diff --git a/hbase-hadoop-compat/pom.xml b/hbase-hadoop-compat/pom.xml
index e68e9fcaf25..9239496d5e0 100644
--- a/hbase-hadoop-compat/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-hadoop-compat/pom.xml
@@ -110,10 +110,6 @@
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-        <artifactId>hbase-metrics-api</artifactId>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
       <!--
         a missing transitive dependency on JDK9+ (obsoleted by Hadoop-3.3.0+, HADOOP-15775)