diff --git a/docker/entrypoint-collector.sh b/docker/entrypoint-collector.sh
index 501c8d5..c94a67b 100755
--- a/docker/entrypoint-collector.sh
+++ b/docker/entrypoint-collector.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 
 printenv | sed 's/^\(.*\)$/export \1/g' > /env.sh
 
+# adding ability to customize the cron schedule.
+SCRUTINY_COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE=${SCRUTINY_COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE:-"0 0 * * *"}
+sed -i 's|{SCRUTINY_COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE}|'"${SCRUTINY_COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE}"'|g' /etc/cron.d/scrutiny
+
 # now that we have the env start cron in the foreground
 echo "starting cron"
 su -c "cron -l 8 -f" root
diff --git a/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/50-config b/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/50-config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c7cece
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/50-config
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/with-contenv bash
+
+SCRUTINY_COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE=${SCRUTINY_COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE:-"0 0 * * *"}
+sed -i 's|{SCRUTINY_COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE}|'"${SCRUTINY_COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE}"'|g' /etc/cron.d/scrutiny
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/rootfs/etc/cron.d/scrutiny b/rootfs/etc/cron.d/scrutiny
index f464d04..9571f4b 100644
--- a/rootfs/etc/cron.d/scrutiny
+++ b/rootfs/etc/cron.d/scrutiny
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ MAILTO=""
 # correctly route collector logs (STDOUT & STDERR) to Cron foreground (collectable by Docker STDOUT)
 # cron schedule to run daily at midnight:  '0 0 * * *'
 # System environmental variables are stripped by cron, source our dump of the docker environmental variables before each command (/env.sh)
-0 0 * * * root . /env.sh; /scrutiny/bin/scrutiny-collector-metrics run >/proc/1/fd/1 2>/proc/1/fd/2
+{SCRUTINY_COLLECTOR_CRON_SCHEDULE} root . /env.sh; /scrutiny/bin/scrutiny-collector-metrics run >/proc/1/fd/1 2>/proc/1/fd/2
 # An empty line is required at the end of this file for a valid cron file.