diff --git a/Documentation/api.md b/Documentation/api.md
index 5e198385a53..bae9ca1cdfe 100644
--- a/Documentation/api.md
+++ b/Documentation/api.md
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ PrometheusSpec is a specification of the desired behavior of the Prometheus clus
 | podMetadata | Standard object’s metadata. More info: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/api-conventions.md#metadata Metadata Labels and Annotations gets propagated to the prometheus pods. | *[metav1.ObjectMeta](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.11/#objectmeta-v1-meta) | false |
 | serviceMonitorSelector | ServiceMonitors to be selected for target discovery. | *[metav1.LabelSelector](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.11/#labelselector-v1-meta) | false |
 | serviceMonitorNamespaceSelector | Namespaces to be selected for ServiceMonitor discovery. If nil, only check own namespace. | *[metav1.LabelSelector](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.11/#labelselector-v1-meta) | false |
-| podMonitorSelector | PodMonitors to be selected for target discovery. | *[metav1.LabelSelector](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.11/#labelselector-v1-meta) | false |
+| podMonitorSelector | *Experimental* PodMonitors to be selected for target discovery. | *[metav1.LabelSelector](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.11/#labelselector-v1-meta) | false |
 | podMonitorNamespaceSelector | Namespaces to be selected for PodMonitor discovery. If nil, only check own namespace. | *[metav1.LabelSelector](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.11/#labelselector-v1-meta) | false |
 | version | Version of Prometheus to be deployed. | string | false |
 | tag | Tag of Prometheus container image to be deployed. Defaults to the value of `version`. Version is ignored if Tag is set. | string | false |
diff --git a/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1/types.go b/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1/types.go
index aca738ea930..090e5df0c62 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1/types.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/monitoring/v1/types.go
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ type PrometheusSpec struct {
 	// Namespaces to be selected for ServiceMonitor discovery. If nil, only
 	// check own namespace.
 	ServiceMonitorNamespaceSelector *metav1.LabelSelector `json:"serviceMonitorNamespaceSelector,omitempty"`
-	// PodMonitors to be selected for target discovery.
+	// *Experimental* PodMonitors to be selected for target discovery.
 	PodMonitorSelector *metav1.LabelSelector `json:"podMonitorSelector,omitempty"`
 	// Namespaces to be selected for PodMonitor discovery. If nil, only
 	// check own namespace.
diff --git a/pkg/prometheus/promcfg.go b/pkg/prometheus/promcfg.go
index 910347fb88e..ef9759567a6 100644
--- a/pkg/prometheus/promcfg.go
+++ b/pkg/prometheus/promcfg.go
@@ -443,10 +443,6 @@ func (cg *configGenerator) generatePodMonitorConfig(version semver.Version, m *v
 
 	// Relabel namespace and pod and service labels into proper labels.
 	relabelings = append(relabelings, []yaml.MapSlice{
-		{
-			{Key: "source_labels", Value: []string{"__meta_kubernetes_pod_node_name"}},
-			{Key: "target_label", Value: "node"},
-		},
 		{
 			{Key: "source_labels", Value: []string{"__meta_kubernetes_namespace"}},
 			{Key: "target_label", Value: "namespace"},
@@ -459,14 +455,6 @@ func (cg *configGenerator) generatePodMonitorConfig(version semver.Version, m *v
 			{Key: "source_labels", Value: []string{"__meta_kubernetes_pod_name"}},
 			{Key: "target_label", Value: "pod"},
 		},
-		{
-			{Key: "source_labels", Value: []string{"__meta_kubernetes_pod_phase"}},
-			{Key: "target_label", Value: "pod_phase"},
-		},
-		{
-			{Key: "source_labels", Value: []string{"__meta_kubernetes_pod_ready"}},
-			{Key: "target_label", Value: "pod_ready"},
-		},
 	}...)
 
 	// Relabel targetLabels from Pod onto target.