diff --git a/charts/parca/Chart.yaml b/charts/parca/Chart.yaml
index b7ce510de..a97344a0c 100644
--- a/charts/parca/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/parca/Chart.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ type: application
 # This is the chart version. This version number should be incremented each time you make changes
 # to the chart and its templates, including the app version.
 # Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
-version: 4.2.0
+
+version: 4.3.0
 
 # This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
 # incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
diff --git a/charts/parca/README.md b/charts/parca/README.md
index 9d9e345af..d028645d4 100644
--- a/charts/parca/README.md
+++ b/charts/parca/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # parca
 
-![Version: 4.2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-4.2.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: 0.15.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-0.15.0-informational?style=flat-square)
+![Version: 4.3.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-4.3.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: 0.15.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-0.15.0-informational?style=flat-square)
 
 Open Source Infrastructure-wide continuous profiling
 
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ helm repo add parca https://parca-dev.github.io/helm-charts
 | server.podAnnotations | object | `{}` | additional annotations for server pod |
 | server.podSecurityContext | object | `{}` | additional security context for server pod |
 | server.resources | object | `{}` | resource limits and requests for server pod |
+| server.restartOnConfigChange | bool | `true` | restart the server pod when `server.config` or `server.scrapeConfigs` changes. If this is `false`, the parca server will reload the config once the mounted ConfigMap is updated, which has a delay that depends on your cluster configuration. |
 | server.scrapeConfigs | list | `[{"job_name":"kubernetes-pods","kubernetes_sd_configs":[{"role":"pod"}],"relabel_configs":[{"action":"keep","regex":true,"source_labels":["__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_parca_dev_scrape"]},{"action":"replace","regex":"(.+)","source_labels":["__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_parca_dev_path"],"target_label":"__metrics_path__"},{"action":"replace","regex":"([^:]+)(?::\\d+)?;(\\d+)","replacement":"$1:$2","source_labels":["__address__","__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_parca_dev_port"],"target_label":"__address__"},{"action":"labelmap","regex":"__meta_kubernetes_pod_label_(.+)"},{"action":"replace","source_labels":["__meta_kubernetes_namespace"],"target_label":"kubernetes_namespace"},{"action":"replace","source_labels":["__meta_kubernetes_pod_name"],"target_label":"kubernetes_pod_name"}],"scrape_interval":"1m"}]` | scrape configs for parca server |
 | server.securityContext | object | `{}` | additional security context for server |
 | server.service.annotations | object | `{}` | annotations to be added for the server service |
diff --git a/charts/parca/templates/server-deployment.yaml b/charts/parca/templates/server-deployment.yaml
index b04f97dba..1934e46f8 100644
--- a/charts/parca/templates/server-deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/parca/templates/server-deployment.yaml
@@ -16,11 +16,15 @@ spec:
       {{- include "parca.selectorLabels.server" . | nindent 6 }}
   template:
     metadata:
+      {{- if or .Values.server.podAnnotations .Values.server.restartOnConfigChange }}
       annotations:
+        {{- if .Values.server.restartOnConfigChange }}
         checksum/config: {{ include (print $.Template.BasePath "/server-configmap.yaml") . | sha256sum }}
+        {{- end }}
         {{- with .Values.server.podAnnotations }}
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
         {{- end }}
+      {{- end }}
       labels:
         {{- include "parca.selectorLabels.server" . | nindent 8 }}
     spec:
diff --git a/charts/parca/values.yaml b/charts/parca/values.yaml
index 7722a5c7f..688208085 100644
--- a/charts/parca/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/parca/values.yaml
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ server:
   extraArgs: []
   # -- additional container environment variables for server
   extraEnv: []
+  # -- restart the server pod when `server.config` or `server.scrapeConfigs` changes. If this is `false`, the parca server
+  # will reload the config once the mounted ConfigMap is updated, which has a delay that depends on your cluster configuration.
+  restartOnConfigChange: true
   # -- parca server config block
   config:
     object_storage: