diff --git a/Documentation/Helm-Charts/operator-chart.md b/Documentation/Helm-Charts/operator-chart.md
index c53d9f0b6..8963580f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/Helm-Charts/operator-chart.md
+++ b/Documentation/Helm-Charts/operator-chart.md
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ The following table lists the configurable parameters of the rook-operator chart
 | `discover.tolerationKey` | The specific key of the taint to tolerate | `nil` |
 | `discover.tolerations` | Array of tolerations in YAML format which will be added to discover deployment | `nil` |
 | `discoverDaemonUdev` | Blacklist certain disks according to the regex provided. | `nil` |
+| `discoveryDaemonInterval` | Set the discovery daemon device discovery interval (default to 60m) | `"60m"` |
 | `enableDiscoveryDaemon` | Enable discovery daemon | `false` |
 | `enableOBCWatchOperatorNamespace` | Whether the OBC provisioner should watch on the operator namespace or not, if not the namespace of the cluster will be used | `true` |
 | `hostpathRequiresPrivileged` | Runs Ceph Pods as privileged to be able to write to `hostPaths` in OpenShift with SELinux restrictions. | `false` |
diff --git a/deploy/charts/rook-ceph/templates/deployment.yaml b/deploy/charts/rook-ceph/templates/deployment.yaml
index 37c92fcec..c91ba3d2f 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/rook-ceph/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/deploy/charts/rook-ceph/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ spec:
 {{- end }}
         - name: ROOK_DISABLE_DEVICE_HOTPLUG
           value: "{{ .Values.disableDeviceHotplug }}"
-
+        - name: ROOK_DISCOVER_DEVICES_INTERVAL
+          value: "{{ .Values.discoveryDaemonInterval }}"
         - name: NODE_NAME
           valueFrom:
             fieldRef:
diff --git a/deploy/charts/rook-ceph/values.yaml b/deploy/charts/rook-ceph/values.yaml
index 65504d448..9bd7fbd0b 100644
--- a/deploy/charts/rook-ceph/values.yaml
+++ b/deploy/charts/rook-ceph/values.yaml
@@ -579,6 +579,8 @@ csi:
 
 # -- Enable discovery daemon
 enableDiscoveryDaemon: false
+# -- Set the discovery daemon device discovery interval (default to 60m)
+discoveryDaemonInterval: 60m
 
 # -- The timeout for ceph commands in seconds
 cephCommandsTimeoutSeconds: "15"
diff --git a/pkg/operator/discover/discover.go b/pkg/operator/discover/discover.go
index 836240824..bf543524b 100644
--- a/pkg/operator/discover/discover.go
+++ b/pkg/operator/discover/discover.go
@@ -81,10 +81,7 @@ func (d *Discover) Start(ctx context.Context, namespace, discoverImage, security
 }
 
 func (d *Discover) createDiscoverDaemonSet(ctx context.Context, namespace, discoverImage, securityAccount string, data map[string]string, useCephVolume bool) error {
-	discoveryInterval := k8sutil.GetValue(data, discoverIntervalEnv, "")
-	if discoverImage == "" {
-		discoveryInterval = defaultDiscoverInterval
-	}
+	discoveryInterval := k8sutil.GetValue(data, discoverIntervalEnv, defaultDiscoverInterval)
 
 	discoveryParameters := []string{"discover",
 		"--discover-interval", discoveryInterval}