diff --git a/metrics-exporter-prometheus/Cargo.toml b/metrics-exporter-prometheus/Cargo.toml
index 308a11be..8b0542d1 100644
--- a/metrics-exporter-prometheus/Cargo.toml
+++ b/metrics-exporter-prometheus/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ keywords = ["metrics", "telemetry", "prometheus"]
 default = ["http-listener", "push-gateway"]
 async-runtime = ["tokio", "hyper"]
 http-listener = ["async-runtime", "hyper/server", "ipnet"]
-push-gateway = ["async-runtime", "hyper/client", "hyper-tls", "tracing"]
+push-gateway = ["async-runtime", "hyper/client", "tracing"]
+native-tls = ["hyper-tls"]
+rustls-tls = ["hyper-rustls"]
 
 [dependencies]
 metrics = { version = "^0.21", path = "../metrics" }
@@ -36,6 +38,8 @@ ipnet = { version = "2", optional = true }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt", "net", "time"], optional = true }
 tracing = { version = "0.1.26", optional = true }
 hyper-tls = { version = "0.5.0", optional = true }
+hyper-rustls = { version = "0.24.2", optional = true }
+cfg-if = "1.0.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tracing = "0.1"
diff --git a/metrics-exporter-prometheus/src/builder.rs b/metrics-exporter-prometheus/src/builder.rs
index cc86dc97..06903bd5 100644
--- a/metrics-exporter-prometheus/src/builder.rs
+++ b/metrics-exporter-prometheus/src/builder.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ use hyper::{
     http::HeaderValue,
     Method, Request, Uri,
 };
-use hyper_tls::HttpsConnector;
 
 use indexmap::IndexMap;
 #[cfg(feature = "http-listener")]
@@ -462,8 +461,16 @@ impl PrometheusBuilder {
             #[cfg(feature = "push-gateway")]
             ExporterConfig::PushGateway { endpoint, interval, username, password } => {
                 let exporter = async move {
-                    let https = HttpsConnector::new();
-                    let client = Client::builder().build::<_, hyper::Body>(https);
+                    cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+                        if #[cfg(feature = "native-tls")] {
+                            let client = Client::builder().build::<_, hyper::Body>(hyper_tls::HttpsConnector::new());
+                        } else if #[cfg(feature = "rustls-tls")] {
+                            let client = Client::builder().build::<_, hyper::Body>(hyper_rustls::HttpsConnectorBuilder::new());
+                        } else {
+                            let client = Client::builder().build_http();
+                        }
+                    }
+
                     let auth = username.as_ref().map(|name| basic_auth(name, password.as_deref()));
 
                     loop {