diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/charts/feature-annotation-autodiscovery/templates/_module.alloy.tpl b/charts/k8s-monitoring/charts/feature-annotation-autodiscovery/templates/_module.alloy.tpl
index 2857eb8b65..91a8151ac4 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/charts/feature-annotation-autodiscovery/templates/_module.alloy.tpl
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/charts/feature-annotation-autodiscovery/templates/_module.alloy.tpl
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ declare "annotation_autodiscovery" {
       action = "keepequal"
       target_label = "__tmp_port"
     }
+    rule {
+      action = "labeldrop"
+      regex = "__tmp_port"
+    }
 
     // If the metrics port number annotation has a value, override the target address to use it, regardless whether it is
     // one of the declared ports on that Pod.
diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/tests/integration/anntoation-autodiscovery/deployments/nginx-static-metrics.yaml b/charts/k8s-monitoring/tests/integration/anntoation-autodiscovery/deployments/nginx-static-metrics.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5a26f5503f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/tests/integration/anntoation-autodiscovery/deployments/nginx-static-metrics.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: static-metric
+data:
+  metrics.prom: |
+    # HELP static_metric A static metric to serve for testing
+    # TYPE static_metric gauge
+    static_metric{} 1
+---
+apiVersion: source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2
+kind: OCIRepository
+metadata:
+  name: nginx
+spec:
+  interval: 1m
+  url: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts/nginx
+  ref:
+    semver: 18.2.5
+---
+apiVersion: helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2
+kind: HelmRelease
+metadata:
+  name: nginx-static-metrics
+spec:
+  interval: 1m
+  chartRef:
+    kind: OCIRepository
+    name: nginx
+  values:
+    podAnnotations:
+      k8s.grafana.com/scrape: "true"
+      k8s.grafana.com/metrics.portNumber: "8080"
+    replicaCount: 2
+    service:
+      type: ClusterIP
+    serverBlock: |-
+      server {
+        listen 0.0.0.0:8080;
+        location /metrics {
+          default_type "text/plain";
+          alias /data/metrics.prom;
+        }
+      }
+    extraVolumes:
+      - name: static-metric
+        configMap:
+          name: static-metric
+    extraVolumeMounts:
+      - name: static-metric
+        mountPath: /data
+    extraContainerPorts:
+      - name: a-port
+        containerPort: 8081
+      - name: another-port
+        containerPort: 8082
diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/tests/integration/anntoation-autodiscovery/deployments/query-test.yaml b/charts/k8s-monitoring/tests/integration/anntoation-autodiscovery/deployments/query-test.yaml
index 761fcf1c6a..ef6d80da2c 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/tests/integration/anntoation-autodiscovery/deployments/query-test.yaml
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/tests/integration/anntoation-autodiscovery/deployments/query-test.yaml
@@ -37,10 +37,14 @@ spec:
           - query: grafana_kubernetes_monitoring_feature_info{cluster="$CLUSTER", feature="annotationAutodiscovery"}
             type: promql
 
-          # Annotation Autodiscovery by Servicell
+          # Annotation Autodiscovery from a Service Annotation
           - query: certmanager_clock_time_seconds{cluster="$CLUSTER", job="integrations/cert-manager"}
             type: promql
 
+          # Annotation Autodiscovery from a Pod Annotation
+          - query: static_metric{cluster="$CLUSTER"}
+            type: promql
+
           # DPM check
           - query: avg(count_over_time(scrape_samples_scraped{cluster="$CLUSTER"}[1m]))
             type: promql