diff --git a/deployer/README.md b/deployer/README.md
index 4d48762..8198c43 100644
--- a/deployer/README.md
+++ b/deployer/README.md
@@ -44,3 +44,12 @@ You can do this running the following command from the monasca-vagrant folder:
 
 `source env.sh`
 
+##Setting monasca-user role to ceilometer user
+
+Ceilometer user needs the monasca-user role in the service tenant for Ceilometer
+to authenticate with the Monasca API.
+
+keystone user-role-add --user <ID of ceilometer user> --tenant <ID of service tenant>
+--role <ID of monasca-user role>
+
+IDs can be retrieved by using keystone user-list, tenant-list and role-list.
diff --git a/deployer/devstack/plugin.sh b/deployer/devstack/plugin.sh
index b8808db..a832aa8 100644
--- a/deployer/devstack/plugin.sh
+++ b/deployer/devstack/plugin.sh
@@ -206,10 +206,6 @@ function _ceilometer_create_accounts {
             # Ceilometer needs ResellerAdmin role to access Swift account stats.
             get_or_add_user_project_role "ResellerAdmin" "ceilometer" $SERVICE_TENANT_NAME
         fi
-
-        # Ceilometer needs monasca-user role to access Monasca API.
-        get_or_add_user_project_role "monasca-user" "ceilometer" $SERVICE_TENANT_NAME
-
     fi
 }