diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e74a70910b..b037914845 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,9 +15,19 @@
 
 This release is built with go 1.7.3 and provides many performance optimizations, stability changes and a few new query capabilities.  If upgrading from a prior version, please read the configuration changes below section before upgrading.
 
+### Deprecations
+
+The admin interface is deprecated and will be removed in a subsequent release.  The configuration setting to enable the admin UI is now disabled by default, but can be enabled if necessary.  We recommend using [Chronograf](https://github.com/influxdata/chronograf) or [Grafana](https://github.com/grafana/grafana) as a replacement.
+
 ### Configuration Changes
 
-The following configuration changes in the `[data]` section may need to changed before upgrading to `1.1.0` from prior versions.
+The following configuration changes may need to changed before upgrading to `1.1.0` from prior versions.
+
+#### `[admin]` Section
+
+* `enabled` now default to false.  If you are currently using the admin interaface, you will need to change this value to `true` to re-enable it.  The admin interface is currently deprecated and will be removed in a subsequent release.
+
+#### `[data]` Section
 
 * `max-values-per-tag` was added with a default of 100,000, but can be disabled by setting it to `0`.  Existing measurements with tags that exceed this limit will continue to load, but writes that would cause the tags cardinality to increase will be dropped and a `partial write` error will be returned to the caller.  This limit can be used to prevent high cardinality tag values from being written to a measurement.
 * `cache-max-memory-size` has been increased to from `524288000` to `1048576000`.  This setting is the maximum amount of RAM, in bytes, a shard cache can use before it rejects writes with an error.  Setting this value to `0` disables the limit.
@@ -28,10 +38,12 @@ The following configuration changes in the `[data]` section may need to changed
 
 The query language has been extended with a few new features:
 
-* New `cumulative_sum` function - [PR7388](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7388)
-* New `linear` fill option - [PR7408](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7408)
-* Support `ON` for `SHOW` commands - [PR7295](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7295)
-* Support regex on fields keys in select clause - [PR7442](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7442)
+* New `cumulative_sum` function - [#7388](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7388)
+* New `linear` fill option - [#7408](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7408)
+* Support `ON` for `SHOW` commands - [#7295](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7295)
+* Support regex on fields keys in select clause - [#7442](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7442)
+
+All Changes:
 
 - [#7415](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7415): Add sample function to query language.
 - [#7403](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7403): Add `fill(linear)` to query language.
diff --git a/cmd/influxd/run/config.go b/cmd/influxd/run/config.go
index 9a78b48b42..36e4f14e13 100644
--- a/cmd/influxd/run/config.go
+++ b/cmd/influxd/run/config.go
@@ -106,8 +106,6 @@ func NewDemoConfig() (*Config, error) {
 	c.Data.Dir = filepath.Join(homeDir, ".influxdb/data")
 	c.Data.WALDir = filepath.Join(homeDir, ".influxdb/wal")
 
-	c.Admin.Enabled = true
-
 	return c, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/etc/config.sample.toml b/etc/config.sample.toml
index 90e045b2d5..f874cb4a82 100644
--- a/etc/config.sample.toml
+++ b/etc/config.sample.toml
@@ -182,10 +182,11 @@
 ### Controls the availability of the built-in, web-based admin interface. If HTTPS is
 ### enabled for the admin interface, HTTPS must also be enabled on the [http] service.
 ###
+### NOTE: This interface is deprecated as of 1.1.0 and will be removed in a future release.
 
 # [admin]
   # Determines whether the admin service is enabled.
-  # enabled = true
+  # enabled = false
 
   # The default bind address used by the admin service.
   # bind-address = ":8083"
diff --git a/services/admin/service.go b/services/admin/service.go
index b06b0cb2f5..3864f7eec3 100644
--- a/services/admin/service.go
+++ b/services/admin/service.go
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ func NewService(c Config) *Service {
 // Open starts the service
 func (s *Service) Open() error {
 	s.logger.Printf("Starting admin service")
+	s.logger.Println("DEPRECATED: This plugin is deprecated as of 1.1.0 and will be removed in a future release")
 
 	// Open listener.
 	if s.https {