diff --git a/flags/flags.go b/flags/flags.go
index 23a7dd8..c80323f 100644
--- a/flags/flags.go
+++ b/flags/flags.go
@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	ListenAddress     = kingpin.Flag("listen", "Listen address - ip:port or :port").Default("0.0.0.0:80").Envar("LISTEN").String()
-	CgroupRoot        = kingpin.Flag("cgroupfs-root", "The mount point of the host cgroupfs root").Default("/sys/fs/cgroup").Envar("CGROUPFS_ROOT").String()
-	DisableLogParsing = kingpin.Flag("disable-log-parsing", "Disable container log parsing").Default("false").Envar("DISABLE_LOG_PARSING").Bool()
-	DisablePinger     = kingpin.Flag("disable-pinger", "Don't ping upstreams").Default("false").Envar("DISABLE_PINGER").Bool()
-	DisableL7Tracing  = kingpin.Flag("disable-l7-tracing", "Disable L7 tracing").Default("false").Envar("DISABLE_L7_TRACING").Bool()
+	ListenAddress        = kingpin.Flag("listen", "Listen address - ip:port or :port").Default("0.0.0.0:80").Envar("LISTEN").String()
+	CgroupRoot           = kingpin.Flag("cgroupfs-root", "The mount point of the host cgroupfs root").Default("/sys/fs/cgroup").Envar("CGROUPFS_ROOT").String()
+	DisableLogParsing    = kingpin.Flag("disable-log-parsing", "Disable container log parsing").Default("false").Envar("DISABLE_LOG_PARSING").Bool()
+	DisablePinger        = kingpin.Flag("disable-pinger", "Don't ping upstreams").Default("false").Envar("DISABLE_PINGER").Bool()
+	DisableL7Tracing     = kingpin.Flag("disable-l7-tracing", "Disable L7 tracing").Default("false").Envar("DISABLE_L7_TRACING").Bool()
+	DisableGPUMonitoring = kingpin.Flag("disable-gpu-monitoring", "Disable GPU monitoring (NVML)").Default("false").Envar("DISABLE_GPU_MONITORING").Bool()
 
 	ContainerAllowlist = kingpin.Flag("container-allowlist", "List of allowed containers (regex patterns)").Envar("CONTAINER_ALLOWLIST").Strings()
 	ContainerDenylist  = kingpin.Flag("container-denylist", "List of denied containers (regex patterns)").Envar("CONTAINER_DENYLIST").Strings()
diff --git a/gpu/gpu.go b/gpu/gpu.go
index f91d690..232718b 100644
--- a/gpu/gpu.go
+++ b/gpu/gpu.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/NVIDIA/go-nvml/pkg/nvml"
+	"github.com/coroot/coroot-node-agent/flags"
 	"github.com/coroot/coroot-node-agent/proc"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 	"k8s.io/klog/v2"
@@ -91,7 +92,9 @@ func NewCollector() (*Collector, error) {
 	c := &Collector{
 		ProcessUsageSampleCh: make(chan ProcessUsageSample, 100),
 	}
-
+	if *flags.DisableGPUMonitoring {
+		return c, nil
+	}
 	libPath, err := findNvidiaMLLib()
 	if err != nil {
 		klog.Infoln(err)
@@ -227,6 +230,9 @@ func (c *Collector) Collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
 }
 
 func (c *Collector) Close() {
+	if c.iface == nil {
+		return
+	}
 	c.iface.Shutdown()
 }
 
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 1b420b2..81735d1 100644
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SYSTEMD_SERVICE=${SYSTEM_NAME}.service
 UNINSTALL_SH=${BIN_DIR}/${SYSTEM_NAME}-uninstall.sh
 FILE_SERVICE=${SYSTEMD_DIR}/${SYSTEMD_SERVICE}
 FILE_ENV=${SYSTEMD_DIR}/${SYSTEMD_SERVICE}.env
-ENV_VARS="^(LISTEN|CGROUPFS_ROOT|DISABLE_LOG_PARSING|DISABLE_PINGER|DISABLE_L7_TRACING|TRACK_PUBLIC_NETWORK|EPHEMERAL_PORT_RANGE|PROVIDER|REGION|AVAILABILITY_ZONE|INSTANCE_TYPE|INSTANCE_LIFE_CYCLE|LOG_PER_SECOND|LOG_BURST|COLLECTOR_ENDPOINT|API_KEY|METRICS_ENDPOINT|TRACES_ENDPOINT|LOGS_ENDPOINT|PROFILES_ENDPOINT|SCRAPE_INTERVAL|WAL_DIR)"
+ENV_VARS="^(LISTEN|CGROUPFS_ROOT|DISABLE_LOG_PARSING|DISABLE_PINGER|DISABLE_L7_TRACING|DISABLE_GPU_MONITORING|TRACK_PUBLIC_NETWORK|EPHEMERAL_PORT_RANGE|PROVIDER|REGION|AVAILABILITY_ZONE|INSTANCE_TYPE|INSTANCE_LIFE_CYCLE|LOG_PER_SECOND|LOG_BURST|COLLECTOR_ENDPOINT|API_KEY|METRICS_ENDPOINT|TRACES_ENDPOINT|LOGS_ENDPOINT|PROFILES_ENDPOINT|SCRAPE_INTERVAL|WAL_DIR)"
 
 info()
 {