diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/logging/syslog-ng.nix b/nixos/modules/services/logging/syslog-ng.nix
index 0a57bf20bd07..1c11de51f2c7 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/logging/syslog-ng.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/logging/syslog-ng.nix
@@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ in {
       extraModulePaths = mkOption {
         type = types.listOf types.str;
         default = [];
-        example = literalExpression ''
-          [ "''${pkgs.syslogng_incubator}/lib/syslog-ng" ]
-        '';
         description = ''
           A list of paths that should be included in syslog-ng's
           <literal>--module-path</literal> option. They should usually
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/syslog-ng-incubator/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/syslog-ng-incubator/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index affb4bca6cec..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/syslog-ng-incubator/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkg-config, glib, syslogng
-, eventlog, perl, python2, bison, protobufc, libivykis, libcap, czmq
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "syslog-ng-incubator";
-  version = "0.6.2";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "balabit";
-    repo = "syslog-ng-incubator";
-    rev = "${pname}-${version}";
-    sha256 = "17y85cqcyfbp882gaii731cvz5bg1s8rgda271jh6kgnrz5rbd4s";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config autoreconfHook bison ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    glib syslogng eventlog perl python2 protobufc libivykis libcap czmq
-  ];
-
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--with-module-dir=$(out)/lib/syslog-ng"
-  ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator";
-    description = "A collection of tools and modules for syslog-ng";
-    license = licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = [];
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    broken = true; # 2018-05-12
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 7b3a4c78a42f..f4fd341c76d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4267,8 +4267,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   syslogng = callPackage ../tools/system/syslog-ng { };
 
-  syslogng_incubator = callPackage ../tools/system/syslog-ng-incubator { };
-
   svt-av1 = callPackage ../tools/video/svt-av1 { };
 
   inherit (callPackages ../servers/rainloop { })