diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
index f33299ddbbab..ff5126c188d0 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 docker:
   image: gcr.io/cloud-devrel-public-resources/owlbot-python:latest
-  digest: sha256:899d5d7cc340fa8ef9d8ae1a8cfba362c6898584f779e156f25ee828ba824610
+  digest: sha256:dfa9b663b32de8b5b327e32c1da665a80de48876558dd58091d8160c60ad7355
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/release-please.yml b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/release-please.yml
index 4507ad0598a5..466597e5b196 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/release-please.yml
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/release-please.yml
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 releaseType: python
+handleGHRelease: true
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/release-trigger.yml b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/release-trigger.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d4ca94189e16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring-dashboards/.github/release-trigger.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+enabled: true