diff --git a/plural/helm/plural/templates/prometheusrule.yaml b/plural/helm/plural/templates/prometheusrule.yaml
index ad9006fbee..45997b6d56 100644
--- a/plural/helm/plural/templates/prometheusrule.yaml
+++ b/plural/helm/plural/templates/prometheusrule.yaml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ spec:
     - alert: PluralHydraMEM
       expr: |
         (
-          sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes{namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}",pod=~"plural-hydra-[0-9]+"})
+          sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes{namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}",pod=~"plural-hydra-[0-9]+",image!="",container!=""})
           / sum(kube_pod_container_resource_requests{endpoint="http",resource="memory",namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}", pod=~"plural-hydra-[0-9]+"})
         )  > 1
       for: 5m
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ spec:
     - alert: PluralDbMEM
       expr: |
         (
-          sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes{namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}",pod=~"plural-plural-[0-9]+"})
+          sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes{namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}",pod=~"plural-plural-[0-9]+",image!="",container!=""})
           / sum(kube_pod_container_resource_requests{endpoint="http",resource="memory",namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}", pod=~"plural-plural-[0-9]+"})
         )  > 1
       for: 5m
diff --git a/plural/helm/plural/templates/runbooks.yaml b/plural/helm/plural/templates/runbooks.yaml
index da8315dcd8..01ef4ab471 100644
--- a/plural/helm/plural/templates/runbooks.yaml
+++ b/plural/helm/plural/templates/runbooks.yaml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ spec:
     prometheus:
       format: memory
       legend: $pod
-      query: sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes{namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}",pod=~"plural-plural-[0-9]+"}) by (pod)
+      query: sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes{namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}",pod=~"plural-plural-[0-9]+",image!="",container!=""}) by (pod)
   - name: volume
     type: prometheus
     prometheus:
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ spec:
     prometheus:
       format: memory
       legend: $pod
-      query: sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes{namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}",pod=~"plural-hydra-[0-9]+"}) by (pod)
+      query: sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes{namespace="{{ .Release.Namespace }}",pod=~"plural-hydra-[0-9]+",image!="",container!=""}) by (pod)
   - name: statefulset
     type: kubernetes
     kubernetes: