diff --git a/src/datastore_mad/remotes/ceph/monitor b/src/datastore_mad/remotes/ceph/monitor
index 6ba8e9daad..4f14060760 100755
--- a/src/datastore_mad/remotes/ceph/monitor
+++ b/src/datastore_mad/remotes/ceph/monitor
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ POOL_NAME="${XPATH_ELEMENTS[1]:-$POOL_NAME}"
 # ------------ Compute datastore usage -------------
 
 MONITOR_SCRIPT=$(cat <<EOF
-$SUDO $RADOS df | $AWK '{
+$RADOS df | $AWK '{
     if (\$1 == "total") {
 
         space = int(\$3/1024)