diff --git a/kubernetes/ansible/roles/sunbird-monitoring/defaults/main.yml b/kubernetes/ansible/roles/sunbird-monitoring/defaults/main.yml
index 6fe4f88e9a..44045d49ca 100644
--- a/kubernetes/ansible/roles/sunbird-monitoring/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/kubernetes/ansible/roles/sunbird-monitoring/defaults/main.yml
@@ -167,3 +167,6 @@ kafka_druid_events_summary_backup_threshold: 10000
 kafka_telemetry_extractor_duplicate_backup_threshold: 1000
 kafka_telemetry_duplicate_backup_threshold: 1000
 
+### kafka exporters related vars
+processing_cluster_zookeeper: "{{ groups['processing-cluster-zookeepers'] | difference(['localhost']) | map('regex_replace', '^(.*)$', '\\1:2181') | list}}"
+processing_cluster_kafka: "{{ groups['processing-cluster-kafka'] | difference(['localhost']) | map('regex_replace', '^(.*)$', '\\1:9092') | list}}" 
diff --git a/kubernetes/ansible/roles/sunbird-monitoring/templates/processing-kafka-exporter.yaml b/kubernetes/ansible/roles/sunbird-monitoring/templates/processing-kafka-exporter.yaml
index 864be511d7..69d64410b6 100644
--- a/kubernetes/ansible/roles/sunbird-monitoring/templates/processing-kafka-exporter.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/ansible/roles/sunbird-monitoring/templates/processing-kafka-exporter.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 kafkaExporter:
   zookeeper:
-    servers: ["{{ groups['processing-cluster-zookeepers'] | difference(["localhost"]) | map('regex_replace', '^(.*)$', '\\1:2181') | list | join("\", \"") }}"]
+    servers: ["{{ processing_cluster_zookeeper | join('","') }}"]
   kafka:
-    servers: ["{{ groups['processing-cluster-kafka'] | difference(["localhost"]) | map('regex_replace', '^(.*)$', '\\1:9092') | list | join("\", \"") }}"]
+    servers: ["{{ processing_cluster_kafka | join('","') }}"]
   additionalFlags:
     - --use.consumelag.zookeeper