diff --git a/examples/helm-chart/configmap.yaml b/examples/helm-chart/templates/configmap.yaml
similarity index 64%
rename from examples/helm-chart/configmap.yaml
rename to examples/helm-chart/templates/configmap.yaml
index 87cf43b672..372ad2c3d0 100644
--- a/examples/helm-chart/configmap.yaml
+++ b/examples/helm-chart/templates/configmap.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 apiVersion: v1
 data:
-  # TODO: work out how to pass through the yaml
-  data-prepper-config.yaml: 'ssl: false'
+  data-prepper-config.yaml: |
+    {{- toYaml .Values.dataPrepperConfig | nindent 6 }}
 kind: ConfigMap
 metadata:
   name: {{ include "data-prepper.configName" . }}
diff --git a/examples/helm-chart/templates/servicemonitor.yaml b/examples/helm-chart/templates/servicemonitor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3589539b4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/helm-chart/templates/servicemonitor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{{- if .Values.serviceMonitor.enabled }}
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: {{ include "data-prepper.fullname" . }}
+  labels:
+    {{- include "data-prepper.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- range $key, $value := .Values.serviceMonitor.extraLabels }}
+    {{- printf "%s: %s" $key (tpl $value $ | quote) | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
+spec:
+  selector:
+    {{- include "data-prepper.selectorLabels" . | nindent 4 }}
+  endpoints:
+  {{- toYaml .Values.serviceMonitor.metricsEndpoints | nindent 2 }}
+{{- end }}
+
diff --git a/examples/helm-chart/values.yaml b/examples/helm-chart/values.yaml
index 082e11b1ab..f598a09df1 100644
--- a/examples/helm-chart/values.yaml
+++ b/examples/helm-chart/values.yaml
@@ -25,24 +25,29 @@ podAnnotations: {}
 podLabels: {}
 
 podSecurityContext: {}
-  # fsGroup: 2000
 
 securityContext: {}
-  # capabilities:
-  #   drop:
-  #   - ALL
-  # readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-  # runAsNonRoot: true
-  # runAsUser: 1000
+
 service:
   type: ClusterIP
 
 dataPrepperConfig: {}
 pipelineConfig: {}
 
+serviceMonitor:
+  enabled: false
+  extraLabels: {}
+  metricsEndpoints:
+    - port: server
+      path: /metrics/sys
+    - port: server
+      path: /metrics/prometheus
+
 ports:
 - name: http
   port: 2021
+- name: server
+  port: 4900
 - name: otel-traces
   port: 21890
 - name: otel-metrics
@@ -54,17 +59,12 @@ ingress:
   enabled: false
   className: ''
   annotations: {}
-    # kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
-    # kubernetes.io/tls-acme: "true"
   hosts:
   - host: chart-example.local
     paths:
     - path: /
       pathType: ImplementationSpecific
   tls: []
-  #  - secretName: chart-example-tls
-  #    hosts:
-  #      - chart-example.local
 
 resources: {}
   # We usually recommend not to specify default resources and to leave this as a conscious