diff --git a/.rubocop_todo.yml b/.rubocop_todo.yml
index ba6efce0e251a4cf8960543a41efe968a3bcaddd..ad5989259807ae5ed374c9da979234ba9106a238 100644
--- a/.rubocop_todo.yml
+++ b/.rubocop_todo.yml
@@ -1309,7 +1309,6 @@ FactoryBot/InlineAssociation:
     - 'spec/factories/notes.rb'
     - 'spec/factories/packages.rb'
     - 'spec/factories/packages/package_file.rb'
-    - 'spec/factories/prometheus_alert.rb'
     - 'spec/factories/resource_label_events.rb'
     - 'spec/factories/resource_milestone_event.rb'
     - 'spec/factories/resource_state_event.rb'
diff --git a/spec/factories/prometheus_alert.rb b/spec/factories/prometheus_alert.rb
index 18cf1a20e0d1f3bdd73628486b96ec3af835aabd..ad3868c38edc441d312309f6267e4e80336d3f6a 100644
--- a/spec/factories/prometheus_alert.rb
+++ b/spec/factories/prometheus_alert.rb
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
     threshold { 1 }
 
     environment do |alert|
-      build(:environment, project: alert.project)
+      association(:environment, project: alert.project)
     end
 
     prometheus_metric do |alert|
-      build(:prometheus_metric, project: alert.project)
+      association(:prometheus_metric, project: alert.project)
     end
 
     trait :with_runbook_url do