diff --git a/charts/crowdsec/templates/agent-daemonSet.yaml b/charts/crowdsec/templates/agent-daemonSet.yaml
index a603d4b..57e2079 100644
--- a/charts/crowdsec/templates/agent-daemonSet.yaml
+++ b/charts/crowdsec/templates/agent-daemonSet.yaml
@@ -166,9 +166,11 @@ spec:
           - name: acquis-config-volume
             mountPath: {{ $crowdsecConfig }}/acquis.yaml
             subPath: acquis.yaml
+          {{- if .Values.agent.hostVarLog }}
           - name: varlog
             mountPath: /var/log
             readOnly: true
+          {{- end }}
           {{- if (eq "docker" .Values.container_runtime) }}
           - name: varlibdockercontainers
             mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
@@ -183,9 +185,11 @@ spec:
       - name: acquis-config-volume
         configMap:
           name: acquis-configmap
+      {{- if .Values.agent.hostVarLog }}
       - name: varlog
         hostPath:
           path: /var/log
+      {{- end }}
       {{- if .Values.agent.persistentVolume.config.enabled }}
       - name: crowdsec-agent-config
         persistentVolumeClaim:
diff --git a/charts/crowdsec/values.yaml b/charts/crowdsec/values.yaml
index 56c2014..32c5c0e 100644
--- a/charts/crowdsec/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/crowdsec/values.yaml
@@ -333,6 +333,8 @@ agent:
       storageClassName: ""
       existingClaim: ""
       size: 100Mi
+  # -- Enable hostPath to /var/log
+  hostVarLog: true
   # -- environment variables from crowdsecurity/crowdsec docker image
   env: []
     # by default we configure the docker-logs parser to be able to parse docker logs in k8s