diff --git a/kubernetes/metadata/config.go b/kubernetes/metadata/config.go
index f60b2b1eb..eafbb9dbd 100644
--- a/kubernetes/metadata/config.go
+++ b/kubernetes/metadata/config.go
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ import (
 
 // Config declares supported configuration for metadata generation
 type Config struct {
-	KubeConfig string `config:"kube_config"`
-
+	KubeConfig         string   `config:"kube_config"`
+	KubeAdm            bool     `config:"use_kubeadm"`
 	UseRegexInclude    bool     `config:"use_regex_include"`
 	UseRegexExclude    bool     `config:"use_regex_exclude"`
 	IncludeLabels      []string `config:"include_labels"`
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ type AddResourceMetadataConfig struct {
 
 // InitDefaults initializes the defaults for the config.
 func (c *Config) InitDefaults() {
+	c.KubeAdm = true
 	c.LabelsDedot = true
 	c.AnnotationsDedot = true
 	c.UseRegexInclude = false
diff --git a/kubernetes/metadata/metadata.go b/kubernetes/metadata/metadata.go
index dc5406790..4db4874be 100644
--- a/kubernetes/metadata/metadata.go
+++ b/kubernetes/metadata/metadata.go
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ func GetPodMetaGen(
 	replicasetWatcher kubernetes.Watcher,
 	jobWatcher kubernetes.Watcher,
 	metaConf *AddResourceMetadataConfig) MetaGen {
-
 	var nodeMetaGen, namespaceMetaGen, rsMetaGen, jobMetaGen MetaGen
 	if nodeWatcher != nil && metaConf.Node.Enabled() {
 		nodeMetaGen = NewNodeMetadataGenerator(metaConf.Node, nodeWatcher.Store(), nodeWatcher.Client())
@@ -134,19 +133,23 @@ func GetKubernetesClusterIdentifier(cfg *config.C, client k8sclient.Interface) (
 	if err == nil {
 		return clusterInfo, nil
 	}
-	// try with kubeadm-config configmap
-	clusterInfo, err = getClusterInfoFromKubeadmConfigMap(client)
+
+	// try with kubeadm-config configmap only if config_kubeAdm == true
+	clusterInfo, err = getClusterInfoFromKubeadmConfigMap(client, c.KubeAdm)
 	if err == nil {
 		return clusterInfo, nil
 	}
 	return ClusterInfo{}, fmt.Errorf("unable to retrieve cluster identifiers")
 }
 
-func getClusterInfoFromKubeadmConfigMap(client k8sclient.Interface) (ClusterInfo, error) {
+func getClusterInfoFromKubeadmConfigMap(client k8sclient.Interface, kubeadm bool) (ClusterInfo, error) {
 	clusterInfo := ClusterInfo{}
 	if client == nil {
 		return clusterInfo, fmt.Errorf("unable to get cluster identifiers from kubeadm-config")
 	}
+	if !kubeadm {
+		return clusterInfo, nil
+	}
 	cm, err := client.CoreV1().ConfigMaps("kube-system").Get(context.TODO(), "kubeadm-config", metav1.GetOptions{})
 	if err != nil {
 		return clusterInfo, fmt.Errorf("unable to get cluster identifiers from kubeadm-config: %w", err)