diff --git a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/node-exporter.libsonnet b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/node-exporter.libsonnet
index 73704a8c6b774a40c3479e17b93d6fb9e01a8cc2..10b89dc96ca81b072afb7bcbb58d86b20b52234c 100644
--- a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/node-exporter.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/components/node-exporter.libsonnet
@@ -173,8 +173,7 @@ function(params) {
         '--no-collector.hwmon',
         '--collector.filesystem.ignored-mount-points=^/(dev|proc|sys|var/lib/docker/.+|var/lib/kubelet/pods/.+)($|/)',
         '--collector.netclass.ignored-devices=^(veth.*)$',
-        '--collector.netdev.device-blacklist=^(veth.*)$',
-        // '--collector.netdev.device-exclude=^(veth.*)$', // TODO(paulfantom): change with next version of node_exporter (post 1.0.1)
+        '--collector.netdev.device-exclude=^(veth.*)$',
       ],
       volumeMounts: [
         { name: 'sys', mountPath: '/host/sys', mountPropagation: 'HostToContainer', readOnly: true },
diff --git a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/main.libsonnet b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/main.libsonnet
index c8930ebc3b3c6c58aa17ff3c1747e9036fad4b05..bd2a60b321289c94631e3411011436dae4361f63 100644
--- a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/main.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/main.libsonnet
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ local prometheus = import './components/prometheus.libsonnet';
         blackboxExporter: '0.18.0',
         grafana: '7.3.7',
         kubeStateMetrics: '1.9.7',
-        nodeExporter: '1.0.1',
+        nodeExporter: '1.1.0',
         prometheus: '2.24.0',
         prometheusAdapter: '0.8.3',
         prometheusOperator: '0.45.0',