diff --git a/api_core/google/api_core/gapic_v1/method.py b/api_core/google/api_core/gapic_v1/method.py
index 0e84a84ece9f..50d43569d289 100644
--- a/api_core/google/api_core/gapic_v1/method.py
+++ b/api_core/google/api_core/gapic_v1/method.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 from google.api_core import timeout
 from google.api_core.gapic_v1 import client_info
 
-METRICS_METADATA_KEY = 'x-goog-api-client'
 USE_DEFAULT_METADATA = object()
 DEFAULT = object()
 """Sentinel value indicating that a retry or timeout argument was unspecified,