diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/scollector.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/scollector.nix
index fbded746a5f..dc0899c7e68 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/scollector.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/scollector.nix
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ in {
       path = [ pkgs.coreutils pkgs.iproute ];
 
       serviceConfig = {
-        PermissionsStartOnly = true;
         User = cfg.user;
         Group = cfg.group;
         ExecStart = "${cfg.package.bin}/bin/scollector -conf=${conf} ${lib.concatStringsSep " " cfg.extraOpts}";