 
 `observer_type` is only used when the statsd metric type is a timer, histogram, or distribution.
 `buckets` is only used when the statsd metric type is one of these, and the `observer_type` is set to `histogram`.
@@ -470,6 +476,8 @@ defaults:
   observer_type: histogram
   histogram_options:
     buckets: [.005, .01, .025, .05, .1, .25, .5, 1, 2.5 ]
+    native_histogram_bucket_factor: 1.1
+    native_histogram_max_buckets: 256
   summary_options:
     quantiles:
       - quantile: 0.99
@@ -549,7 +557,7 @@ Possible values for `match_metric_type` are `gauge`, `counter` and `observer`.
 
 There is a cache used to improve the performance of the metric mapping, that can greatly improvement performance.
 The cache has a default maximum of 1000 unique statsd metric names -> prometheus metrics mappings that it can store.
-This maximum can be adjust using the `statsd.cache-size` flag.
+This maximum can be adjusted using the `statsd.cache-size` flag.
 
 If the maximum is reached, entries are by default rotated using the [least recently used replacement policy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_replacement_policies#Least_recently_used_(LRU)). This strategy is optimal when memory is constrained as only the most recent entries are retained.
 
diff --git a/pkg/mapper/mapper.go b/pkg/mapper/mapper.go
index 879f18c5..0f171655 100644
--- a/pkg/mapper/mapper.go
+++ b/pkg/mapper/mapper.go
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ type SummaryOptions struct {
 }
 
 type HistogramOptions struct {
-	Buckets []float64 `yaml:"buckets"`
+	Buckets                     []float64 `yaml:"buckets"`
+	NativeHistogramBucketFactor float64   `yaml:"native_histogram_bucket_factor"`
+	NativeHistogramMaxBuckets   uint32    `yaml:"native_histogram_max_buckets"`
 }
 
 type metricObjective struct {
@@ -88,6 +90,12 @@ func (m *MetricMapper) InitFromYAMLString(fileContents string) error {
 	if len(n.Defaults.HistogramOptions.Buckets) == 0 {
 		n.Defaults.HistogramOptions.Buckets = prometheus.DefBuckets
 	}
+	if n.Defaults.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramBucketFactor == 0 {
+		n.Defaults.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramBucketFactor = 1.1
+	}
+	if n.Defaults.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramMaxBuckets <= 0 {
+		n.Defaults.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramMaxBuckets = 256
+	}
 
 	if len(n.Defaults.SummaryOptions.Quantiles) == 0 {
 		n.Defaults.SummaryOptions.Quantiles = defaultQuantiles
diff --git a/pkg/registry/registry.go b/pkg/registry/registry.go
index 87d39a16..825cb14c 100644
--- a/pkg/registry/registry.go
+++ b/pkg/registry/registry.go
@@ -274,10 +274,22 @@ func (r *Registry) GetHistogram(metricName string, labels prometheus.Labels, hel
 		if mapping.HistogramOptions != nil && len(mapping.HistogramOptions.Buckets) > 0 {
 			buckets = mapping.HistogramOptions.Buckets
 		}
+
+		bucketFactor := r.Mapper.Defaults.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramBucketFactor
+		if mapping.HistogramOptions != nil && mapping.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramBucketFactor > 0 {
+			bucketFactor = mapping.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramBucketFactor
+		}
+
+		maxBuckets := r.Mapper.Defaults.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramMaxBuckets
+		if mapping.HistogramOptions != nil && mapping.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramMaxBuckets > 0 {
+			maxBuckets = mapping.HistogramOptions.NativeHistogramMaxBuckets
+		}
 		histogramVec = prometheus.NewHistogramVec(prometheus.HistogramOpts{
-			Name:    metricName,
-			Help:    help,
-			Buckets: buckets,
+			Name:                           metricName,
+			Help:                           help,
+			Buckets:                        buckets,
+			NativeHistogramBucketFactor:    bucketFactor,
+			NativeHistogramMaxBucketNumber: maxBuckets,
 		}, labelNames)
 
 		if err := r.Registerer.Register(uncheckedCollector{histogramVec}); err != nil {