diff --git a/include/types/stats.h b/include/types/stats.h
index 2a71ff64e..d99d51911 100644
--- a/include/types/stats.h
+++ b/include/types/stats.h
@@ -28,9 +28,12 @@
 #define STAT_NO_REFRESH 0x00000010	/* do not automatically refresh the stats page */
 #define STAT_ADMIN      0x00000020	/* indicate a stats admin level */
 #define STAT_CHUNKED    0x00000040      /* use chunked encoding (HTTP/1.1) */
+#define STAT_JSON_SCHM  0x00000080      /* dump the json schema */
 #define STAT_BOUND      0x00800000	/* bound statistics to selected proxies/types/services */
 #define STAT_STARTED    0x01000000	/* some output has occurred */
 
+#define STAT_FMT_MASK   0x00000007
+
 #define STATS_TYPE_FE  0
 #define STATS_TYPE_BE  1
 #define STATS_TYPE_SV  2
diff --git a/src/http_ana.c b/src/http_ana.c
index eef0c09ca..6fff39b30 100644
--- a/src/http_ana.c
+++ b/src/http_ana.c
@@ -4399,19 +4399,35 @@ static int http_handle_stats(struct stream *s, struct channel *req)
 
 	for (h = lookup; h <= end - 4; h++) {
 		if (memcmp(h, ";csv", 4) == 0) {
-			appctx->ctx.stats.flags &= ~STAT_FMT_HTML;
+			appctx->ctx.stats.flags &= ~(STAT_FMT_MASK|STAT_JSON_SCHM);
 			break;
 		}
 	}
 
 	for (h = lookup; h <= end - 6; h++) {
 		if (memcmp(h, ";typed", 6) == 0) {
-			appctx->ctx.stats.flags &= ~STAT_FMT_HTML;
+			appctx->ctx.stats.flags &= ~(STAT_FMT_MASK|STAT_JSON_SCHM);
 			appctx->ctx.stats.flags |= STAT_FMT_TYPED;
 			break;
 		}
 	}
 
+	for (h = lookup; h <= end - 5; h++) {
+		if (memcmp(h, ";json", 5) == 0) {
+			appctx->ctx.stats.flags &= ~(STAT_FMT_MASK|STAT_JSON_SCHM);
+			appctx->ctx.stats.flags |= STAT_FMT_JSON;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	for (h = lookup; h <= end - 12; h++) {
+		if (memcmp(h, ";json-schema", 12) == 0) {
+			appctx->ctx.stats.flags &= ~STAT_FMT_MASK;
+			appctx->ctx.stats.flags |= STAT_JSON_SCHM;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
 	for (h = lookup; h <= end - 8; h++) {
 		if (memcmp(h, ";st=", 4) == 0) {
 			int i;
diff --git a/src/stats.c b/src/stats.c
index 34efbfbbb..e59ad10bb 100644
--- a/src/stats.c
+++ b/src/stats.c
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ static THREAD_LOCAL struct field info[INF_TOTAL_FIELDS];
 /* one line of stats */
 static THREAD_LOCAL struct field stats[ST_F_TOTAL_FIELDS];
 
+static void stats_dump_json_schema(struct buffer *out);
 
 static int stats_putchk(struct channel *chn, struct htx *htx, struct buffer *chk)
 {
@@ -2526,6 +2527,12 @@ static void stats_dump_html_info(struct stream_interface *si, struct uri_auth *u
 	              (uri->refresh > 0) ? ";norefresh" : "",
 		      scope_txt);
 
+	chunk_appendf(&trash,
+	              "<li><a href=\"%s;json%s%s\">JSON export</a> (<a href=\"%s;json-schema\">schema</a>)<br>\n",
+	              uri->uri_prefix,
+	              (uri->refresh > 0) ? ";norefresh" : "",
+		      scope_txt, uri->uri_prefix);
+
 	chunk_appendf(&trash,
 	              "</ul></td>"
 	              "<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" nowrap width=\"1%%\">"
@@ -2682,6 +2689,8 @@ static int stats_dump_stat_to_buffer(struct stream_interface *si, struct htx *ht
 	case STAT_ST_HEAD:
 		if (appctx->ctx.stats.flags & STAT_FMT_HTML)
 			stats_dump_html_head(uri);
+		else if (appctx->ctx.stats.flags & STAT_JSON_SCHM)
+			stats_dump_json_schema(&trash);
 		else if (appctx->ctx.stats.flags & STAT_FMT_JSON)
 			stats_dump_json_header();
 		else if (!(appctx->ctx.stats.flags & STAT_FMT_TYPED))
@@ -2690,6 +2699,10 @@ static int stats_dump_stat_to_buffer(struct stream_interface *si, struct htx *ht
 		if (!stats_putchk(rep, htx, &trash))
 			goto full;
 
+		if (appctx->ctx.stats.flags & STAT_JSON_SCHM) {
+			appctx->st2 = STAT_ST_FIN;
+			return 1;
+		}
 		appctx->st2 = STAT_ST_INFO;
 		/* fall through */
 
@@ -3124,6 +3137,10 @@ static int stats_send_http_headers(struct stream_interface *si, struct htx *htx)
 		if (!htx_add_header(htx, ist("Content-Type"), ist("text/html")))
 			goto full;
 	}
+	else if (appctx->ctx.stats.flags & (STAT_FMT_JSON|STAT_JSON_SCHM)) {
+		if (!htx_add_header(htx, ist("Content-Type"), ist("application/json")))
+			goto full;
+	}
 	else {
 		if (!htx_add_header(htx, ist("Content-Type"), ist("text/plain")))
 			goto full;