diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5656683..a1f919d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@
 bin/
 data.json
 *.json
+config.yaml
+
diff --git a/cmd/domain-router/main.go b/cmd/domain-router/main.go
index 5fbd1f8..25fed55 100644
--- a/cmd/domain-router/main.go
+++ b/cmd/domain-router/main.go
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ func main() {
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
 	wg.Add(1)
 	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
 		<-sigs
 		log.Info().Msg("Stopping server")
 		server.Shutdown(context.Background())
 		pipeline.Stop()
-		wg.Done()
 	}()
 
 	if config.Server.Ssl.Enabled {
@@ -127,8 +127,14 @@ func configureMiddleware(config *domainrouter.Config) *middleware.Pipeline {
 		pipeline.AddMiddleware(&middleware.RequestLogger{})
 	}
 
-	metrics := middleware.NewMetrics(512, 1*time.Minute, "tmp_metrics.json")
-	pipeline.AddMiddleware(metrics)
+	if config.Metrics.Enabled {
+		flushInterval, err := time.ParseDuration(config.Metrics.FlushInterval)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Fatal().Err(err).Str("flush_interval", config.Metrics.FlushInterval).Msg("Could not parse FlushInterval")
+		}
+		metrics := middleware.NewMetrics(config.Metrics.BufferSize, flushInterval, config.Metrics.File)
+		pipeline.AddMiddleware(metrics)
+	}
 
 	return pipeline
 }
diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index 3a4a1df..e65ce27 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -43,4 +43,10 @@ type Config struct {
 			MaxBackups int    `yamls:"maxBackups"`
 		} `yaml:"file"`
 	} `yaml:"logging"`
+	Metrics struct {
+		Enabled       bool   `yaml:"enabled"`
+		File          string `yaml:"file"`
+		BufferSize    int    `yaml:"bufferSize"`
+		FlushInterval string `yaml:"flushInterval"`
+	} `yaml:"metrics"`
 }
diff --git a/config.yaml b/example.config.yaml
similarity index 57%
rename from config.yaml
rename to example.config.yaml
index 8966442..45d6804 100644
--- a/config.yaml
+++ b/example.config.yaml
@@ -1,73 +1,61 @@
-server:
-  port: 443
-  ssl:
-    enabled: true
-    certFile: server.crt
-    keyFile: server.key
-    acme:
-      enabled: false
-      email: me@pablu.de
-      keyFile: userKey.key
-      caDirUrl: https://192.168.2.154:14000/dir
-      tlsAlpn01Port: 5001 
-      http01Port: 5002
-      renewTime: 30s
-
-
-logging:
-  level: trace
-  # Pretty print for human consumption otherwise json
-  pretty: true
-  # Log incoming requests
-  requests: true
-  # Log to file aswell as stderr
-  file:
-    enabled: false
-    maxAge: 14
-    maxBackups: 10
-    path: ~/logs/router
-
-
-rateLimit:
-  enabled: false
-  # How many requests per ip adress are allowed
-  bucketSize: 50
-  # How many requests per ip address are refilled
-  refillSize: 50
-  # How often requests per ip address are refilled
-  refillTime: 30s
-  # How often Ip Addresses get cleaned up (only ip addresses with max allowed requests are cleaned up)
-  cleanupTime: 45s
-
-
-hosts:
-    # Remote address to request
-  - remotes: 
-      - localhost
-    # Port on which to request
-    port: 8181
-    # Domains which get redirected to host
-    domains:
-      - localhost
-      - test.localhost
-
-  - remotes:
-      - localhost
-    port: 8080
-    domains:
-      - api.hitstar.localhost
-
-  - remotes:
-      - localhost
-    port: 5173
-    domains:
-      - hitstar.localhost
-      - hipstar.localhost
-    rewrite:
-      "/api": api.hitstar.localhost
-
-  - remotes:
-      - 127.0.0.1
-    port: 46009
-    domains:
-      - chat.localhost
+server:
+  port: 80
+  ssl:
+    enabled: false
+    certFile: server.crt
+    keyFile: server.key
+    acme:
+      enabled: false
+      email: user@host.dev
+      keyFile: userKey.key
+      caDirUrl: https://localhost:14000/dir
+      tlsAlpn01Port: 5001
+      http01Port: 5002
+      renewTime: 30s
+
+logging:
+  level: info
+  # Pretty print for human consumption otherwise json
+  pretty: true
+  # Log incoming requests
+  requests: true
+  # Log to file aswell as stderr
+  file:
+    enabled: false
+    maxAge: 14
+    maxBackups: 10
+    path: ~/logs/router
+
+rateLimit:
+  enabled: false
+  # How many requests per ip adress are allowed
+  bucketSize: 50
+  # How many requests per ip address are refilled
+  refillSize: 50
+  # How often requests per ip address are refilled
+  refillTime: 30s
+  # How often Ip Addresses get cleaned up (only ip addresses with max allowed requests are cleaned up)
+  cleanupTime: 45s
+
+# Experimental
+metrics:
+  enabled: false
+  flushInterval: 1h
+  bufferSize: 512
+  file: ~/metrics.json
+
+hosts:
+  - remotes:
+      - 127.0.0.1
+    port: 3000
+    domains:
+      - api.hitstar.xyz
+
+  - remotes:
+      - 127.0.0.1
+    port: 5173
+    domains:
+      - localhost
+      - hitstar.xyz
+    rewrite:
+      "/api": api.hitstar.xyz
diff --git a/middleware/metrics.go b/middleware/metrics.go
index 98f7791..8ed0a0e 100644
--- a/middleware/metrics.go
+++ b/middleware/metrics.go
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ func (m *Metrics) Flush() {
 		return
 	}
 
-	log.Info().Str("file", m.file).Int("count", len(a)).Msg("Completed Metrics flush")
+	log.Debug().Str("file", m.file).Int("count", len(a)).Msg("Completed Metrics flush")
 }
 
 func (m *Metrics) Stop() {