diff --git a/cluster/replay-mounter/values.yaml b/cluster/replay-mounter/values.yaml
index 150bb1dd..2235cd7a 100644
--- a/cluster/replay-mounter/values.yaml
+++ b/cluster/replay-mounter/values.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ cifsMount:
   hostBasePath: "/opt/faf/data"    # parent dir shared via Bidirectional propagation
   credentialsSecret: "cifs-credentials"
   mountOptions: "ro,soft,vers=3.0,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755"
-  image: "alpine:3.23"
+  image: "alpine:3.24"
 
 # zfs.nodeId injected from config/prod.yaml
 # infisical-secret.enabled injected from config/prod.yaml
diff --git a/ops/monitoring/values.yaml b/ops/monitoring/values.yaml
index f1874064..ef6d70c5 100644
--- a/ops/monitoring/values.yaml
+++ b/ops/monitoring/values.yaml
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ victoria-metrics-k8s-stack:
         org_mapping: $__env{GITHUB_ORG_MAPPING}
       users:
         auto_assign_org_role: None
+      plugins:
+        preinstall_auto_update: true
     admin:
       existingSecret: grafana
       userKey: admin-user