diff --git a/k8s/operators/kube-prometheus/kubernetes-monitoring-rules-patches.yaml b/k8s/operators/kube-prometheus/kubernetes-monitoring-rules-patches.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ac7470
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/operators/kube-prometheus/kubernetes-monitoring-rules-patches.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+- op: remove
+  path: /spec/groups/8 # name: kubernetes-system-controller-manager which doesn't seem to exist on k3s
+- op: remove
+  path: /spec/groups/7 # name: kkubernetes-system-scheduler which doesn't seem to exist on k3s
diff --git a/k8s/operators/kube-prometheus/kustomization.yaml b/k8s/operators/kube-prometheus/kustomization.yaml
index 166e907..6d55ad5 100644
--- a/k8s/operators/kube-prometheus/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/k8s/operators/kube-prometheus/kustomization.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ patches:
     target:
       kind: Deployment
       name: grafana
-
+  - path: kubernetes-monitoring-rules-patches.yaml
+    target:
+      kind: PrometheusRule
+      name: kubernetes-monitoring-rules
 secretGenerator:
   - name: grafana-config
     namespace: monitoring