diff --git a/components/nautobot/kustomization.yaml b/components/nautobot/kustomization.yaml
index 683f99b59..126e7f695 100644
--- a/components/nautobot/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/components/nautobot/kustomization.yaml
@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ kind: Kustomization
 
 resources:
   - job-nautobot-post-deploy.yaml
-  - job-nautobot-constance-config.yaml
-  # https://rackspace.atlassian.net/browse/PUC-1485
-  - servicemonitor-celery.yaml
-  - servicemonitor-default.yaml
-  - rule-nautobot-absent.yaml
 
 configMapGenerator:
   - name: cluster-data
diff --git a/components/nautobot/rule-nautobot-absent.yaml b/components/nautobot/rule-nautobot-absent.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index f9af1ead1..000000000
--- a/components/nautobot/rule-nautobot-absent.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
-kind: PrometheusRule
-metadata:
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/component: nautobot
-  name: nautobot
-  namespace: nautobot
-spec:
-  groups:
-  - name: nautobot
-    rules:
-    - alert: NautobotAbsent
-      annotations:
-        description: Nautobot has disappeared from Prometheus service discovery.
-        summary: Nautobot is down.
-      expr: |
-        absent(up{job=~".*nautobot.*"} == 1)
-      for: 5m
-      labels:
-        severity: critical
diff --git a/components/nautobot/servicemonitor-celery.yaml b/components/nautobot/servicemonitor-celery.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index a045e9e23..000000000
--- a/components/nautobot/servicemonitor-celery.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
-kind: ServiceMonitor
-metadata:
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/component: nautobot-celery-default
-    app.kubernetes.io/instance: nautobot
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: nautobot
-  name: nautobot-celery-default
-  namespace: nautobot
-spec:
-  endpoints:
-  - port: workermetrics
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/component: nautobot-celery-default
-      app.kubernetes.io/instance: nautobot
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: nautobot
diff --git a/components/nautobot/servicemonitor-default.yaml b/components/nautobot/servicemonitor-default.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index bcbe1992e..000000000
--- a/components/nautobot/servicemonitor-default.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
-kind: ServiceMonitor
-metadata:
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/component: nautobot-default
-    app.kubernetes.io/instance: nautobot
-  name: nautobot-default
-  namespace: nautobot
-spec:
-  scrapeProtocols:
-    - OpenMetricsText1.0.0
-  endpoints:
-    - interval: 1m
-      port: http
-      scrapeTimeout: 30s
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/component: nautobot-default
-      app.kubernetes.io/instance: nautobot
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: nautobot
diff --git a/components/nautobot/values.yaml b/components/nautobot/values.yaml
index 8c5311298..84abf3732 100644
--- a/components/nautobot/values.yaml
+++ b/components/nautobot/values.yaml
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ redis:
 ingress:
   enabled: false
 
-# disabled in favor of explicit definitions through kustomize
+# (nicholas.kuechler) seeing something unexpected:
+# https://networktocode.slack.com/archives/C01NWPK6WHL/p1736445485521569
 metrics:
-  enabled: false
+  enabled: true
+  prometheusRule:
+    enabled: true
+  serviceMonitor:
+    scrapeProtocols:
+      - OpenMetricsText1.0.0