diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b175c8e6502..7046a3a50ff 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4674,7 +4674,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "ed25519-zebra",
  "futures",
  "futures-core",
- "metrics 0.22.0",
  "pin-project",
  "rand 0.8.5",
  "rayon",
diff --git a/tower-batch-control/Cargo.toml b/tower-batch-control/Cargo.toml
index 702c851c4a9..b6c96b871f2 100644
--- a/tower-batch-control/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tower-batch-control/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 [package]
 name = "tower-batch-control"
 version = "0.2.41-beta.9"
-authors = ["Zcash Foundation <zebra@zfnd.org>", "Tower Maintainers <team@tower-rs.com>"]
+authors = [
+  "Zcash Foundation <zebra@zfnd.org>",
+  "Tower Maintainers <team@tower-rs.com>",
+]
 description = "Tower middleware for batch request processing"
 # # Legal
 #
@@ -34,7 +37,6 @@ tracing-futures = "0.2.5"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 color-eyre = "0.6.2"
-metrics = "0.22.0"
 # This is a transitive dependency via color-eyre.
 # Enable a feature that makes tinyvec compile much faster.
 tinyvec = { version = "1.6.0", features = ["rustc_1_55"] }
diff --git a/tower-batch-control/tests/ed25519.rs b/tower-batch-control/tests/ed25519.rs
index f50de6608c0..cae118d0ab5 100644
--- a/tower-batch-control/tests/ed25519.rs
+++ b/tower-batch-control/tests/ed25519.rs
@@ -122,10 +122,8 @@ impl Service<BatchControl<Item>> for Verifier {
 
                             if result.is_ok() {
                                 tracing::trace!(?result, "validated ed25519 signature");
-                                metrics::counter!("signatures.ed25519.validated").increment(1);
                             } else {
                                 tracing::trace!(?result, "invalid ed25519 signature");
-                                metrics::counter!("signatures.ed25519.invalid").increment(1);
                             }
                             result.map_err(BoxError::from)
                         }