diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5a5ff90258..7373ebfafa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ Please refer to the [NEWS](NEWS.md) for a list of changes which have an affect o
 
 ### Contrib
 - Bash Completion: Adapt to YAML-style runtime configuration (PR#2642 by Sebastian Wagner, fixes #2094).
+- Remove `prettyprint` script, use `jq` instead (PR#2551 by Sebastian Wagner).
 
 ### Known issues
 
diff --git a/contrib/README.md b/contrib/README.md
index eb0df9287a..5281a9c532 100644
--- a/contrib/README.md
+++ b/contrib/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ This directory contains contributed scripts which are helpful for maintaining an
 
 * **cron-jobs**: cron job files for pulling in newer versions of supporting databases such as pyasn
 * **logcheck**: logcheck ruleset to filter logs for error messages
-* **prettyprint**: prints the json output for file-output bot prettily
 * **config-backup**: simple Makefile for doing a `make backup` inside of `/opt/intelmq` in order to preserve the latest configurations
 * **logrotate**: an example configuration for *logrotate* (`/etc/logrotate.d/` directory).
 * **check_mk**: Scripts for monitoring an IntelMQ instance with Check_MK.
diff --git a/contrib/prettyprint/prettyprint.sh b/contrib/prettyprint/prettyprint.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c54ac3babe..0000000000
--- a/contrib/prettyprint/prettyprint.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Sebastian Wagner
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-
-while read -r i;
-do
-  echo "$i" | python -m json.tool ;
-done < "$1"
diff --git a/contrib/prettyprint/prettyprint.txt b/contrib/prettyprint/prettyprint.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index d7e74d3504..0000000000
--- a/contrib/prettyprint/prettyprint.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Sebastian Wagner
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-
-sh scrips/prettyprint.txt /opt/intelmq/var/lib/bots/file-output/events.txt
diff --git a/debian/intelmq-contrib.install b/debian/intelmq-contrib.install
index ae375cd049..d2ba8f8652 100644
--- a/debian/intelmq-contrib.install
+++ b/debian/intelmq-contrib.install
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ contrib/eventdb/ /usr/share/intelmq/contrib/
 contrib/example-extension-package/ /usr/share/intelmq/contrib/
 contrib/feeds-config-generator/ /usr/share/intelmq/contrib/
 contrib/malware_name_mapping/ /usr/share/intelmq/contrib/
-contrib/prettyprint/ /usr/share/intelmq/contrib/
 contrib/systemd/ /usr/share/intelmq/contrib/