diff --git a/glicid/packages/monitoring.scm b/glicid/packages/monitoring.scm
index b6c503d..c2d1f9b 100644
--- a/glicid/packages/monitoring.scm
+++ b/glicid/packages/monitoring.scm
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
                      (method url-fetch)
                      (uri (string-append "https://cdn.zabbix.com/zabbix/sources/stable/" (version-major+minor version) "/zabbix-" version ".tar.gz"))
                      (sha256 (base32 %zabbix-hash))
-                     (patches (search-patches "glicid/packages/patches/glicid-zabbix-timescaledb-2.17.patch"))
+;; YD upstream now able to cope with 2.17 timescaledb
+;;                     (patches (search-patches "glicid/packages/patches/glicid-zabbix-timescaledb-2.17.patch"))
+;; 
                      (modules '((guix build utils)))
                      (snippet
                        '(substitute* '("src/zabbix_proxy/proxy.c" "src/zabbix_server/server.c")
diff --git a/glicid/packages/patches/glicid-zabbix-timescaledb-2.17.patch b/glicid/packages/patches/glicid-zabbix-timescaledb-2.17.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 09071ee..0000000
--- a/glicid/packages/patches/glicid-zabbix-timescaledb-2.17.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/include/zbx_dbversion_constants.h b/include/zbx_dbversion_constants.h
-index 9cfb80f..35145ae 100644
---- a/include/zbx_dbversion_constants.h
-+++ b/include/zbx_dbversion_constants.h
-@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@
- #define ZBX_TIMESCALE_MIN_SUPPORTED_VERSION 			20001
- #define ZBX_TIMESCALE_MIN_SUPPORTED_VERSION_STR 		"2.0.1"
- #define ZBX_TIMESCALE_MIN_VERSION_WITH_LICENSE_PARAM_SUPPORT	20000
--#define ZBX_TIMESCALE_MAX_VERSION				21699
--#define ZBX_TIMESCALE_MAX_VERSION_STR				"2.16"
-+#define ZBX_TIMESCALE_MAX_VERSION				21799
-+#define ZBX_TIMESCALE_MAX_VERSION_STR				"2.17"
- #define ZBX_TIMESCALE_LICENSE_APACHE				"apache"
- #define ZBX_TIMESCALE_LICENSE_APACHE_STR			"TimescaleDB Apache 2 Edition"
- #define ZBX_TIMESCALE_LICENSE_COMMUNITY				"timescale"