diff --git a/charts/kafka-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/kafka-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml
index e2449a2d..ff474d45 100644
--- a/charts/kafka-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/kafka-exporter/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -18,8 +18,12 @@ spec:
       app.kubernetes.io/instance: {{ .Release.Name }}
   template:
     metadata:
-      {{- if eq .Values.datadog.use_datadog true }}
+      {{- if or (eq .Values.datadog.use_datadog true) (.Values.podAnnotations) }}
       annotations:
+        {{- if .Values.podAnnotations }}
+        {{- .Values.podAnnotations | toYaml | nindent 8 }}
+        {{- end }}
+        {{- if eq .Values.datadog.use_datadog true }}
         ad.datadoghq.com/{{ .Chart.Name }}.check_names: |
           ["openmetrics"]
         ad.datadoghq.com/{{ .Chart.Name }}.init_configs: |
@@ -32,6 +36,7 @@ spec:
               "metrics": {{ .Values.datadog.metrics | toJson | nindent 16 -}}
             }
            ]
+        {{- end }}
       {{- end }}    
       labels:
         app.kubernetes.io/name: {{ include "kafka-exporter.name" . }}
diff --git a/charts/kafka-exporter/values.yaml b/charts/kafka-exporter/values.yaml
index 6af50b12..ab744149 100644
--- a/charts/kafka-exporter/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/kafka-exporter/values.yaml
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ prometheus:
 
 labels: {}
 podLabels: {}
+podAnnotations: {}
 
 # Adds in Datadog annotations needed to scrape the prometheus endpoint.
 # prefix is required. If added, will provide a metric such as test.kafka_brokers.