diff --git a/cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/create-external-cluster-resources.py b/cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/create-external-cluster-resources.py
index 09c479445..ffe8fbc13 100644
--- a/cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/create-external-cluster-resources.py
+++ b/cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/create-external-cluster-resources.py
@@ -362,8 +362,15 @@ class RadosJSON:
         monitoring_endpoint = self._join_host_port(monitoring_endpoint_ip, monitoring_endpoint_port)
         self._invalid_endpoint(monitoring_endpoint)
         self.endpoint_dial(monitoring_endpoint)
+
+        self.validate_monitoring_endpoint(monitoring_endpoint_port)
         return monitoring_endpoint_ip, monitoring_endpoint_port
 
+    def validate_monitoring_endpoint(self, port):
+        if port != self.DEFAULT_MONITORING_ENDPOINT_PORT:
+            raise ExecutionFailureException(
+                "'prometheus' service port must listen on {}. You can change it with 'ceph config set mgr mgr/prometheus/server_port {}'.\n".format(self.DEFAULT_MONITORING_ENDPOINT_PORT, self.DEFAULT_MONITORING_ENDPOINT_PORT))
+
     def create_cephCSIKeyring_cephFSProvisioner(self):
         '''
         command: ceph auth get-or-create client.csi-cephfs-provisioner mon 'allow r' mgr 'allow rw' osd 'allow rw tag cephfs metadata=*'
@@ -937,8 +944,8 @@ class TestRadosJSON(unittest.TestCase):
         self.rjObj = RadosJSON(['--rbd-data-pool-name=abc', '--format=json'])
         self.rjObj.cluster = DummyRados.Rados()
 
-        valid_ip_ports = [("10.22.31.131", "3534"),
-                ("10.177.3.81", ""), ("", ""), ("", "9092")]
+        valid_ip_ports = [("10.22.31.131", "9283"),
+                          ("10.177.3.81", ""), ("", ""), ("", "9283")]
         for each_ip_port_pair in valid_ip_ports:
             # reset monitoring ip and port
             self.rjObj._arg_parser.monitoring_endpoint = ''