diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index de39df46f..77743ee80 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -260,9 +260,6 @@
**/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/metrics/**
-
- com.google.cloud.bigtable.stats
-
https://googleapis.dev/java/gax/${gax.version}/