plasmabio · djangoliv · Jan 12, 2026 · Jan 9, 2026
diff --git a/ansible/cockpit.yml b/ansible/cockpit.yml
diff --git a/docs/configuration/index.md b/docs/configuration/index.md
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 ```{toctree}
 :maxdepth: 3
 
-monitoring
 persistence
 batch-users
 resources

diff --git a/docs/configuration/monitoring.md b/docs/configuration/monitoring.md
diff --git a/docs/install/ansible.md b/docs/install/ansible.md
@@ -277,7 +277,6 @@ The Ansible playbooks are located in the `ansible/` directory:
 - `users.yml`: create the tests users on the host
 - `quotas.yml`: enable quotas on the host to limit disk usage
 - `include-groups.yml`: add user groups to JupyterHub
-- `cockpit.yml`: install Cockpit on the host as a monitoring tool
 - `tljh.yml`: install TLJH and the Plasma TLJH plugin
 - `https.yml`: enable HTTPS for TLJH
 - `uninstall.yml`: uninstall TLJH only

diff --git a/docs/overview/index.md b/docs/overview/index.md
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ Plasma can be seen as an **opinionated TLJH distribution**:
 - It provides an interface to build the user environments, accessible from the JupyterHub panel, using
   [tljh-repo2docker](https://github.com/plasmabio/tljh-repo2docker)
 - It uses PAM as the authenticator, and relies on system users for data persistence (home directories) and authentication
-- It provides additional Ansible Playbooks to provision the server with extra monitoring tools
 
 Here is an overview of all the different components and their interactions after Plasma has been deployed on a new server:
 

diff --git a/tljh-plasma/tljh_plasma/__init__.py b/tljh-plasma/tljh_plasma/__init__.py
@@ -211,12 +211,3 @@ def tljh_custom_jupyterhub_config(c):
                 ],
             },
         ]
-
-        # register Cockpit as a service if active
-        if check_service_active("cockpit"):
-            c.JupyterHub.services.append(
-                {
-                    "name": "cockpit",
-                    "url": "http://0.0.0.0:9090",
-                },
-            )