diff --git a/hbase-exporter b/hbase-exporter
index 58a95f7..74fa72a 100755
--- a/hbase-exporter
+++ b/hbase-exporter
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-import argparse
+import configargparse
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from collections import defaultdict
 from flatten_json import flatten
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     hbase_master_default_address = 'localhost:' + str(hbase_master_ui_default_port)
     hdfs_namenode_default_address = 'localhost:' + str(hdfs_namenode_default_port)
 
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description="")
+    parser = configargparse.ArgParser( description="")
     parser.add_argument('--hbase-master', dest='hbase_master', action='append', help="HBase master address, can be specified multiple times", type=str, default=hbase_master_default_address)
     parser.add_argument('--hdfs-namenode', dest='hdfs_namenode', action='append', help="HDFS namenode address, can be specified multiple times", type=str, default=hdfs_namenode_default_address)
     parser.add_argument('--zookeeper-server-address', dest='zk_server', action='append', help="ZooKeeper server address, can be specified multiple times", type=str, required=True)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8e29c6b..913f74a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 beautifulsoup4 >= 4.7.1
+configargparse >= 1.2.3
 flatten_json >= 0.1.6
 kazoo >= 2.6.0
 requests >= 2.21.0