diff --git a/artemis-cli/pom.xml b/artemis-cli/pom.xml
index 960d16a2d1..fa386ef997 100644
--- a/artemis-cli/pom.xml
+++ b/artemis-cli/pom.xml
@@ -126,10 +126,6 @@
          <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
          <version>${commons.lang.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-         <groupId>org.hdrhistogram</groupId>
-         <artifactId>HdrHistogram</artifactId>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.sun.winsw</groupId>
         <artifactId>winsw</artifactId>
diff --git a/artemis-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/cli/commands/util/SyncCalculation.java b/artemis-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/cli/commands/util/SyncCalculation.java
index c01506df40..5b5c9f4cc6 100644
--- a/artemis-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/cli/commands/util/SyncCalculation.java
+++ b/artemis-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/cli/commands/util/SyncCalculation.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import java.text.DecimalFormat;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
-import org.HdrHistogram.Histogram;
 import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.io.IOCallback;
 import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.io.SequentialFile;
 import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.io.SequentialFileFactory;
@@ -80,7 +79,6 @@ public class SyncCalculation {
       SequentialFileFactory factory = newFactory(datafolder, fsync, journalType, blockSize * blocks, maxAIO);
       final boolean asyncWrites = journalType == JournalType.ASYNCIO && !syncWrites;
       //the write latencies could be taken only when writes are effectively synchronous
-      final Histogram writeLatencies = (verbose && !asyncWrites) ? new Histogram(MAX_FLUSH_NANOS, 2) : null;
 
       if (journalType == JournalType.ASYNCIO && syncWrites) {
          System.out.println();
@@ -94,9 +92,6 @@ public class SyncCalculation {
 
       if (verbose) {
          System.out.println("Using " + factory.getClass().getName() + " to calculate sync times, alignment=" + factory.getAlignment());
-         if (writeLatencies == null) {
-            System.out.println("*** Use --sync-writes if you want to see a histogram for each write performed ***");
-         }
       }
       SequentialFile file = factory.createSequentialFile(fileName);
       //to be sure that a process/thread crash won't leave the dataFolder with garbage files
@@ -144,18 +139,11 @@ public class SyncCalculation {
                bufferBlock.position(0);
                latch.countUp();
                long startWrite = 0;
-               if (writeLatencies != null) {
-                  startWrite = System.nanoTime();
-               }
                file.writeDirect(bufferBlock, true, callback);
 
                if (syncWrites) {
                   flushLatch(latch);
                }
-               if (writeLatencies != null) {
-                  final long elapsedWriteNanos = System.nanoTime() - startWrite;
-                  writeLatencies.recordValue(elapsedWriteNanos);
-               }
             }
 
             if (!syncWrites) flushLatch(latch);
@@ -173,29 +161,10 @@ public class SyncCalculation {
             }
             file.close();
 
-            if (ntry == 0 && writeLatencies != null) {
-               writeLatencies.reset(); // discarding the first one.. some warmup time
-            }
          }
 
          factory.releaseDirectBuffer(bufferBlock);
 
-         if (writeLatencies != null) {
-            System.out.println("Write Latencies Percentile Distribution in microseconds");
-            //print latencies in us -> (ns * 1000d)
-
-            System.out.println("*****************************************************************");
-            writeLatencies.outputPercentileDistribution(System.out, 1000d);
-            System.out.println();
-            System.out.println("*****************************************************************");
-            System.out.println("*** this may be useful to generate charts if you like charts: ***");
-            System.out.println("*** http://hdrhistogram.github.io/HdrHistogram/plotFiles.html ***");
-            System.out.println("*****************************************************************");
-            System.out.println();
-
-            writeLatencies.reset();
-         }
-
          long totalTime = Long.MAX_VALUE;
          for (int i = 0; i < tries; i++) {
             if (result[i] < totalTime) {
diff --git a/artemis-distribution/src/main/assembly/dep.xml b/artemis-distribution/src/main/assembly/dep.xml
index 2f6999ad16..ead7396f35 100644
--- a/artemis-distribution/src/main/assembly/dep.xml
+++ b/artemis-distribution/src/main/assembly/dep.xml
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@
             <include>org.jgroups:jgroups</include>
             <include>org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-json_1.0_spec</include>
             <include>org.apache.johnzon:johnzon-core</include>
-            <include>org.hdrhistogram:HdrHistogram</include>
             <include>javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api</include>
             <include>com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl</include>
             <include>com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-core</include>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index beb9dcd57f..36e5c33f3a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@
       <activemq5-version>5.14.5</activemq5-version>
       <apache.derby.version>10.11.1.1</apache.derby.version>
       <commons.beanutils.version>1.9.3</commons.beanutils.version>
-      <org.hdrhistogram.version>2.1.10</org.hdrhistogram.version>
       <commons.collections.version>3.2.2</commons.collections.version>
       <fuse.mqtt.client.version>1.14</fuse.mqtt.client.version>
       <guava.version>19.0</guava.version>
@@ -685,15 +684,6 @@
             <!-- License: Apache 2.0 -->
          </dependency>
 
-         <!-- needed by SyncCalculation -->
-         <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hdrhistogram/HdrHistogram -->
-         <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.hdrhistogram</groupId>
-            <artifactId>HdrHistogram</artifactId>
-            <version>${org.hdrhistogram.version}</version>
-            <!-- License: Public Domain -->
-         </dependency>
-
          <!-- needed by artemis-selector -->
          <dependency>
             <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>