diff --git a/cli-tests/helpers/cliHelper.ts b/cli-tests/helpers/cliHelper.ts
index 28f29bb4..6dfe35f1 100644
--- a/cli-tests/helpers/cliHelper.ts
+++ b/cli-tests/helpers/cliHelper.ts
@@ -64,13 +64,6 @@ export class CliHelper {
     });
   }
 
-  async everestExecSkipWizardWithEnv(command, env: string) {
-    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-return
-    return test.step(`Run "${command}" command with env variables`, async () => {
-      return this.execute(`${env} ${this.pathToBinary} ${command} --skip-wizard`);
-    });
-  }
-
   /**
    * Silent Shell(sh) exec() wrapper to return handy {@link Output} object.
    * Provides no logs to skip huge outputs.
diff --git a/cli-tests/tests/flow/all-operators.spec.ts b/cli-tests/tests/flow/all-operators.spec.ts
index 4e5a5a15..d7a24475 100644
--- a/cli-tests/tests/flow/all-operators.spec.ts
+++ b/cli-tests/tests/flow/all-operators.spec.ts
@@ -71,27 +71,5 @@ test.describe('Everest CLI install operators', async () => {
       ]);
     });
     await verifyClusterResources();
-    await test.step('disable telemetry', async () => {
-      // check that the telemetry IS NOT disabled by default
-      let out = await cli.exec('kubectl get deployments/percona-xtradb-cluster-operator --namespace=percona-everest -o yaml');
-
-      await out.outContains(
-        'name: DISABLE_TELEMETRY\n          value: "false"',
-      );
-
-      out = await cli.everestExecSkipWizardWithEnv('install operators --backup.enable=0 --monitoring.enable=0 --name=aaa', 'DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true');
-      await out.assertSuccess();
-      await out.outErrContainsNormalizedMany([
-        'percona-xtradb-cluster-operator operator has been installed',
-        'percona-server-mongodb-operator operator has been installed',
-        'percona-postgresql-operator operator has been installed',
-        'everest-operator operator has been installed',
-      ]);
-      // check that the telemetry IS disabled
-      out = await cli.exec('kubectl get deployments/percona-xtradb-cluster-operator --namespace=percona-everest -o yaml');
-      await out.outContains(
-        'name: DISABLE_TELEMETRY\n          value: "true"',
-      );
-    });
   });
 });
diff --git a/pkg/kubernetes/client/client.go b/pkg/kubernetes/client/client.go
index 6a2c73ff..04ef19e6 100644
--- a/pkg/kubernetes/client/client.go
+++ b/pkg/kubernetes/client/client.go
@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ const (
 
 	defaultAPIURIPath  = "/api"
 	defaultAPIsURIPath = "/apis"
-
-	disableTelemetryEnvVar = "DISABLE_TELEMETRY"
 )
 
 // Each level has 2 spaces for PrefixWriter.
@@ -1070,11 +1068,6 @@ func (c *Client) CreateSubscriptionForCatalog(ctx context.Context, namespace, na
 		return nil, errors.Join(err, errors.New("cannot create an operator client instance"))
 	}
 
-	disableTelemetry, ok := os.LookupEnv(disableTelemetryEnvVar)
-	if !ok || disableTelemetry != "true" {
-		disableTelemetry = "false"
-	}
-
 	subscription := &v1alpha1.Subscription{
 		TypeMeta: metav1.TypeMeta{
 			Kind:       v1alpha1.SubscriptionKind,
@@ -1091,33 +1084,16 @@ func (c *Client) CreateSubscriptionForCatalog(ctx context.Context, namespace, na
 			Channel:                channel,
 			StartingCSV:            startingCSV,
 			InstallPlanApproval:    approval,
-			Config: &v1alpha1.SubscriptionConfig{
-				Env: []corev1.EnvVar{
-					{
-						Name:  disableTelemetryEnvVar,
-						Value: disableTelemetry,
-					},
-				},
-			},
 		},
 	}
+
 	sub, err := operatorClient.
 		OperatorsV1alpha1().
 		Subscriptions(namespace).
 		Create(ctx, subscription, metav1.CreateOptions{})
 	if err != nil {
 		if apierrors.IsAlreadyExists(err) {
-			bytes, err := json.Marshal(subscription)
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil, err
-			}
-
-			sub, err = operatorClient.
-				OperatorsV1alpha1().
-				Subscriptions(namespace).
-				Patch(ctx, name, types.MergePatchType, bytes, metav1.PatchOptions{})
-
-			return sub, err
+			return sub, nil
 		}
 		return sub, err
 	}