diff --git a/pkg/telemetry/cassandra_agent/cassandra_agent_config.go b/pkg/telemetry/cassandra_agent/cassandra_agent_config.go
index 230fafdc9..2b860e921 100644
--- a/pkg/telemetry/cassandra_agent/cassandra_agent_config.go
+++ b/pkg/telemetry/cassandra_agent/cassandra_agent_config.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/k8ssandra/k8ssandra-operator/pkg/cassandra"
 	"github.com/k8ssandra/k8ssandra-operator/pkg/labels"
 	"github.com/k8ssandra/k8ssandra-operator/pkg/result"
+	promapi "github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1"
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/errors"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
@@ -27,6 +28,91 @@ var (
 			Port:    "9000",
 			Address: "127.0.0.1",
 		},
+		Filters: []promapi.RelabelConfig{
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.Table.*",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "true",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.table.*",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "true",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.table\\.live_ss_table_count",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.Table\\.LiveSSTableCount",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.table\\.live_disk_space_used",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.table\\.LiveDiskSpaceUsed",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.Table\\.Memtable",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.Table\\.Compaction",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.table\\.read",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.table\\.write",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.table\\.range",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.table\\.coordinator",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"__origname__"},
+				Regex:        "org\\.apache\\.cassandra\\.metrics\\.table\\.dropped_mutations",
+				TargetLabel:  "should_drop",
+				Replacement:  "false",
+			},
+			{
+				SourceLabels: []string{"should_drop"},
+				Regex:        "true",
+				Action:       "drop",
+			},
+		},
 	}
 )