diff --git a/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml b/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
index 267e4c83b5..5f27b6bf9d 100644
--- a/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
+++ b/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
@@ -26,7 +26,13 @@ commands:
   - name: postgres-exporter
     user: nobody
     sysvInitAction: respawn
-    shell: 'DATA_SOURCE_NAME="user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable dbname=postgres application_name=postgres-exporter pgaudit.log=none" /bin/postgres_exporter --config.file=/etc/postgres_exporter.yml'
+    # Turn off database collector (`--no-collector.database`), we don't use `pg_database_size_bytes` metric anyway, see
+    # https://github.com/neondatabase/flux-fleet/blob/5e19b3fd897667b70d9a7ad4aa06df0ca22b49ff/apps/base/compute-metrics/scrape-compute-pg-exporter-neon.yaml#L29
+    # but it's enabled by default and it doesn't filter out invalid databases, see
+    # https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/blob/06a553c8166512c9d9c5ccf257b0f9bba8751dbc/collector/pg_database.go#L67
+    # so if it hits one, it starts spamming logs
+    #   ERROR:  [NEON_SMGR] [reqid d9700000018] could not read db size of db 705302 from page server at lsn 5/A2457EB0
+    shell: 'DATA_SOURCE_NAME="user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable dbname=postgres application_name=postgres-exporter pgaudit.log=none" /bin/postgres_exporter --no-collector.database --config.file=/etc/postgres_exporter.yml'
   - name: pgbouncer-exporter
     user: postgres
     sysvInitAction: respawn
diff --git a/compute/vm-image-spec-bullseye.yaml b/compute/vm-image-spec-bullseye.yaml
index 2b6e77b656..cf26ace72a 100644
--- a/compute/vm-image-spec-bullseye.yaml
+++ b/compute/vm-image-spec-bullseye.yaml
@@ -26,7 +26,13 @@ commands:
   - name: postgres-exporter
     user: nobody
     sysvInitAction: respawn
-    shell: 'DATA_SOURCE_NAME="user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable dbname=postgres application_name=postgres-exporter pgaudit.log=none" /bin/postgres_exporter --config.file=/etc/postgres_exporter.yml'
+    # Turn off database collector (`--no-collector.database`), we don't use `pg_database_size_bytes` metric anyway, see
+    # https://github.com/neondatabase/flux-fleet/blob/5e19b3fd897667b70d9a7ad4aa06df0ca22b49ff/apps/base/compute-metrics/scrape-compute-pg-exporter-neon.yaml#L29
+    # but it's enabled by default and it doesn't filter out invalid databases, see
+    # https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/blob/06a553c8166512c9d9c5ccf257b0f9bba8751dbc/collector/pg_database.go#L67
+    # so if it hits one, it starts spamming logs
+    #   ERROR:  [NEON_SMGR] [reqid d9700000018] could not read db size of db 705302 from page server at lsn 5/A2457EB0
+    shell: 'DATA_SOURCE_NAME="user=cloud_admin sslmode=disable dbname=postgres application_name=postgres-exporter pgaudit.log=none" /bin/postgres_exporter --no-collector.database --config.file=/etc/postgres_exporter.yml'
   - name: pgbouncer-exporter
     user: postgres
     sysvInitAction: respawn