diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/bind.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/bind.nix
index 3390374172c4..935ebff7e5bd 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/bind.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/bind.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ in
       type = types.str;
       default = "http://localhost:8053/";
       description = ''
-        HTTP XML API address of an Bind server.
+        HTTP API address of a BIND server.
       '';
     };
     bindTimeout = mkOption {
@@ -29,13 +29,14 @@ in
     };
     bindVersion = mkOption {
       type = types.enum [
-        "xml.v2"
+        "json"
+        "xml"
         "xml.v3"
         "auto"
       ];
-      default = "auto";
+      default = "json";
       description = ''
-        BIND statistics version. Can be detected automatically.
+        BIND statistics version. Defaults to JSON.
       '';
     };
     bindGroups = mkOption {
diff --git a/nixos/tests/prometheus-exporters.nix b/nixos/tests/prometheus-exporters.nix
index b1033987565a..990dc02a5ab8 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/prometheus-exporters.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/prometheus-exporters.nix
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ let
           wait_for_unit("prometheus-bind-exporter.service")
           wait_for_open_port(9119)
           succeed(
-              "curl -sSf http://localhost:9119/metrics | grep 'bind_query_recursions_total 0'"
+              "curl -sSf http://localhost:9119/metrics | grep 'bind_up 1'"
           )
         '';
       };
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/bi/bind/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/bi/bind/package.nix
index 2f12ebf30ea0..c65fb374d724 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/bi/bind/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/bi/bind/package.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   libidn2,
   libtool,
   libxml2,
+  json_c,
   openssl,
   liburcu,
   libuv,
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     libidn2
     libtool
     libxml2
+    json_c
     openssl
     liburcu
     libuv
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/pr/prometheus-bind-exporter/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/pr/prometheus-bind-exporter/package.nix
index 1749028329e9..b135449f097b 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/pr/prometheus-bind-exporter/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/pr/prometheus-bind-exporter/package.nix
@@ -7,16 +7,16 @@
 
 buildGoModule rec {
   pname = "bind_exporter";
-  version = "0.7.0";
+  version = "0.8.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     rev = "v${version}";
     owner = "prometheus-community";
     repo = "bind_exporter";
-    sha256 = "sha256-x/XGatlXCKo9cI92JzFItApsjuZAfZX+8IZRpy7PVUo=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-r1P+zy3iMgPmfvIBgycW8KS0gfNOxCT9YMmHdeY4uXA=";
   };
 
-  vendorHash = "sha256-f0ei/zotOj5ebURAOWUox/7J3jS2abQ5UgjninI9nRk=";
+  vendorHash = "sha256-/fPj5LOe3QdnVPdtYdaqtnGMJ7/SZ458mpvjwO8TxEI=";
 
   passthru.tests = { inherit (nixosTests.prometheus-exporters) bind; };