diff --git a/charts/promtail/Chart.yaml b/charts/promtail/Chart.yaml
index bd862703f2..0fc69ae51a 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: 6.16.6
+version: 6.16.7
 home: https://grafana.com/loki
 sources:
   - https://github.com/grafana/loki
diff --git a/charts/promtail/templates/_helpers.tpl b/charts/promtail/templates/_helpers.tpl
index 8892e518c2..5e0d9da3e2 100644
--- a/charts/promtail/templates/_helpers.tpl
+++ b/charts/promtail/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ app.kubernetes.io/name: {{ include "promtail.name" . }}
 app.kubernetes.io/instance: {{ .Release.Name }}
 {{- end }}
 
+{{/*
+Pod labels
+*/}}
+{{- define "promtail.podLabels" -}}
+{{ include "promtail.selectorLabels" . }}
+{{- if .Chart.AppVersion }}
+app.kubernetes.io/version: {{ .Chart.AppVersion | quote }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- end }}
+
 {{/*
 Create the name of the namespace
 */}}
diff --git a/charts/promtail/templates/_pod.tpl b/charts/promtail/templates/_pod.tpl
index 6c75908bad..93f9d46aa9 100644
--- a/charts/promtail/templates/_pod.tpl
+++ b/charts/promtail/templates/_pod.tpl
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Pod template used in Daemonset and Deployment
 {{- define "promtail.podTemplate" -}}
 metadata:
   labels:
-    {{- include "promtail.selectorLabels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- include "promtail.podLabels" . | nindent 4 }}
     {{- with .Values.podLabels }}
     {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
     {{- end }}