diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/nats-exporter.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/nats-exporter.nix
index fc8d360fc97a..3bad1d97ac44 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/nats-exporter.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/nats-exporter.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ lib, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub, gitUpdater, testers, prometheus-nats-exporter }:
 
 buildGoModule rec {
   pname = "prometheus-nats-exporter";
@@ -18,6 +18,21 @@ buildGoModule rec {
     export GODEBUG=x509sha1=1;
   '';
 
+  ldflags = [
+    "-s"
+    "-w"
+    "-X main.version=${version}"
+  ];
+
+  passthru = {
+    updateScript = gitUpdater { rev-prefix = "v"; };
+    tests = {
+      prometheus-nats-exporter-version = testers.testVersion {
+        package = prometheus-nats-exporter;
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Exporter for NATS metrics";
     homepage = "https://github.com/nats-io/prometheus-nats-exporter";