diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index c3ffe314f0..0000000000
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-#
-#   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-#   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-#   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-#   The ASF 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.
-#
-
-# syntax: [prefix].[source|sink].[instance].[options]
-# See javadoc of package-info.java for org.apache.hadoop.metrics2 for details
-
-*.sink.file.class=org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.sink.FileSink
-# default sampling period, in seconds
-*.period=10
-
-# The namenode-metrics.out will contain metrics from all context
-#namenode.sink.file.filename=namenode-metrics.out
-# Specifying a special sampling period for namenode:
-#namenode.sink.*.period=8
-
-#datanode.sink.file.filename=datanode-metrics.out
-
-# the following example split metrics of different
-# context to different sinks (in this case files)
-#jobtracker.sink.file_jvm.context=jvm
-#jobtracker.sink.file_jvm.filename=jobtracker-jvm-metrics.out
-#jobtracker.sink.file_mapred.context=mapred
-#jobtracker.sink.file_mapred.filename=jobtracker-mapred-metrics.out
-
-#tasktracker.sink.file.filename=tasktracker-metrics.out
-
-#maptask.sink.file.filename=maptask-metrics.out
-
-#reducetask.sink.file.filename=reducetask-metrics.out
-