diff --git a/stable/node-local-dns/templates/service.yaml b/stable/node-local-dns/templates/service.yaml
index acba3deb..71c278be 100644
--- a/stable/node-local-dns/templates/service.yaml
+++ b/stable/node-local-dns/templates/service.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ metadata:
   namespace: kube-system
   labels:
     {{- include "node-local-dns.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
-  {{- if not .Values.serviceMonitor.enabled }}
+
+  {{- if and (not .Values.serviceMonitor.enabled) .Values.prometheusScraping.enabled }}
   annotations:
     prometheus.io/port: "9253"
     prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
diff --git a/stable/node-local-dns/values.yaml b/stable/node-local-dns/values.yaml
index 706a4838..e6efe568 100644
--- a/stable/node-local-dns/values.yaml
+++ b/stable/node-local-dns/values.yaml
@@ -73,3 +73,6 @@ affinity: {}
 
 imagePullSecrets: []
 # - name: "image-pull-secret"
+
+prometheusScraping:
+  enabled: true
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