diff --git a/prometheus-process-exporter/templates/daemonset.yaml b/prometheus-process-exporter/templates/daemonset.yaml
index b044542a69..f6e2d7b6a3 100644
--- a/prometheus-process-exporter/templates/daemonset.yaml
+++ b/prometheus-process-exporter/templates/daemonset.yaml
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ spec:
 {{ tuple $envAll $envAll.Values.pod.resources.process_exporter | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_resources" | indent 10 }}
 {{ dict "envAll" $envAll "application" "metrics" "container" "process_exporter" | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_container_security_context" | indent 10 }}
           args:
+{{- if .Values.conf.children }}
+            - -children={{ .Values.conf.children }}
+{{- end }}
             - -procnames
             - {{ .Values.conf.processes }}
           ports:
diff --git a/prometheus-process-exporter/values.yaml b/prometheus-process-exporter/values.yaml
index 64474ccf32..091e55e43c 100644
--- a/prometheus-process-exporter/values.yaml
+++ b/prometheus-process-exporter/values.yaml
@@ -159,3 +159,4 @@ manifests:
 
 conf:
   processes: dockerd,kubelet,kube-proxy,bgsagent,bgscollect,bgssd
+  children: true