diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index 76c40c792..642cf45c8 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ linters-settings:
     packages-with-error-message:
       - sync/atomic: "Use go.uber.org/atomic instead of sync/atomic"
       - github.com/stretchr/testify/assert: "Use github.com/stretchr/testify/require instead of github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-      # Temporarily commenting until a solution for removing it from klog is found.
-      # - github.com/go-kit/kit/log: "Use github.com/go-kit/log instead of github.com/go-kit/kit/log"
+      - github.com/go-kit/kit/log: "Use github.com/go-kit/log instead of github.com/go-kit/kit/log"
   errcheck:
     exclude: scripts/errcheck_excludes.txt
diff --git a/cmd/prometheus/main.go b/cmd/prometheus/main.go
index 2e93976e8..94b63882c 100644
--- a/cmd/prometheus/main.go
+++ b/cmd/prometheus/main.go
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/alecthomas/units"
-	kitloglevel "github.com/go-kit/kit/log/level"
 	"github.com/go-kit/log"
 	"github.com/go-kit/log/level"
 	conntrack "github.com/mwitkow/go-conntrack"
@@ -420,27 +419,11 @@ func main() {
 	noStepSubqueryInterval := &safePromQLNoStepSubqueryInterval{}
 	noStepSubqueryInterval.Set(config.DefaultGlobalConfig.EvaluationInterval)
 
-	// FIXME: Temporary workaround until a proper solution is found. go-kit's
-	// level packages use private types to determine the level so we have to use
-	// the same level package as the underlying library.
-	var lvl kitloglevel.Option
-	switch cfg.promlogConfig.Level.String() {
-	case "debug":
-		lvl = kitloglevel.AllowDebug()
-	case "info":
-		lvl = kitloglevel.AllowInfo()
-	case "warn":
-		lvl = kitloglevel.AllowWarn()
-	case "error":
-		lvl = kitloglevel.AllowError()
-	}
-	kloglogger := kitloglevel.NewFilter(logger, lvl)
-
 	// Above level 6, the k8s client would log bearer tokens in clear-text.
 	klog.ClampLevel(6)
-	klog.SetLogger(log.With(kloglogger, "component", "k8s_client_runtime"))
+	klog.SetLogger(log.With(logger, "component", "k8s_client_runtime"))
 	klogv2.ClampLevel(6)
-	klogv2.SetLogger(log.With(kloglogger, "component", "k8s_client_runtime"))
+	klogv2.SetLogger(log.With(logger, "component", "k8s_client_runtime"))
 
 	level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Starting Prometheus", "version", version.Info())
 	if bits.UintSize < 64 {
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index e9925980f..498cc4872 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/edsrzf/mmap-go v1.0.0
 	github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane v0.9.9-0.20210217033140-668b12f5399d
 	github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate v0.1.0
-	github.com/go-kit/kit v0.10.0
 	github.com/go-kit/log v0.1.0
 	github.com/go-logfmt/logfmt v0.5.0
 	github.com/go-openapi/strfmt v0.20.1
@@ -80,7 +79,7 @@ require (
 
 replace (
 	k8s.io/klog => github.com/simonpasquier/klog-gokit v0.3.0
-	k8s.io/klog/v2 => github.com/simonpasquier/klog-gokit/v2 v2.1.0
+	k8s.io/klog/v2 => github.com/simonpasquier/klog-gokit/v3 v3.0.0
 )
 
 // Exclude linodego v1.0.0 as it is no longer published on github.
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index fd9bc1d3c..dc7d0db2a 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1145,8 +1145,8 @@ github.com/shurcooL/vfsgen v0.0.0-20200824052919-0d455de96546 h1:pXY9qYc/MP5zdvq
 github.com/shurcooL/vfsgen v0.0.0-20200824052919-0d455de96546/go.mod h1:TrYk7fJVaAttu97ZZKrO9UbRa8izdowaMIZcxYMbVaw=
 github.com/simonpasquier/klog-gokit v0.3.0 h1:TkFK21cbwDRS+CiystjqbAiq5ubJcVTk9hLUck5Ntcs=
 github.com/simonpasquier/klog-gokit v0.3.0/go.mod h1:+SUlDQNrhVtGt2FieaqNftzzk8P72zpWlACateWxA9k=
-github.com/simonpasquier/klog-gokit/v2 v2.1.0 h1:EaXk8kgWawwPbRZwaEiijU/lE2s6eD3MCwy5usW3Jgw=
-github.com/simonpasquier/klog-gokit/v2 v2.1.0/go.mod h1:VgeTFrwzYYcMH8edEfh3/ai2j/Yg8c/qIm1bkGkhuJg=
+github.com/simonpasquier/klog-gokit/v3 v3.0.0 h1:J0QrVhAULISHWN05PeXX/xMqJBjnpl2fAuO8uHdQGsA=
+github.com/simonpasquier/klog-gokit/v3 v3.0.0/go.mod h1:+WRhGy707Lp2Q4r727m9Oc7FxazOHgW76FIyCr23nus=
 github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.0.4-0.20170822132746-89742aefa4b2/go.mod h1:pMByvHTf9Beacp5x1UXfOR9xyW/9antXMhjMPG0dEzc=
 github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.0.6/go.mod h1:pMByvHTf9Beacp5x1UXfOR9xyW/9antXMhjMPG0dEzc=
 github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.2.0/go.mod h1:LxeOpSwHxABJmUn/MG1IvRgCAasNZTLOkJPxbbu5VWo=