diff --git a/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go b/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
index 99e8d66ab..2ae4a26e0 100644
--- a/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -104,10 +104,17 @@ func InstrumentRouteFunc(verb, resource string, routeFunc restful.RouteFunction)
 		if verb == "LIST" && strings.ToLower(request.QueryParameter("watch")) == "true" {
 			verb = "WATCH"
 		}
-		Monitor(&verb, &resource, utilnet.GetHTTPClient(request.Request), rw.Header().Get("Content-Type"), delegate.status, now)
+		Monitor(&verb, &resource, cleanUserAgent(utilnet.GetHTTPClient(request.Request)), rw.Header().Get("Content-Type"), delegate.status, now)
 	})
 }
 
+func cleanUserAgent(ua string) string {
+	if strings.HasPrefix(ua, "Mozilla/") {
+		return "Browser"
+	}
+	return ua
+}
+
 type responseWriterDelegator struct {
 	http.ResponseWriter
 
diff --git a/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics_test.go b/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..886bc1f62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/endpoints/metrics/metrics_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2015 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package metrics
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestCleanUserAgent(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		In  string
+		Out string
+	}{
+		{
+			In:  "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36",
+			Out: "Browser",
+		},
+		{
+			In:  "kubectl/v1.2.4",
+			Out: "kubectl/v1.2.4",
+		},
+	} {
+		if cleanUserAgent(tc.In) != tc.Out {
+			t.Errorf("Failed to clean User-Agent: %s", tc.In)
+		}
+	}
+}