diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd4836c3eb5a9a24932cd4dbe44650ccec44bc78..55c6c29a616eb364b1bfb1b0478bc849cea18a7a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -281,7 +281,6 @@ These are the available fields with their respective default values:
         names: 'k8s',
         replicas: 2,
         rules: {},
-        enableAdminAPI: 'false',
     },
 
     alertmanager+:: {
diff --git a/example.jsonnet b/example.jsonnet
index 83b439f1040c13119aa43c5ee6fd5fbed74228ff..2a10509c18e5087cf16939eaa9e9534932a50008 100644
--- a/example.jsonnet
+++ b/example.jsonnet
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 local kp = (import 'kube-prometheus/kube-prometheus.libsonnet') + {
   _config+:: {
     namespace: 'monitoring',
-  }
+  },
 };
 
 { ['00namespace-' + name]: kp.kubePrometheus[name] for name in std.objectFields(kp.kubePrometheus) } +
diff --git a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/kube-prometheus.libsonnet b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/kube-prometheus.libsonnet
index 3a25e52ced142ed1fb18662ed7a25014fb8ff417..7dae5f38bd0587b5472f6aef8a4ec9e85aeaedf2 100644
--- a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/kube-prometheus.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/kube-prometheus.libsonnet
@@ -82,8 +82,6 @@ local configMapList = k.core.v1.configMapList;
     prometheusSelector: 'job="prometheus-k8s"',
     prometheusOperatorSelector: 'job="prometheus-operator"',
 
-    enableAdminAPI: 'false',
-
     jobs: {
       Kubelet: $._config.kubeletSelector,
       KubeScheduler: $._config.kubeSchedulerSelector,
@@ -99,7 +97,6 @@ local configMapList = k.core.v1.configMapList;
 
     prometheus+:: {
       rules: $.prometheusRules + $.prometheusAlerts,
-      enableAdminAPI: $._config.enableAdminAPI,
     },
 
     grafana+:: {
diff --git a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/prometheus/prometheus.libsonnet b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/prometheus/prometheus.libsonnet
index 48bb6c0e0f149dbf07e128be85f45d53a882c979..b9b3810c95e649811188eaa8a01fb52910dd4314 100644
--- a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/prometheus/prometheus.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/prometheus/prometheus.libsonnet
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ local k = import 'ksonnet/ksonnet.beta.3/k.libsonnet';
 
     prometheus+:: {
       name: 'k8s',
-      enableAdminAPI: 'false',
       replicas: 2,
       rules: {},
       renderedRules: {},
diff --git a/manifests/prometheus-prometheus.yaml b/manifests/prometheus-prometheus.yaml
index 2b830347a6d82095f12c106f7cd4f8fa4b7ff559..c16914b09a4bf8dbd1b368f52d96c4cd8db93832 100644
--- a/manifests/prometheus-prometheus.yaml
+++ b/manifests/prometheus-prometheus.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ spec:
       namespace: monitoring
       port: web
   baseImage: quay.io/prometheus/prometheus
-  enableAdminAPI: false
   nodeSelector:
     beta.kubernetes.io/os: linux
   replicas: 2