diff --git a/docker/config/local_dev.env b/docker/config/local_dev.env
index 8ce220d9a2..2310f68133 100644
--- a/docker/config/local_dev.env
+++ b/docker/config/local_dev.env
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=foo
 CACHE_LOCATION=memcached:11211
 DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:aPassword@postgresql:5432/breakpad
 ELASTICSEARCH_URLS=http://elasticsearch:9200
-NEWRELIC_PYTHON_INI_FILE=/etc/newrelic/newrelic.ini
 OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID=
 OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET=
 RABBITMQ_HOST=rabbitmq
diff --git a/requirements/default.txt b/requirements/default.txt
index 7736fde768..711ac001c0 100644
--- a/requirements/default.txt
+++ b/requirements/default.txt
@@ -136,8 +136,6 @@ datadog==0.19.0 \
 freezegun==0.3.9 \
     --hash=sha256:8842688de9497c82ecb40c30274ecc676e97ac78765b0ade105a97063d5b7a11 \
     --hash=sha256:783ccccd7f60968bfe49ad9e114c18ea2b63831faaaf61c1f1f71ddfde1c0eee
-newrelic==2.106.0.87 \
-    --hash=sha256:8f66edadcf8db74836fa804fcdd19d3fcfe9e080a8db411af34f2a9148e29eac
 contextlib2==0.5.5 \
     --hash=sha256:f5260a6e679d2ff42ec91ec5252f4eeffdcf21053db9113bd0a8e4d953769c00 \
     --hash=sha256:509f9419ee91cdd00ba34443217d5ca51f5a364a404e1dce9e8979cea969ca48
diff --git a/webapp-django/wsgi/socorro-crashstats.py b/webapp-django/wsgi/socorro-crashstats.py
index 39762f8421..05cffcb608 100644
--- a/webapp-django/wsgi/socorro-crashstats.py
+++ b/webapp-django/wsgi/socorro-crashstats.py
@@ -1,29 +1,8 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import os
-import sys
 
 os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'crashstats.settings')
 
 from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application  # noqa
 application = get_wsgi_application()
-
-
-try:
-    import newrelic.agent
-except ImportError:
-    newrelic = False
-
-
-if newrelic:
-    newrelic_ini = os.getenv('NEWRELIC_PYTHON_INI_FILE', None)
-    if newrelic_ini:
-        if os.path.isfile(newrelic_ini):
-            newrelic.agent.initialize(newrelic_ini)
-            application = newrelic.agent.wsgi_application()(application)
-        else:
-            print(
-                "NEWRELIC_PYTHON_INI_FILE set but file does not exist. "
-                "Skipping to initialize newrelic agent.",
-                file=sys.stderr
-            )