diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d0ba7db9657dc..2a1afe5831547 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ sources-opentelemetry = ["dep:hex", "dep:opentelemetry-proto", "dep:prost-types"
 sources-postgresql_metrics = ["dep:postgres-openssl", "dep:tokio-postgres"]
 sources-prometheus = ["sources-prometheus-scrape", "sources-prometheus-remote-write"]
 sources-prometheus-scrape = ["dep:prometheus-parser", "sinks-prometheus", "sources-utils-http-client"]
-sources-prometheus-remote-write = ["dep:prometheus-parser", "sinks-prometheus", "sources-utils-http-client"]
+sources-prometheus-remote-write = ["dep:prometheus-parser", "sinks-prometheus", "sources-utils-http"]
 sources-redis= ["dep:redis"]
 sources-socket = ["sources-utils-net", "tokio-util/net"]
 sources-splunk_hec = ["dep:roaring"]
diff --git a/src/internal_events/mod.rs b/src/internal_events/mod.rs
index 2fec43ea4f7cd..2692212dc9e2e 100644
--- a/src/internal_events/mod.rs
+++ b/src/internal_events/mod.rs
@@ -94,7 +94,11 @@ mod parser;
 #[cfg(feature = "sources-postgresql_metrics")]
 mod postgresql_metrics;
 mod process;
-#[cfg(any(feature = "sources-prometheus", feature = "sinks-prometheus"))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape",
+    feature = "sources-prometheus-remote-write",
+    feature = "sinks-prometheus"
+))]
 mod prometheus;
 #[cfg(feature = "sinks-pulsar")]
 mod pulsar;
@@ -230,7 +234,11 @@ pub(crate) use self::nginx_metrics::*;
 pub(crate) use self::parser::*;
 #[cfg(feature = "sources-postgresql_metrics")]
 pub(crate) use self::postgresql_metrics::*;
-#[cfg(any(feature = "sources-prometheus", feature = "sinks-prometheus"))]
+#[cfg(any(
+    feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape",
+    feature = "sources-prometheus-remote-write",
+    feature = "sinks-prometheus"
+))]
 pub(crate) use self::prometheus::*;
 #[cfg(feature = "sinks-pulsar")]
 pub(crate) use self::pulsar::*;
diff --git a/src/internal_events/prometheus.rs b/src/internal_events/prometheus.rs
index 6b94fa3051c7e..1f0c96684ba19 100644
--- a/src/internal_events/prometheus.rs
+++ b/src/internal_events/prometheus.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus")]
+#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape")]
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 
 use hyper::StatusCode;
 use metrics::counter;
-#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus")]
+#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape")]
 use prometheus_parser::ParserError;
 use vector_core::internal_event::InternalEvent;
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ use vector_common::internal_event::{
     error_stage, error_type, ComponentEventsDropped, UNINTENTIONAL,
 };
 
-#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus")]
+#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape")]
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct PrometheusParseError<'a> {
     pub error: ParserError,
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ pub struct PrometheusParseError<'a> {
     pub body: Cow<'a, str>,
 }
 
-#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus")]
+#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape")]
 impl<'a> InternalEvent for PrometheusParseError<'a> {
     fn emit(self) {
         error!(
diff --git a/src/sources/mod.rs b/src/sources/mod.rs
index bbc124c5291ca..332dccd7f5e82 100644
--- a/src/sources/mod.rs
+++ b/src/sources/mod.rs
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ pub mod opentelemetry;
 #[cfg(feature = "sources-postgresql_metrics")]
 pub mod postgresql_metrics;
 #[cfg(any(
-    feature = "sources-prometheus",
     feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape",
     feature = "sources-prometheus-remote-write"
 ))]
diff --git a/src/sources/prometheus/parser.rs b/src/sources/prometheus/parser.rs
index 42e729e07adbc..647571de9e211 100644
--- a/src/sources/prometheus/parser.rs
+++ b/src/sources/prometheus/parser.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 use std::cmp::Ordering;
 
 use chrono::{DateTime, TimeZone, Utc};
-use prometheus_parser::{proto, GroupKind, MetricGroup, ParserError};
+#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus-remote-write")]
+use prometheus_parser::proto;
+use prometheus_parser::{GroupKind, MetricGroup, ParserError};
 
 use crate::event::{
     metric::{Bucket, Metric, MetricKind, MetricTags, MetricValue, Quantile},
@@ -17,10 +19,12 @@ fn utc_timestamp(timestamp: Option<i64>, default: DateTime<Utc>) -> DateTime<Utc
         .unwrap_or(default)
 }
 
+#[cfg(any(test, feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape"))]
 pub(super) fn parse_text(packet: &str) -> Result<Vec<Event>, ParserError> {
     prometheus_parser::parse_text(packet).map(reparse_groups)
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "sources-prometheus-remote-write")]
 pub(super) fn parse_request(request: proto::WriteRequest) -> Result<Vec<Event>, ParserError> {
     prometheus_parser::parse_request(request).map(reparse_groups)
 }
diff --git a/src/sources/util/mod.rs b/src/sources/util/mod.rs
index e7b5706c22d2f..db8660fb05f94 100644
--- a/src/sources/util/mod.rs
+++ b/src/sources/util/mod.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ pub mod grpc;
     feature = "sources-utils-http-query"
 ))]
 pub mod http;
-#[cfg(any(feature = "sources-http_client", feature = "sources-prometheus"))]
+#[cfg(any(feature = "sources-http_client", feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape",))]
 pub mod http_client;
 #[cfg(any(feature = "sources-aws_sqs", feature = "sources-gcp_pubsub"))]
 mod message_decoding;
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ pub use self::body_decoding::Encoding;
 #[cfg(feature = "sources-utils-http-query")]
 pub use self::http::add_query_parameters;
 #[cfg(any(
-    feature = "sources-prometheus",
+    feature = "sources-prometheus-scrape",
+    feature = "sources-prometheus-remote-write",
     feature = "sources-utils-http-encoding"
 ))]
 pub use self::http::decode;