diff --git a/charts/grafana/Chart.yaml b/charts/grafana/Chart.yaml
index 8823e6f920..7f0fccba65 100644
--- a/charts/grafana/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/grafana/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 apiVersion: v2
 name: grafana
-version: 7.0.5
+version: 7.0.6
 appVersion: 10.1.5
 kubeVersion: "^1.8.0-0"
 description: The leading tool for querying and visualizing time series and metrics.
diff --git a/charts/grafana/README.md b/charts/grafana/README.md
index a1d242f41b..81e5360b9f 100644
--- a/charts/grafana/README.md
+++ b/charts/grafana/README.md
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ need to instead set `global.imageRegistry`.
 | `sidecar.alerts.resource`            | Should the sidecar looks into secrets, configmaps or both. | `both`                               |
 | `sidecar.alerts.reloadURL`           | Full url of datasource configuration reload API endpoint, to invoke after a config-map change | `"http://localhost:3000/api/admin/provisioning/alerting/reload"` |
 | `sidecar.alerts.skipReload`          | Enabling this omits defining the REQ_URL and REQ_METHOD environment variables | `false` |
-| `sidecar.alerts.initAlers` | Set to true to deploy the alerts sidecar as an initContainer. This is needed if skipReload is true, to load any alerts defined at startup time. | `false` |
+| `sidecar.alerts.initDatasources`     | Set to true to deploy the datasource sidecar as an initContainer.  This is needed if skipReload is true, to load any alerts defined at startup time. | `false` |
 | `sidecar.alerts.extraMounts`         | Additional alerts sidecar volume mounts. | `[]`                               |
 | `sidecar.dashboards.enabled`              | Enables the cluster wide search for dashboards and adds/updates/deletes them in grafana | `false`       |
 | `sidecar.dashboards.SCProvider`           | Enables creation of sidecar provider          | `true`                                                  |
diff --git a/charts/grafana/templates/_pod.tpl b/charts/grafana/templates/_pod.tpl
index 9f4460017a..be5cc021c9 100644
--- a/charts/grafana/templates/_pod.tpl
+++ b/charts/grafana/templates/_pod.tpl
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ containers:
       {{- toYaml . | trim | nindent 6 }}
       {{- end }}
 {{- end}}
-{{- if .Values.sidecar.datasources.enabled }}
+{{- if and .Values.sidecar.datasources.enabled (not .Values.sidecar.datasources.initDatasources) }}
   - name: {{ include "grafana.name" . }}-sc-datasources
     {{- $registry := .Values.global.imageRegistry | default .Values.sidecar.image.registry -}}
     {{- if .Values.sidecar.image.sha }}