diff --git a/theodolite/src/main/resources/application.properties b/theodolite/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 8eb6f4862ea81fab761aa6cd4d481d08658b52dc..42647e2391706286602945cf2be7baa96857ba19 100644
--- a/theodolite/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/theodolite/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -4,6 +4,3 @@ quarkus.native.additional-build-args=\
   --initialize-at-run-time=io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.dsl.internal.core.v1.PodOperationsImpl$1,\
   --initialize-at-run-time=io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.dsl.internal.core.v1.PodOperationsImpl$3,\
   --report-unsupported-elements-at-runtime
-
-prom.record.lag.query="sum by(group)(kafka_consumergroup_group_lag >= 0)"
-prom.dropped.records.query="sum by(job) (kafka_streams_stream_task_metrics_dropped_records_total>=0)"