diff --git a/pkg/BUILD b/pkg/BUILD
index da105e0cf47..c9206cd8432 100644
--- a/pkg/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/BUILD
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ filegroup(
         "//pkg/client/listers/scheduling/internalversion:all-srcs",
         "//pkg/client/listers/settings/internalversion:all-srcs",
         "//pkg/client/listers/storage/internalversion:all-srcs",
-        "//pkg/client/metrics:all-srcs",
+        "//pkg/client/metrics/prometheus:all-srcs",
         "//pkg/client/testdata:all-srcs",
         "//pkg/client/tests:all-srcs",
         "//pkg/client/unversioned:all-srcs",
diff --git a/pkg/client/metrics/BUILD b/pkg/client/metrics/BUILD
deleted file mode 100644
index 490177eaed5..00000000000
--- a/pkg/client/metrics/BUILD
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-package(default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"])
-
-load(
-    "@io_bazel_rules_go//go:def.bzl",
-    "go_library",
-)
-
-go_library(
-    name = "go_default_library",
-    srcs = ["metrics.go"],
-)
-
-filegroup(
-    name = "package-srcs",
-    srcs = glob(["**"]),
-    tags = ["automanaged"],
-    visibility = ["//visibility:private"],
-)
-
-filegroup(
-    name = "all-srcs",
-    srcs = [
-        ":package-srcs",
-        "//pkg/client/metrics/prometheus:all-srcs",
-    ],
-    tags = ["automanaged"],
-)
diff --git a/pkg/client/metrics/metrics.go b/pkg/client/metrics/metrics.go
deleted file mode 100644
index a01306c65df..00000000000
--- a/pkg/client/metrics/metrics.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +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.
-*/
-
-// Package metrics provides abstractions for registering which metrics
-// to record.
-package metrics
-
-import (
-	"net/url"
-	"sync"
-	"time"
-)
-
-var registerMetrics sync.Once
-
-// LatencyMetric observes client latency partitioned by verb and url.
-type LatencyMetric interface {
-	Observe(verb string, u url.URL, latency time.Duration)
-}
-
-// ResultMetric counts response codes partitioned by method and host.
-type ResultMetric interface {
-	Increment(code string, method string, host string)
-}
-
-var (
-	// RequestLatency is the latency metric that rest clients will update.
-	RequestLatency LatencyMetric = noopLatency{}
-	// RequestResult is the result metric that rest clients will update.
-	RequestResult ResultMetric = noopResult{}
-)
-
-// Register registers metrics for the rest client to use. This can
-// only be called once.
-func Register(lm LatencyMetric, rm ResultMetric) {
-	registerMetrics.Do(func() {
-		RequestLatency = lm
-		RequestResult = rm
-	})
-}
-
-type noopLatency struct{}
-
-func (noopLatency) Observe(string, url.URL, time.Duration) {}
-
-type noopResult struct{}
-
-func (noopResult) Increment(string, string, string) {}
diff --git a/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus/BUILD b/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus/BUILD
index 519bca71ca3..b2c562b7b38 100644
--- a/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus/BUILD
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ go_library(
     name = "go_default_library",
     srcs = ["prometheus.go"],
     deps = [
-        "//pkg/client/metrics:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus:go_default_library",
+        "//vendor/k8s.io/client-go/tools/metrics:go_default_library",
     ],
 )
 
diff --git a/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus/prometheus.go b/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus/prometheus.go
index d9265f4ddc3..45a08f6500e 100644
--- a/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus/prometheus.go
+++ b/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus/prometheus.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"net/url"
 	"time"
 
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/client/metrics"
+	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/metrics"
 
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 )