diff --git a/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/cri.go b/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/cri.go
index 087f097724..695344284d 100644
--- a/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/cri.go
+++ b/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/cri.go
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ import (
 const (
 	// unixProtocol is the network protocol of unix socket.
 	unixProtocol = "unix"
-
-	k8sContainerdNamespace = "k8s.io"
 )
 
 // getAddressAndDialer returns the address parsed from the given endpoint and a context dialer.
diff --git a/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/metrics.go b/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/metrics.go
index bbc62d18d3..558bb4f15b 100644
--- a/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/metrics.go
+++ b/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/metrics.go
@@ -9,15 +9,12 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"compress/gzip"
 	"io"
-	"io/ioutil"
 	"net/http"
-	"path/filepath"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime/pkg/types"
 	mutils "github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime/pkg/utils"
 
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
@@ -72,23 +69,6 @@ func registerMetrics() {
 	prometheus.MustRegister(scrapeDurationsHistogram)
 }
 
-// getMonitorAddress get metrics address for a sandbox, the abstract unix socket address is saved
-// in `metrics_address` with the same place of `address`.
-func (km *KataMonitor) getMonitorAddress(sandboxID, runtime string) (string, error) {
-	path := filepath.Join("/run/containerd", types.ContainerdRuntimeTaskPath, k8sContainerdNamespace, sandboxID, "monitor_address")
-	if runtime == RuntimeCRIO {
-		path = filepath.Join("/run/containers/storage/overlay-containers", sandboxID, "userdata", "monitor_address")
-	}
-
-	monitorLog.WithField("path", path).Debug("get monitor address")
-
-	data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	return string(data), nil
-}
-
 // ProcessMetricsRequest get metrics from shim/hypervisor/vm/agent and return metrics to client.
 func (km *KataMonitor) ProcessMetricsRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	start := time.Now()
diff --git a/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/pprof.go b/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/pprof.go
index 11f5c34cf4..2060fe3dd3 100644
--- a/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/pprof.go
+++ b/src/runtime/pkg/kata-monitor/pprof.go
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
+
+	shim "github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime/containerd-shim-v2"
 )
 
 func serveError(w http.ResponseWriter, status int, txt string) {
@@ -27,12 +29,7 @@ func (km *KataMonitor) composeSocketAddress(r *http.Request) (string, error) {
 		return "", err
 	}
 
-	runtime, err := km.getSandboxRuntime(sandbox)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	return km.getMonitorAddress(sandbox, runtime)
+	return shim.SocketAddress(sandbox), nil
 }
 
 func (km *KataMonitor) proxyRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {