diff --git a/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/app/externalsecret.yaml b/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/app/externalsecret.yaml
index b1441bb3b..028e43308 100644
--- a/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/app/externalsecret.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/app/externalsecret.yaml
@@ -87,3 +87,59 @@ spec:
   dataFrom:
     - extract:
         key: secrets/api-keys
+---
+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://kubernetes-schemas.pages.dev/external-secrets.io/externalsecret_v1beta1.json
+apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1beta1
+kind: ExternalSecret
+metadata:
+  name: qbittorrent-gatus-ep
+spec:
+  secretStoreRef:
+    kind: ClusterSecretStore
+    name: vault-backend
+  target:
+    name: qbittorrent-gatus-ep
+    template:
+      metadata:
+        labels:
+          gatus.io/enabled: "true"
+      engineVersion: v2
+      data:
+        config.yaml: |
+          endpoints:
+            - name: "qbittorrent-login"
+              group: guarded
+              url: "https://qbittorrent.${PUBLIC_DOMAIN}/api/v2/auth/login"
+              method: POST
+              body:
+                username: {{ .QBITTORRENT_USERNAME }}
+                password: {{ .QBITTORRENT_PASSWORD }}
+              interval: 5m
+              ui:
+                hide-hostname: true
+                hide-url: true
+              conditions:
+                - "[STATUS] == 200"
+              headers:
+                Content-Type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+              # Save cookies after login for further requests
+              save-cookies: true
+              cookie-name: qbittorrent_session_cookie
+
+            - name: "qbittorrent-version"
+              group: guarded
+              url: "https://qbittorrent.${PUBLIC_DOMAIN}/api/v2/app/version"
+              interval: 5m
+              ui:
+                hide-hostname: true
+                hide-url: true
+              conditions:
+                - "[STATUS] == 200"
+              alerts:
+                - type: pushover
+              headers:
+                Accept: application/json
+                Cookie: "qbt_session={{ .qbittorrent_session_cookie }}"
+  dataFrom:
+    - extract:
+        key: secrets/qbittorrent
diff --git a/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/app/kustomization.yaml b/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/app/kustomization.yaml
index 9446bee6c..f832c1883 100644
--- a/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/app/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/app/kustomization.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ resources:
   - ./externalsecret.yaml
   - ./helmrelease.yaml
   - ./volsync.yaml
-  - ../../../../templates/gatus/guarded
 configMapGenerator:
   - name: qbittorrent-loki-rules
     files:
diff --git a/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/ks.yaml b/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/ks.yaml
index 63f922ccf..502f68fe9 100644
--- a/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/ks.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/main/apps/media/qbittorrent/ks.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,3 @@ spec:
   wait: false
   interval: 30m
   timeout: 5m
-  postBuild:
-    substitute:
-      APP: *app
-      GATUS_SUBDOMAIN: qbittorrent