diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/Makefile b/charts/k8s-monitoring/Makefile
index df869303d..4f75386f0 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/Makefile
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/Makefile
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ values.schema.json: values.yaml schema-mods/enums-and-types.json schema-mods/req
 			| del(.properties["alloy-profiles"].properties.alloy) \
 			| del(.properties["alloy-profiles"].properties.controller) \
 			| del(.properties["alloy-profiles"].properties.crds) \
+			| del(.properties["kepler"].properties.canMount) \
 			| del(.properties["kube-state-metrics"].properties.autosharding) \
 			| del(.properties["kube-state-metrics"].properties.nodeSelector) \
 			| del(.properties["kube-state-metrics"].properties.prometheusScrape) \
diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/README.md b/charts/k8s-monitoring/README.md
index 2c6c029fb..f0461e495 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/README.md
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/README.md
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ The Prometheus and Loki services may be hosted on the same cluster, or remotely
 
 | Key | Type | Default | Description |
 |-----|------|---------|-------------|
-| kepler.enabled | bool | `false` |  |
+| kepler.enabled | bool | `false` | Should this Helm chart deploy Kepler to the cluster. Set this to false if your cluster already has Kepler, or if you do not want to scrape metrics from Kepler. |
 | metrics.kepler.enabled | bool | `false` | Scrape energy metrics from Kepler |
 | metrics.kepler.extraMetricRelabelingRules | string | `""` | Rule blocks to be added to the prometheus.relabel component for Kepler. ([docs](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/reference/components/prometheus.relabel/#rule-block)) These relabeling rules are applied post-scrape against the metrics returned from the scraped target, no __meta* labels are present. |
 | metrics.kepler.extraRelabelingRules | string | `""` | Rule blocks to be added to the discovery.relabel component for Kepler. These relabeling rules are applied pre-scrape against the targets from service discovery. Before the scrape, any remaining target labels that start with __ (i.e. __meta_kubernetes*) are dropped. ([docs](https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/reference/components/discovery.relabel/#rule-block)) |
diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/ci/ci-integrations-values.yaml b/charts/k8s-monitoring/ci/ci-integrations-values.yaml
index 41c9b4b84..d822c678f 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/ci/ci-integrations-values.yaml
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/ci/ci-integrations-values.yaml
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ logs:
 test:
   attempts: 20
   extraQueries:
+    # Check for Kepler metrics
+    - query: "kepler_container_joules_total{cluster=\"ci-integrations-cluster\"}"
+      type: promql
+
     # Check for CertManager metrics, discovered by service annotations
     - query: "certmanager_clock_time_seconds{cluster=\"ci-integrations-cluster\", job=\"integrations/cert-manager\"}"
       type: promql
@@ -128,6 +132,7 @@ test:
 
 opencost:
   enabled: false
+
 kepler:
   enabled: true
 
diff --git a/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.yaml b/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.yaml
index 325f8d97b..6690e88c4 100644
--- a/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/k8s-monitoring/values.yaml
@@ -1941,9 +1941,18 @@ opencost:
     nodeSelector:
       kubernetes.io/os: linux
 
+# Settings for the Kepler deployment
+# You can use this sections to make modifications to the Kepler deployment.
+# See https://github.com/sustainable-computing-io/kepler-helm-chart/tree/main/chart/kepler for available values.
 kepler:
+  # -- Should this Helm chart deploy Kepler to the cluster.
+  # Set this to false if your cluster already has Kepler, or if you do not want to scrape metrics from Kepler.
   enabled: false
 
+  # @ignored -- This skips including these values in README.md
+  canMount:
+    usrSrc: false
+
 # Settings for the Grafana Alloy instance that gathers metrics, and opens receivers for application data.
 # See https://github.com/grafana/alloy/tree/main/operations/helm/charts/alloy for available values.
 # @ignored -- This skips including these values in README.md