diff --git a/metricspi.yml b/metricspi.yml
index 45bcbcc..18da9d2 100644
--- a/metricspi.yml
+++ b/metricspi.yml
@@ -14,3 +14,7 @@
 - import_playbook: victoria-metrics.yml
 - import_playbook: alertmanager.yml
 - import_playbook: grafana.yml
+
+- hosts: metricspi
+  roles:
+  - scrape-collectd
diff --git a/roles/scrape-collectd/tasks/main.yml b/roles/scrape-collectd/tasks/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6f5667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/scrape-collectd/tasks/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+- name: ensure scrape hosts file is populated
+  copy:
+    dest: /etc/prometheus/scrape-collectd.yml
+    content: |+
+      {{ scrape_collectd_config | to_nice_yaml }}
+    mode: u=rw,go=r
+    owner: root
+    group: root
diff --git a/roles/scrape-collectd/vars/main.yml b/roles/scrape-collectd/vars/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eaaa6e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/scrape-collectd/vars/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+scrape_collectd_config:
+- targets: '{{ groups["collectd-prometheus"] }}'