diff --git a/update/ansible/playbook/tasks/roles/initialization/tasks/main.yml b/update/ansible/playbook/tasks/roles/initialization/tasks/main.yml
index 2476b13d68..aa7cf1267b 100644
--- a/update/ansible/playbook/tasks/roles/initialization/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/update/ansible/playbook/tasks/roles/initialization/tasks/main.yml
@@ -104,14 +104,14 @@
 - name: Create empty configuration file for VictoriaMetrics
   file: path=/etc/victoriametrics-promscrape.yml state=touch owner=pmm group=pmm
 
-- name: Run SQLite -> Postgres only for docker upgrade
+- name: Run operations for docker-way upgrade
   block:
     - name: Check that the SQLite grafana database exists
       stat:
         path: /srv/grafana/grafana.db
       register: is_database_sqlite
 
-    - name: Temporary change database to SQLite
+    - name: Run SQLite -> Postgres only
       block:
         - name: Remove database options (SQLite is default)
           ini_file:
@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@
             - skip_ansible_lint # '503 Tasks that run when changed should likely be handlers'.
       when: is_database_sqlite.stat.exists
 
+    - name: Change default admin id
+      postgresql_query:
+        db: grafana
+        query: UPDATE "user" SET id='1' WHERE login='admin';
+      when: not ansible_check_mode
+
     - name: Wait for PMM to be ready
       ansible.builtin.uri:
         url: "http://127.0.0.1:7772/v1/readyz"
diff --git a/update/ansible/playbook/tasks/update.yml b/update/ansible/playbook/tasks/update.yml
index 61ae3a43a2..a4ebee9290 100644
--- a/update/ansible/playbook/tasks/update.yml
+++ b/update/ansible/playbook/tasks/update.yml
@@ -409,6 +409,12 @@
         - ALTER TABLE api_key ALTER COLUMN name TYPE text;
       when: not ansible_check_mode
 
+    - name: Change default admin id
+      postgresql_query:
+        db: grafana
+        query: UPDATE "user" SET id='1' WHERE login='admin';
+      when: not ansible_check_mode
+
     # we need to put this step as one of the last steps, because it removes pmm.ini and /etc/alertmanager.yml
     - name: Remove old or redundant packages
       yum: