diff --git a/manifests/monitoring.yaml b/manifests/monitoring.yaml
index 15885b5472ae9302e3dabc3ff0435bd5a9aecb83..ca5f7108860570044fed9b149ec500c547010f9c 100644
--- a/manifests/monitoring.yaml
+++ b/manifests/monitoring.yaml
@@ -14,14 +14,6 @@ spec:
     spec:
       terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 5
       restartPolicy: Always
-      # initContainers:
-      # - name: influxdb
-      #   image: influxdb:1.8
-      #   ports:
-      #   - containerPort: 8086
-      #   envFrom:
-      #     - secretRef:
-      #         name: influxdb-secrets
       containers:
       - name: influxdb
         image: influxdb:1.8
diff --git a/src/monitoring/.gitlab-ci.yml b/src/monitoring/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 679a5056d170e67df244842bc74e9b44e7ec7eb6..ff10ac52d90f3dd16bb04a882468b9fa44ce5e81 100644
--- a/src/monitoring/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/src/monitoring/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -61,25 +61,6 @@ unit test monitoring:
       reports:
         junit: src/$IMAGE_NAME/tests/report.xml
 
-monitoring test:
-  variables:
-    IMAGE_NAME: 'monitoring' # name of the microservice
-    IMAGE_TAG: 'develop' # tag of the container image (production, development, etc)
-  stage: unit_test
-  script:
-    - 'sed -i "s/$IMAGE_NAME:.*/$IMAGE_NAME:$IMAGE_TAG/" manifests/$IMAGE_NAME.yaml'
-    - ls manifests
-    - cat manifests/$IMAGE_NAME.yaml
-    - echo 'sed -i "s/$IMAGE_NAME:.*/$IMAGE_NAME:$IMAGE_TAG/" manifests/$IMAGE_NAME.yaml'
-  rules:
-    - changes:
-      - src/$IMAGE_NAME/**/*.{py,in,yml}
-      - src/$IMAGE_NAME/Dockerfile
-      - src/$IMAGE_NAME/tests/*.py
-      - src/$IMAGE_NAME/tests/Dockerfile
-      - manifests/$IMAGE_NAME.yaml
-      - .gitlab-ci.yml
-
 # Deployment of the monitoring service in Kubernetes Cluster
 deploy monitoring test:
   variables: