diff --git a/components/monitoring/controllers/base/rbac.yaml b/components/monitoring/controllers/base/rbac.yaml
index 973111f..9441a4c 100644
--- a/components/monitoring/controllers/base/rbac.yaml
+++ b/components/monitoring/controllers/base/rbac.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ metadata:
     app.kubernetes.io/component: monitoring
     toolkit.fluxcd.io/tenant: platform-team
   name: metrics-server-auth-reader
-  namespace: monitoring
+  namespace: kube-system
 roleRef:
   apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
   kind: Role