diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs-url-alive-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/docs-url-alive-check.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 99f7eb99f8..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/docs-url-alive-check.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron:  '0 23 * * 0'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-permissions: {}
-
-name: Docs URL Alive Check
-jobs:
-  test:
-    name: test
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    # don't run this action on forks
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'kata-containers'
-    env:
-      target_branch: ${{ github.base_ref }}
-    steps:
-    - name: Set env
-      run: |
-        echo "GOPATH=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-    - name: Checkout code
-      uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-        persist-credentials: false
-
-    - name: Install yq
-      run: |
-        ./ci/install_yq.sh
-      env:
-        INSTALL_IN_GOPATH: false
-
-    - name: Read properties from versions.yaml
-      run: |
-        go_version="$(yq '.languages.golang.version' versions.yaml)"
-        [ -n "$go_version" ]
-        echo "GO_VERSION=${go_version}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-    - name: Setup Golang version ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
-      uses: actions/setup-go@7a3fe6cf4cb3a834922a1244abfce67bcef6a0c5 # v6.2.0
-      with:
-        go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
-
-    - name: Docs URL Alive Check
-      run: |
-        make docs-url-alive-check
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5b13519ee9..0502ac65f2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ generate-protocols:
 static-checks: static-checks-build
 	bash tests/static-checks.sh
 
-docs-url-alive-check:
-	bash ci/docs-url-alive-check.sh
-
 build-and-publish-kata-debug:
 	bash tools/packaging/kata-debug/kata-debug-build-and-upload-payload.sh ${KATA_DEBUG_REGISTRY} ${KATA_DEBUG_TAG}
 
@@ -61,6 +58,5 @@ docs-serve: docs-build
 	install-tarball \
 	default \
 	static-checks \
-	docs-url-alive-check \
 	docs-build \
 	docs-serve
diff --git a/ci/docs-url-alive-check.sh b/ci/docs-url-alive-check.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c135b8e743..0000000000
--- a/ci/docs-url-alive-check.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2021 Easystack Inc.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-set -e
-
-cidir=$(dirname "$0")
-# shellcheck source=/dev/null
-source "${cidir}/../tests/common.bash"
-
-run_docs_url_alive_check
diff --git a/tests/common.bash b/tests/common.bash
index c9c882876d..256265d344 100644
--- a/tests/common.bash
+++ b/tests/common.bash
@@ -1128,14 +1128,6 @@ function run_static_checks()
 	bash "${this_script_dir}/static-checks.sh" "$@"
 }
 
-function run_docs_url_alive_check()
-{
-	# Make sure we have the targeting branch
-	git remote set-branches --add origin "${branch}"
-	git fetch -a
-	bash "${this_script_dir}/static-checks.sh" --docs --all "github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers"
-}
-
 function run_get_pr_changed_file_details()
 {
 	# Make sure we have the targeting branch
diff --git a/tests/static-checks.sh b/tests/static-checks.sh
index 15ab484f3b..a3f4078464 100755
--- a/tests/static-checks.sh
+++ b/tests/static-checks.sh
@@ -666,164 +666,6 @@ check_url()
 	die "failed to check URL '${url}': errors: '${errors[*]}'"
 }
 
-# Perform basic checks on documentation files
-static_check_docs()
-{
-	local cmd="xurls"
-
-	pushd "${repo_path}"
-
-	if [[ ! "$(command -v "${cmd}")" ]]
-	then
-		info "Installing ${cmd} utility"
-
-		local version
-		local url
-
-		version=$(get_test_version "externals.xurls.version")
-		url=$(get_test_version "externals.xurls.url")
-
-		# xurls is very fussy about how it's built.
-		go install "${url}@${version}"
-
-		# shellcheck disable=SC2016
-		command -v xurls &>/dev/null ||
-			die 'xurls not found. Ensure that "$GOPATH/bin" is in your $PATH'
-	fi
-
-	info "Checking documentation"
-
-	local doc
-	local all_docs
-	local docs
-	local docs_status
-	local new_docs
-	local new_urls
-	local url
-
-	pushd "${repo_path}"
-
-	# shellcheck disable=SC2128
-	all_docs=$(git ls-files "*.md" | grep -Ev "(grpc-rs|target)/" | sort || true)
-	all_docs=$(skip_paths "${all_docs[@]}")
-
-	if [[ "${specific_branch}" = "true" ]]
-	then
-		info "Checking all documents in ${branch} branch"
-		docs="${all_docs}"
-	else
-		info "Checking local branch for changed documents only"
-
-		docs_status=$(get_pr_changed_file_details || true)
-		docs_status=$(echo "${docs_status}" | grep "\.md$" || true)
-
-		docs=$(echo "${docs_status}" | awk '{print $NF}' | sort)
-		# shellcheck disable=SC2128
-		docs=$(skip_paths "${docs[@]}")
-
-		# Newly-added docs
-		new_docs=$(echo "${docs_status}" | awk '/^A/ {print $NF}' | sort)
-		# shellcheck disable=SC2128
-		new_docs=$(skip_paths "${new_docs[@]}")
-
-		for doc in ${new_docs}
-		do
-			# A new document file has been added. If that new doc
-			# file is referenced by any files on this PR, checking
-			# its URL will fail since the PR hasn't been merged
-			# yet. We could construct the URL based on the users
-			# original PR branch and validate that. But it's
-			# simpler to just construct the URL that the "pending
-			# document" *will* result in when the PR has landed
-			# and then check docs for that new URL and exclude
-			# them from the real URL check.
-			url="https://${repo}/blob/${branch}/${doc}"
-
-			new_urls+=" ${url}"
-		done
-	fi
-
-	[[ -z "${docs}" ]] && info "No documentation to check" && return
-
-	# shellcheck disable=SC2034
-	local urls
-	local url_map
-	url_map=$(mktemp)
-	local invalid_urls
-	invalid_urls=$(mktemp)
-	local md_links
-	md_links=$(mktemp)
-	files_to_remove+=("${url_map}" "${invalid_urls}" "${md_links}")
-
-	info "Checking document markdown references"
-
-	local md_docs_to_check
-
-	# All markdown docs are checked (not just those changed by a PR). This
-	# is necessary to guarantee that all docs are referenced.
-	md_docs_to_check="${all_docs}"
-
-	# shellcheck disable=SC2016
-	command -v kata-check-markdown &>/dev/null ||\
-		(cd "${test_dir}/cmd/check-markdown" && make)
-
-	# shellcheck disable=SC2016
-	command -v kata-check-markdown &>/dev/null || \
-		die 'kata-check-markdown command not found. Ensure that "$GOPATH/bin" is in your $PATH.'
-
-	for doc in ${md_docs_to_check}
-	do
-		kata-check-markdown check "${doc}"
-
-		# Get a link of all other markdown files this doc references
-		kata-check-markdown list links --format tsv --no-header "${doc}" |\
-			grep "external-link" |\
-			awk '{print $3}' |\
-			sort -u >> "${md_links}"
-	done
-
-	# clean the list of links
-	local tmp
-	tmp=$(mktemp)
-
-	sort -u "${md_links}" > "${tmp}"
-	mv "${tmp}" "${md_links}"
-
-	# A list of markdown files that do not have to be referenced by any
-	# other markdown file.
-	exclude_doc_regexs+=()
-
-	exclude_doc_regexs+=(^CODE_OF_CONDUCT\.md$)
-	exclude_doc_regexs+=(^CONTRIBUTING\.md$)
-	exclude_doc_regexs+=(^SECURITY\.md$)
-
-	# Magic github template files
-	exclude_doc_regexs+=(^\.github/.*\.md$)
-
-	# The top level README doesn't need to be referenced by any other
-	# since it displayed by default when visiting the repo.
-	exclude_doc_regexs+=(^README\.md$)
-
-	# Exclude READMEs for test integration
-	exclude_doc_regexs+=('^tests/cmd/.*/README\.md$')
-
-	local exclude_pattern
-
-	# Convert the list of files into an grep(1) alternation pattern.
-	local IFS='|'
-	# shellcheck disable=SC2034
-	exclude_pattern="${exclude_doc_regexs[*]}"
-	unset IFS
-
-	info "Checking document code blocks"
-
-	# shellcheck disable=SC2034
-	local doc_to_script_cmd="${cidir}/kata-doc-to-script.sh"
-
-	# Synchronisation point
-	wait
-}
-
 static_check_eof()
 {
 	local file="$1"
@@ -1389,7 +1231,6 @@ main()
 			--all) specific_branch="true" ;;
 			--branch) branch="$2"; shift ;;
 			--commits) func=static_check_commits ;;
-			--docs) func=static_check_docs ;;
 			--dockerfiles) func=static_check_dockerfiles ;;
 			--files) func=static_check_files ;;
 			--force) force="true" ;;