diff --git a/e2e-tests/functions b/e2e-tests/functions
index 3ba0a89596..c1a1cbdbb4 100755
--- a/e2e-tests/functions
+++ b/e2e-tests/functions
@@ -1278,6 +1278,10 @@ function generate_vs_json() {
 }
 
 check_passwords_leak() {
+	local secrets
+	local passwords
+	local pods
+
 	secrets=$(kubectl_bin get secrets -o json | jq -r '.items[].data | to_entries | .[] | select(.key | (contains("_PASSWORD"))) | .value')
 	echo secrets=$secrets
 
@@ -1290,9 +1294,10 @@ check_passwords_leak() {
 	pods=$(kubectl_bin get pods -o name | awk -F "/" '{print $2}')
 	echo pods=$pods
 
-	TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
-
 	collect_logs() {
+		local containers
+		local count
+
 		NS=$1
 		for p in $pods; do
 			containers=$(kubectl_bin -n "$NS" get pod $p -o jsonpath='{.spec.containers[*].name}')
@@ -1301,12 +1306,12 @@ check_passwords_leak() {
 				if [[ ${c} =~ "pmm" ]]; then
 					continue
 				fi
-				kubectl_bin -n "$NS" logs $p -c $c >${TEMP_DIR}/logs_output-$p-$c.txt
-				echo logs saved in: ${TEMP_DIR}/logs_output-$p-$c.txt
+				kubectl_bin -n "$NS" logs $p -c $c >${tmp_dir}/logs_output-$p-$c.txt
+				echo logs saved in: ${tmp_dir}/logs_output-$p-$c.txt
 				for pass in $passwords; do
-					count=$(grep -c --fixed-strings -- "$pass" ${TEMP_DIR}/logs_output-$p-$c.txt || :)
+					count=$(grep -c --fixed-strings -- "$pass" ${tmp_dir}/logs_output-$p-$c.txt || :)
 					if [[ $count != 0 ]]; then
-						echo leaked passwords are found in log ${TEMP_DIR}/logs_output-$p-$c.txt
+						echo leaked passwords are found in log ${tmp_dir}/logs_output-$p-$c.txt
 						false
 					fi
 				done
diff --git a/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/backup-50.json b/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/backup-50.json
index 7db2b3950a..388e9b783a 100644
--- a/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/backup-50.json
+++ b/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/backup-50.json
@@ -387,7 +387,6 @@
         },
         "actions": [
           "appendOplogNote",
-          "checkFreeMonitoringStatus",
           "connPoolStats",
           "forceUUID",
           "getDefaultRWConcern",
diff --git a/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/clusterAdmin-50.json b/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/clusterAdmin-50.json
index 031da091c3..554afe14a7 100644
--- a/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/clusterAdmin-50.json
+++ b/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/clusterAdmin-50.json
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@
           "appendOplogNote",
           "applicationMessage",
           "auditConfigure",
-          "checkFreeMonitoringStatus",
           "cleanupOrphaned",
           "connPoolStats",
           "connPoolSync",
@@ -256,7 +255,6 @@
           "serverStatus",
           "setDefaultRWConcern",
           "setFeatureCompatibilityVersion",
-          "setFreeMonitoring",
           "setParameter",
           "shardingState",
           "shutdown",
diff --git a/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/clusterMonitor-50.json b/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/clusterMonitor-50.json
index 2db1b5e6ec..9a1e7eb308 100644
--- a/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/clusterMonitor-50.json
+++ b/e2e-tests/init-deploy/compare/clusterMonitor-50.json
@@ -156,7 +156,6 @@
           "cluster": true
         },
         "actions": [
-          "checkFreeMonitoringStatus",
           "connPoolStats",
           "getDefaultRWConcern",
           "getCmdLineOpts",
diff --git a/e2e-tests/monitoring-2-0/run b/e2e-tests/monitoring-2-0/run
index 58ec2c006d..d479682cdd 100755
--- a/e2e-tests/monitoring-2-0/run
+++ b/e2e-tests/monitoring-2-0/run
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ else
 	retry 10 60 helm install monitoring --set imageTag=$IMAGE_PMM_SERVER_TAG --set imageRepo=$IMAGE_PMM_SERVER_REPO --set platform=$platform https://percona-charts.storage.googleapis.com/pmm-server-${PMM_SERVER_VER}.tgz
 fi
 sleep 20
-SERVICE="postgres"
-until kubectl_bin exec monitoring-0 -- bash -c "pgrep -x $SERVICE >/dev/null"; do
+until kubectl_bin exec monitoring-0 -- bash -c "ls -l /proc/*/exe 2>/dev/null| grep postgres >/dev/null"; do
 	echo "Retry $retry"
 	sleep 5
 	let retry+=1