diff --git a/ansible/group_vars/all/grafana b/ansible/group_vars/all/grafana
index 6b60f7863ca86ba72f386938fdc3be69a6f477c7..38f37f311b2996ff42245bdf9ddebb172fef0e22 100644
--- a/ansible/group_vars/all/grafana
+++ b/ansible/group_vars/all/grafana
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # Grafana local admin user name. If you are deploying Monasca Grafana this
 # should not conflict with an OpenStack user name.
-grafana_local_admin_user_name: "admin"
+grafana_local_admin_user_name: "grafana_local_admin"
 
 # Path to git repo containing Grafana dashboards. Eg.
 # https://github.com/stackhpc/grafana-reference-dashboards.git
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ grafana_monitoring_node_dashboard_repo_path:
 # The Grafana organisation for the control plane. Note that for Monasca
 # Grafana with domain support the format is:
 # organisation_name@openstack_domain
-grafana_control_plane_organisation: "control_plane"
+grafana_control_plane_organisation: "monasca_control_plane@default"
 
 # A dict of datasources to configure. See the stackhpc.grafana-conf role
 # for all supported datasources. Example:
diff --git a/ansible/overcloud-grafana-configure.yml b/ansible/overcloud-grafana-configure.yml
index 5fd9cddc6e1e8912d6781b4b3d5ee28458723d1a..b4794dbfdb85f5f1675a22b3fdb0bdbe0e854a0c 100644
--- a/ansible/overcloud-grafana-configure.yml
+++ b/ansible/overcloud-grafana-configure.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 ---
-- name: Check whether Grafana is enabled
+- name: Check whether Monasca is enabled
   hosts: overcloud
   tags:
     - grafana
   tasks:
     - name: Create monitoring group with grafana enabled
       group_by:
-        key: "monitoring_with_grafana_enabled_{{ kolla_enable_grafana | bool }}"
+        key: "monitoring_with_grafana_enabled_{{ kolla_enable_monasca | bool }}"
 
 - name: Set the Monasca control plane project ID
   hosts: monitoring_with_grafana_enabled_True[0]
@@ -15,6 +15,20 @@
     - grafana
   vars:
     venv: "{{ virtualenv_path }}/openstacksdk"
+  pre_tasks:
+    - name: Validate OpenStack password authentication parameters
+      fail:
+        msg: >
+          Required OpenStack authentication parameter {{ item }} is
+          {% if item in openstack_auth %}empty{% else %}not present{% endif %}
+          in openstack_auth. Have you sourced the environment file?
+      when:
+        - openstack_auth_type == 'password'
+        - item not in openstack_auth or not openstack_auth[item]
+      with_items: "{{ openstack_auth_password_required_params }}"
+      tags:
+        - config-validation
+
   roles:
     - role: stackhpc.os-openstackclient
       os_openstackclient_venv: "{{ venv }}"
@@ -27,7 +41,7 @@
     - name: Look up Monasca control plane project ID
       shell: >
         source {{ venv }}/bin/activate &&
-        openstack project show monasca --format json --column id
+        openstack project show {{ grafana_control_plane_organisation.split("@")[0] }} --format json --column id
       register: monasca_project_show
       changed_when: False
       environment: "{{ openstack_auth_env }}"
@@ -61,7 +75,7 @@
     - role: stackhpc.grafana-conf
       grafana_conf_organisation: "{{ grafana_control_plane_organisation }}"
       grafana_conf_grafana_admin_user: "{{ grafana_local_admin_user_name }}"
-      grafana_conf_grafana_admin_pass: "{{ grafana_admin_password }}"
+      grafana_conf_grafana_admin_pass: "{{ monasca_grafana_admin_password }}"
       grafana_conf_grafana_dashboard_repo:
         repo: "{{ grafana_monitoring_node_dashboard_repo }}"
         version: "{{ grafana_monitoring_node_dashboard_repo_version }}"
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/bugfix-monasca-grafana-dashboard-config-b81781cf10c2a236.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/bugfix-monasca-grafana-dashboard-config-b81781cf10c2a236.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cc0ea9bddfd5fe3146af0ba28e37593c8b92abd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/bugfix-monasca-grafana-dashboard-config-b81781cf10c2a236.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Fixes an issue where it was not possible to load dashboards into the
+    Monasca Grafana fork when the default Monasca control plane OpenStack
+    project name is used from Kolla Ansible.