**What this PR does / why we need it**:

This re-adds the configuration that was removed in
https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/8515

**Checklist**
- [x] Reviewed the
[`CONTRIBUTING.md`](https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
guide (**required**)
- [x] Documentation added
- [ ] Tests updated
- [ ] `CHANGELOG.md` updated
- [ ] Changes that require user attention or interaction to upgrade are
documented in `docs/sources/upgrading/_index.md`