diff --git a/examples/alerting_example/server/alert_types/es_query.ts b/examples/alerting_example/server/alert_types/es_query.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index a25781482bb70..0000000000000
--- a/examples/alerting_example/server/alert_types/es_query.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,172 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
- * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright
- * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you under
- * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
- * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-import { AlertType } from '../../../../x-pack/plugins/alerting/server';
-import { IEsSearchResponse } from '../../../../src/plugins/data/common';
-
-export const alertType: AlertType = {
-  id: 'example.es-query',
-  name: 'ES Query',
-  actionGroups: [{ id: 'default', name: 'default' }],
-  defaultActionGroupId: 'default',
-  async executor({ services, params, state: { totalLastRun } }) {
-    const { strategy = EXAMPLE.serverStrategy, searchRequest = EXAMPLE } = params;
-
-    const res = (await services.search(searchRequest, {}, strategy)) as IEsSearchResponse;
-    const {
-      rawResponse: { hits: { total = 0, hits = [] } = {} },
-    } = res;
-
-    hits.map(hit => {
-      services
-        .alertInstanceFactory(hit._id)
-        .replaceState(hit)
-        .scheduleActions('default');
-    });
-
-    return {
-      totalLastRun: total,
-    };
-  },
-};
-
-const EXAMPLE = {
-  params: {
-    ignoreThrottled: true,
-    preference: 1586335820660,
-    index: 'kibana_sample_data_logs',
-    body: {
-      version: true,
-      size: 500,
-      sort: [
-        {
-          timestamp: {
-            order: 'desc',
-            unmapped_type: 'boolean',
-          },
-        },
-      ],
-      aggs: {
-        '2': {
-          date_histogram: {
-            field: 'timestamp',
-            fixed_interval: '30s',
-            time_zone: 'Europe/London',
-            min_doc_count: 1,
-          },
-        },
-      },
-      stored_fields: ['*'],
-      script_fields: {
-        hour_of_day: {
-          script: {
-            source: "doc['timestamp'].value.getHour()",
-            lang: 'painless',
-          },
-        },
-      },
-      docvalue_fields: [
-        {
-          field: '@timestamp',
-          format: 'date_time',
-        },
-        {
-          field: 'timestamp',
-          format: 'date_time',
-        },
-        {
-          field: 'utc_time',
-          format: 'date_time',
-        },
-      ],
-      _source: {
-        excludes: [],
-      },
-      query: {
-        bool: {
-          must: [],
-          filter: [
-            {
-              bool: {
-                should: [
-                  {
-                    bool: {
-                      should: [
-                        {
-                          match_phrase: {
-                            'geo.dest': 'CN',
-                          },
-                        },
-                      ],
-                      minimum_should_match: 1,
-                    },
-                  },
-                  {
-                    bool: {
-                      should: [
-                        {
-                          exists: {
-                            field: 'host',
-                          },
-                        },
-                      ],
-                      minimum_should_match: 1,
-                    },
-                  },
-                ],
-                minimum_should_match: 1,
-              },
-            },
-            {
-              range: {
-                timestamp: {
-                  gte: '2020-04-08T10:33:22.033Z',
-                  lte: '2020-04-08T10:48:22.033Z',
-                  format: 'strict_date_optional_time',
-                },
-              },
-            },
-          ],
-          should: [],
-          must_not: [
-            {
-              match_phrase: {
-                agent: 'gidi',
-              },
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-      },
-      highlight: {
-        pre_tags: ['@kibana-highlighted-field@'],
-        post_tags: ['@/kibana-highlighted-field@'],
-        fields: {
-          '*': {},
-        },
-        fragment_size: 2147483647,
-      },
-    },
-    rest_total_hits_as_int: true,
-    ignore_unavailable: true,
-    ignore_throttled: true,
-    timeout: '30000ms',
-  },
-  serverStrategy: 'es',
-  debug: true,
-};
diff --git a/examples/alerting_example/server/plugin.ts b/examples/alerting_example/server/plugin.ts
index 0732060343ad0..b5dabe51e8685 100644
--- a/examples/alerting_example/server/plugin.ts
+++ b/examples/alerting_example/server/plugin.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 import { Plugin, CoreSetup } from 'kibana/server';
 import { PluginSetupContract as AlertingSetup } from '../../../x-pack/plugins/alerting/server';
 
-import { alertType as esQueryAlert } from './alert_types/es_query';
 import { alertType as alwaysFiringAlert } from './alert_types/always_firing';
 import { alertType as peopleInSpaceAlert } from './alert_types/astros';
 
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ export class AlertingExamplePlugin implements Plugin<void, void, AlertingExample
   public setup(core: CoreSetup, { alerting }: AlertingExampleDeps) {
     alerting.registerType(alwaysFiringAlert);
     alerting.registerType(peopleInSpaceAlert);
-    alerting.registerType(esQueryAlert);
   }
 
   public start() {}