diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/external-dns/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/external-dns/kustomization.yaml
index 8e3a1ec0..3e16e232 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/external-dns/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/external-dns/kustomization.yaml
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ kind: Kustomization
 resources:
   - externalsecret.yaml
   - helmrelease.yaml
+  - networkpolicy.yaml
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/external-dns/networkpolicy.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/external-dns/networkpolicy.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4c258cee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/external-dns/networkpolicy.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# The apps namespace is default-deny-ingress, so the ServiceMonitor added in
+# monitoring-rules/external-dns-servicemonitor.yaml scraped into a timeout.
+# The selector matches both releases — the Cloudflare one deployed here and
+# external-dns-unifi from infrastructure/ — since they share the chart's
+# app.kubernetes.io/name and land in the same namespace.
+apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
+kind: CiliumNetworkPolicy
+metadata:
+  name: external-dns-allow-metrics-scrape
+  namespace: apps
+spec:
+  endpointSelector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: external-dns
+  ingress:
+    - fromEndpoints:
+        - matchLabels:
+            k8s:io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: monitoring
+      toPorts:
+        - ports:
+            - port: "7979"
+              protocol: TCP