diff --git a/airflow/jobs/scheduler_job_runner.py b/airflow/jobs/scheduler_job_runner.py
index 2373c974f7271..706d980253a85 100644
--- a/airflow/jobs/scheduler_job_runner.py
+++ b/airflow/jobs/scheduler_job_runner.py
@@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ def _executable_task_instances_to_queued(self, max_tis: int, session: Session) -
             states=list(EXECUTION_STATES), session=session
         )
 
-        num_tasks_in_executor = 0
         # Number of tasks that cannot be scheduled because of no open slot in pool
         num_starving_tasks_total = 0
 
@@ -523,7 +522,6 @@ def _executable_task_instances_to_queued(self, max_tis: int, session: Session) -
             Stats.gauge(f"pool.starving_tasks.{pool_name}", num_starving_tasks)
 
         Stats.gauge("scheduler.tasks.starving", num_starving_tasks_total)
-        Stats.gauge("scheduler.tasks.running", num_tasks_in_executor)
         Stats.gauge("scheduler.tasks.executable", len(executable_tis))
 
         if len(executable_tis) > 0:
diff --git a/docs/apache-airflow/administration-and-deployment/logging-monitoring/metrics.rst b/docs/apache-airflow/administration-and-deployment/logging-monitoring/metrics.rst
index 650e31bdb070c..3d00ebbae93c3 100644
--- a/docs/apache-airflow/administration-and-deployment/logging-monitoring/metrics.rst
+++ b/docs/apache-airflow/administration-and-deployment/logging-monitoring/metrics.rst
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ Name                                                Description
 ``dag_processing.file_path_queue_size``             Number of DAG files to be considered for the next scan
 ``dag_processing.last_run.seconds_ago.<dag_file>``  Seconds since ``<dag_file>`` was last processed
 ``dag_processing.file_path_queue_size``             Size of the dag file queue.
-``scheduler.tasks.running``                         Number of tasks running in executor
 ``scheduler.tasks.starving``                        Number of tasks that cannot be scheduled because of no open slot in pool
 ``scheduler.tasks.executable``                      Number of tasks that are ready for execution (set to queued)
                                                     with respect to pool limits, DAG concurrency, executor state,
diff --git a/newsfragments/30374.significant.rst b/newsfragments/30374.significant.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d6c32cbdae1d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/30374.significant.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+The gauge ``scheduler.tasks.running`` no longer exist
+
+The gauge has never been working and its value has always been 0. Having an accurate
+value for this metric is complex so it has been decided that removing this gauge makes
+more sense than fixing it with no certainty of the correctness of its value.