diff --git a/packages/rancher-monitoring/overlay/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/rancher-monitoring/overlay/CHANGELOG.md
index d041eb241..dd870f02c 100644
--- a/packages/rancher-monitoring/overlay/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/rancher-monitoring/overlay/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -33,4 +33,5 @@ All notable changes from the upstream Prometheus Operator chart will be added to
     - `kube-etcd` metrics exporter
     - `kube-scheduler` metrics exporter
     - `kube-proxy` metrics exporter
-- Updated default Grafana `deploymentStrategy` to `Recreate` to prevent deployments from being stuck on upgrade if a PV is attached to Grafana
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+- Updated default Grafana `deploymentStrategy` to `Recreate` to prevent deployments from being stuck on upgrade if a PV is attached to Grafana
+- Modified the default `<serviceMonitor|podMonitor|rule>SelectorNilUsesHelmValues` to default to `false`. As a result, we look for all CRs with any labels in all namespaces by default rather than just the ones tagged with the label `release: rancher-monitoring`.
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diff --git a/packages/rancher-monitoring/rancher-monitoring.patch b/packages/rancher-monitoring/rancher-monitoring.patch
index 596df44e3..602f6a2fe 100644
--- a/packages/rancher-monitoring/rancher-monitoring.patch
+++ b/packages/rancher-monitoring/rancher-monitoring.patch
@@ -1544,15 +1544,6 @@ diff -x '*.tgz' -x '*.lock' -uNr packages/rancher-monitoring/charts-original/val
      pspEnabled: true
      pspAnnotations: {}
        ## Specify pod annotations
-@@ -102,7 +305,7 @@
- 
-   ## Deploy alertmanager
-   ##
--  enabled: true
-+  enabled: false
- 
-   ## Api that prometheus will use to communicate with alertmanager. Possible values are v1, v2
-   ##
 @@ -409,9 +612,13 @@
      ## Define resources requests and limits for single Pods.
      ## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/
@@ -1731,6 +1722,33 @@ diff -x '*.tgz' -x '*.lock' -uNr packages/rancher-monitoring/charts-original/val
      ## Define which Nodes the Pods are scheduled on.
      ## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/node-selection/
      ##
+@@ -1660,7 +1915,7 @@
+     ## prometheus resource to be created with selectors based on values in the helm deployment,
+     ## which will also match the PrometheusRule resources created
+     ##
+-    ruleSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: true
++    ruleSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false
+ 
+     ## PrometheusRules to be selected for target discovery.
+     ## If {}, select all ServiceMonitors
+@@ -1685,7 +1940,7 @@
+     ## prometheus resource to be created with selectors based on values in the helm deployment,
+     ## which will also match the servicemonitors created
+     ##
+-    serviceMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: true
++    serviceMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false
+ 
+     ## ServiceMonitors to be selected for target discovery.
+     ## If {}, select all ServiceMonitors
+@@ -1705,7 +1960,7 @@
+     ## prometheus resource to be created with selectors based on values in the helm deployment,
+     ## which will also match the podmonitors created
+     ##
+-    podMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: true
++    podMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false
+ 
+     ## PodMonitors to be selected for target discovery.
+     ## If {}, select all PodMonitors
 @@ -1802,9 +2057,13 @@
  
      ## Resource limits & requests