diff --git a/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/BUILD b/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/BUILD
index cab20dd7c9c..8cf744f52e6 100644
--- a/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/BUILD
+++ b/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/BUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ go_library(
     name = "go_default_library",
     srcs = [
         "accelerator.go",
-        "cadvisor.go",
         "custom_metrics_deployments.go",
         "custom_metrics_stackdriver.go",
         "metrics_grabber.go",
@@ -35,7 +34,6 @@ go_library(
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/metrics/pkg/client/external_metrics:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework/autoscaling:go_default_library",
-        "//test/e2e/framework/config:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework/gpu:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework/metrics:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework/node:go_default_library",
diff --git a/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/cadvisor.go b/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/cadvisor.go
deleted file mode 100644
index f2079efcfd9..00000000000
--- a/test/e2e/instrumentation/monitoring/cadvisor.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Copyright 2017 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.
-*/
-
-package monitoring
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"time"
-
-	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
-	clientset "k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework"
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/config"
-	instrumentation "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/instrumentation/common"
-
-	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
-)
-
-var cadvisor struct {
-	MaxRetries    int           `default:"6"`
-	SleepDuration time.Duration `default:"10000ms"`
-}
-var _ = config.AddOptions(&cadvisor, "instrumentation.monitoring.cadvisor")
-
-var _ = instrumentation.SIGDescribe("Cadvisor", func() {
-
-	f := framework.NewDefaultFramework("cadvisor")
-
-	ginkgo.It("should be healthy on every node.", func() {
-		CheckCadvisorHealthOnAllNodes(f.ClientSet, 5*time.Minute)
-	})
-})
-
-// CheckCadvisorHealthOnAllNodes check cadvisor health via kubelet endpoint
-func CheckCadvisorHealthOnAllNodes(c clientset.Interface, timeout time.Duration) {
-	// It should be OK to list unschedulable Nodes here.
-	ginkgo.By("getting list of nodes")
-	nodeList, err := c.CoreV1().Nodes().List(metav1.ListOptions{})
-	framework.ExpectNoError(err)
-	var errors []error
-
-	maxRetries := cadvisor.MaxRetries
-	for {
-		errors = []error{}
-		for _, node := range nodeList.Items {
-			// cadvisor is not accessible directly unless its port (4194 by default) is exposed.
-			// Here, we access '/stats/' REST endpoint on the kubelet which polls cadvisor internally.
-			statsResource := fmt.Sprintf("api/v1/nodes/%s/proxy/stats/", node.Name)
-			ginkgo.By(fmt.Sprintf("Querying stats from node %s using url %s", node.Name, statsResource))
-			_, err = c.CoreV1().RESTClient().Get().AbsPath(statsResource).Timeout(timeout).Do().Raw()
-			if err != nil {
-				errors = append(errors, err)
-			}
-		}
-		if len(errors) == 0 {
-			return
-		}
-		if maxRetries--; maxRetries <= 0 {
-			break
-		}
-		framework.Logf("failed to retrieve kubelet stats -\n %v", errors)
-		time.Sleep(cadvisor.SleepDuration)
-	}
-	framework.Failf("Failed after retrying %d times for cadvisor to be healthy on all nodes. Errors:\n%v", maxRetries, errors)
-}