diff --git a/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/README.md b/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/README.md
index 775898e26..d850b7060 100644
--- a/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/README.md
+++ b/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/README.md
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ The default values set by the application itself can be confirmed [here](https:/
 | `disableRestrictedSecurityGroupRules`          | If disabled, controller will not specify port range restriction in the backend security group rules                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | `false`                                           |
 | `objectSelector.matchExpressions`              | Webhook configuration to select specific pods by specifying the expression to be matched                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | None                                              |
 | `objectSelector.matchLabels`                   | Webhook configuration to select specific pods by specifying the key value label pair to be matched                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | None                                              |
+| `prometheusScrape.enabled`                    | If enabled, and `serviceMonitor.enabled` add the `prometheus.io` annotations to enable metrics scraping                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | `true`                                            |
 | `serviceMonitor.enabled`                       | Specifies whether a service monitor should be created, requires the ServiceMonitor CRD to be installed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | `false`                                           |
 | `serviceMonitor.namespace`                     | Namespace in which to create the service monitor                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | None                                              |
 | `serviceMonitor.additionalLabels`              | Labels to add to the service monitor                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | `{}`                                              |
diff --git a/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/templates/deployment.yaml b/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/templates/deployment.yaml
index 70fe8d5ca..c8b04099b 100644
--- a/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ spec:
         {{- toYaml .Values.podLabels | nindent 8 }}
         {{- end }}
       annotations:
-        {{- if not .Values.serviceMonitor.enabled }}
-        prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
-        prometheus.io/port: "{{ (split ":" .Values.metricsBindAddr)._1 | default 8080 }}"
-        {{- end}}
-        {{- if .Values.podAnnotations }}
-        {{- toYaml .Values.podAnnotations | nindent 8 }}
+        {{- $promethusAnnotations := dict }}
+        {{- if and .Values.prometheusScrape.enabled (not .Values.serviceMonitor.enabled) }}
+        {{- $promethusAnnotations = dict "prometheus.io/scrape" "true" "prometheus.io/port" "8080"}}
         {{- end }}
+        {{- $podAnnotations := merge $promethusAnnotations .Values.podAnnotations }}
+        {{- toYaml $podAnnotations | default (dict) | nindent 8 }}
     spec:
     {{- with .Values.imagePullSecrets }}
       imagePullSecrets:
diff --git a/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/test.yaml b/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/test.yaml
index 584ca054b..a0057a52f 100644
--- a/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/test.yaml
+++ b/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/test.yaml
@@ -309,6 +309,12 @@ objectSelector:
   matchLabels:
   #   key: value
 
+prometheusScrape:
+  # Specifies whether the controller should be annotated for Prometheus scraping.
+  # Scraping annotations will not be added if serviceMonitor.enabled is set to true
+  # to prevent duplicate metrics.
+  enabled: true
+
 serviceMonitor:
   # Specifies whether a service monitor should be created
   enabled: false
diff --git a/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/values.yaml b/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/values.yaml
index df9f360ae..1a1855e54 100644
--- a/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/values.yaml
+++ b/helm/aws-load-balancer-controller/values.yaml
@@ -369,6 +369,12 @@ objectSelector:
   matchLabels:
   #   key: value
 
+prometheusScrape:
+  # Specifies whether the controller should be annotated for Prometheus scraping.
+  # Scraping annotations will not be added if serviceMonitor.enabled is set to true
+  # to prevent duplicate metrics.
+  enabled: true
+
 serviceMonitor:
   # Specifies whether a service monitor should be created
   enabled: false