diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/prompush.go b/test/e2e/framework/prompush.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d6b17fa016..00000000000
--- a/test/e2e/framework/prompush.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Copyright 2015 The Kubernetes Authors.
-
-Licensed 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.
-*/
-
-//This is a utility for prometheus pushing functionality.
-package framework
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-
-	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
-)
-
-// Prometheus stuff: Setup metrics.
-var runningMetric = prometheus.NewGauge(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
-	Name: "e2e_running",
-	Help: "The num of running pods",
-})
-
-var pendingMetric = prometheus.NewGauge(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
-	Name: "e2e_pending",
-	Help: "The num of pending pods",
-})
-
-// Turn this to true after we register.
-var prom_registered = false
-
-// Reusable function for pushing metrics to prometheus.  Handles initialization and so on.
-func promPushRunningPending(running, pending int) error {
-	if TestContext.PrometheusPushGateway == "" {
-		return nil
-	} else {
-		// Register metrics if necessary
-		if !prom_registered && TestContext.PrometheusPushGateway != "" {
-			prometheus.Register(runningMetric)
-			prometheus.Register(pendingMetric)
-			prom_registered = true
-		}
-		// Update metric values
-		runningMetric.Set(float64(running))
-		pendingMetric.Set(float64(pending))
-
-		// Push them to the push gateway.  This will be scraped by prometheus
-		// provided you launch it with the pushgateway as an endpoint.
-		if err := prometheus.Push(
-			"e2e",
-			"none",
-			TestContext.PrometheusPushGateway, //i.e. "127.0.0.1:9091"
-		); err != nil {
-			fmt.Println("failed at pushing to pushgateway ", err)
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/util.go b/test/e2e/framework/util.go
index e1cfd5e7cf1..d7ae4971c8c 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/util.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/util.go
@@ -2734,8 +2734,6 @@ func (config *RCConfig) start() error {
 			config.RCConfigLog(startupStatus.String(config.Name))
 		}
 
-		promPushRunningPending(startupStatus.Running, startupStatus.Pending)
-
 		if config.PodStatusFile != nil {
 			fmt.Fprintf(config.PodStatusFile, "%d, running, %d, pending, %d, waiting, %d, inactive, %d, unknown, %d, runningButNotReady\n", startupStatus.Running, startupStatus.Pending, startupStatus.Waiting, startupStatus.Inactive, startupStatus.Unknown, startupStatus.RunningButNotReady)
 		}