diff --git a/charts/promtail/Chart.yaml b/charts/promtail/Chart.yaml
index dc6ca74c86..66d1c7a757 100644
--- a/charts/promtail/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/promtail/Chart.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: promtail
 description: Promtail is an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a Loki instance
 type: application
 appVersion: 3.0.0
-version: 6.16.4
+version: 6.16.5
 home: https://grafana.com/loki
 sources:
   - https://github.com/grafana/loki
diff --git a/charts/promtail/README.md b/charts/promtail/README.md
index 45a4504a80..8f1fef3941 100644
--- a/charts/promtail/README.md
+++ b/charts/promtail/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # promtail
 
-![Version: 6.16.4](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-6.16.4-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: 3.0.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-3.0.0-informational?style=flat-square)
+![Version: 6.16.5](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-6.16.5-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: 3.0.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-3.0.0-informational?style=flat-square)
 
 Promtail is an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a Loki instance
 
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ The new release which will pick up again from the existing `positions.yaml`.
 |-----|------|---------|-------------|
 | affinity | object | `{}` | Affinity configuration for pods |
 | annotations | object | `{}` | Annotations for the DaemonSet |
+| automountServiceAccountToken | bool | `true` | Automatically mount API credentials for a particular Pod |
 | config | object | See `values.yaml` | Section for crafting Promtails config file. The only directly relevant value is `config.file` which is a templated string that references the other values and snippets below this key. |
 | config.clients | list | See `values.yaml` | The config of clients of the Promtail server Must be reference in `config.file` to configure `clients` |
 | config.enableTracing | bool | `false` | The config to enable tracing |
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ The new release which will pick up again from the existing `positions.yaml`.
 | service.enabled | bool | `false` |  |
 | service.labels | object | `{}` | Labels for the service |
 | serviceAccount.annotations | object | `{}` | Annotations for the service account |
+| serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken | bool | `true` | Automatically mount a ServiceAccount's API credentials |
 | serviceAccount.create | bool | `true` | Specifies whether a ServiceAccount should be created |
 | serviceAccount.imagePullSecrets | list | `[]` | Image pull secrets for the service account |
 | serviceAccount.name | string | `nil` | The name of the ServiceAccount to use. If not set and `create` is true, a name is generated using the fullname template |
diff --git a/charts/promtail/templates/_pod.tpl b/charts/promtail/templates/_pod.tpl
index 3a366a599f..223923fde1 100644
--- a/charts/promtail/templates/_pod.tpl
+++ b/charts/promtail/templates/_pod.tpl
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ metadata:
     {{- end }}
 spec:
   serviceAccountName: {{ include "promtail.serviceAccountName" . }}
+  automountServiceAccountToken: {{ .Values.automountServiceAccountToken }}
   {{- include "promtail.enableServiceLinks" . | nindent 2 }}
   {{- with .Values.hostNetwork }}
   hostNetwork: {{ . }}
diff --git a/charts/promtail/templates/serviceaccount.yaml b/charts/promtail/templates/serviceaccount.yaml
index 658c2012f3..8d799ff712 100644
--- a/charts/promtail/templates/serviceaccount.yaml
+++ b/charts/promtail/templates/serviceaccount.yaml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
   {{- end }}
+automountServiceAccountToken: {{ .Values.serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken }}
 {{- with .Values.serviceAccount.imagePullSecrets }}
 imagePullSecrets:
   {{- toYaml . | nindent 2 }}
diff --git a/charts/promtail/values.yaml b/charts/promtail/values.yaml
index fb77d81edc..77a426368a 100644
--- a/charts/promtail/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/promtail/values.yaml
@@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ serviceAccount:
   imagePullSecrets: []
   # -- Annotations for the service account
   annotations: {}
+  # -- Automatically mount a ServiceAccount's API credentials
+  automountServiceAccountToken: true
+
+# -- Automatically mount API credentials for a particular Pod
+automountServiceAccountToken: true
 
 # -- Node selector for pods
 nodeSelector: {}