diff --git a/lib/config.js b/lib/config.js
index 90472f27641..18ef922e149 100644
--- a/lib/config.js
+++ b/lib/config.js
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ var DEFAULTS = {
   logLevel: 'info',
   metricsInterval: '30s',
   metricsLimit: 1000,
+  monitorIncomingHTTPRequests: true,
   centralConfig: true,
   serverTimeout: '30s',
   sourceLinesErrorAppFrames: 5,
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ var ENV_TABLE = {
   logLevel: 'ELASTIC_APM_LOG_LEVEL',
   metricsInterval: 'ELASTIC_APM_METRICS_INTERVAL',
   metricsLimit: 'ELASTIC_APM_METRICS_LIMIT',
+  monitorIncomingHTTPRequests: 'ELASTIC_APM_MONITOR_INCOMING_HTTP_REQUESTS',
   payloadLogFile: 'ELASTIC_APM_PAYLOAD_LOG_FILE',
   centralConfig: 'ELASTIC_APM_CENTRAL_CONFIG',
   secretToken: 'ELASTIC_APM_SECRET_TOKEN',
@@ -138,10 +140,11 @@ var BOOL_OPTS = [
   'captureExceptions',
   'captureHeaders',
   'captureSpanStackTraces',
+  'centralConfig',
   'errorOnAbortedRequests',
   'filterHttpHeaders',
   'instrument',
-  'centralConfig',
+  'monitorIncomingHTTPRequests',
   'usePathAsTransactionName',
   'verifyServerCert'
 ]
diff --git a/lib/instrumentation/modules/http.js b/lib/instrumentation/modules/http.js
index c3a5e63d4b0..f5f9877d871 100644
--- a/lib/instrumentation/modules/http.js
+++ b/lib/instrumentation/modules/http.js
@@ -6,9 +6,15 @@ var httpShared = require('../http-shared')
 var shimmer = require('../shimmer')
 
 module.exports = function (http, agent, { enabled }) {
+  if (agent._conf.monitorIncomingHTTPRequests) {
+    agent.logger.debug('shimming http.Server.prototype.emit function')
+    shimmer.wrap(http && http.Server && http.Server.prototype, 'emit', httpShared.instrumentRequest(agent, 'http'))
+
+    agent.logger.debug('shimming http.ServerResponse.prototype.writeHead function')
+    shimmer.wrap(http && http.ServerResponse && http.ServerResponse.prototype, 'writeHead', wrapWriteHead)
+  }
+
   if (!enabled) return http
-  agent.logger.debug('shimming http.Server.prototype.emit function')
-  shimmer.wrap(http && http.Server && http.Server.prototype, 'emit', httpShared.instrumentRequest(agent, 'http'))
 
   agent.logger.debug('shimming http.request function')
   shimmer.wrap(http, 'request', httpShared.traceOutgoingRequest(agent, 'http', 'request'))
@@ -18,9 +24,6 @@ module.exports = function (http, agent, { enabled }) {
     shimmer.wrap(http, 'get', httpShared.traceOutgoingRequest(agent, 'http', 'get'))
   }
 
-  agent.logger.debug('shimming http.ServerResponse.prototype.writeHead function')
-  shimmer.wrap(http && http.ServerResponse && http.ServerResponse.prototype, 'writeHead', wrapWriteHead)
-
   return http
 
   function wrapWriteHead (original) {
diff --git a/lib/instrumentation/modules/http2.js b/lib/instrumentation/modules/http2.js
index fd5bf4067e0..db2ab458ce7 100644
--- a/lib/instrumentation/modules/http2.js
+++ b/lib/instrumentation/modules/http2.js
@@ -8,11 +8,15 @@ var shimmer = require('../shimmer')
 var symbols = require('../../symbols')
 
 module.exports = function (http2, agent, { enabled }) {
+  if (agent._conf.monitorIncomingHTTPRequests) {
+    agent.logger.debug('shimming http2.createServer function')
+    shimmer.wrap(http2, 'createServer', wrapCreateServer)
+    shimmer.wrap(http2, 'createSecureServer', wrapCreateServer)
+  }
+
   if (!enabled) return http2
   var ins = agent._instrumentation
-  agent.logger.debug('shimming http2.createServer function')
-  shimmer.wrap(http2, 'createServer', wrapCreateServer)
-  shimmer.wrap(http2, 'createSecureServer', wrapCreateServer)
+  agent.logger.debug('shimming http2.connect function')
   shimmer.wrap(http2, 'connect', wrapConnect)
 
   return http2
diff --git a/lib/instrumentation/modules/https.js b/lib/instrumentation/modules/https.js
index 9f64d82d40c..4850455edcd 100644
--- a/lib/instrumentation/modules/https.js
+++ b/lib/instrumentation/modules/https.js
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ var httpShared = require('../http-shared')
 var shimmer = require('../shimmer')
 
 module.exports = function (https, agent, { version, enabled }) {
-  if (!enabled) return https
-  agent.logger.debug('shimming https.Server.prototype.emit function')
-  shimmer.wrap(https && https.Server && https.Server.prototype, 'emit', httpShared.instrumentRequest(agent, 'https'))
+  if (agent._conf.monitorIncomingHTTPRequests) {
+    agent.logger.debug('shimming https.Server.prototype.emit function')
+    shimmer.wrap(https && https.Server && https.Server.prototype, 'emit', httpShared.instrumentRequest(agent, 'https'))
+  }
 
+  if (!enabled) return https
   // From Node.js v9.0.0 and onwards, https requests no longer just call the
   // http.request function. So to correctly instrument outgoing HTTPS requests
   // in all supported Node.js versions, we'll only only instrument the
diff --git a/test/instrumentation/_agent.js b/test/instrumentation/_agent.js
index 810a6191483..0ae2ad68018 100644
--- a/test/instrumentation/_agent.js
+++ b/test/instrumentation/_agent.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 'use strict'
 
+var config = require('../../lib/config')
 var Metrics = require('../../lib/metrics')
 var Instrumentation = require('../../lib/instrumentation')
 var mockClient = require('../_mock_http_client')
@@ -12,27 +13,14 @@ var sharedInstrumentation
 
 module.exports = function mockAgent (expected, cb) {
   var agent = {
-    _conf: {
-      serviceName: 'service-name',
-      active: true,
-      instrument: true,
-      captureSpanStackTraces: true,
+    _conf: config({
+      abortedErrorThreshold: '250ms',
+      asyncHooks: false,
+      breakdownMetrics: false,
+      centralConfig: false,
       errorOnAbortedRequests: false,
-      abortedErrorThreshold: 0.25,
-      sourceLinesErrorAppFrames: 5,
-      sourceLinesErrorLibraryFrames: 5,
-      sourceLinesSpanAppFrames: 5,
-      sourceLinesSpanLibraryFrames: 0,
-      ignoreUrlStr: [],
-      ignoreUrlRegExp: [],
-      ignoreUserAgentStr: [],
-      ignoreUserAgentRegExp: [],
-      transactionSampleRate: 1.0,
-      disableInstrumentations: [],
-      captureHeaders: true,
-      metricsInterval: 0,
-      centralConfig: false
-    },
+      metricsInterval: 0
+    }),
     _errorFilters: new Filters(),
     _transactionFilters: new Filters(),
     _spanFilters: new Filters(),
diff --git a/test/instrumentation/index.js b/test/instrumentation/index.js
index 4c4074c75f1..cdd9f598b5f 100644
--- a/test/instrumentation/index.js
+++ b/test/instrumentation/index.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 var agent = require('../..').start({
   serviceName: 'test',
+  breakdownMetrics: false,
   captureExceptions: false,
   metricsInterval: 0
 })