diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/Keyspace.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/Keyspace.java
index 2fe9197a50..8762643940 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/Keyspace.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/Keyspace.java
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ import java.util.concurrent.Future;
 
 import com.google.common.base.Function;
 import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
-import org.apache.cassandra.metrics.KeyspaceMetrics;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@ public class Keyspace
     /* ColumnFamilyStore per column family */
     private final ConcurrentMap<UUID, ColumnFamilyStore> columnFamilyStores = new ConcurrentHashMap<UUID, ColumnFamilyStore>();
     private volatile AbstractReplicationStrategy replicationStrategy;
-    public final KeyspaceMetrics metric;
+
     public static final Function<String,Keyspace> keyspaceTransformer = new Function<String, Keyspace>()
     {
         public Keyspace apply(String keyspaceName)
@@ -275,7 +274,6 @@ public class Keyspace
         metadata = Schema.instance.getKSMetaData(keyspaceName);
         assert metadata != null : "Unknown keyspace " + keyspaceName;
         createReplicationStrategy(metadata);
-        metric = new KeyspaceMetrics(this);
 
         for (CFMetaData cfm : new ArrayList<CFMetaData>(metadata.cfMetaData().values()))
         {