diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/NodeStats.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/NodeStats.java
index ce1bf381042..64267a60128 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/NodeStats.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/NodeStats.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import org.elasticsearch.monitor.jvm.JvmStats;
 import org.elasticsearch.monitor.network.NetworkStats;
 import org.elasticsearch.monitor.os.OsStats;
 import org.elasticsearch.monitor.process.ProcessStats;
-import org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportStats;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 
@@ -49,21 +48,17 @@ public class NodeStats extends NodeOperationResponse {
 
     private NetworkStats network;
 
-    private TransportStats transport;
-
     NodeStats() {
     }
 
     public NodeStats(DiscoveryNode node, NodeIndicesStats indices,
-                     OsStats os, ProcessStats process, JvmStats jvm, NetworkStats network,
-                     TransportStats transport) {
+                     OsStats os, ProcessStats process, JvmStats jvm, NetworkStats network) {
         super(node);
         this.indices = indices;
         this.os = os;
         this.process = process;
         this.jvm = jvm;
         this.network = network;
-        this.transport = transport;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -136,14 +131,6 @@ public class NodeStats extends NodeOperationResponse {
         return network();
     }
 
-    public TransportStats transport() {
-        return transport;
-    }
-
-    public TransportStats getTransport() {
-        return transport();
-    }
-
     public static NodeStats readNodeStats(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         NodeStats nodeInfo = new NodeStats();
         nodeInfo.readFrom(in);
@@ -167,9 +154,6 @@ public class NodeStats extends NodeOperationResponse {
         if (in.readBoolean()) {
             network = NetworkStats.readNetworkStats(in);
         }
-        if (in.readBoolean()) {
-            transport = TransportStats.readTransportStats(in);
-        }
     }
 
     @Override public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
@@ -204,11 +188,5 @@ public class NodeStats extends NodeOperationResponse {
             out.writeBoolean(true);
             network.writeTo(out);
         }
-        if (transport == null) {
-            out.writeBoolean(false);
-        } else {
-            out.writeBoolean(true);
-            transport.writeTo(out);
-        }
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/TransportNodesStatsAction.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/TransportNodesStatsAction.java
index af7d176a167..58b29680ec4 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/TransportNodesStatsAction.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/TransportNodesStatsAction.java
@@ -95,8 +95,7 @@ public class TransportNodesStatsAction extends TransportNodesOperationAction<Nod
     @Override protected NodeStats nodeOperation(NodeStatsRequest request) throws ElasticSearchException {
         return new NodeStats(clusterService.state().nodes().localNode(), indicesService.stats(),
                 monitorService.osService().stats(), monitorService.processService().stats(),
-                monitorService.jvmService().stats(), monitorService.networkService().stats(),
-                transportService.stats());
+                monitorService.jvmService().stats(), monitorService.networkService().stats());
     }
 
     @Override protected boolean accumulateExceptions() {
diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/RestNodesStatsAction.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/RestNodesStatsAction.java
index 25715cf9e4f..ceb9ae91a99 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/RestNodesStatsAction.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/admin/cluster/node/stats/RestNodesStatsAction.java
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@ import org.elasticsearch.client.Client;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Inject;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
-import org.elasticsearch.rest.*;
+import org.elasticsearch.rest.BaseRestHandler;
+import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestChannel;
+import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestController;
+import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestRequest;
+import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestStatus;
+import org.elasticsearch.rest.XContentRestResponse;
+import org.elasticsearch.rest.XContentThrowableRestResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.rest.action.support.RestActions;
 import org.elasticsearch.rest.action.support.RestXContentBuilder;
 
@@ -77,9 +83,6 @@ public class RestNodesStatsAction extends BaseRestHandler {
                         if (nodeStats.network() != null) {
                             nodeStats.network().toXContent(builder, request);
                         }
-                        if (nodeStats.transport() != null) {
-                            nodeStats.transport().toXContent(builder, request);
-                        }
 
                         builder.endObject();
                     }
diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportService.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportService.java
index 9c489728685..bf17d1b07a3 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportService.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportService.java
@@ -60,11 +60,6 @@ public class TransportService extends AbstractLifecycleComponent<TransportServic
 
     final CopyOnWriteArrayList<TransportConnectionListener> connectionListeners = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<TransportConnectionListener>();
 
-    final AtomicLong rxBytes = new AtomicLong();
-    final AtomicLong rxCount = new AtomicLong();
-    final AtomicLong txBytes = new AtomicLong();
-    final AtomicLong txCount = new AtomicLong();
-
     // An LRU (don't really care about concurrency here) that holds the latest timed out requests so if they
     // do show up, we can print more descriptive information about them
     final Map<Long, TimeoutInfoHolder> timeoutInfoHandlers = Collections.synchronizedMap(new LinkedHashMap<Long, TimeoutInfoHolder>(100, .75F, true) {
@@ -110,10 +105,6 @@ public class TransportService extends AbstractLifecycleComponent<TransportServic
         return new TransportInfo(boundAddress());
     }
 
-    public TransportStats stats() {
-        return new TransportStats(rxCount.get(), rxBytes.get(), txCount.get(), txBytes.get());
-    }
-
     public BoundTransportAddress boundAddress() {
         return transport.boundAddress();
     }
@@ -230,16 +221,6 @@ public class TransportService extends AbstractLifecycleComponent<TransportServic
 
     class Adapter implements TransportServiceAdapter {
 
-        @Override public void received(long size) {
-            rxCount.getAndIncrement();
-            rxBytes.addAndGet(size);
-        }
-
-        @Override public void sent(long size) {
-            txCount.getAndIncrement();
-            txBytes.addAndGet(size);
-        }
-
         @Override public TransportRequestHandler handler(String action) {
             return serverHandlers.get(action);
         }
diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportServiceAdapter.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportServiceAdapter.java
index 6e33c84199e..9dee61a84c4 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportServiceAdapter.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportServiceAdapter.java
@@ -33,8 +33,4 @@ public interface TransportServiceAdapter {
     void raiseNodeConnected(DiscoveryNode node);
 
     void raiseNodeDisconnected(DiscoveryNode node);
-
-    void received(long size);
-
-    void sent(long size);
 }
diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportStats.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportStats.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 00210ff6484..00000000000
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportStats.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,118 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to Elastic Search and Shay Banon under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership. Elastic Search licenses this
- * file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-package org.elasticsearch.transport;
-
-import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Streamable;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.ByteSizeValue;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.ToXContent;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.Serializable;
-
-/**
- * @author kimchy (shay.banon)
- */
-public class TransportStats implements Streamable, Serializable, ToXContent {
-
-    private long rxCount;
-
-    private long rxSize;
-
-    private long txCount;
-
-    private long txSize;
-
-    TransportStats() {
-    }
-
-    public TransportStats(long rxCount, long rxSize, long txCount, long txSize) {
-        this.rxCount = rxCount;
-        this.rxSize = rxSize;
-        this.txCount = txCount;
-        this.txSize = txSize;
-    }
-
-    @Override public XContentBuilder toXContent(XContentBuilder builder, Params params) throws IOException {
-        builder.startObject("transport");
-        builder.field("rx_count", rxCount);
-        builder.field("rx_size", rxSize().toString());
-        builder.field("rx_size_in_bytes", rxSize);
-        builder.field("tx_count", txCount);
-        builder.field("tx_size", txSize().toString());
-        builder.field("tx_size_in_bytes", txSize);
-        builder.endObject();
-        return builder;
-    }
-
-    public static TransportStats readTransportStats(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
-        TransportStats stats = new TransportStats();
-        stats.readFrom(in);
-        return stats;
-    }
-
-    @Override public void readFrom(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
-        rxCount = in.readVLong();
-        rxSize = in.readVLong();
-        txCount = in.readVLong();
-        txSize = in.readVLong();
-    }
-
-    @Override public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
-        out.writeVLong(rxCount);
-        out.writeVLong(rxSize);
-        out.writeVLong(txCount);
-        out.writeVLong(txSize);
-    }
-
-    public long rxCount() {
-        return rxCount;
-    }
-
-    public long getRxCount() {
-        return rxCount();
-    }
-
-    public ByteSizeValue rxSize() {
-        return new ByteSizeValue(rxSize);
-    }
-
-    public ByteSizeValue getRxSize() {
-        return rxSize();
-    }
-
-    public long txCount() {
-        return txCount;
-    }
-
-    public long getTxCount() {
-        return txCount();
-    }
-
-    public ByteSizeValue txSize() {
-        return new ByteSizeValue(txSize);
-    }
-
-    public ByteSizeValue getTxSize() {
-        return txSize();
-    }
-}
diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/local/LocalTransport.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/local/LocalTransport.java
index bf457cfe4d6..17f96d8e7e1 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/local/LocalTransport.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/local/LocalTransport.java
@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ import org.elasticsearch.common.Nullable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.component.AbstractLifecycleComponent;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Inject;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.ThrowableObjectInputStream;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.*;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.BytesStreamInput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.BytesStreamOutput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.CachedStreamInput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.CachedStreamOutput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.HandlesStreamOutput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Streamable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.ImmutableSettings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.transport.BoundTransportAddress;
@@ -154,8 +160,6 @@ public class LocalTransport extends AbstractLifecycleComponent<Transport> implem
 
             final byte[] data = ((BytesStreamOutput) stream.wrappedOut()).copiedByteArray();
 
-            transportServiceAdapter.sent(data.length);
-
             threadPool.cached().execute(new Runnable() {
                 @Override public void run() {
                     targetTransport.messageReceived(data, action, LocalTransport.this, requestId);
@@ -171,8 +175,6 @@ public class LocalTransport extends AbstractLifecycleComponent<Transport> implem
     }
 
     void messageReceived(byte[] data, String action, LocalTransport sourceTransport, @Nullable final Long sendRequestId) {
-        transportServiceAdapter.received(data.length);
-
         StreamInput stream = new BytesStreamInput(data);
         stream = CachedStreamInput.cachedHandles(stream);
 
diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty/MessageChannelHandler.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty/MessageChannelHandler.java
index 9cef4537173..6a9b49dceac 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty/MessageChannelHandler.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty/MessageChannelHandler.java
@@ -26,9 +26,18 @@ import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Streamable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.logging.ESLogger;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.*;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.ExceptionEvent;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.MessageEvent;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler;
 import org.elasticsearch.threadpool.ThreadPool;
-import org.elasticsearch.transport.*;
+import org.elasticsearch.transport.ActionNotFoundTransportException;
+import org.elasticsearch.transport.RemoteTransportException;
+import org.elasticsearch.transport.ResponseHandlerFailureTransportException;
+import org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportRequestHandler;
+import org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportResponseHandler;
+import org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportSerializationException;
+import org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportServiceAdapter;
 import org.elasticsearch.transport.support.TransportStreams;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -53,18 +62,11 @@ public class MessageChannelHandler extends SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler {
         this.logger = logger;
     }
 
-    @Override public void writeComplete(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, WriteCompletionEvent e) throws Exception {
-        transportServiceAdapter.sent(e.getWrittenAmount());
-        super.writeComplete(ctx, e);
-    }
-
     @Override public void messageReceived(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, MessageEvent event) throws Exception {
         ChannelBuffer buffer = (ChannelBuffer) event.getMessage();
 
         int size = buffer.getInt(buffer.readerIndex() - 4);
 
-        transportServiceAdapter.received(size + 4);
-
         int markedReaderIndex = buffer.readerIndex();
         int expectedIndexReader = markedReaderIndex + size;