diff --git a/src/express-middleware.js b/src/express-middleware.js
index a1ef3d4..6ae9d43 100644
--- a/src/express-middleware.js
+++ b/src/express-middleware.js
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ class ExpressMiddleware {
                 route = route ? route + req.route.path : req.route.path;
             }
 
+            // #112 - aggregated express default route
+            if (route === '*') {
+                return route;
+            }
+
             if (!route || route === '' || typeof route !== 'string') {
                 route = req.originalUrl.split('?')[0];
             } else {
diff --git a/test/integration-tests/express/middleware-default-route-test.js b/test/integration-tests/express/middleware-default-route-test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f765910
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration-tests/express/middleware-default-route-test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+'use strict';
+const { expect } = require('chai');
+const Prometheus = require('prom-client');
+const supertest = require('supertest');
+
+let app, config;
+
+describe('when using express framework (default route)', function() {
+    this.timeout(4000);
+    before(() => {
+        config = require('./server/config');
+        config.useUniqueHistogramName = true;
+        app = require('./server/express-server-default-route');
+    });
+    after(() => {
+        Prometheus.register.clear();
+        delete require.cache[require.resolve('./server/express-server-default-route.js')];
+        delete require.cache[require.resolve('../../../src/index.js')];
+        delete require.cache[require.resolve('../../../src/metrics-middleware.js')];
+    });
+
+    describe('when start up with default route', () => {
+        describe('when calling default endpoint', () => {
+            before(() => {
+                return supertest(app)
+                    .get('/dne')
+                    .expect(200)
+                    .then((res) => {});
+            });
+            it('should add it to the histogram', () => {
+                return supertest(app)
+                    .get('/metrics')
+                    .expect(200)
+                    .then((res) => {
+                        expect(res.text).to.contain('method="GET",route="*",code="200"');
+                    });
+            });
+        });
+
+        describe('when calling existing GET endpoint', () => {
+            before(() => {
+                return supertest(app)
+                    .get('/hello')
+                    .expect(200)
+                    .then((res) => {});
+            });
+            it('should add it to the histogram', () => {
+                return supertest(app)
+                    .get('/metrics')
+                    .expect(200)
+                    .then((res) => {
+                        expect(res.text).to.contain('method="GET",route="/hello",code="200"');
+                    });
+            });
+        });
+
+        describe('when calling a GET endpoint with one query param', () => {
+            before(() => {
+                return supertest(app)
+                    .get('/hello?test=test')
+                    .expect(200)
+                    .then((res) => {});
+            });
+            it('should add it to the histogram', () => {
+                return supertest(app)
+                    .get('/metrics')
+                    .expect(200)
+                    .then((res) => {
+                        expect(res.text).to.contain('method="GET",route="*",code="200"');
+                    });
+            });
+        });
+    });
+});
diff --git a/test/integration-tests/express/server/express-server-default-route.js b/test/integration-tests/express/server/express-server-default-route.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c098caa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration-tests/express/server/express-server-default-route.js
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const express = require('express');
+const middleware = require('../../../../src/index.js').expressMiddleware;
+
+const app = express();
+app.use(middleware({ includeQueryParams: true }));
+
+app.get('/hello', (req, res) => {
+    res.json({ message: 'Hello World!' });
+})
+
+app.all('*', (req, res) => {
+    res.status(200);
+    res.json({ message: 'Default' });
+});
+
+module.exports = app;