diff --git a/.betterer.results b/.betterer.results
index 3b87f1e2d77..cbca000cd3b 100644
--- a/.betterer.results
+++ b/.betterer.results
@@ -6706,7 +6706,7 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "10"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "11"]
     ],
-    "public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.tsx:5381": [
+    "public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "0"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "1"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "2"],
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/configuration/PromSettings.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/configuration/PromSettings.tsx
index 4d0ce1931c8..ad4d2ba2d34 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/configuration/PromSettings.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/configuration/PromSettings.tsx
@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@ import { getBackendSrv } from '@grafana/runtime/src';
 import { InlineField, Input, Select, Switch, useTheme2 } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 import { useUpdateDatasource } from '../../../../features/datasources/state';
-import { PromApplication, PromBuildInfoResponse } from '../../../../types/unified-alerting-dto';
 import { QueryEditorMode } from '../querybuilder/shared/types';
 import { defaultPrometheusQueryOverlapWindow } from '../querycache/QueryCache';
-import { PrometheusCacheLevel, PromOptions } from '../types';
+import { PromApplication, PromBuildInfoResponse, PrometheusCacheLevel, PromOptions } from '../types';
 
 import { docsTip, overhaulStyles, PROM_CONFIG_LABEL_WIDTH, validateInput } from './ConfigEditor';
 import { ExemplarsSettings } from './ExemplarsSettings';
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts
similarity index 92%
rename from public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.tsx
rename to public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts
index e5ea02a88e9..5c684e2c310 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 import { cloneDeep, defaults } from 'lodash';
-import { LRUCache } from 'lru-cache';
-import React from 'react';
 import { forkJoin, lastValueFrom, merge, Observable, of, OperatorFunction, pipe, throwError } from 'rxjs';
 import { catchError, filter, map, tap } from 'rxjs/operators';
 import semver from 'semver/preload';
 
 import {
   AbstractQuery,
+  AdHocVariableFilter,
   AnnotationEvent,
   AnnotationQueryRequest,
   CoreApp,
@@ -14,20 +13,19 @@ import {
   DataQueryError,
   DataQueryRequest,
   DataQueryResponse,
+  DataSourceGetTagKeysOptions,
+  DataSourceGetTagValuesOptions,
   DataSourceInstanceSettings,
   DataSourceWithQueryExportSupport,
   DataSourceWithQueryImportSupport,
   dateTime,
   LoadingState,
+  MetricFindValue,
   QueryFixAction,
   rangeUtil,
+  renderLegendFormat,
   ScopedVars,
   TimeRange,
-  renderLegendFormat,
-  DataSourceGetTagKeysOptions,
-  DataSourceGetTagValuesOptions,
-  MetricFindValue,
-  AdHocVariableFilter,
 } from '@grafana/data';
 import {
   BackendDataSourceResponse,
@@ -39,12 +37,9 @@ import {
   isFetchError,
   toDataQueryResponse,
 } from '@grafana/runtime';
-import { Badge, BadgeColor, Tooltip } from '@grafana/ui';
 import { safeStringifyValue } from 'app/core/utils/explore';
-import { discoverDataSourceFeatures } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/api/buildInfo';
 import { getTimeSrv, TimeSrv } from 'app/features/dashboard/services/TimeSrv';
 import { getTemplateSrv, TemplateSrv } from 'app/features/templating/template_srv';
-import { PromApiFeatures, PromApplication } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { addLabelToQuery } from './add_label_to_query';
 import { AnnotationQueryEditor } from './components/AnnotationQueryEditor';
@@ -64,6 +59,7 @@ import { getOriginalMetricName, transform, transformV2 } from './result_transfor
 import { trackQuery } from './tracking';
 import {
   ExemplarTraceIdDestination,
+  PromApplication,
   PromDataErrorResponse,
   PromDataSuccessResponse,
   PrometheusCacheLevel,
@@ -95,7 +91,6 @@ export class PrometheusDatasource
   access: 'direct' | 'proxy';
   basicAuth: any;
   withCredentials: any;
-  metricsNameCache = new LRUCache<string, string[]>({ max: 10 });
   interval: string;
   queryTimeout: string | undefined;
   httpMethod: string;
@@ -108,8 +103,6 @@ export class PrometheusDatasource
   disableRecordingRules: boolean;
   defaultEditor?: QueryEditorMode;
   exemplarsAvailable: boolean;
-  subType: PromApplication;
-  rulerEnabled: boolean;
   cacheLevel: PrometheusCacheLevel;
   cache: QueryCache<PromQuery>;
 
@@ -122,8 +115,6 @@ export class PrometheusDatasource
     super(instanceSettings);
 
     this.type = 'prometheus';
-    this.subType = PromApplication.Prometheus;
-    this.rulerEnabled = false;
     this.id = instanceSettings.id;
     this.url = instanceSettings.url!;
     this.access = instanceSettings.access;
@@ -481,10 +472,6 @@ export class PrometheusDatasource
     return processedTargets;
   }
 
-  intepolateStringHelper = (query: PromQuery): string => {
-    return this.interpolateString(query.expr);
-  };
-
   query(request: DataQueryRequest<PromQuery>): Observable<DataQueryResponse> {
     if (this.access === 'proxy') {
       let fullOrPartialRequest: DataQueryRequest<PromQuery>;
@@ -1023,94 +1010,6 @@ export class PrometheusDatasource
     return result?.data?.data?.map((value: any) => ({ text: value })) ?? [];
   }
 
-  async getBuildInfo() {
-    try {
-      const buildInfo = await discoverDataSourceFeatures({ url: this.url, name: this.name, type: 'prometheus' });
-      return buildInfo;
-    } catch (error) {
-      // We don't want to break the rest of functionality if build info does not work correctly
-      return undefined;
-    }
-  }
-
-  getBuildInfoMessage(buildInfo: PromApiFeatures) {
-    const enabled = <Badge color="green" icon="check" text="Ruler API enabled" />;
-    const disabled = <Badge color="orange" icon="exclamation-triangle" text="Ruler API not enabled" />;
-    const unsupported = (
-      <Tooltip
-        placement="top"
-        content="Prometheus does not allow editing rules, connect to either a Mimir or Cortex datasource to manage alerts via Grafana."
-      >
-        <div>
-          <Badge color="red" icon="exclamation-triangle" text="Ruler API not supported" />
-        </div>
-      </Tooltip>
-    );
-
-    const LOGOS = {
-      [PromApplication.Cortex]: '/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/img/cortex_logo.svg',
-      [PromApplication.Mimir]: '/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/img/mimir_logo.svg',
-      [PromApplication.Prometheus]: '/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/img/prometheus_logo.svg',
-      [PromApplication.Thanos]: '/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/img/thanos_logo.svg',
-    };
-
-    const COLORS: Record<PromApplication, BadgeColor> = {
-      [PromApplication.Cortex]: 'blue',
-      [PromApplication.Mimir]: 'orange',
-      [PromApplication.Prometheus]: 'red',
-      [PromApplication.Thanos]: 'purple', // Purple hex taken from thanos.io
-    };
-
-    const AppDisplayNames: Record<PromApplication, string> = {
-      [PromApplication.Cortex]: 'Cortex',
-      [PromApplication.Mimir]: 'Mimir',
-      [PromApplication.Prometheus]: 'Prometheus',
-      [PromApplication.Thanos]: 'Thanos',
-    };
-
-    const application = this.datasourceConfigurationPrometheusFlavor ?? buildInfo.application;
-
-    // this will inform the user about what "subtype" the datasource is; Mimir, Cortex or vanilla Prometheus
-    const applicationSubType = (
-      <Badge
-        text={
-          <span>
-            <img
-              style={{ width: 14, height: 14, verticalAlign: 'text-bottom' }}
-              src={LOGOS[application ?? PromApplication.Prometheus]}
-              alt=""
-            />{' '}
-            {application ? AppDisplayNames[application] : 'Unknown'}
-          </span>
-        }
-        color={COLORS[application ?? PromApplication.Prometheus]}
-      />
-    );
-
-    return (
-      <div
-        style={{
-          display: 'grid',
-          gridTemplateColumns: 'max-content max-content',
-          rowGap: '0.5rem',
-          columnGap: '2rem',
-          marginTop: '1rem',
-        }}
-      >
-        <div>Type</div>
-        <div>{applicationSubType}</div>
-        <>
-          <div>Ruler API</div>
-          {/* Prometheus does not have a Ruler API – so show that it is not supported */}
-          {buildInfo.application === PromApplication.Prometheus && <div>{unsupported}</div>}
-          {buildInfo.application !== PromApplication.Prometheus && (
-            <div>{buildInfo.features.rulerApiEnabled ? enabled : disabled}</div>
-          )}
-        </>
-      </div>
-    );
-  }
-
   interpolateVariablesInQueries(
     queries: PromQuery[],
     scopedVars: ScopedVars,
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/metric_find_query.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/metric_find_query.test.ts
index 2acf59a6228..8e23307f1b3 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/metric_find_query.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/metric_find_query.test.ts
@@ -6,11 +6,9 @@ import { FetchResponse } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { backendSrv } from 'app/core/services/backend_srv'; // will use the version in __mocks__
 import { TemplateSrv } from 'app/features/templating/template_srv';
 
-import { PromApplication } from '../../../types/unified-alerting-dto';
-
 import { PrometheusDatasource } from './datasource';
 import PrometheusMetricFindQuery from './metric_find_query';
-import { PromOptions } from './types';
+import { PromApplication, PromOptions } from './types';
 
 jest.mock('@grafana/runtime', () => ({
   ...jest.requireActual('@grafana/runtime'),
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/querybuilder/components/PromQueryBuilder.test.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/querybuilder/components/PromQueryBuilder.test.tsx
index 7a04f3224dc..3e3b148cd32 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/querybuilder/components/PromQueryBuilder.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/querybuilder/components/PromQueryBuilder.test.tsx
@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ import {
   TimeRange,
 } from '@grafana/data';
 
-import { PromApplication } from '../../../../../types/unified-alerting-dto';
 import { PrometheusDatasource } from '../../datasource';
 import PromQlLanguageProvider from '../../language_provider';
 import { EmptyLanguageProviderMock } from '../../language_provider.mock';
-import { PromOptions } from '../../types';
+import { PromApplication, PromOptions } from '../../types';
 import { getLabelSelects } from '../testUtils';
 import { PromVisualQuery } from '../types';
 
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/types.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/types.ts
index 5c5c4a6ac40..2f0e26f9a97 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/types.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/types.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 import { DataSourceJsonData, QueryResultMeta, ScopedVars } from '@grafana/data';
 import { DataQuery } from '@grafana/schema';
 
-import { PromApplication } from '../../../types/unified-alerting-dto';
-
 import { Prometheus as GenPromQuery } from './dataquery.gen';
 import { QueryBuilderLabelFilter, QueryEditorMode } from './querybuilder/shared/types';
 
@@ -30,6 +28,13 @@ export enum PrometheusCacheLevel {
   None = 'None',
 }
 
+export enum PromApplication {
+  Cortex = 'Cortex',
+  Mimir = 'Mimir',
+  Prometheus = 'Prometheus',
+  Thanos = 'Thanos',
+}
+
 export interface PromOptions extends DataSourceJsonData {
   timeInterval?: string;
   queryTimeout?: string;
@@ -159,12 +164,20 @@ export interface TransformOptions {
   meta: QueryResultMeta;
 }
 
-export interface PromLabelQueryResponse {
+export interface PromBuildInfoResponse {
   data: {
-    status: string;
-    data: string[];
+    application?: string;
+    version: string;
+    revision: string;
+    features?: {
+      ruler_config_api?: 'true' | 'false';
+      alertmanager_config_api?: 'true' | 'false';
+      query_sharding?: 'true' | 'false';
+      federated_rules?: 'true' | 'false';
+    };
+    [key: string]: unknown;
   };
-  cancelled?: boolean;
+  status: 'success';
 }
 
 /**