diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/node_exporter/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/node_exporter/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 2aff12a42a4b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/node_exporter/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, goPackages, fetchFromGitHub }:
-
-with goPackages;
-
-let self = buildGoPackage rec {
-  name = "prometheus-node-exporter-${rev}";
-  rev = "0.10.0";
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/prometheus/node_exporter";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "prometheus";
-    repo = "node_exporter";
-    inherit rev;
-    sha256 = "0dmczav52v9vi0kxl8gd2s7x7c94g0vzazhyvlq1h3729is2nf0p";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    go-runit
-    ntp
-    prometheus.client_golang
-    prometheus.client_model
-    prometheus.log
-    protobuf
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Prometheus exporter for machine metrics";
-    homepage = https://github.com/prometheus/node_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 9a623ecb45a2..11067e8ed35a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9205,9 +9205,8 @@ let
   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-node-exporter = goPackages.prometheus.node-exporter.bin;
 
-  prometheus-node-exporter =
-    callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/node_exporter { };
   prometheus-pushgateway =
     callPackage ../servers/monitoring/prometheus/pushgateway { };
   prometheus-statsd-bridge =
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
index 508862007320..3a70e93db323 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/go-packages.nix
@@ -2121,6 +2121,30 @@ let
     };
   };
 
+  prometheus.node-exporter = buildFromGitHub {
+    rev = "0.10.0";
+    owner = "prometheus";
+    repo = "node_exporter";
+    sha256 = "0dmczav52v9vi0kxl8gd2s7x7c94g0vzazhyvlq1h3729is2nf0p";
+
+    buildInputs = [
+      go-runit
+      ntp
+      prometheus.client_golang
+      prometheus.client_model
+      prometheus.log
+      protobuf
+    ];
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      description = "Prometheus exporter for machine metrics";
+      homepage = https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter;
+      license = licenses.asl20;
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ benley ];
+      platforms = platforms.unix;
+    };
+  };
+
   prometheus.procfs = buildFromGitHub {
     rev    = "c91d8eefde16bd047416409eb56353ea84a186e4";
     date   = "2015-06-16";