diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 7ea8fd6b528..c3f826f9182 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -2990,8 +2990,8 @@ steps:
   - apt-get update && apt-get install -yq gettext
   - printenv GCP_KEY | base64 -d > /tmp/key.json
   - gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=/tmp/key.json
-  - '! ./scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh ${DRONE_TAG} | xargs -n1 gsutil stat |
-    grep "No URLs matched"'
+  - ./scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh ${DRONE_TAG} | xargs -n1 gsutil stat >> /tmp/stat.log
+  - '! cat /tmp/stat.log | grep "No URLs matched"'
   depends_on:
   - clone
   environment:
@@ -2999,6 +2999,7 @@ steps:
       from_secret: prerelease_bucket
     GCP_KEY:
       from_secret: gcp_key
+  failure: ignore
   image: google/cloud-sdk:431.0.0
   name: gsutil-stat
 trigger:
@@ -3263,14 +3264,15 @@ steps:
   - apt-get update && apt-get install -yq gettext
   - printenv GCP_KEY | base64 -d > /tmp/key.json
   - gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=/tmp/key.json
-  - '! ./scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh ${DRONE_TAG} | xargs -n1 gsutil stat |
-    grep "No URLs matched"'
+  - ./scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh ${DRONE_TAG} | xargs -n1 gsutil stat >> /tmp/stat.log
+  - '! cat /tmp/stat.log | grep "No URLs matched"'
   depends_on:
   - clone
   environment:
     BUCKET: grafana-prerelease-dev
     GCP_KEY:
       from_secret: gcp_key
+  failure: ignore
   image: google/cloud-sdk:431.0.0
   name: gsutil-stat
 trigger:
@@ -4487,6 +4489,6 @@ kind: secret
 name: github_token
 ---
 kind: signature
-hmac: bb4911dfd695fb4686d69ad2217fa80db110f8ccf691634470100b0c3bbbaf6d
+hmac: f6b35e423df93c4cbe13528ef3e8994259c66016dddf2a4d7873837e51011585
 
 ...
diff --git a/scripts/drone/events/release.star b/scripts/drone/events/release.star
index 4c511f9a18f..f4539664598 100644
--- a/scripts/drone/events/release.star
+++ b/scripts/drone/events/release.star
@@ -455,8 +455,10 @@ def verify_release_pipeline(
             "apt-get update && apt-get install -yq gettext",
             "printenv GCP_KEY | base64 -d > /tmp/key.json",
             "gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=/tmp/key.json",
-            "! ./scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh {} | xargs -n1 gsutil stat | grep \"No URLs matched\"".format(version),
+            "./scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh {} | xargs -n1 gsutil stat >> /tmp/stat.log".format(version),
+            "! cat /tmp/stat.log | grep \"No URLs matched\"",
         ],
+        "failure": "ignore",
     }
     return pipeline(
         depends_on = depends_on,
diff --git a/scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh b/scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh
index beaafb35ef2..0deee90c935 100755
--- a/scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh
+++ b/scripts/list-release-artifacts.sh
@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ VERSION="${1:-v9.5.2}"
 ERSION="${VERSION#*v}"
 ERSION_DEB="${ERSION//-/\~}"
 
+# Unused assets:
+# gs://${BUCKET}/artifacts/static-assets/grafana/${ERSION}/public/robots.txt
+# gs://${BUCKET}/artifacts/static-assets/grafana-oss/${ERSION}/public/robots.txt
+
 ASSETS=$(cat << EOF
-gs://${BUCKET}/artifacts/static-assets/grafana-oss/${ERSION}/public/robots.txt
 gs://${BUCKET}/artifacts/downloads/${VERSION}/oss/release/grafana-${ERSION_DEB}-1.aarch64.rpm
 gs://${BUCKET}/artifacts/downloads/${VERSION}/oss/release/grafana-${ERSION_DEB}-1.aarch64.rpm.sha256
 gs://${BUCKET}/artifacts/downloads/${VERSION}/oss/release/grafana-${ERSION_DEB}-1.armhfp.rpm