diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 5e0327dd9..7e6c37d2f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822
 	github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 v2.20.1
 	github.com/onsi/gomega v1.34.1
-	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.1
+	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.2
 	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.1
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.1
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 212549a8b..6d0eaeb34 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -330,8 +330,8 @@ github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.0.0/go.mod h1:db9x61etRT2tGnBNRi70OPL5Fsn
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.7.1/go.mod h1:PY5Wy2awLA44sXw4AOSfFBetzPP4j5+D6mVACh+pe2M=
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.11.0/go.mod h1:Z6t4BnS23TR94PD6BsDNk8yVqroYurpAkEiz0P2BEV0=
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.11.1/go.mod h1:Z6t4BnS23TR94PD6BsDNk8yVqroYurpAkEiz0P2BEV0=
-github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.1 h1:IMJXHOD6eARkQpxo8KkhgEVFlBNm+nkrFUyGlIu7Na8=
-github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.1/go.mod h1:PIEt8X02hGcP8JWbeHyeZ53Y/jReSnHgO035n//V5WE=
+github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.2 h1:5ctymQzZlyOON1666svgwn3s6IKWgfbjsejTMiXIyjg=
+github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.2/go.mod h1:PIEt8X02hGcP8JWbeHyeZ53Y/jReSnHgO035n//V5WE=
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.0.0-20180712105110-5c3871d89910/go.mod h1:MbSGuTsp3dbXC40dX6PRTWyKYBIrTGTE9sqQNg2J8bo=
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.0.0-20190129233127-fd36f4220a90/go.mod h1:xMI15A0UPsDsEKsMN9yxemIoYk6Tm2C1GtYGdfGttqA=
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.0.0-20190812154241-14fe0d1b01d4/go.mod h1:xMI15A0UPsDsEKsMN9yxemIoYk6Tm2C1GtYGdfGttqA=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp/http.go b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp/http.go
index 2e0b9a864..e598e66e6 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp/http.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp/http.go
@@ -203,8 +203,10 @@ func HandlerForTransactional(reg prometheus.TransactionalGatherer, opts HandlerO
 
 		defer closeWriter()
 
-		rsp.Header().Set(contentEncodingHeader, encodingHeader)
-
+		// Set Content-Encoding only when data is compressed
+		if encodingHeader != string(Identity) {
+			rsp.Header().Set(contentEncodingHeader, encodingHeader)
+		}
 		enc := expfmt.NewEncoder(w, contentType)
 
 		// handleError handles the error according to opts.ErrorHandling
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 82c6f6833..443b5015b 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ github.com/pjbgf/sha1cd/ubc
 # github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
 ## explicit
 github.com/pkg/errors
-# github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.1
+# github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.2
 ## explicit; go 1.20
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang/internal/github.com/golang/gddo/httputil
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang/internal/github.com/golang/gddo/httputil/header