diff --git a/assets/node-exporter/daemonset.yaml b/assets/node-exporter/daemonset.yaml
index 65a5e3d334..6f82921a33 100644
--- a/assets/node-exporter/daemonset.yaml
+++ b/assets/node-exporter/daemonset.yaml
@@ -41,6 +41,19 @@ spec:
         - --collector.cpu.info
         - --collector.textfile.directory=/var/node_exporter/textfile
         - --no-collector.btrfs
+        command:
+        - /bin/sh
+        - -c
+        - |
+          export GOMAXPROCS=4
+          # We don't take CPU affinity into account as the container doesn't have integer CPU requests.
+          # In case of error, fallback to the default value.
+          NUM_CPUS=$(grep -c '^processor' "/proc/cpuinfo" 2>/dev/null || echo "0")
+          if [ "$NUM_CPUS" -lt "$GOMAXPROCS" ]; then
+            export GOMAXPROCS="$NUM_CPUS"
+          fi
+          echo "ts=$(date --iso-8601=seconds) num_cpus=$NUM_CPUS gomaxprocs=$GOMAXPROCS"
+          exec /bin/node_exporter "$0" "$@"
         image: quay.io/prometheus/node-exporter:v1.6.0
         name: node-exporter
         resources:
diff --git a/jsonnet/components/node-exporter.libsonnet b/jsonnet/components/node-exporter.libsonnet
index 8de240b889..ddca82ac12 100644
--- a/jsonnet/components/node-exporter.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/components/node-exporter.libsonnet
@@ -250,6 +250,21 @@ function(params)
                               '--collector.textfile.directory=' + textfileDir,
                               '--no-collector.btrfs',
                             ],
+                      command: [
+                        '/bin/sh',
+                        '-c',
+                        |||
+                          export GOMAXPROCS=4
+                          # We don't take CPU affinity into account as the container doesn't have integer CPU requests.
+                          # In case of error, fallback to the default value.
+                          NUM_CPUS=$(grep -c '^processor' "/proc/cpuinfo" 2>/dev/null || echo "0")
+                          if [ "$NUM_CPUS" -lt "$GOMAXPROCS" ]; then
+                            export GOMAXPROCS="$NUM_CPUS"
+                          fi
+                          echo "ts=$(date --iso-8601=seconds) num_cpus=$NUM_CPUS gomaxprocs=$GOMAXPROCS"
+                          exec /bin/node_exporter "$0" "$@"
+                        |||,
+                      ],
                       terminationMessagePolicy: 'FallbackToLogsOnError',
                       volumeMounts+: [{
                         mountPath: textfileDir,