diff --git a/pkg/phases/monitoring/monitoring.go b/pkg/phases/monitoring/monitoring.go
index 400a13694..b4052735f 100644
--- a/pkg/phases/monitoring/monitoring.go
+++ b/pkg/phases/monitoring/monitoring.go
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ func Install(p *platform.Platform) error {
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	if p.Monitoring.DisableGrafana {
+		for i, v := range specs {
+			if v == "grafana-operator.yaml" {
+				specs = append(specs[:i], specs[i+1:]...)
+				break
+			}
+		}
+	}
 
 	if p.Monitoring.Karma.Version == "" {
 		p.Monitoring.Karma.Version = "v0.63"
diff --git a/pkg/types/types.go b/pkg/types/types.go
index 6703cc2e0..09d434773 100644
--- a/pkg/types/types.go
+++ b/pkg/types/types.go
@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ type Monitoring struct {
 	AlertManager            AlertManager  `yaml:"alertmanager,omitempty" json:"alertManager,omitempty"`
 	KubeStateMetrics        string        `yaml:"kubeStateMetrics,omitempty" json:"kubeStateMetrics,omitempty"`
 	DisableKubeStateMetrics Boolean       `yaml:"disableKubeStateMetrics,omitempty" json:"disableKubeStateMetrics,omitempty"`
+	DisableGrafana          Boolean       `yaml:"disableGrafana,omitempty" json:"disableGrafana,omitempty"`
 	KubeRbacProxy           string        `yaml:"kubeRbacProxy,omitempty" json:"kubeRbacProxy,omitempty"`
 	NodeExporter            string        `yaml:"nodeExporter,omitempty" json:"nodeExporter,omitempty"`
 	AddonResizer            string        `yaml:"addonResizer,omitempty" json:"addonResizer,omitempty"`