diff --git a/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_rabbitmq_consumers b/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_rabbitmq_consumers
deleted file mode 100755
index 5e4e1fff4b..0000000000
--- a/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_rabbitmq_consumers
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-"""
-Nagios plugin to check that the RabbitMQ has the correct number of consumers.
-
-This script just checks the contents of /var/lib/nagios_state/check-rabbitmq-consumers,
-which is generated by scripts/nagios/check-rabbitmq-consumers.
-
-It is run by cron and can be found at puppet/zulip/files/cron.d/rabbitmq-monitoring
-"""
-import sys
-
-sys.path.append("/home/zulip/deployments/current/scripts/nagios")
-from cron_file_helper import nagios_from_file
-
-if len(sys.argv) < 2:
-    print("Please pass the name of the consumer file to check")
-    exit(1)
-
-RESULTS_FILE = f"/var/lib/nagios_state/check-rabbitmq-consumers-{sys.argv[1]}"
-
-ret, result = nagios_from_file(RESULTS_FILE)
-
-print(result)
-exit(ret)
diff --git a/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_rabbitmq_queues b/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_rabbitmq_queues
deleted file mode 100755
index 8e85d851a2..0000000000
--- a/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_rabbitmq_queues
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-"""
-Nagios plugin to check that the RabbitMQ queues are not overflowing as a result
-of a stuck consumer.
-
-This script just checks the contents of /var/lib/nagios_state/check-rabbitmq-results,
-which is generated by scripts/nagios/check-rabbitmq-queue.
-
-It is run by cron; the crontab is in puppet/zulip/files/cron.d/rabbitmq-monitoring
-"""
-import sys
-
-sys.path.append("/home/zulip/deployments/current/scripts/nagios")
-from cron_file_helper import nagios_from_file
-
-RESULTS_FILE = "/var/lib/nagios_state/check-rabbitmq-results"
-ret, result = nagios_from_file(RESULTS_FILE)
-
-print(result)
-exit(ret)
diff --git a/puppet/zulip_ops/files/nagios4/commands.cfg b/puppet/zulip_ops/files/nagios4/commands.cfg
index c383fbdaf9..d41f013307 100644
--- a/puppet/zulip_ops/files/nagios4/commands.cfg
+++ b/puppet/zulip_ops/files/nagios4/commands.cfg
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ define command{
 
 define command{
         command_name    check_rabbitmq_queues
-        command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -p $ARG1$ -l nagios -t 30 -i /var/lib/nagios/.ssh/id_ed25519 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_rabbitmq_queues'
+        command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -p $ARG1$ -l nagios -t 30 -i /var/lib/nagios/.ssh/id_ed25519 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_cron_file /var/lib/nagios_state/check-rabbitmq-results'
 }
 
 define command{
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ define command{
 
 define command{
         command_name    check_rabbitmq_consumers
-        command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -p 22 -l nagios -t 30 -i /var/lib/nagios/.ssh/id_ed25519 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_rabbitmq_consumers $ARG1$'
+        command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -p 22 -l nagios -t 30 -i /var/lib/nagios/.ssh/id_ed25519 -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_cron_file /var/lib/nagios_state/check-rabbitmq-consumers-$ARG1$'
 }
 
 define command{
diff --git a/scripts/nagios/cron_file_helper.py b/scripts/nagios/cron_file_helper.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f0f4caf0f..0000000000
--- a/scripts/nagios/cron_file_helper.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-import time
-from typing import Tuple
-
-
-def nagios_from_file(results_file: str) -> Tuple[int, str]:
-    """Returns a nagios-appropriate string and return code obtained by
-    parsing the desired file on disk. The file on disk should be of format
-
-    %s|%s % (timestamp, nagios_string)
-
-    This file is created by various nagios checking cron jobs such as
-    check-rabbitmq-queues and check-rabbitmq-consumers"""
-
-    try:
-        with open(results_file) as f:
-            data = f.read().strip()
-    except FileNotFoundError:
-        state = "UNKNOWN"
-        ret = 3
-        data = "Results file is missing"
-    else:
-        pieces = data.split("|")
-
-        if not len(pieces) == 4:
-            state = "UNKNOWN"
-            ret = 3
-            data = "Results file malformed"
-        else:
-            timestamp = int(pieces[0])
-
-            time_diff = time.time() - timestamp
-            if time_diff > 60 * 2:
-                ret = 3
-                state = "UNKNOWN"
-                data = "Results file is stale"
-            else:
-                ret = int(pieces[1])
-                state = pieces[2]
-                data = pieces[3]
-
-    return (ret, f"{state}: {data}")
diff --git a/tools/ci/production-verify b/tools/ci/production-verify
index 389e8ed715..c2076575d7 100755
--- a/tools/ci/production-verify
+++ b/tools/ci/production-verify
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ echo
 # Then, compute the list of all Django queue workers to run Nagios checks against
 consumer_list=$(/home/zulip/deployments/current/scripts/lib/queue_workers.py --queue-type=consumer)
 for consumer in $consumer_list; do
-    if ! /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_rabbitmq_consumers "$consumer"; then
+    if ! /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_cron_file "/var/lib/nagios_state/check-rabbitmq-consumers-$consumer"; then
         set +x
         echo
         echo "FAILURE: Missing Nagios consumer for $consumer; displaying full consumer output:"