diff --git a/tasks/configuration.yml b/tasks/configuration.yml
index c01c11a..3c31757 100644
--- a/tasks/configuration.yml
+++ b/tasks/configuration.yml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
     owner: "{{ prometheus_user }}"
     group: "{{ prometheus_group }}"
     mode: 0644
+    delimiter: '\n### START FRAGMENT ###'
     validate: "{{ prometheus_bin_dir }}/promtool check-config %s"
   notify:
     - reload prometheus
diff --git a/templates/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml.j2 b/templates/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml.j2
index 40c1000..692f648 100644
--- a/templates/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml.j2
+++ b/templates/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml.j2
@@ -13,9 +13,3 @@ rule_files:
 
 # A list of scrape configurations.
 scrape_configs:
-
-  - job_name: 'prometheus'
-    scrape_interval: {{ prometheus_self_scrape_interval }}
-    scrape_timeout:  {{ prometheus_self_evaluation_interval }}
-    static_configs:
-      - targets: ['localhost:9090']