diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index e9e547a..6a8d5f2 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -5,6 +5,4 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.15.0
 )
 
-require github.com/valyala/fastrand v1.1.0 // indirect
-
-go 1.20
+go 1.16
diff --git a/go_metrics.go b/go_metrics.go
index 5de7cb8..1d0c7e2 100644
--- a/go_metrics.go
+++ b/go_metrics.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package metrics
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"log"
 	"math"
 	"runtime"
 	runtimemetrics "runtime/metrics"
@@ -22,6 +23,25 @@ var runtimeMetrics = [][2]string{
 	{"/gc/gomemlimit:bytes", "go_memlimit_bytes"},
 }
 
+var supportedRuntimeMetrics = initSupportedRuntimeMetrics(runtimeMetrics)
+
+func initSupportedRuntimeMetrics(rms [][2]string) [][2]string {
+	exposedMetrics := make(map[string]struct{})
+	for _, d := range runtimemetrics.All() {
+		exposedMetrics[d.Name] = struct{}{}
+	}
+	var supportedMetrics [][2]string
+	for _, rm := range rms {
+		metricName := rm[0]
+		if _, ok := exposedMetrics[metricName]; ok {
+			supportedMetrics = append(supportedMetrics, rm)
+		} else {
+			log.Printf("github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics: do not expose %s metric, since the corresponding metric %s isn't supported in the current Go runtime", rm[1], metricName)
+		}
+	}
+	return supportedMetrics
+}
+
 func writeGoMetrics(w io.Writer) {
 	writeRuntimeMetrics(w)
 
@@ -81,18 +101,19 @@ func writeGoMetrics(w io.Writer) {
 }
 
 func writeRuntimeMetrics(w io.Writer) {
-	samples := make([]runtimemetrics.Sample, len(runtimeMetrics))
-	for i, rm := range runtimeMetrics {
+	samples := make([]runtimemetrics.Sample, len(supportedRuntimeMetrics))
+	for i, rm := range supportedRuntimeMetrics {
 		samples[i].Name = rm[0]
 	}
 	runtimemetrics.Read(samples)
-	for i, rm := range runtimeMetrics {
+	for i, rm := range supportedRuntimeMetrics {
 		writeRuntimeMetric(w, rm[1], &samples[i])
 	}
 }
 
 func writeRuntimeMetric(w io.Writer, name string, sample *runtimemetrics.Sample) {
-	switch sample.Value.Kind() {
+	kind := sample.Value.Kind()
+	switch kind {
 	case runtimemetrics.KindBad:
 		panic(fmt.Errorf("BUG: unexpected runtimemetrics.KindBad for sample.Name=%q", sample.Name))
 	case runtimemetrics.KindUint64:
@@ -101,6 +122,8 @@ func writeRuntimeMetric(w io.Writer, name string, sample *runtimemetrics.Sample)
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s %g\n", name, sample.Value.Float64())
 	case runtimemetrics.KindFloat64Histogram:
 		writeRuntimeHistogramMetric(w, name, sample.Value.Float64Histogram())
+	default:
+		panic(fmt.Errorf("unexpected metric kind=%d", kind))
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/go_metrics_test.go b/go_metrics_test.go
index cd510e7..9493814 100644
--- a/go_metrics_test.go
+++ b/go_metrics_test.go
@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
 package metrics
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"math"
 	runtimemetrics "runtime/metrics"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
+func TestWriteRuntimeMetrics(t *testing.T) {
+	var bb bytes.Buffer
+	writeRuntimeMetrics(&bb)
+	if n := bb.Len(); n == 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected empty runtime metrics")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestWriteRuntimeHistogramMetricOk(t *testing.T) {
 	f := func(h *runtimemetrics.Float64Histogram, resultExpected string) {
 		t.Helper()
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/valyala/fastrand/go.mod b/vendor/github.com/valyala/fastrand/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..958910b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/valyala/fastrand/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+module github.com/valyala/fastrand
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/valyala/histogram/go.mod b/vendor/github.com/valyala/histogram/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc65b00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/valyala/histogram/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+module github.com/valyala/histogram
+
+go 1.12
+
+require github.com/valyala/fastrand v1.1.0
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/valyala/histogram/go.sum b/vendor/github.com/valyala/histogram/go.sum
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5ca588
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/github.com/valyala/histogram/go.sum
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+github.com/valyala/fastrand v1.1.0 h1:f+5HkLW4rsgzdNoleUOB69hyT9IlD2ZQh9GyDMfb5G8=
+github.com/valyala/fastrand v1.1.0/go.mod h1:HWqCzkrkg6QXT8V2EXWvXCoow7vLwOFN002oeRzjapQ=
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 682dbd5..f8aabff 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 # github.com/valyala/fastrand v1.1.0
-## explicit
 github.com/valyala/fastrand
 # github.com/valyala/histogram v1.2.0
-## explicit; go 1.12
+## explicit
 github.com/valyala/histogram
 # golang.org/x/sys v0.15.0
-## explicit; go 1.18
+## explicit
 golang.org/x/sys/windows