diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/tor-exporter.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/tor-exporter.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 82983c1e0598..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/tor-exporter.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, python3Packages, nixosTests }:
-
-python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
-  pname = "tor-exporter";
-  version = "0.4";
-
-  # Just a single .py file to use as the application's main entry point.
-  format = "other";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    owner = "atx";
-    repo = "prometheus-tor_exporter";
-    sha256 = "1gzf42z0cgdqijbi9cwpjkqzkvnabaxkkfa5ac5h27r3pxx3q4n0";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ prometheus-client stem retrying ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/share/
-    cp prometheus-tor-exporter.py $out/share/
-  '';
-
-  fixupPhase = ''
-    makeWrapper "${python3Packages.python.interpreter}" "$out/bin/prometheus-tor-exporter" \
-          --set PYTHONPATH "$PYTHONPATH" \
-          --add-flags "$out/share/prometheus-tor-exporter.py"
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Prometheus exporter that exposes metrics from a Tor daemon";
-    mainProgram = "prometheus-tor-exporter";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/atx/prometheus-tor_exporter";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ Scrumplex ];
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index ac1e02b3ce72..64aeb521b9be 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -962,6 +962,7 @@ mapAliases {
   prometheus-dovecot-exporter = dovecot_exporter; # Added 2024-06-10
   prometheus-openldap-exporter = throw "'prometheus-openldap-exporter' has been removed from nixpkgs, as it was unmaintained"; # Added 2024-09-01
   prometheus-minio-exporter = throw "'prometheus-minio-exporter' has been removed from nixpkgs, use Minio's built-in Prometheus integration instead"; # Added 2024-06-10
+  prometheus-tor-exporter = throw "'prometheus-tor-exporter' has been removed from nixpkgs, as it was broken and unmaintained"; # Added 2024-10-30
   protobuf3_24 = protobuf_24;
   protobuf3_23 = protobuf_23;
   protobuf3_21 = protobuf_21;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 92bc0ac82acb..efe8f7a1be31 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -24877,7 +24877,6 @@ with pkgs;
   prometheus-surfboard-exporter = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/surfboard-exporter.nix { };
   prometheus-sql-exporter = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/sql-exporter.nix { };
   prometheus-systemd-exporter = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/systemd-exporter.nix { };
-  prometheus-tor-exporter = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/tor-exporter.nix { };
   prometheus-unbound-exporter = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/unbound-exporter.nix { };
   prometheus-v2ray-exporter = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/v2ray-exporter.nix { };
   prometheus-varnish-exporter = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/varnish-exporter.nix { };