diff --git a/lib/promscrape/config.go b/lib/promscrape/config.go
index 458a8dd31..d8ca91469 100644
--- a/lib/promscrape/config.go
+++ b/lib/promscrape/config.go
@@ -669,6 +669,9 @@ func appendScrapeWork(dst []ScrapeWork, swc *scrapeWorkConfig, target string, ex
 	if metricsPathRelabeled == "" {
 		metricsPathRelabeled = "/metrics"
 	}
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(metricsPathRelabeled, "/") {
+		metricsPathRelabeled = "/" + metricsPathRelabeled
+	}
 	paramsRelabeled := getParamsFromLabels(labels, swc.params)
 	optionalQuestion := "?"
 	if len(paramsRelabeled) == 0 || strings.Contains(metricsPathRelabeled, "?") {
diff --git a/lib/promscrape/config_test.go b/lib/promscrape/config_test.go
index f1dd2727b..380c481e7 100644
--- a/lib/promscrape/config_test.go
+++ b/lib/promscrape/config_test.go
@@ -1333,6 +1333,45 @@ scrape_configs:
 			jobNameOriginal:    "snmp",
 		},
 	})
+	f(`
+scrape_configs:
+- job_name: path wo slash
+  static_configs: 
+  - targets: ["foo.bar:1234"]
+  relabel_configs:
+  - replacement: metricspath
+    target_label: __metrics_path__
+`, []ScrapeWork{
+		{
+			ScrapeURL:      "http://foo.bar:1234/metricspath",
+			ScrapeInterval: defaultScrapeInterval,
+			ScrapeTimeout:  defaultScrapeTimeout,
+			Labels: []prompbmarshal.Label{
+				{
+					Name:  "__address__",
+					Value: "foo.bar:1234",
+				},
+				{
+					Name:  "__metrics_path__",
+					Value: "metricspath",
+				},
+				{
+					Name:  "__scheme__",
+					Value: "http",
+				},
+				{
+					Name:  "instance",
+					Value: "foo.bar:1234",
+				},
+				{
+					Name:  "job",
+					Value: "path wo slash",
+				},
+			},
+			jobNameOriginal: "path wo slash",
+			AuthConfig:      &promauth.Config{},
+		},
+	})
 }
 
 var defaultRegexForRelabelConfig = regexp.MustCompile("^(.*)$")