diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleListErrors.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleListErrors.tsx
index 4a731bfd4b3..e760c2b28a2 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleListErrors.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleListErrors.tsx
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ export function RuleListErrors(): ReactElement {
         </>
       );
     }
-    if (true) {
+    if (grafanaRulerError) {
       result.push(
         <>
           <Trans i18nKey="alerting.rule-list-errors.failed-to-load-grafana-rules-config">