diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/nginx_exporter/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/nginx_exporter/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b716bdd17227..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/nginx_exporter/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, goPackages, fetchFromGitHub }:
-
-let self = goPackages.buildGoPackage rec {
-  name = "prometheus-nginx-exporter-${version}";
-  version = "git-2015-06-01";
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/discordianfish/nginx_exporter";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "discordianfish";
-    repo = "nginx_exporter";
-    rev = "2cf16441591f6b6e58a8c0439dcaf344057aea2b";
-    sha256 = "0p9j0bbr2lr734980x2p8d67lcify21glwc5k3i3j4ri4vadpxvc";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    goPackages.prometheus.client_golang
-    goPackages.prometheus.log
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Metrics relay from nginx stats to Prometheus";
-    homepage = https://github.com/discordianfish/nginx_exporter;
-    license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ benley ];
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-  };
-};
-
-in self.bin
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5a483fa24293..9a623ecb45a2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9204,9 +9204,8 @@ let
   prometheus-haproxy-exporter = goPackages.prometheus.haproxy-exporter.bin;
   prometheus-mesos-exporter = goPackages.prometheus.mesos-exporter.bin;
   prometheus-mysqld-exporter = goPackages.prometheus.mysqld-exporter.bin;
+  prometheus-nginx-exporter = goPackages.prometheus.nginx-exporter.bin;
 
-  prometheus-nginx-exporter =
-    callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/nginx_exporter { };
   prometheus-node-exporter =
     callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/node_exporter { };
   prometheus-pushgateway =
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
index 6dfa51921769..508862007320 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
@@ -2105,6 +2105,22 @@ let
     };
   };
 
+  prometheus.nginx-exporter = buildFromGitHub {
+    rev = "2cf16441591f6b6e58a8c0439dcaf344057aea2b";
+    date = "2015-06-01";
+    owner = "discordianfish";
+    repo = "nginx_exporter";
+    sha256 = "0p9j0bbr2lr734980x2p8d67lcify21glwc5k3i3j4ri4vadpxvc";
+    buildInputs = [ prometheus.client_golang prometheus.log ];
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      description = "Metrics relay from nginx stats to Prometheus";
+      homepage = https://github.com/discordianfish/nginx_exporter;
+      license = licenses.asl20;
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ benley ];
+      platforms = platforms.unix;
+    };
+  };
+
   prometheus.procfs = buildFromGitHub {
     rev    = "c91d8eefde16bd047416409eb56353ea84a186e4";
     date   = "2015-06-16";