diff --git a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/client.go b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/client.go
index 5b21a5a4f1e..00f1ca0946b 100644
--- a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/client.go
+++ b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/client.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 // API errors that we need to convey after parsing real GH errors (or faking them).
 var (
 	ErrResourceNotFound = errors.New("the resource does not exist")
+	ErrUnauthorized     = errors.New("unauthorized")
 	//lint:ignore ST1005 this is not punctuation
 	ErrServiceUnavailable = apierrors.NewServiceUnavailable("github is unavailable")
 	ErrTooManyItems       = errors.New("maximum number of items exceeded")
diff --git a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/impl.go b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/impl.go
index c9f5468bc8d..c80f1e7a7f9 100644
--- a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/impl.go
+++ b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/impl.go
@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ func (r *githubClient) DeleteWebhook(ctx context.Context, owner, repository stri
 	if ghErr.Response.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
 		return ErrResourceNotFound
 	}
+	if ghErr.Response.StatusCode == http.StatusUnauthorized || ghErr.Response.StatusCode == http.StatusForbidden {
+		return ErrUnauthorized
+	}
 	return err
 }
 
diff --git a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/impl_test.go b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/impl_test.go
index fedbc2a9850..57f954e906e 100644
--- a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/impl_test.go
+++ b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/impl_test.go
@@ -975,6 +975,27 @@ func TestGithubClient_DeleteWebhook(t *testing.T) {
 			webhookID:  789,
 			wantErr:    ErrServiceUnavailable,
 		},
+		{
+			name: "unauthorized to delete the webhook",
+			mockHandler: mockhub.NewMockedHTTPClient(
+				mockhub.WithRequestMatchHandler(
+					mockhub.DeleteReposHooksByOwnerByRepoByHookId,
+					http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+						w.WriteHeader(http.StatusUnauthorized)
+						require.NoError(t, json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(github.ErrorResponse{
+							Response: &http.Response{
+								StatusCode: http.StatusUnauthorized,
+							},
+							Message: "401 bad credentials",
+						}))
+					}),
+				),
+			),
+			owner:      "test-owner",
+			repository: "test-repo",
+			webhookID:  789,
+			wantErr:    ErrUnauthorized,
+		},
 		{
 			name: "other error",
 			mockHandler: mockhub.NewMockedHTTPClient(
diff --git a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/webhook.go b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/webhook.go
index 3c37b00cba7..c2e13681f33 100644
--- a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/webhook.go
+++ b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/webhook.go
@@ -274,11 +274,15 @@ func (r *githubWebhookRepository) deleteWebhook(ctx context.Context) error {
 	id := r.config.Status.Webhook.ID
 
 	err := r.gh.DeleteWebhook(ctx, r.owner, r.repo, id)
-	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, ErrResourceNotFound) {
+	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, ErrResourceNotFound) && !errors.Is(err, ErrUnauthorized) {
 		return fmt.Errorf("delete webhook: %w", err)
 	}
 	if errors.Is(err, ErrResourceNotFound) {
-		logger.Info("webhook does not exist", "url", r.config.Status.Webhook.URL, "id", id)
+		logger.Warn("webhook no longer exists", "url", r.config.Status.Webhook.URL, "id", id)
+		return nil
+	}
+	if errors.Is(err, ErrUnauthorized) {
+		logger.Warn("webhook deletion failed. no longer authorized to delete this webhook", "url", r.config.Status.Webhook.URL, "id", id)
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/webhook_test.go b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/webhook_test.go
index 5021623fe90..49faf733378 100644
--- a/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/webhook_test.go
+++ b/apps/provisioning/pkg/repository/github/webhook_test.go
@@ -1565,6 +1565,32 @@ func TestGitHubRepository_OnDelete(t *testing.T) {
 			// We don't return an error if the webhook is already gone
 			expectedError: nil,
 		},
+		{
+			name: "unauthorized to delete the webhook",
+			setupMock: func(m *MockClient) {
+				m.On("DeleteWebhook", mock.Anything, "grafana", "grafana", int64(123)).
+					Return(ErrUnauthorized)
+			},
+			config: &provisioning.Repository{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+					Name: "test-repo",
+				},
+				Spec: provisioning.RepositorySpec{
+					GitHub: &provisioning.GitHubRepositoryConfig{
+						Branch: "main",
+					},
+				},
+				Status: provisioning.RepositoryStatus{
+					Webhook: &provisioning.WebhookStatus{
+						ID:  123,
+						URL: "https://example.com/webhook",
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			webhookURL: "https://example.com/webhook",
+			// We don't return an error if access to the webhook is revoked
+			expectedError: nil,
+		},
 		{
 			name:      "no webhook URL provided",
 			setupMock: func(_ *MockClient) {},