diff --git a/public/app/features/folders/state/navModel.ts b/public/app/features/folders/state/navModel.ts
index 49a5167652f..dd53189785e 100644
--- a/public/app/features/folders/state/navModel.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/folders/state/navModel.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { t } from '@grafana/i18n';
 import { config } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/services/context_srv';
 import { getNavSubTitle } from 'app/core/utils/navBarItem-translations';
+import { ManagerKind } from 'app/features/apiserver/types';
 import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types/accessControl';
 import { FolderDTO, FolderParent } from 'app/types/folders';
 
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ export const getSettingsTabID = (folderUID: string) => `folder-settings-${folder
 
 export function buildNavModel(folder: FolderDTO | FolderParent, parentsArg?: FolderParent[]): NavModelItem {
   const parents = parentsArg ?? ('parents' in folder ? folder.parents : undefined);
+  const isProvisioned = 'managedBy' in folder ? folder.managedBy === ManagerKind.Repo : false;
 
   const model: NavModelItem = {
     icon: 'folder',
@@ -40,13 +42,15 @@ export function buildNavModel(folder: FolderDTO | FolderParent, parentsArg?: Fol
     model.parentItem = buildNavModel(parent, remainingParents);
   }
 
-  model.children!.push({
-    active: false,
-    icon: 'library-panel',
-    id: getLibraryPanelsTabID(folder.uid),
-    text: t('browse-dashboards.manage-folder-nav.panels', 'Panels'),
-    url: `${folder.url}/library-panels`,
-  });
+  if (!isProvisioned) {
+    model.children!.push({
+      active: false,
+      icon: 'library-panel',
+      id: getLibraryPanelsTabID(folder.uid),
+      text: t('browse-dashboards.manage-folder-nav.panels', 'Panels'),
+      url: `${folder.url}/library-panels`,
+    });
+  }
 
   if (contextSrv.hasPermission(AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleRead) && config.unifiedAlertingEnabled) {
     model.children!.push({