diff --git a/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/Chart.yaml b/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/Chart.yaml
index 9e9d48667202..e5c51de99fb8 100644
--- a/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/Chart.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: v2
 name: prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter
 description: Yace - Yet Another CloudWatch Exporter
 type: application
-version: 0.40.2
+version: 0.40.3
 appVersion: "v0.62.1"
 home: https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts
 sources:
diff --git a/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/templates/servicemonitor.yaml b/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/templates/servicemonitor.yaml
index 5a35bbd9cdda..a51e7a128c6c 100644
--- a/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/templates/servicemonitor.yaml
+++ b/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/templates/servicemonitor.yaml
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ spec:
 {{- if .Values.serviceMonitor.metricRelabelings }}
     metricRelabelings:
 {{ toYaml .Values.serviceMonitor.metricRelabelings | indent 6 }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- if .Values.serviceMonitor.sampleLimit }}
+    sampleLimit: {{ .Values.serviceMonitor.sampleLimit }}
 {{- end }}
   jobLabel: {{ template "yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter.fullname" . }}
   namespaceSelector:
diff --git a/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/values.yaml b/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/values.yaml
index e3c9ce1a4d1b..9d6026f7923c 100644
--- a/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/values.yaml
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ serviceMonitor:
   # relabelings: []
   # Set metricRelabelings for the ServiceMonitor, use to apply to samples for ingestion
   # metricRelabelings: []
+  # Set sampleLimit for the ServiceMonitor, defines per-scrape limit on number of scraped samples that will be accepted
+  # sampleLimit: 0
   #
   # Example - note the Kubernetes convention of camelCase instead of Prometheus' snake_case
   # metricRelabelings: