diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/server/BUILD b/pkg/kubelet/server/BUILD
index 0d8138acf2d..c2e338a1ad8 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/server/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/server/BUILD
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ go_library(
         "//pkg/kubelet/server/streaming:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubelet/types:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/util/configz:go_default_library",
-        "//pkg/util/limitwriter:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/emicklei/go-restful:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/golang/glog:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/google/cadvisor/info/v1:go_default_library",
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/server/server.go b/pkg/kubelet/server/server.go
index b472015e148..fdde1fee4e8 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/server/server.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/server/server.go
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/server/streaming"
 	kubelettypes "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/types"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/configz"
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/limitwriter"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -532,17 +531,9 @@ func (s *Server) getContainerLogs(request *restful.Request, response *restful.Re
 		return
 	}
 	fw := flushwriter.Wrap(response.ResponseWriter)
-	// Byte limit logic is already implemented in kuberuntime. However, we still need this for
-	// old runtime integration.
-	// TODO(random-liu): Remove this once we switch to CRI integration.
-	if logOptions.LimitBytes != nil {
-		fw = limitwriter.New(fw, *logOptions.LimitBytes)
-	}
 	response.Header().Set("Transfer-Encoding", "chunked")
 	if err := s.host.GetKubeletContainerLogs(kubecontainer.GetPodFullName(pod), containerName, logOptions, fw, fw); err != nil {
-		if err != limitwriter.ErrMaximumWrite {
-			response.WriteError(http.StatusBadRequest, err)
-		}
+		response.WriteError(http.StatusBadRequest, err)
 		return
 	}
 }
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/server/server_test.go b/pkg/kubelet/server/server_test.go
index b5169de1a7c..cdb978078cf 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/server/server_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/server/server_test.go
@@ -943,33 +943,6 @@ func TestContainerLogs(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestContainerLogsWithLimitBytes(t *testing.T) {
-	fw := newServerTest()
-	defer fw.testHTTPServer.Close()
-	output := "foo bar"
-	podNamespace := "other"
-	podName := "foo"
-	expectedPodName := getPodName(podName, podNamespace)
-	expectedContainerName := "baz"
-	bytes := int64(3)
-	setPodByNameFunc(fw, podNamespace, podName, expectedContainerName)
-	setGetContainerLogsFunc(fw, t, expectedPodName, expectedContainerName, &v1.PodLogOptions{LimitBytes: &bytes}, output)
-	resp, err := http.Get(fw.testHTTPServer.URL + "/containerLogs/" + podNamespace + "/" + podName + "/" + expectedContainerName + "?limitBytes=3")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("Got error GETing: %v", err)
-	}
-	defer resp.Body.Close()
-
-	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("Error reading container logs: %v", err)
-	}
-	result := string(body)
-	if result != output[:bytes] {
-		t.Errorf("Expected: '%v', got: '%v'", output[:bytes], result)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestContainerLogsWithTail(t *testing.T) {
 	fw := newServerTest()
 	defer fw.testHTTPServer.Close()