diff --git a/.github/workflows/helm-test-workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/helm-test-workflow.yml
index e49a9865f..f69bcf7d2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/helm-test-workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/helm-test-workflow.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ on:
     branches:
       - develop
       - main
+      - bugfix/remove-rbac-bindings
       - feature**
 jobs:
   build-operator-image:
diff --git a/config/debug/manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml b/config/debug/manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d31fa4ec..000000000
--- a/config/debug/manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# This patch inject a sidecar container which is a HTTP proxy for the
-# controller manager, it performs RBAC authorization against the Kubernetes API using SubjectAccessReviews.
-apiVersion: apps/v1
-kind: Deployment
-metadata:
-  name: controller-manager
-  namespace: system
-spec:
-  template:
-    metadata:
-        labels:
-          control-plane: controller-manager
-          name: splunk-operator
-    spec:
-      containers:
-      - name: kube-rbac-proxy
-        securityContext:
-          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-          runAsNonRoot: true
-          capabilities:
-            drop:
-              - "ALL"
-            add:
-              - "NET_BIND_SERVICE"
-          seccompProfile:
-            type: "RuntimeDefault"
-        image: gcr.io/kubebuilder/kube-rbac-proxy:v0.13.1
-        args:
-        - "--secure-listen-address=0.0.0.0:8443"
-        - "--upstream=http://127.0.0.1:8080/"
-        - "--logtostderr=true"
-        - "--v=0"
-        ports:
-        - containerPort: 8443
-          protocol: TCP
-          name: https
-        resources:
-          limits:
-            cpu: 500m
-            memory: 128Mi
-          requests:
-            cpu: 5m
-            memory: 64Mi
diff --git a/config/default/kustomization-cluster.yaml b/config/default/kustomization-cluster.yaml
index fa36d8a21..81d09b56f 100644
--- a/config/default/kustomization-cluster.yaml
+++ b/config/default/kustomization-cluster.yaml
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ bases:
 #- ../prometheus
 
 patchesStrategicMerge:
-# Protect the /metrics endpoint by putting it behind auth.
-# If you want your controller-manager to expose the /metrics
-# endpoint w/o any authn/z, please comment the following line.
-- manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml
-
 # Mount the controller config file for loading manager configurations
 # through a ComponentConfig type
 #- manager_config_patch.yaml
diff --git a/config/default/kustomization.yaml b/config/default/kustomization.yaml
index fa36d8a21..81d09b56f 100644
--- a/config/default/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/config/default/kustomization.yaml
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ bases:
 #- ../prometheus
 
 patchesStrategicMerge:
-# Protect the /metrics endpoint by putting it behind auth.
-# If you want your controller-manager to expose the /metrics
-# endpoint w/o any authn/z, please comment the following line.
-- manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml
-
 # Mount the controller config file for loading manager configurations
 # through a ComponentConfig type
 #- manager_config_patch.yaml
diff --git a/config/default/manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml b/config/default/manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d31fa4ec..000000000
--- a/config/default/manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# This patch inject a sidecar container which is a HTTP proxy for the
-# controller manager, it performs RBAC authorization against the Kubernetes API using SubjectAccessReviews.
-apiVersion: apps/v1
-kind: Deployment
-metadata:
-  name: controller-manager
-  namespace: system
-spec:
-  template:
-    metadata:
-        labels:
-          control-plane: controller-manager
-          name: splunk-operator
-    spec:
-      containers:
-      - name: kube-rbac-proxy
-        securityContext:
-          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-          runAsNonRoot: true
-          capabilities:
-            drop:
-              - "ALL"
-            add:
-              - "NET_BIND_SERVICE"
-          seccompProfile:
-            type: "RuntimeDefault"
-        image: gcr.io/kubebuilder/kube-rbac-proxy:v0.13.1
-        args:
-        - "--secure-listen-address=0.0.0.0:8443"
-        - "--upstream=http://127.0.0.1:8080/"
-        - "--logtostderr=true"
-        - "--v=0"
-        ports:
-        - containerPort: 8443
-          protocol: TCP
-          name: https
-        resources:
-          limits:
-            cpu: 500m
-            memory: 128Mi
-          requests:
-            cpu: 5m
-            memory: 64Mi
diff --git a/config/rbac/auth_proxy_role.yaml b/config/rbac/auth_proxy_role.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 80e1857c5..000000000
--- a/config/rbac/auth_proxy_role.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: ClusterRole
-metadata:
-  name: proxy-role
-rules:
-- apiGroups:
-  - authentication.k8s.io
-  resources:
-  - tokenreviews
-  verbs:
-  - create
-- apiGroups:
-  - authorization.k8s.io
-  resources:
-  - subjectaccessreviews
-  verbs:
-  - create
diff --git a/config/rbac/auth_proxy_service.yaml b/config/rbac/auth_proxy_service.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 71f179727..000000000
--- a/config/rbac/auth_proxy_service.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  labels:
-    control-plane: controller-manager
-  name: controller-manager-metrics-service
-  namespace: system
-spec:
-  ports:
-  - name: https
-    port: 8443
-    protocol: TCP
-    targetPort: https
-  selector:
-    control-plane: controller-manager
diff --git a/config/rbac/kustomization-cluster.yaml b/config/rbac/kustomization-cluster.yaml
index 731832a6a..166fe7986 100644
--- a/config/rbac/kustomization-cluster.yaml
+++ b/config/rbac/kustomization-cluster.yaml
@@ -9,10 +9,3 @@ resources:
 - role_binding.yaml
 - leader_election_role.yaml
 - leader_election_role_binding.yaml
-# Comment the following 4 lines if you want to disable
-# the auth proxy (https://github.com/brancz/kube-rbac-proxy)
-# which protects your /metrics endpoint.
-- auth_proxy_service.yaml
-- auth_proxy_role.yaml
-- auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml
-- auth_proxy_client_clusterrole.yaml
diff --git a/config/rbac/kustomization.yaml b/config/rbac/kustomization.yaml
index 731832a6a..445ca4783 100644
--- a/config/rbac/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/config/rbac/kustomization.yaml
@@ -9,10 +9,7 @@ resources:
 - role_binding.yaml
 - leader_election_role.yaml
 - leader_election_role_binding.yaml
-# Comment the following 4 lines if you want to disable
-# the auth proxy (https://github.com/brancz/kube-rbac-proxy)
-# which protects your /metrics endpoint.
-- auth_proxy_service.yaml
-- auth_proxy_role.yaml
-- auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml
-- auth_proxy_client_clusterrole.yaml
+- metrics_auth_proxy_role.yaml
+- metrics_auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml
+- metrics_reader_role.yaml
+- metrics_reader_role_binding.yaml
diff --git a/config/rbac/metrics_auth_proxy_role.yaml b/config/rbac/metrics_auth_proxy_role.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..87a16f461
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/rbac/metrics_auth_proxy_role.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+kind: ClusterRole
+metadata:
+  name: metrics-auth-proxy-role
+rules:
+- apiGroups: ["authentication.k8s.io"]
+  resources: ["tokenreviews"]
+  verbs: ["create"]
+- apiGroups: ["authorization.k8s.io"]
+  resources: ["subjectaccessreviews"]
+  verbs: ["create"] 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/rbac/metrics_auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml b/config/rbac/metrics_auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8fd9b880
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/rbac/metrics_auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+kind: ClusterRoleBinding
+metadata:
+  name: metrics-auth-proxy-rolebinding
+roleRef:
+  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
+  kind: ClusterRole
+  name: metrics-auth-proxy-role
+subjects:
+- kind: ServiceAccount
+  name: controller-manager
+  namespace: system 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/rbac/auth_proxy_client_clusterrole.yaml b/config/rbac/metrics_reader_role.yaml
similarity index 66%
rename from config/rbac/auth_proxy_client_clusterrole.yaml
rename to config/rbac/metrics_reader_role.yaml
index 51a75db47..275dad16c 100644
--- a/config/rbac/auth_proxy_client_clusterrole.yaml
+++ b/config/rbac/metrics_reader_role.yaml
@@ -3,7 +3,5 @@ kind: ClusterRole
 metadata:
   name: metrics-reader
 rules:
-- nonResourceURLs:
-  - "/metrics"
-  verbs:
-  - get
+- nonResourceURLs: ["/metrics"]
+  verbs: ["get"] 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/rbac/auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml b/config/rbac/metrics_reader_role_binding.yaml
similarity index 72%
rename from config/rbac/auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml
rename to config/rbac/metrics_reader_role_binding.yaml
index ec7acc0a1..76e70fdff 100644
--- a/config/rbac/auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml
+++ b/config/rbac/metrics_reader_role_binding.yaml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
 kind: ClusterRoleBinding
 metadata:
-  name: proxy-rolebinding
+  name: metrics-reader-rolebinding
 roleRef:
   apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
   kind: ClusterRole
-  name: proxy-role
+  name: metrics-reader
 subjects:
 - kind: ServiceAccount
   name: controller-manager
-  namespace: system
+  namespace: system 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_client_clusterrole.yaml b/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_client_clusterrole.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index efc7bca74..000000000
--- a/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_client_clusterrole.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-{{- if .Values.splunkOperator.clusterWideAccess }}
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: ClusterRole
-metadata:
-  name: {{ include "splunk-operator.operator.fullname" . }}-metrics-reader
-rules:
-- nonResourceURLs:
-  - "/metrics"
-  verbs:
-  - get
-{{- end }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_role.yaml b/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_role.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index b6605bd57..000000000
--- a/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_role.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-{{- if .Values.splunkOperator.clusterWideAccess }}
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: ClusterRole
-metadata:
-  name: {{ include "splunk-operator.operator.fullname" . }}-proxy-role
-rules:
-- apiGroups:
-  - authentication.k8s.io
-  resources:
-  - tokenreviews
-  verbs:
-  - create
-- apiGroups:
-  - authorization.k8s.io
-  resources:
-  - subjectaccessreviews
-  verbs:
-  - create
-{{- else }}
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: Role
-metadata:
-  name: {{ include "splunk-operator.operator.fullname" . }}-proxy-role
-rules:
-- apiGroups:
-  - authentication.k8s.io
-  resources:
-  - tokenreviews
-  verbs:
-  - create
-- apiGroups:
-  - authorization.k8s.io
-  resources:
-  - subjectaccessreviews
-  verbs:
-  - create
-{{- end }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml b/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index a560aba9f..000000000
--- a/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_role_binding.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-{{- if .Values.splunkOperator.clusterWideAccess }}
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: ClusterRoleBinding
-metadata:
-  name: {{ include "splunk-operator.operator.fullname" . }}-proxy-rolebinding
-roleRef:
-  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
-  kind: ClusterRole
-  name: {{ include "splunk-operator.operator.fullname" . }}-proxy-role
-subjects:
-- kind: ServiceAccount
-  name: {{ include "splunk-operator.operator.fullname" . }}-controller-manager
-  namespace: {{ include "splunk-operator.namespace" . }}
-{{- end }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_service.yaml b/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_service.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index cf4e7f13b..000000000
--- a/helm-chart/splunk-operator/templates/rbac/auth_proxy_service.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  labels:
-{{- include "splunk-operator.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
-  name: {{ include "splunk-operator.operator.fullname" . }}-controller-manager-metrics-service
-  namespace: {{ include "splunk-operator.namespace" . }}
-spec:
-  ports:
-  - name: https
-    port: 8443
-    protocol: TCP
-    targetPort: https
-  selector:
-{{- include "splunk-operator.selectorLabels" . | nindent 4 }}