diff --git a/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/README.md b/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/README.md
index e4f062703..514704616 100644
--- a/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/README.md
+++ b/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/README.md
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ It's easier to just manage this configuration outside of the operator.
 |-----|------|---------|-------------|
 | additionalLabels | object | `{}` | additional labels to add to all resources |
 | affinity | object | `{}` | pod affinity |
+| env | list | `[]` | Additional environment variables |
 | fullnameOverride | string | `""` |  |
 | image.pullPolicy | string | `"IfNotPresent"` | The image pull policy to use in grafana operator container |
 | image.repository | string | `"ghcr.io/grafana-operator/grafana-operator"` | grafana operator image repository |
diff --git a/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/templates/deployment.yaml b/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/templates/deployment.yaml
index 1fae3c8cb..db3f2ff0f 100644
--- a/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ spec:
               {{ else }}
               value: {{ .Values.watchNamespaces }}
               {{- end }}
+            {{- with .Values.env }}
+              {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+            {{- end }}
           args:
             - --health-probe-bind-address=:8081
             - --metrics-bind-address=0.0.0.0:{{ .Values.metricsService.metricsPort }}
diff --git a/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/values.yaml b/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/values.yaml
index 149ef0ea3..ae3caa1f0 100644
--- a/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/values.yaml
+++ b/deploy/helm/grafana-operator/values.yaml
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ leaderElect: false
 # By default it's all namespaces, if you only want to listen for the same namespace as the operator is deployed to look at namespaceScope.
 watchNamespaces: ""
 
+# -- Additional environment variables
+env: []
+  # - name: MY_VAR
+  #   value: "myvalue"
+
 image:
   # -- grafana operator image repository
   repository: ghcr.io/grafana-operator/grafana-operator