diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix
index 975c0922510..ed9c579d9c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ buildGoModule rec {
       --replace 'var version = "5.0.0"'  'var version = "${version}"'
   '';
 
+  # fixes build failure with go 1.15:
+  # main module (github.com/grafana/grafana) does not contain package github.com/grafana/grafana/scripts/go
+  preBuild = ''
+    rm -rf scripts/go
+  '';
+
   postInstall = ''
     tar -xvf $srcStatic
     mkdir -p $out/share/grafana
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f91e7880dbc..3050898aaf7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -16503,9 +16503,7 @@ in
 
   gofish = callPackage ../servers/gopher/gofish { };
 
-  grafana = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/grafana {
-    buildGoModule = buildGo114Module;
-  };
+  grafana = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/grafana { };
 
   grafana-loki = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/loki {
     buildGoPackage = buildGo114Package;