diff --git a/ansible/services/prometheus/prometheus.yml b/ansible/services/prometheus/prometheus.yml
index 88ed3b6..110483b 100644
--- a/ansible/services/prometheus/prometheus.yml
+++ b/ansible/services/prometheus/prometheus.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ global:
   scrape_interval: 15s
   evaluation_interval: 15s
 
+# Alerting notifications are handled by Grafana (unified alerting with
+# PagerDuty + email contact points), not Alertmanager.  No alerting:
+# section is needed here.  Prometheus still evaluates these rule_files
+# so the ALERTS / ALERTS_FOR_STATE metrics are available for queries.
+rule_files:
+  - /usr/local/etc/prometheus/rules/*.rules
+
 scrape_configs:
   - job_name: "prometheus"
     static_configs:
diff --git a/ansible/services/prometheus/rules/node-exporter.rules b/ansible/services/prometheus/rules/node-exporter.rules
deleted file mode 100644
index c9798fb..0000000
--- a/ansible/services/prometheus/rules/node-exporter.rules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-groups:
-- name: alerts
-  rules:
-#   - alert: ServerRunningBtrfs
-#     expr: node_btrfs_info > 0
-#     for: 5m
-#     annotations:
-#       summary: "Server {{ $labels.job }} is running btrfs"
-#       description: "{{ $labels.job }} has uuid of '{{ $labels.uuid }}'"
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