diff --git a/ceph-mon/values.yaml b/ceph-mon/values.yaml
index 87c761999..4a1331c47 100644
--- a/ceph-mon/values.yaml
+++ b/ceph-mon/values.yaml
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ conf:
       osd_recovery_op_priority: 1
       osd_recovery_max_active: 1
       osd_mount_options_xfs: "rw,noatime,largeio,inode64,swalloc,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,allocsize=4M"
+      osd_journal_size: 10240
   storage:
     mon:
       directory: /var/lib/openstack-helm/ceph/mon
diff --git a/ceph-osd/values.yaml b/ceph-osd/values.yaml
index f3af8101e..683df653e 100644
--- a/ceph-osd/values.yaml
+++ b/ceph-osd/values.yaml
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ conf:
       osd_recovery_op_priority: 1
       osd_recovery_max_active: 1
       osd_mount_options_xfs: "rw,noatime,largeio,inode64,swalloc,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,allocsize=4M"
+      osd_journal_size: 10240
 
   storage:
     # NOTE(portdirect): for homogeneous clusters the `osd` key can be used to