diff --git a/tasks/monitoring.yml b/tasks/monitoring.yml
index fd14b4d..1a438be 100644
--- a/tasks/monitoring.yml
+++ b/tasks/monitoring.yml
@@ -27,15 +27,11 @@
       traefik.http.routers.prom.tls.certresolver: letsencrypt
       traefik.http.services.prom.loadbalancer.server.port: "9090"
 
-# copy configs for loki + promtail
+# copy configs for loki
 - name: Create Loki Configuration
   template:
     src: templates/monitoring/loki.yaml.j2
     dest: "{{ data_dir }}/monitoring/loki/loki-config.yaml"
-- name: Create Promtail Configuration
-  template:
-    src: templates/monitoring/promtail.yaml.j2
-    dest: "{{ data_dir }}/monitoring/promtail/promtail-config.yaml"
 
 - name: Deploy Node Exporter
   include_role:
@@ -87,21 +83,6 @@
     networks:
       - name: "monitoring"
 
-- name: Deploy Promtail
-  include_role:
-    name: docker
-  vars:
-    name: monitoring_promtail
-    image:
-      name: grafana/promtail
-      tag: latest
-    command: -config.file=/etc/promtail/config.yaml
-    networks:
-      - name: "monitoring"
-    volumes:
-      - "/var/log:/var/log:ro"
-      - "{{ data_dir }}/monitoring/promtail/promtail-config.yaml:/etc/promtail/config.yaml"
-
 - name: Deploy Grafana
   include_role:
     name: docker
diff --git a/templates/monitoring/promtail.yaml.j2 b/templates/monitoring/promtail.yaml.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 601fe75..0000000
--- a/templates/monitoring/promtail.yaml.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-server:
-  http_listen_port: 9080
-
-positions:
-  filename: /tmp/positions.yaml
-
-clients:
-  - url: http://monitoring_loki:3100/loki/api/v1/push
-
-scrape_configs:
-  - job_name: system
-    static_configs:
-      - targets:
-          - localhost
-        labels:
-          job: varlogs
-          __path__: /var/log/**/*.log