diff --git a/exporter/exporter.go b/exporter/exporter.go
index d69ddff0..eb11cba8 100644
--- a/exporter/exporter.go
+++ b/exporter/exporter.go
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ func (e *Exporter) makeRegistry(ctx context.Context, client *mongo.Client, topol
 		registry.MustRegister(rsgsc)
 	}
 	if e.opts.EnableShards && nodeType == typeMongos && requestOpts.EnableShards {
-		sc := newShardsCollector(ctx, client, e.opts.Logger, e.opts.CompatibleMode)
+		sc := newShardsCollector(ctx, client, e.opts.Logger, e.opts.CompatibleMode, limitsOk)
 		registry.MustRegister(sc)
 	}
 
diff --git a/exporter/shards_collector.go b/exporter/shards_collector.go
index e204baa2..728ef572 100644
--- a/exporter/shards_collector.go
+++ b/exporter/shards_collector.go
@@ -29,17 +29,19 @@ import (
 )
 
 type shardsCollector struct {
-	ctx        context.Context
-	base       *baseCollector
-	compatible bool
+	ctx                 context.Context
+	base                *baseCollector
+	compatible          bool
+	scanEachCollChunkOk bool
 }
 
 // newShardsCollector creates collector collecting metrics about chunks for shards Mongo.
-func newShardsCollector(ctx context.Context, client *mongo.Client, logger *slog.Logger, compatibleMode bool) *shardsCollector {
+func newShardsCollector(ctx context.Context, client *mongo.Client, logger *slog.Logger, compatibleMode bool, scanEachCollChunkOk bool) *shardsCollector {
 	return &shardsCollector{
-		ctx:        ctx,
-		base:       newBaseCollector(client, logger.With("collector", "shards")),
-		compatible: compatibleMode,
+		ctx:                 ctx,
+		base:                newBaseCollector(client, logger.With("collector", "shards")),
+		compatible:          compatibleMode,
+		scanEachCollChunkOk: scanEachCollChunkOk,
 	}
 }
 
@@ -78,6 +80,10 @@ func (d *shardsCollector) collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
 		ch <- metric
 	}
 
+	if !d.scanEachCollChunkOk {
+		return
+	}
+
 	databaseNames, err := client.ListDatabaseNames(d.ctx, bson.D{})
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Error("cannot get database names", "error", err)
diff --git a/exporter/shards_collector_test.go b/exporter/shards_collector_test.go
index 4900b4de..53c2213f 100644
--- a/exporter/shards_collector_test.go
+++ b/exporter/shards_collector_test.go
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ func TestShardsCollector(t *testing.T) {
 	defer cancel()
 
 	client := tu.DefaultTestClientMongoS(ctx, t)
-	c := newShardsCollector(ctx, client, promslog.New(&promslog.Config{}), false)
+	c := newShardsCollector(ctx, client, promslog.New(&promslog.Config{}), false, true)
 
 	reg := prometheus.NewPedanticRegistry()
 	if err := reg.Register(c); err != nil {
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 4eae7774..708b3f61 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ type GlobalFlags struct {
 
 	CollectAll bool `name:"collect-all" help:"Enable all collectors. Same as specifying all --collector.<name>"`
 
-	CollStatsLimit         int  `name:"collector.collstats-limit" help:"Disable collstats, dbstats, topmetrics and indexstats collector if there are more than <n> collections. 0=No limit" default:"0"`
+	CollStatsLimit         int  `name:"collector.collstats-limit" help:"Disable collstats, dbstats, topmetrics, indexstats collector and coll chunk info if there are more than <n> collections. 0=No limit" default:"0"`
 	CollStatsEnableDetails bool `name:"collector.collstats-enable-details" help:"Enable collecting index details and wired tiger metrics from $collStats" default:"false"`
 
 	ProfileTimeTS int `name:"collector.profile-time-ts" help:"Set time for scrape slow queries." default:"30"`