diff --git a/nixos/modules/monitoring/exporters/promtail.nix b/nixos/modules/monitoring/exporters/promtail.nix
index 9470cbda74bd9de0f241650c525e77e54e1ef049..8c4080343efc1be0fad29bf58763bbd4c645edb7 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/monitoring/exporters/promtail.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/monitoring/exporters/promtail.nix
@@ -34,10 +34,6 @@ in {
     services.promtail.enable = true;
     networking.firewall.interfaces.monitoringvpn.allowedTCPPorts = [ 9080 ];
 
-    # Since we'll send our journald logs elsewhere, we don't need to keep them
-    # here for very long.  Keep them for a *little* while just to provide some
-    # context in case someone ends up looking at the logs on the system itself
-    # but generally suppose that people will look at Loki instead.
     services.journald.extraConfig = ''
       # This tells journald it can discard log files that contain only log
       # entries older than...