diff --git a/bindata/etcd/minimal-sm.yaml b/bindata/etcd/minimal-sm.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index fdaccf401..000000000
--- a/bindata/etcd/minimal-sm.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
-kind: ServiceMonitor
-metadata:
-  name: etcd-minimal
-  namespace: openshift-etcd-operator
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: etcd
-    k8s-app: etcd
-    monitoring.openshift.io/collection-profile: minimal
-spec:
-  endpoints:
-    - interval: 30s
-      metricRelabelings:
-      - action: keep
-        regex: (etcd_disk_backend_commit_duration_seconds_bucket|etcd_disk_wal_fsync_duration_seconds_bucket|etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_bytes|etcd_mvcc_db_total_size_in_use_in_bytes|etcd_network_peer_round_trip_time_seconds_bucket|etcd_network_peer_sent_failures_total|etcd_server_has_leader|etcd_server_is_leader|etcd_server_proposals_failed_total|etcd_server_quota_backend_bytes|grpc_server_handled_total|grpc_server_handling_seconds_bucket|grpc_server_started_total|process_start_time_seconds)
-        sourceLabels:
-        - __name__
-      port: etcd-metrics
-      scheme: https
-      tlsConfig:
-        ca:
-          configMap:
-            name: etcd-metric-serving-ca
-            key: ca-bundle.crt
-        cert:
-          secret:
-            name: etcd-metric-client
-            key: tls.crt
-        keySecret:
-          name: etcd-metric-client
-          key: tls.key
-  jobLabel: k8s-app
-  namespaceSelector:
-    matchNames:
-    - openshift-etcd
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      k8s-app: etcd
diff --git a/bindata/etcd/sm.yaml b/bindata/etcd/sm.yaml
index 9e1e96e6c..ddb3c941a 100644
--- a/bindata/etcd/sm.yaml
+++ b/bindata/etcd/sm.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ metadata:
   labels:
     app.kubernetes.io/name: etcd
     k8s-app: etcd
-    monitoring.openshift.io/collection-profile: full
 spec:
   endpoints:
     - interval: 30s
diff --git a/pkg/operator/starter.go b/pkg/operator/starter.go
index e0e829a7d..6e370609a 100644
--- a/pkg/operator/starter.go
+++ b/pkg/operator/starter.go
@@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ func RunOperator(ctx context.Context, controllerContext *controllercmd.Controlle
 			"etcd/sa.yaml",
 			"etcd/svc.yaml",
 			"etcd/sm.yaml",
-			"etcd/minimal-sm.yaml",
 			"etcd/prometheus-role.yaml",
 			"etcd/prometheus-rolebinding.yaml",
 			"etcd/backups-sa.yaml",