diff --git a/charts/infra-apps/Chart.yaml b/charts/infra-apps/Chart.yaml
index bb410914a..bb907754e 100644
--- a/charts/infra-apps/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/infra-apps/Chart.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: v2
 name: infra-apps
 description: Argo CD app-of-apps config for infrastructure components
 type: application
-version: 0.227.0
+version: 0.228.0
 home: https://github.com/adfinis/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/infra-apps
 sources:
   - https://github.com/adfinis/helm-charts
@@ -18,25 +18,4 @@ annotations:
   artifacthub.io/containsSecurityUpdates: "false"
   artifacthub.io/changes: |
     - kind: changed
-      description: "chore: Update velero chart from 6.7.0 to 8.1.0 (app version 1.13.2 -> 1.15.0)"
-      links:
-        - name: "Bump Velero to 1.15.0 (Upgrade Guide)"
-          url: "https://velero.io/docs/v1.15/upgrade-to-1.15/"
-        - name: "Bump Velero to 1.15.0 (Changelog)"
-          url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/tag/v1.15.0
-        - name: "feat: add extraArgs to Velero node agent configuration"
-          url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/commit/5e02307abf51850be91eb77f1f39ad9fb10cd603
-        - name: "fix: fix imagePullSecrets to velero server serviceaccount"
-          url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/commit/fb5a08a6f0fcb6078c89656a09fbb88e9776644a
-        - name: "feat: Adds resources and limits for repository maintenance job"
-          url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/commit/42fed361e1482c85a28c1da32ad72e6b2e03635b
-        - name: "feat: Adds --keep-latest-jobs-count for repository maintenance job"
-          url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/commit/721abcba0b378a2b2695b79d056be68c903a81f1
-        - name: "fix: maintenance Job resource requests"
-          url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/commit/88ecfa4609678199ea1265c1d89c7b17d3b645d7
-        - name: "fix: render schedule annotations only if present in values"
-          url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/commit/47b2f729b9ebe38508ecc046560da01922546df6
-        - name: "fix: add version label to deployment"
-          url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/commit/bbb36ccf357d6baf7f13accbc0b169e6efceb3d4
-        - name: "feat: allow configuring updateStrategy of node-agent DaemonSet"
-          url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/helm-charts/commit/e4e793b1d57579a5a71862ebd3ac9fcf822e85aa
+      description: "Fail installations of deprecated kube-event-exporter"
diff --git a/charts/infra-apps/README.md b/charts/infra-apps/README.md
index b423df2ce..5398bd4f8 100644
--- a/charts/infra-apps/README.md
+++ b/charts/infra-apps/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # infra-apps
 
-![Version: 0.227.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-0.227.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square)
+![Version: 0.228.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-0.228.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![Type: application](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-application-informational?style=flat-square)
 
 Argo CD app-of-apps config for infrastructure components
 
diff --git a/charts/infra-apps/ci/default-values.yaml b/charts/infra-apps/ci/default-values.yaml
index 42b645620..8410da103 100644
--- a/charts/infra-apps/ci/default-values.yaml
+++ b/charts/infra-apps/ci/default-values.yaml
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@ rbacManager:
     TODO: add values in values.yaml
 kured:
   enabled: true
-kubeEventExporter:
-  enabled: true
 velero:
   enabled: true
 mimir:
diff --git a/charts/infra-apps/templates/kubernetes-event-exporter.yaml b/charts/infra-apps/templates/kubernetes-event-exporter.yaml
index e82e385fa..055f3d31e 100644
--- a/charts/infra-apps/templates/kubernetes-event-exporter.yaml
+++ b/charts/infra-apps/templates/kubernetes-event-exporter.yaml
@@ -1,37 +1,3 @@
 {{ if .Values.kubeEventExporter.enabled }}
-{{ template "argoconfig.application" (list . "infra-apps.kubeEventExporter") }}
+{{ fail "kube-event-exporter is DEPRECATED, use otel-collector instead" }}
 {{ end }}
-
-{{- define "infra-apps.kubeEventExporter" -}}{{- $app := unset .Values.kubeEventExporter "enabled" -}}{{- $name := default $app.namespace $app.name -}}
-metadata:
-  name: {{ template "common.fullname" . }}-{{ $name }}
-  {{- with $app.annotations }}
-  annotations:
-    {{ toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
-  {{- end }}
-spec:
-  {{- if $app.project }}
-  project: {{ $app.project | quote }}
-  {{- end }}
-  source:
-    repoURL: {{ $app.repoURL | quote }}
-    chart: {{ $app.chart | quote }}
-    targetRevision: {{ $app.targetRevision | quote }}
-    helm:
-      releaseName: {{ $name | quote }}
-      values: |-
-        nameOverride: {{ $name | quote }}
-        {{- $app.values | toYaml | nindent 8 }}
-  {{- if $app.destination }}
-  destination:
-    {{ $app.destination | toYaml | nindent 4 }}
-  {{- end }}
-  {{- if $app.syncPolicy }}
-  syncPolicy:
-    {{ $app.syncPolicy | toYaml | nindent 4 }}
-  {{- end }}
-  {{- if $app.ignoreDifferences }}
-  ignoreDifferences:
-    {{ $app.ignoreDifferences | toYaml | nindent 4 }}
-  {{- end }}
-{{- end -}}