diff --git a/clients/cmd/promtail/promtail-minimal-config.yaml b/clients/cmd/promtail/promtail-minimal-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..24a7aeba5ead7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clients/cmd/promtail/promtail-minimal-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# This minimal config scrape only single log file.
+# Primarily used in npm/deb packaging where promtail service can be started during system init process.
+# And too much scraping during init process can overload the complete system.
+# https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/11398
+
+server:
+  http_listen_port: 9080
+  grpc_listen_port: 0
+
+positions:
+  filename: /tmp/positions.yaml
+
+clients:
+  - url: http://localhost:3100/loki/api/v1/push
+
+scrape_configs:
+- job_name: system
+  static_configs:
+  - targets:
+      - localhost
+    labels:
+      job: varlogs
+      __path__: /var/log/messages
diff --git a/tools/packaging/nfpm.jsonnet b/tools/packaging/nfpm.jsonnet
index b313cf0e48eb3..bde22624ac657 100644
--- a/tools/packaging/nfpm.jsonnet
+++ b/tools/packaging/nfpm.jsonnet
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ local overrides = {
 
   loki: {
     description: |||
-      Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. 
-      It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. 
+      Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.
+      It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate.
       It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.
     |||,
     contents+: [
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ local overrides = {
 
   promtail: {
     description: |||
-      Promtail is an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Grafana Loki instance or Grafana Cloud. 
+      Promtail is an agent which ships the contents of local logs to a private Grafana Loki instance or Grafana Cloud.
       It is usually deployed to every machine that has applications needed to be monitored.
     |||,
     license: 'Apache-2.0',
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ local overrides = {
         dst: '/etc/systemd/system/promtail.service',
       },
       {
-        src: './clients/cmd/promtail/promtail-local-config.yaml',
+        src: './clients/cmd/promtail/promtail-minimal-config.yaml',
         dst: '/etc/promtail/config.yml',
         type: 'config|noreplace',
       },