diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/kapacitor/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/kapacitor/default.nix
index 4adaefa053cb..663407f712f9 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/kapacitor/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/kapacitor/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ let
       hash = "sha256-v9MUR+PcxAus91FiHYrMN9MbNOTWewh7MT6/t/QWQcM=";
     };
     patches = [
+      # This fixes a linting error due to an unneeded call to `.clone()`
+      # that gets enforced by a strict `deny(warnings)` build config.
+      # This is already fixed with newer versions of `libflux`, but it
+      # has been changed in a giant commit with a lot of autmated changes:
+      # https://github.com/influxdata/flux/commit/e7f7023848929e16ad5bd3b41d217847bd4fd72b#diff-96572e971d9e19b54290a434debbf7db054b21c9ce19035159542756ffb8ab87
+      #
+      # Can be removed as soon as kapacitor depends on a newer version of `libflux`, cf:
+      # https://github.com/influxdata/kapacitor/blob/v1.7.0/go.mod#L26
+      ./fix-linting-error-on-unneeded-clone.patch
+
       # https://github.com/influxdata/flux/pull/5273
       # fix compile error with Rust 1.64
       (fetchpatch {
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/kapacitor/fix-linting-error-on-unneeded-clone.patch b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/kapacitor/fix-linting-error-on-unneeded-clone.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..23391f0f4f38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/kapacitor/fix-linting-error-on-unneeded-clone.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/flux-core/src/semantic/flatbuffers/types.rs b/flux-core/src/semantic/flatbuffers/types.rs
+index c3eecf06..9baf4070 100644
+--- a/flux-core/src/semantic/flatbuffers/types.rs
++++ b/flux-core/src/semantic/flatbuffers/types.rs
+@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ mod tests {
+
+     fn test_serde(expr: &'static str) {
+         // let want = parser::parse(expr).unwrap();
+-        let mut p = parser::Parser::new(expr.clone());
++        let mut p = parser::Parser::new(expr);
+
+         let typ_expr = p.parse_type_expression();
+         if let Err(err) = ast::check::check(ast::walk::Node::TypeExpression(&typ_expr)) {