diff --git a/charts/sampling/values.yaml b/charts/sampling/values.yaml
index 3192ee9403..29a3d0e369 100644
--- a/charts/sampling/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/sampling/values.yaml
@@ -84,17 +84,10 @@ grafana-agent-deployment:
       # -- The upper limit for the number of replicas to which the autoscaler can scale up.
       maxReplicas: 5
       # -- Average CPU utilization across all relevant pods, a percentage of the requested value of the resource for the pods. Setting `targetCPUUtilizationPercentage` to 0 will disable CPU scaling.
-      targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 80
+      targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 0
       # -- Average Memory utilization across all relevant pods, a percentage of the requested value of the resource for the pods. Setting `targetMemoryUtilizationPercentage` to 0 will disable Memory scaling.
       targetMemoryUtilizationPercentage: 80
   agent:
-    extraEnv:
-      - name: GRAFANA_CLOUD_API_KEY
-        value: <REQUIRED>
-      - name: GRAFANA_CLOUD_PROMETHEUS_URL
-        value: <REQUIRED>
-      - name: GRAFANA_CLOUD_PROMETHEUS_USERNAME
-        value: <REQUIRED>
     # This chart creates the configmaps
     configMap:
       create: false
@@ -123,7 +116,7 @@ grafana-agent-statefulset:
       # -- The upper limit for the number of replicas to which the autoscaler can scale up.
       maxReplicas: 5
       # -- Average CPU utilization across all relevant pods, a percentage of the requested value of the resource for the pods. Setting `targetCPUUtilizationPercentage` to 0 will disable CPU scaling.
-      targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 80
+      targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 0
       # -- Average Memory utilization across all relevant pods, a percentage of the requested value of the resource for the pods. Setting `targetMemoryUtilizationPercentage` to 0 will disable Memory scaling.
       targetMemoryUtilizationPercentage: 80
   service:
@@ -140,6 +133,7 @@ grafana-agent-statefulset:
         value: <REQUIRED>
       - name: GRAFANA_CLOUD_TEMPO_USERNAME
         value: <REQUIRED>
+      # This is required for adaptive metric deduplication in Grafana Cloud
       - name: POD_UID
         valueFrom:
           fieldRef: