diff --git a/cli/cmd/deploy_components.go b/cli/cmd/deploy_components.go
index 2460f3b9..ec8d3c84 100644
--- a/cli/cmd/deploy_components.go
+++ b/cli/cmd/deploy_components.go
@@ -1010,11 +1010,12 @@ spec:
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Bust Kubernetes Discovery Cache so Helm knows about the newly created CRDs
+	// Bust Kubernetes Discovery Cache so Helm knows about the newly created CRDs.
+	// Not ~/.cache/helm: on Linux that is Helm's repository cache, and the
+	// kyverno/kyverno upgrade that wires Kyverno into Prometheus reads it.
 	dl.Println("    - Refreshing API server schema cache...")
 	if home, err := os.UserHomeDir(); err == nil {
 		os.RemoveAll(fmt.Sprintf("%s/.kube/cache/discovery", home))
-		os.RemoveAll(fmt.Sprintf("%s/.cache/helm", home))
 	}
 
 	return nil