diff --git a/test/kubemark/resources/hollow-node_template.json b/test/kubemark/resources/hollow-node_template.json
index 04932740325..93d20560b5a 100644
--- a/test/kubemark/resources/hollow-node_template.json
+++ b/test/kubemark/resources/hollow-node_template.json
@@ -26,11 +26,23 @@
 							"secretName": "kubeconfig"
 						}
 					},
+					{
+						"name": "npdconfig-volume",
+						"configMap": {
+							"name": "node-problem-detector-config"
+						}
+					},
 					{
 						"name": "logs-volume",
 						"hostPath": {
 							"path": "/var/logs"
 						}
+					},
+					{
+						"name": "kernellog-volume",
+						"hostPath": {
+							"path": "/var/log"
+						}
 					}
 				],
 				"containers": [
@@ -57,7 +69,7 @@
 							"valueFrom": {
 								"fieldRef": {
 									"fieldPath": "metadata.name"
-									}
+								}
 							}
 						}
 					],
@@ -105,7 +117,7 @@
 							"valueFrom": {
 								"fieldRef": {
 									"fieldPath": "metadata.name"
-									}
+								}
 							}
 						}
 					],
@@ -130,6 +142,41 @@
 							"memory": "100M"
 						}
 					}
+				},
+				{
+					"name": "hollow-node-problem-detector",
+					"image": "gcr.io/google_containers/node-problem-detector:v0.2",
+					"env": [
+						{
+							"name": "NODE_NAME",
+							"valueFrom": {
+								"fieldRef": {
+									"fieldPath": "spec.nodeName"
+								}
+							}
+						}
+					],
+					"volumeMounts": [
+						{
+							"name": "npdconfig-volume",
+							"mountPath": "/config",
+							"readOnly": true
+						},
+						{
+							"name": "kernellog-volume",
+							"mountPath": "/log",
+							"readOnly": true
+						}
+					],
+					"resources": {
+						"requests": {
+							"cpu": "20m",
+							"memory": "20Mi"
+						}
+					},
+					"securityContext": {
+						"privileged": true
+					}
 				}]
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/test/kubemark/resources/kernel-monitor.json b/test/kubemark/resources/kernel-monitor.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8aa12450c9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/kubemark/resources/kernel-monitor.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+	"logPath": "/log/faillog",
+	"lookback": "10m",
+	"startPattern": "Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset",
+	"bufferSize": 10,
+	"source": "kernel-monitor",
+	"conditions": [],
+	"rules": []
+}
diff --git a/test/kubemark/start-kubemark.sh b/test/kubemark/start-kubemark.sh
index c57bfd7c9ce..35de295bbbe 100755
--- a/test/kubemark/start-kubemark.sh
+++ b/test/kubemark/start-kubemark.sh
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ sed -i'' -e "s/{{EVENTER_MEM}}/${eventer_mem}/g" "${RESOURCE_DIRECTORY}/addons/h
 "${KUBECTL}" create -f "${KUBECONFIG_SECRET}" --namespace="kubemark"
 "${KUBECTL}" create -f "${NODE_CONFIGMAP}" --namespace="kubemark"
 "${KUBECTL}" create -f "${RESOURCE_DIRECTORY}/addons" --namespace="kubemark"
+"${KUBECTL}" create configmap node-problem-detector-config --from-file="${RESOURCE_DIRECTORY}/kernel-monitor.json" --namespace="kubemark"
 "${KUBECTL}" create -f "${RESOURCE_DIRECTORY}/hollow-node.json" --namespace="kubemark"
 
 rm "${KUBECONFIG_SECRET}"