diff --git a/cookbooks/consul/default.rb b/cookbooks/consul/default.rb
index 9d0f7ee..21b3499 100644
--- a/cookbooks/consul/default.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/consul/default.rb
@@ -7,5 +7,3 @@ include_recipe './install.rb'
 include_recipe './setup.rb'
 
 include_recipe './dnsmasq.rb'
-
-include_recipe './monitoring.rb'
diff --git a/cookbooks/consul/files/etc/consul.d/check-reboot-required.json b/cookbooks/consul/files/etc/consul.d/check-reboot-required.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 0046b7d..0000000
--- a/cookbooks/consul/files/etc/consul.d/check-reboot-required.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "check": {
-    "id": "reboot-required",
-    "name": "Check for Reboot Required",
-    "args": ["/usr/local/bin/check_file", "/var/run/reboot-required"],
-    "interval": "86400s",
-    "timeout": "10s"
-  }
-}
diff --git a/cookbooks/consul/files/usr/local/bin/check_file b/cookbooks/consul/files/usr/local/bin/check_file
deleted file mode 100644
index 8622cee..0000000
--- a/cookbooks/consul/files/usr/local/bin/check_file
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-TARGET=$1
-
-if [ -f ${TARGET} ]; then
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/cookbooks/consul/monitoring.rb b/cookbooks/consul/monitoring.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 63944de..0000000
--- a/cookbooks/consul/monitoring.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-remote_file '/usr/local/bin/check_file' do
-  owner 'root'
-  group 'root'
-  mode '755'
-end
-
-%w(reboot-required).each do |conf|
-  remote_file "/etc/consul.d/check-#{conf}.json" do
-    owner 'root'
-    group 'root'
-    mode '644'
-
-    notifies :restart, 'service[supervisor]'
-  end
-end