diff --git a/ARCHITECTURE.md b/ARCHITECTURE.md
index 9e42c007f..eab9189c9 100644
--- a/ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ graph LR;
     nginx-internal --- autoconfig.xml;
     certs-nginx[("`TLS certs
     /var/lib/acme`")] --> nginx-internal;
-    cron --- chatmail-metrics;
     cron --- acmetool;
-    chatmail-metrics --- website;
     acmetool --> certs[("`TLS certs
     /var/lib/acme`")];
     nginx-external --- |993|dovecot;
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 28cf92eea..8df2e1166 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -224,9 +224,6 @@ A short overview of `chatmaild` services:
   is a small bot for test purposes.
   It simply echoes back messages from users.
 
-- [`chatmail-metrics`](https://github.com/chatmail/relay/blob/main/chatmaild/src/chatmaild/metrics.py)
-  collects some metrics and displays them at `https://example.org/metrics`.
-
 ### Home page and getting started for users
 
 `cmdeploy run` also creates default static web pages and deploys them
diff --git a/chatmaild/pyproject.toml b/chatmaild/pyproject.toml
index e464581e0..81ca46165 100644
--- a/chatmaild/pyproject.toml
+++ b/chatmaild/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ doveauth = "chatmaild.doveauth:main"
 chatmail-metadata = "chatmaild.metadata:main"
 filtermail = "chatmaild.filtermail:main"
 echobot = "chatmaild.echo:main"
-chatmail-metrics = "chatmaild.metrics:main"
 chatmail-expire = "chatmaild.expire:main"
 chatmail-fsreport = "chatmaild.fsreport:main"
 lastlogin = "chatmaild.lastlogin:main"
diff --git a/chatmaild/src/chatmaild/metrics.py b/chatmaild/src/chatmaild/metrics.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 646b48f79..000000000
--- a/chatmaild/src/chatmaild/metrics.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-import sys
-from pathlib import Path
-
-
-def main(vmail_dir=None):
-    if vmail_dir is None:
-        vmail_dir = sys.argv[1]
-
-    accounts = 0
-    ci_accounts = 0
-
-    for path in Path(vmail_dir).iterdir():
-        if not path.joinpath("cur").is_dir():
-            continue
-        accounts += 1
-        if path.name[:3] in ("ci-", "ac_"):
-            ci_accounts += 1
-
-    print("# HELP total number of accounts")
-    print("# TYPE accounts gauge")
-    print(f"accounts {accounts}")
-    print("# HELP number of CI accounts")
-    print("# TYPE ci_accounts gauge")
-    print(f"ci_accounts {ci_accounts}")
-    print("# HELP number of non-CI accounts")
-    print("# TYPE nonci_accounts gauge")
-    print(f"nonci_accounts {accounts - ci_accounts}")
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
diff --git a/chatmaild/src/chatmaild/tests/test_metrics.py b/chatmaild/src/chatmaild/tests/test_metrics.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a8e5cb3b..000000000
--- a/chatmaild/src/chatmaild/tests/test_metrics.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-from chatmaild.metrics import main
-
-
-def test_main(tmp_path, capsys):
-    paths = []
-    for x in ("ci-asllkj", "ac_12l3kj", "qweqwe", "ci-l1k2j31l2k3"):
-        p = tmp_path.joinpath(x)
-        p.mkdir()
-        p.joinpath("cur").mkdir()
-        paths.append(p)
-
-    tmp_path.joinpath("nomailbox").mkdir()
-
-    main(tmp_path)
-    out, _ = capsys.readouterr()
-    d = {}
-    for line in out.split("\n"):
-        if line.strip() and not line.startswith("#"):
-            name, num = line.split()
-            d[name] = int(num)
-
-    assert d["accounts"] == 4
-    assert d["ci_accounts"] == 3
-    assert d["nonci_accounts"] == 1
diff --git a/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/__init__.py b/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/__init__.py
index 6815e3561..b3173c7d9 100644
--- a/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/__init__.py
+++ b/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/__init__.py
@@ -108,16 +108,13 @@ def _install_remote_venv_with_chatmaild(config) -> None:
         ],
     )
 
-    files.template(
-        src=importlib.resources.files(__package__).joinpath("metrics.cron.j2"),
-        dest="/etc/cron.d/chatmail-metrics",
-        user="root",
-        group="root",
-        mode="644",
-        config={
-            "mailboxes_dir": config.mailboxes_dir,
-            "execpath": f"{remote_venv_dir}/bin/chatmail-metrics",
-        },
+    files.file(
+        path="/etc/cron.d/chatmail-metrics",
+        present=False,
+    )
+    files.file(
+        path="/var/www/html/metrics",
+        present=False,
     )
 
     # install systemd units
diff --git a/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/metrics.cron.j2 b/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/metrics.cron.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 8bf036ad8..000000000
--- a/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/metrics.cron.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-*/5 * * * * root {{ config.execpath }} {{ config.mailboxes_dir }} >/var/www/html/metrics
diff --git a/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/nginx/nginx.conf.j2 b/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/nginx/nginx.conf.j2
index 58864d72e..440706bea 100644
--- a/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/nginx/nginx.conf.j2
+++ b/cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/nginx/nginx.conf.j2
@@ -76,10 +76,6 @@ http {
 			try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
 		}
 
-		location /metrics {
-			default_type text/plain;
-		}
-
 		location /new {
 			if ($request_method = GET) {
 				# Redirect to Delta Chat,