[grafana-operator] commonLabels are not applying to underlying resources v5.9.0 and v5.19.4

[tincho-burgos]

Hi team,

I am trying to get some labels to apply to the underlying kubernetes resources (Deployments and pods), and it is not doing so.

It is not applying the podLabels either.

---
apiVersion: helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2beta2
kind: HelmRelease
metadata:
  name: grafana-operator
  namespace: monitoring
  labels:
    team: sre-observability
    owner: sre-observability
spec:
  maxHistory: 2
  interval: 5m
  timeout: 15m
  releaseName: grafana-operator
  chart:
    spec:
      chart: grafana-operator
      version: v5.19.4
      sourceRef:
        kind: HelmRepository
        name: grafana-operator
        namespace: tooling
      interval: 10m
  values:
    commonLabels: #Routing Alerts
      team: sre-observability
      owner: sre-observability

    operator:

      podLabels:
        team: sre-observability
        owner: sre-observability

      imagePullSecrets:
        - name: talend-registry

      resources:
        limits:
          cpu: 1000m
          memory: 2Gi
        requests:
          cpu: 500m
          memory: 1Gi

      # Deploy to graviton node pool
      nodeSelector:
        nodegroup: XXX

      tolerations:
        - key: nodegroup
          operator: Equal
          value: graviton
          effect: NoExecute

kdp grafana-operator-84ffd7cffc-zg4w5 
Name:             grafana-operator-84ffd7cffc-zg4w5
Namespace:        monitoring
Priority:         0
Service Account:  grafana-operator
Node:             xxxxxxxx
Start Time:       Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:25:22 +0200
Labels:           app.kubernetes.io/component=operator
                  app.kubernetes.io/instance=grafana-operator
                  app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=Helm
                  app.kubernetes.io/name=grafana-operator
                  app.kubernetes.io/part-of=grafana-operator
                  app.kubernetes.io/version=v5.19.4
                  helm.sh/chart=grafana-operator-v5.19.4
                  pod-template-hash=84ffd7cffc

kdd grafana-operator 
Name:                   grafana-operator
Namespace:              monitoring
CreationTimestamp:      Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:25:22 +0200
Labels:                 app.kubernetes.io/component=operator
                        app.kubernetes.io/instance=grafana-operator
                        app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=Helm
                        app.kubernetes.io/name=grafana-operator
                        app.kubernetes.io/part-of=grafana-operator
                        app.kubernetes.io/version=v5.19.4
                        helm.sh/chart=grafana-operator-v5.19.4
                        helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name=grafana-operator
                        helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/namespace=monitoring

[Baarsgaard]

The grafana-operator chart does not use/read the commonLabels value.
Since you're using Flux HelmRelease, are you thinking of: .spec.commonMetadata.labels?
https://fluxcd.io/flux/components/helm/helmreleases/#common-metadata

Or explicitly requesting the commonLabels as a feature in the grafana-operator Helm Chart?

[tincho-burgos]

@Baarsgaard I found that we should be using additionalLabels instead.
Thanks