diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 8c5262b..6b2ba11 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@
 [submodule "mosquitto/charts"]
 	path = mosquitto/charts
 	url = https://github.com/smizy/charts.git
-[submodule "mosquitto-exporter"]
-	path = mosquitto-exporter
-	url = https://github.com/sapcc/mosquitto-exporter.git
 [submodule "csi-s3/storage-csi-s3"]
 	path = csi-s3/storage-csi-s3
 	url = https://github.com/ctrox/csi-s3.git
diff --git a/mosquitto-exporter b/mosquitto-exporter
deleted file mode 160000
index 0ac92b5..0000000
--- a/mosquitto-exporter
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 0ac92b543dc5af5dc9f63280fd64eb7d958055e4