diff --git a/Berksfile b/Berksfile
index 6082e5a..c2916e7 100644
--- a/Berksfile
+++ b/Berksfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 metadata
 cookbook 'hostsfile', '= 1.0.1'
 cookbook 'kafka', git: 'git@git.hpcloud.net:mon/cookbooks-kafka'
+cookbook 'mon_persister', git: 'git@git.hpcloud.net:mon/cookbooks-mon_persister'
 cookbook 'percona', git: 'https://github.com/tkuhlman/chef-percona'
-cookbook 'persister', git: 'git@git.hpcloud.net:mon/cookbooks-persister'
 cookbook 'vertica', git: 'git@git.hpcloud.net:mon/cookbooks-vertica'
 cookbook 'zookeeper', git: 'git@git.hpcloud.net:mon/cookbooks-zookeeper'
diff --git a/data_bags/mon_persister/mon_credentials.json b/data_bags/mon_persister/mon_credentials.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..338b8db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data_bags/mon_persister/mon_credentials.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "id" : "mon_credentials",
+  "vertica" : {
+    "user" : "dbadmin",
+    "password" : "password"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/data_bags/mon_persister/mon_persister.json b/data_bags/mon_persister/mon_persister.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..374e55d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data_bags/mon_persister/mon_persister.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "id" : "mon_persister",
+  "vertica" : {
+    "dbname" : "mon",
+    "hostname" : "192.168.10.8"
+  },
+  "zookeeper" : {
+    "hostname" : "192.168.10.10"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/roles/Persister.json b/roles/Persister.json
index 0a11f4f..37e3cbd 100644
--- a/roles/Persister.json
+++ b/roles/Persister.json
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   "chef_type": "role",
   "run_list": [
     "role[Basenode]",
-    "recipe[mon-persister]",
+    "recipe[mon_persister]",
     "recipe[sysctl]"
   ],
   "env_run_lists": {