diff --git a/ceph/common.sls b/ceph/common.sls
index c6067b0..b445355 100644
--- a/ceph/common.sls
+++ b/ceph/common.sls
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 common_config:
   file.managed:
   - name: {{ common.prefix_dir }}/etc/ceph/{{ common.get('cluster_name', 'ceph') }}.conf
-  - user: ceph
-  - group: ceph
+  - user: root
+  - group: root
   - source: salt://ceph/files/{{ common.version }}/ceph.conf.{{ grains.os_family }}
   - template: jinja
   {% if not common.get('container_mode', False) %}
diff --git a/ceph/meta/prometheus.yml b/ceph/meta/prometheus.yml
index ec0200b..62f1b9d 100644
--- a/ceph/meta/prometheus.yml
+++ b/ceph/meta/prometheus.yml
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
       annotations:
         summary: "{{100*threshold}}% of Ceph pool space is used"
         description: "The Ceph {{pool_name}} pool uses {{100*threshold}}% of available space for 3 minutes. For details, run 'ceph df'."
+    {%- if monitoring.cluster_stats.extra_alerts.get("enabled", False) %}
     CephPool{{pool_name|replace(".", "")|replace("-", "")}}WriteOpsTooHigh:
       {%- set threshold = monitoring_pool.pool_write_ops_threshold|default('200')|float %}
       if: >-
@@ -144,6 +145,7 @@
       annotations:
         summary: "{{threshold}} Ceph pool read bytes per second"
         description: "The number of Ceph {{pool_name}} pool read bytes per second is {{threshold}} for 3 minutes."
+    {%- endif %}
 {%- endfor %}
 {%- endif %}
 {%- endif %}
diff --git a/metadata/service/monitoring/cluster_stats.yml b/metadata/service/monitoring/cluster_stats.yml
index 85ae108..fdca597 100644
--- a/metadata/service/monitoring/cluster_stats.yml
+++ b/metadata/service/monitoring/cluster_stats.yml
@@ -8,5 +8,7 @@
   ceph:
     monitoring:
       cluster_stats:
+        extra_alerts:
+          enabled: false
         enabled: true
         ceph_user: ${_param:ceph_monitoring_user}