diff --git a/charts/kafka/Changelog.md b/charts/kafka/Changelog.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a893925f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/kafka/Changelog.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Changelog
+
+## Chart Versions
+
+### 22.2.0-kafka-exporter
+
+- fixed the reference to the archived image of bitnami for kafka-exporter as an intermediate workaround
diff --git a/charts/kafka/Chart.yaml b/charts/kafka/Chart.yaml
index adaf45bb..36c36639 100644
--- a/charts/kafka/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/kafka/Chart.yaml
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ description: |
   Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
   This chart wraps the `kafka` chart from bitnami and defines a few sensible defaults.
 name: kafka
-version: 22.2.0
+version: 22.2.0-kafka-exporter
 appVersion: 22.1.5
diff --git a/charts/kafka/README.md b/charts/kafka/README.md
index c18aeb65..5c466120 100644
--- a/charts/kafka/README.md
+++ b/charts/kafka/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # kafka
 
-![Version: 22.2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-22.2.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: 22.1.5](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-22.1.5-informational?style=flat-square)
+![Version: 22.2.0-kafka-exporter](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-22.2.0--kafka--exporter-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: 22.1.5](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-22.1.5-informational?style=flat-square)
 
 Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
 This chart wraps the `kafka` chart from bitnami and defines a few sensible defaults.
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ This chart wraps the `kafka` chart from bitnami and defines a few sensible defau
 | kafka.maxMessageBytes | string | `"_52428800"` |  |
 | kafka.metrics.jmx.enabled | bool | `true` |  |
 | kafka.metrics.kafka.enabled | bool | `true` |  |
+| kafka.metrics.kafka.image.repository | string | `"bitnami/kafka-exporter-archived"` |  |
 | kafka.metrics.prometheusRule.enabled | bool | `true` |  |
 | kafka.metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled | bool | `true` |  |
 | kafka.persistence.size | string | `"30G"` |  |
diff --git a/charts/kafka/values.yaml b/charts/kafka/values.yaml
index 00eeadfe..f099ce76 100644
--- a/charts/kafka/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/kafka/values.yaml
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ kafka:
       enabled: true
     kafka:
       enabled: true
+      image:
+        repository: bitnami/kafka-exporter-archived
     jmx:
       enabled: true