diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters.nix
index 1fd85c66f843..64de15f4a2fa 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters.nix
@@ -238,9 +238,6 @@ in
     services.prometheus.exporters.minio.minioAccessSecret = mkDefault config.services.minio.secretKey;
   })] ++ [(mkIf config.services.prometheus.exporters.rtl_433.enable {
     hardware.rtl-sdr.enable = mkDefault true;
-  })] ++ [(mkIf config.services.nginx.enable {
-    systemd.services.prometheus-nginx-exporter.after = [ "nginx.service" ];
-    systemd.services.prometheus-nginx-exporter.requires = [ "nginx.service" ];
   })] ++ [(mkIf config.services.postfix.enable {
     services.prometheus.exporters.postfix.group = mkDefault config.services.postfix.setgidGroup;
   })] ++ (mapAttrsToList (name: conf:
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/nginx.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/nginx.nix
index 56cddfc55b71..5ee8c346be1d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/nginx.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/nginx.nix
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ in
       '';
     };
   };
-  serviceOpts = {
+  serviceOpts = mkMerge ([{
     serviceConfig = {
       ExecStart = ''
         ${pkgs.prometheus-nginx-exporter}/bin/nginx-prometheus-exporter \
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ in
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
       '';
     };
-  };
+  }] ++ [(mkIf config.services.nginx.enable {
+    after = [ "nginx.service" ];
+    requires = [ "nginx.service" ];
+  })]);
   imports = [
     (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "telemetryEndpoint" ] [ "telemetryPath" ])
     (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "insecure" ] ''