diff --git a/monitoring/controllers/kube-prometheus-stack/release.yaml b/monitoring/controllers/kube-prometheus-stack/release.yaml
index 9227ead..d08a8cb 100644
--- a/monitoring/controllers/kube-prometheus-stack/release.yaml
+++ b/monitoring/controllers/kube-prometheus-stack/release.yaml
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ spec:
     valuesKey: kube-state-metrics-config.yaml
   # https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml
   values:
+    kube-state-metrics:
+      image:
+        tag: "2.12.0"
     alertmanager:
       enabled: false
     prometheus: