diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/README.md b/charts/k8s-monitoring/README.md
index e653907d88..e25cb10501 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/README.md
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/README.md
@@ -493,6 +493,7 @@ The Prometheus and Loki services may be hosted on the same cluster, or remotely
 | metrics.autoDiscover.annotations.metricsScheme | string | `"k8s.grafana.com/metrics.scheme"` | Annotation for setting the metrics scheme, default: http. |
 | metrics.autoDiscover.annotations.metricsScrapeInterval | string | `"k8s.grafana.com/metrics.scrapeInterval"` | Annotation for overriding the scrape interval for this service or pod. Value should be a duration like "15s, 1m". Overrides metrics.autoDiscover.scrapeInterval |
 | metrics.autoDiscover.annotations.scrape | string | `"k8s.grafana.com/scrape"` | Annotation for enabling scraping for this service or pod. Value should be either "true" or "false" |
+| metrics.autoDiscover.bearerToken | object | `{"enabled":true}` | Sets bearer_token_file line in the prometheus.scrape annotation_autodiscovery. |
 | metrics.autoDiscover.enabled | bool | `true` | Enable annotation-based auto-discovery |
 | metrics.autoDiscover.extraMetricRelabelingRules | string | `""` | Rule blocks to be added to the prometheus.relabel component for auto-discovered entities. These relabeling rules are applied post-scrape against the metrics returned from the scraped target, no `__meta*` labels are present. ([docs](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/reference/components/prometheus.relabel/#rule-block)) |
 | metrics.autoDiscover.extraRelabelingRules | string | `""` | Rule blocks to be added to the discovery.relabel component for auto-discovered entities. These relabeling rules are applied pre-scrape against the targets from service discovery. Before the scrape, any remaining target labels that start with `__` (i.e. `__meta_kubernetes*`) are dropped. ([docs](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/reference/components/discovery.relabel/#rule-block)) |
diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/templates/alloy_config/_annotation_autodiscovery.alloy.txt b/charts/k8s-monitoring/templates/alloy_config/_annotation_autodiscovery.alloy.txt
index 8a9dbd2585..318981098e 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/templates/alloy_config/_annotation_autodiscovery.alloy.txt
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/templates/alloy_config/_annotation_autodiscovery.alloy.txt
@@ -170,7 +170,9 @@ prometheus.scrape "annotation_autodiscovery_http" {
   targets = discovery.relabel.annotation_autodiscovery_http.output
   scrape_interval = {{ .Values.metrics.autoDiscover.scrapeInterval | default .Values.metrics.scrapeInterval | quote }}
   honor_labels = true
+{{- if .Values.metrics.autoDiscover.bearerToken.enabled }}
   bearer_token_file = "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token"
+{{- end }}
 {{- if .Values.alloy.alloy.clustering.enabled }}
   clustering {
     enabled = true
@@ -183,7 +185,9 @@ prometheus.scrape "annotation_autodiscovery_https" {
   targets = discovery.relabel.annotation_autodiscovery_https.output
   scrape_interval = {{ .Values.metrics.autoDiscover.scrapeInterval | default .Values.metrics.scrapeInterval | quote }}
   honor_labels = true
+{{- if .Values.metrics.autoDiscover.bearerToken.enabled }}
   bearer_token_file = "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token"
+{{- end }}
   tls_config {
     insecure_skip_verify = true
   }
diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.schema.json b/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.schema.json
index c3dbf8fa72..7a53167647 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.schema.json
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.schema.json
@@ -1263,6 +1263,14 @@
                                 "null"
                             ]
                         },
+                        "bearerToken": {
+                            "type": "object",
+                            "properties": {
+                                "enabled": {
+                                    "type": "boolean"
+                                }
+                            }
+                        },
                         "metricsTuning": {
                             "type": "object",
                             "properties": {
diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.yaml b/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.yaml
index e603f2f173..88dc952fe4 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.yaml
@@ -583,6 +583,11 @@ metrics:
     # @section -- Metrics Job: Auto-Discovery
     maxCacheSize:
 
+    # -- Sets bearer_token_file line in the prometheus.scrape annotation_autodiscovery.
+    # @section -- Metrics Job: Auto-Discovery
+    bearerToken:
+      enabled: true
+
   # Metrics from Grafana Alloy
   # @section -- Metrics -> Alloy Job
   alloy: