diff --git a/xos/synchronizer/ceilometer/ceilometer_service_custom_image/mitaka-v2/os_ceilometer_mitaka.yml b/xos/synchronizer/ceilometer/ceilometer_service_custom_image/mitaka-v2/os_ceilometer_mitaka.yml
index 4ed2da2..95b8778 100644
--- a/xos/synchronizer/ceilometer/ceilometer_service_custom_image/mitaka-v2/os_ceilometer_mitaka.yml
+++ b/xos/synchronizer/ceilometer/ceilometer_service_custom_image/mitaka-v2/os_ceilometer_mitaka.yml
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
     apt: name={{ item }} state=installed update_cache=yes
     with_items:
       - ceilometer-api
-      - ceilometer-collector
+#      - ceilometer-collector ---> This service is not needed as ceilometer support direct publishing to database
       - ceilometer-agent-central
       - ceilometer-agent-notification
       - python-ceilometerclient
@@ -176,5 +176,5 @@
   - name: Restarting Celometer API
     service: name=ceilometer-api state=restarted
 
-  - name: Restarting ceilometer-collector
-    service: name=ceilometer-collector state=restarted
+#  - name: Restarting ceilometer-collector
+#    service: name=ceilometer-collector state=restarted
diff --git a/xos/synchronizer/ceilometer/ceilometer_service_custom_image/mitaka-v2/templates/ceilometer.conf.j2 b/xos/synchronizer/ceilometer/ceilometer_service_custom_image/mitaka-v2/templates/ceilometer.conf.j2
index 6deb9a4..98727ab 100644
--- a/xos/synchronizer/ceilometer/ceilometer_service_custom_image/mitaka-v2/templates/ceilometer.conf.j2
+++ b/xos/synchronizer/ceilometer/ceilometer_service_custom_image/mitaka-v2/templates/ceilometer.conf.j2
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [DEFAULT]
 rpc_backend = rabbit
 auth_strategy = keystone
-debug = True
+debug = False
 
 #
 # From oslo.log
diff --git a/xos/synchronizer/steps/sync_ceilometerservice.yaml b/xos/synchronizer/steps/sync_ceilometerservice.yaml
index 8ef9c96..f532e79 100644
--- a/xos/synchronizer/steps/sync_ceilometerservice.yaml
+++ b/xos/synchronizer/steps/sync_ceilometerservice.yaml
@@ -40,11 +40,12 @@
     notify:
      - restart ceilometer-agent-notification service
 
-  - name: Apply ceilometer kafka publisher patch until monitoring service is migrated to Newton release or later
-    become: yes
-    template: src=/opt/xos/synchronizers/monitoring/templates/kafka_broker.py dest=/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer/publisher/kafka_broker.py owner=root group=root mode=0777
-    notify:
-     - restart ceilometer-agent-notification service
+# No need of this step as this patch is directly applied inside monitoring service custom image
+#  - name: Apply ceilometer kafka publisher patch until monitoring service is migrated to Newton release or later
+#    become: yes
+#    template: src=/opt/xos/synchronizers/monitoring/templates/kafka_broker.py dest=/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer/publisher/kafka_broker.py owner=root group=root mode=0777
+#    notify:
+#     - restart ceilometer-agent-notification service
 
   handlers:
   - name: restart ceilometer-agent-notification service