diff --git a/public/app/features/apiserver/types.ts b/public/app/features/apiserver/types.ts
index 58df8592274..4ab780003ab 100644
--- a/public/app/features/apiserver/types.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/apiserver/types.ts
@@ -67,12 +67,15 @@ export const AnnoKeyDashboardIsSnapshot = 'grafana.app/dashboard-is-snapshot';
 export const AnnoKeyDashboardSnapshotOriginalUrl = 'grafana.app/dashboard-snapshot-original-url';
 /** @deprecated NOT A REAL annotation -- this is just a shim */
 export const AnnoKeyDashboardGnetId = 'grafana.app/dashboard-gnet-id';
-
 /** @deprecated NOT A REAL annotation -- this is just a shim */
 export const AnnoKeyFolderTitle = 'grafana.app/folderTitle';
 /** @deprecated NOT A REAL annotation -- this is just a shim */
 export const AnnoKeyFolderUrl = 'grafana.app/folderUrl';
 
+/** @experimental only provided by proxies for setup with reloadDashboardsOnParamsChange toggle on */
+/** Not intended to be used in production, we will be removing this in short-term future */
+export const AnnoReloadOnParamsChange = 'grafana.app/reloadOnParamsChange';
+
 // labels
 export const DeprecatedInternalId = 'grafana.app/deprecatedInternalID';
 
@@ -89,6 +92,10 @@ type GrafanaAnnotations = {
   [AnnoKeySourcePath]?: string;
   [AnnoKeySourceChecksum]?: string;
   [AnnoKeySourceTimestamp]?: string;
+
+  /** @experimental only provided by proxies for setup with reloadDashboardsOnParamsChange toggle on */
+  /** Not intended to be used in production, we will be removing this in short-term future */
+  [AnnoReloadOnParamsChange]?: boolean;
 };
 
 // Annotations provided by the front-end client
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v1.test.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v1.test.ts
index c92d083c2fc..f39538a0df4 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v1.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v1.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { GrafanaConfig, locationUtil } from '@grafana/data';
 import { backendSrv } from 'app/core/services/backend_srv';
-import { AnnoKeyFolder } from 'app/features/apiserver/types';
+import { AnnoKeyFolder, AnnoReloadOnParamsChange } from 'app/features/apiserver/types';
 import { DashboardDataDTO } from 'app/types/dashboard';
 
 import { DashboardWithAccessInfo } from './types';
@@ -201,6 +201,17 @@ describe('v1 dashboard API', () => {
     expect(dashboardDTO.meta.folderId).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
+  it('should set reloadOnParamsChange to true if AnnoReloadOnParamsChange is present', async () => {
+    mockGet.mockResolvedValueOnce({
+      ...mockDashboardDto,
+      metadata: { ...mockDashboardDto.metadata, annotations: { [AnnoReloadOnParamsChange]: true } },
+    });
+
+    const api = new K8sDashboardAPI();
+    const result = await api.getDashboardDTO('test');
+    expect(result.meta.reloadOnParamsChange).toBe(true);
+  });
+
   describe('saveDashboard', () => {
     beforeEach(() => {
       locationUtil.initialize({
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v1.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v1.ts
index d0d61ed3188..62f069c015d 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v1.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard/api/v1.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {
   AnnoKeySourcePath,
   AnnoKeyManagerAllowsEdits,
   ManagerKind,
+  AnnoReloadOnParamsChange,
 } from 'app/features/apiserver/types';
 import { getDashboardUrl } from 'app/features/dashboard-scene/utils/getDashboardUrl';
 import { DeleteDashboardResponse } from 'app/features/manage-dashboards/types';
@@ -141,6 +142,12 @@ export class K8sDashboardAPI implements DashboardAPI<DashboardDTO, Dashboard> {
         },
       };
 
+      /** @experimental only provided by proxies for setup with reloadDashboardsOnParamsChange toggle on */
+      /** Not intended to be used in production, we will be removing this in short-term future */
+      if (dash.metadata.annotations?.[AnnoReloadOnParamsChange]) {
+        result.meta.reloadOnParamsChange = true;
+      }
+
       const annotations = dash.metadata.annotations ?? {};
       const managerKind = annotations[AnnoKeyManagerKind];