diff --git a/src/app/components/chat/chat.component.html b/src/app/components/chat/chat.component.html
index f1f8704b..c7d41980 100644
--- a/src/app/components/chat/chat.component.html
+++ b/src/app/components/chat/chat.component.html
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@
       [eventData]="eventData"
       [currentSessionState]="currentSessionState"
       [artifacts]="artifacts"
-      [shouldShowEvalTab]="shouldShowEvalTab()"
       [selectedEvent]="selectedEvent"
       [selectedEventIndex]="selectedEventIndex"
       [renderedEventGraph]="renderedEventGraph"
@@ -74,7 +73,6 @@
       (eventSelected)="selectEvent($event)"
       (sessionSelected)="updateWithSelectedSession($event)"
       (sessionReloaded)="updateSessionState($event)"
-      (evalTabVisibilityChange)="handleShouldShowEvalTab($event)"
       (evalCaseSelected)="updateWithSelectedEvalCase($event)"
       (evalSetIdSelected)="updateSelectedEvalSetId($event)"
       (returnToSession)="handleReturnToSession($event)"
diff --git a/src/app/components/chat/chat.component.ts b/src/app/components/chat/chat.component.ts
index b6f86f2f..1f61021e 100644
--- a/src/app/components/chat/chat.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/components/chat/chat.component.ts
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ export class ChatComponent implements OnInit, AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
   private scrollContainer = viewChild.required<ElementRef>('autoScroll');
   bottomPanelRef = viewChild.required<ElementRef>('bottomPanel');
   private _snackBar = inject(MatSnackBar);
-  shouldShowEvalTab = signal(true);
   enableSseIndicator = signal(false);
   isChatMode = signal(true);
   isEvalCaseEditing = signal(false);
@@ -1094,10 +1093,6 @@ export class ChatComponent implements OnInit, AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {
     }
   }
 
-  protected handleShouldShowEvalTab(shouldShow: boolean) {
-    this.shouldShowEvalTab.set(shouldShow);
-  }
-
   protected handleReturnToSession(event: boolean) {
     this.sessionTab()?.getSession(this.sessionId);
     this.evalTab()?.resetEvalCase();
diff --git a/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.html b/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.html
index 4e582c8a..7e2b327a 100644
--- a/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.html
+++ b/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.html
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
       >
       </app-session-tab>
     </mat-tab>
-    @if (shouldShowEvalTab) {
     <mat-tab>
       <ng-template mat-tab-label>
         <span class="tab-label">{{ i18n.evalTabLabel }}</span>
@@ -69,7 +68,6 @@
         [appName]="appName"
         [userId]="userId"
         [sessionId]="sessionId"
-        (shouldShowTab)="evalTabVisibilityChange.emit($event)"
         (sessionSelected)="sessionSelected.emit($event)"
         (evalCaseSelected)="evalCaseSelected.emit($event)"
         (evalSetIdSelected)="evalSetIdSelected.emit($event)"
@@ -77,7 +75,6 @@
         (evalNotInstalledMsg)="evalNotInstalled.emit($event)"
       ></app-eval-tab>
     </mat-tab>
-    }
   </mat-tab-group>
 </div>
 } @if (this.selectedEvent && showSidePanel) {
diff --git a/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.spec.ts b/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.spec.ts
index a990a5a7..5de1a4ec 100644
--- a/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.spec.ts
@@ -320,37 +320,11 @@ describe('SidePanelComponent', () => {
     });
 
     describe('Eval tab', () => {
-      beforeEach(() => {
-        component.shouldShowEvalTab = true;
-        fixture.detectChanges();
-      });
-
-      describe('when shouldShowEvalTab is true', () => {
-        beforeEach(async () => {
-          await switchTab(EVAL_TAB_INDEX);
-        });
-        it('is visible', () => {
-          expect(fixture.debugElement.query(EVAL_TAB_SELECTOR)).toBeTruthy();
-        });
-      });
-
       describe('Interactions', () => {
         beforeEach(async () => {
           await switchTab(EVAL_TAB_INDEX);
         });
 
-        describe('when app-eval-tab emits shouldShowTab', () => {
-          beforeEach(() => {
-            spyOn(component.evalTabVisibilityChange, 'emit');
-            const evalTab = fixture.debugElement.query(EVAL_TAB_SELECTOR);
-            evalTab.triggerEventHandler('shouldShowTab', false);
-          });
-          it('emits evalTabVisibilityChange', () => {
-            expect(component.evalTabVisibilityChange.emit)
-                .toHaveBeenCalledWith(false);
-          });
-        });
-
         describe('when app-eval-tab emits evalCaseSelected', () => {
           beforeEach(() => {
             spyOn(component.evalCaseSelected, 'emit');
diff --git a/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.ts b/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.ts
index a7467aea..6d520d3f 100644
--- a/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/components/side-panel/side-panel.component.ts
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ export class SidePanelComponent {
   @Input() eventData = new Map<string, any>();
   @Input() currentSessionState: any;
   @Input() artifacts: any[] = [];
-  @Input() shouldShowEvalTab = false;
   @Input() selectedEvent: any|undefined;
   @Input() selectedEventIndex: number|undefined;
   @Input() renderedEventGraph: SafeHtml|undefined;
@@ -85,7 +84,6 @@ export class SidePanelComponent {
   @Output() readonly eventSelected = new EventEmitter<string>();
   @Output() readonly sessionSelected = new EventEmitter<Session>();
   @Output() readonly sessionReloaded = new EventEmitter<Session>();
-  @Output() readonly evalTabVisibilityChange = new EventEmitter<boolean>();
   @Output() readonly evalCaseSelected = new EventEmitter<EvalCase>();
   @Output() readonly evalSetIdSelected = new EventEmitter<string>();
   @Output() readonly returnToSession = new EventEmitter<boolean>();