diff --git a/docs/docs-beta/docusaurus.config.ts b/docs/docs-beta/docusaurus.config.ts
index 2daa2e9481f53..f0157e76abfbe 100644
--- a/docs/docs-beta/docusaurus.config.ts
+++ b/docs/docs-beta/docusaurus.config.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const config: Config = {
   tagline: 'Dagster is a Python framework for building production-grade data platforms.',
   url: 'https://docs.dagster.io',
   favicon: 'img/favicon.ico',
+  noIndex: true, // TODO - remove when production-ready
 
   baseUrl: '/',
   onBrokenLinks: 'throw',
diff --git a/docs/docs-beta/vercel.json b/docs/docs-beta/vercel.json
deleted file mode 100644
index f23f7849ac3c1..0000000000000
--- a/docs/docs-beta/vercel.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "headers": [
-    {
-      "source": "/(.*)",
-      "headers": [
-        {
-          "key": "x-robots-tag",
-          "value": "noindex"
-        }
-      ]
-    }
-  ]
-}