diff --git a/src/backends/extrae/extrae_type_stack.cpp b/src/backends/extrae/extrae_type_stack.cpp
index 94e89a60aae3f0fd12d2e3891953d60e6e7f6be3..be8be21208c0899c415ce5cac53fc54a0dbc0e6a 100644
--- a/src/backends/extrae/extrae_type_stack.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/extrae/extrae_type_stack.cpp
@@ -13,12 +13,10 @@ extern "C" {
 #include <extrae.h>
 }
 
-ExtraeTypeStackStrategy::ExtraeTypeStackStrategy() {
+ExtraeTypeStackStrategy::ExtraeTypeStackStrategy() : mpi_helper_{} {
   parallelism_descriptor_ = {
       .mpi_descriptor_ = MPIDescriptor::Aware,
-      .thread_descriptor_ =
-          ThreadDescriptor::Supported  // i guess no test currently for this
-  };
+      .thread_descriptor_ = ThreadDescriptor::Unsupported};
 }
 
 const std::string ExtraeTypeStackStrategy::paraverConfigHead = R"(
@@ -119,6 +117,7 @@ void ExtraeTypeStackStrategy::Init() noexcept {
     // https://github.com/bsc-performance-tools/extrae/blob/daee11a2f98e301eb146608f51df0c844e1ff381/include/extrae_types.h#L33
     Extrae_init();
     didInitialize = true;
+    std::cout << "NESMIK forced to Initialize extrae" << std::endl;
   }
 }
 
@@ -204,7 +203,8 @@ void ExtraeTypeStackStrategy::Finalize() noexcept {
                              routine_c_names);
   }
 
-  if (write_config_file_.getValue().value_or(write_config_file_default_)) {
+  if (write_config_file_.getValue().value_or(write_config_file_default_) &&
+      mpi_helper_.IsRankNumber(0)) {
     std::string fileName = "nesmik_annotations.cfg";
     std::ofstream outputFile;
     outputFile.open(fileName);
diff --git a/src/backends/extrae/extrae_type_stack.hpp b/src/backends/extrae/extrae_type_stack.hpp
index 616766f74b6511976214f57ef8489a5cfb66eb17..df59582b596a63f58982b412a0a04707810fd6fb 100644
--- a/src/backends/extrae/extrae_type_stack.hpp
+++ b/src/backends/extrae/extrae_type_stack.hpp
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <unordered_map>
 #include <utils/environment_variable.hpp>
+#include <utils/parallelism_helper.hpp>
 
 #include "strategies.hpp"
 // #include <mutex>
@@ -32,6 +33,8 @@ class ExtraeTypeStackStrategy : public ProperlyNestedAnnotationStrategy {
   inline static const int paraverConfigWindowHeight_ = 115;
   inline static const int paraverConfigWindowHeightPad_ = 35;
 
+  MPIHelper mpi_helper_;
+
   inline static bool didInitialize{false};
 
   inline static thread_local RegionStackData regionStackData;