diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-stats/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable-stats/pom.xml
index 78e7cc5fc2..74ae274f6c 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-stats/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-stats/pom.xml
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@
                     <groupId>com.google.http-client</groupId>
                     <artifactId>google-http-client</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <!-- opencensus-proto is not used, excluding it to avoid conflicts in google-cloud-bigtable -->
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>opencensus-proto</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
index 1be4f68144..826c6f23dc 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@
         <type>pom</type>
         <scope>import</scope>
       </dependency>
-
     </dependencies>
   </dependencyManagement>
 
@@ -664,16 +663,7 @@
           <usedDependencies>io.grpc:grpc-auth,io.grpc:grpc-grpclb</usedDependencies>
           <ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependencies>
             <ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>io.opencensus:opencensus-impl-core</ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>
-<!--            <ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>com.google.cloud:google-cloud-monitoring</ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>-->
-<!--            <ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-cloud-monitoring-v3</ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>-->
           </ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependencies>
-<!--          <ignoredNonTestScopedDependencies>-->
-<!--            <ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>com.google.cloud:google-cloud-monitoring</ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>-->
-<!--            <ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>com.google.api.grpc:proto-google-cloud-monitoring-v3</ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>-->
-<!--            <ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>io.grpc:grpc-netty-shaded</ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>-->
-<!--            <ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>io.grpc:grpc-context</ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>-->
-<!--            <ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>io.grpc:grpc-core</ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>-->
-<!--          </ignoredNonTestScopedDependencies>-->
         </configuration>
       </plugin>