diff --git a/docs/reference-config.yaml b/docs/reference-config.yaml
index f8570b28..bdad70a1 100644
--- a/docs/reference-config.yaml
+++ b/docs/reference-config.yaml
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ minion:
     # IgnoredTopics are regex strings of topic names that shall be ignored/skipped when exporting metrics. Ignored topics
     # take precedence over allowed topics.
     ignoredTopics: [ ]
+    # ListOffsets can be set to false in order to not collect any offset metrics at all.
+    ListOffsets: false
     # infoMetric is a configuration object for the kminion_kafka_topic_info metric
     infoMetric:
       # ConfigKeys are set of strings of Topic configs that you want to have exported as part of the metric
diff --git a/minion/config_topic_config.go b/minion/config_topic_config.go
index 426a93ec..ac228d6a 100644
--- a/minion/config_topic_config.go
+++ b/minion/config_topic_config.go
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ type TopicConfig struct {
 	// take precedence over allowed topics.
 	IgnoredTopics []string `koanf:"ignoredTopics"`
 
+	// ListOffsets can be set to false in order to not collect any offset metrics at all.
+	ListOffsets bool `koanf:"listOffsets"`
+
 	// InfoMetric configures how the kafka_topic_info metric is populated
 	InfoMetric InfoMetricConfig `koanf:"infoMetric"`
 }
@@ -66,5 +69,6 @@ func (c *TopicConfig) SetDefaults() {
 	c.Enabled = true
 	c.Granularity = TopicGranularityPartition
 	c.AllowedTopics = []string{"/.*/"}
+	c.ListOffsets = true
 	c.InfoMetric = InfoMetricConfig{ConfigKeys: []string{"cleanup.policy"}}
 }
diff --git a/prometheus/collect_topic_partition_offsets.go b/prometheus/collect_topic_partition_offsets.go
index 4ca66956..74c7a81a 100644
--- a/prometheus/collect_topic_partition_offsets.go
+++ b/prometheus/collect_topic_partition_offsets.go
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ func (e *Exporter) collectTopicPartitionOffsets(ctx context.Context, ch chan<- p
 	if !e.minionSvc.Cfg.Topics.Enabled {
 		return true
 	}
+	if !e.minionSvc.Cfg.Topics.ListOffsets {
+		return true
+	}
 
 	isOk := true