diff --git a/atlasdb-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/AtlasDbMetricNames.java b/atlasdb-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/AtlasDbMetricNames.java
index 5428922a6bd..ef9a1e9e462 100644
--- a/atlasdb-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/AtlasDbMetricNames.java
+++ b/atlasdb-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/AtlasDbMetricNames.java
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ private CellFilterMetrics() {
     public static final String SNAPSHOT_TRANSACTION_CELLS_RETURNED = "numCellsReturnedAfterFiltering";
     public static final String SNAPSHOT_TRANSACTION_TOO_MANY_BYTES_READ = "tooManyBytesRead";
     public static final String SNAPSHOT_TRANSACTION_BYTES_WRITTEN = "bytesWritten";
-    public static final String NUMBER_OF_TRANSACTIONS_READ_FROM_DB = "transactionsReadFromDB";
 
     public static final String CELLS_EXAMINED = "cellTimestampPairsExamined";
     public static final String CELLS_SWEPT = "staleValuesDeleted";
diff --git a/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/transaction/impl/SnapshotTransaction.java b/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/transaction/impl/SnapshotTransaction.java
index 909d90991dd..fbe1ae1fe0c 100644
--- a/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/transaction/impl/SnapshotTransaction.java
+++ b/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/transaction/impl/SnapshotTransaction.java
@@ -2246,8 +2246,6 @@ protected ListenableFuture<Map<Long, Long>> getCommitTimestamps(
             logLargeNumberOfTransactions(tableRef, gets);
         }
 
-        getHistogram(AtlasDbMetricNames.NUMBER_OF_TRANSACTIONS_READ_FROM_DB, tableRef).update(gets.size());
-
         return Futures.transform(loadCommitTimestamps(asyncTransactionService, gets),
                 rawResults -> {
                     for (Map.Entry<Long, Long> e : rawResults.entrySet()) {
diff --git a/changelog/@unreleased/pr-4838.v2.yml b/changelog/@unreleased/pr-4838.v2.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3fb92d1b497
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/@unreleased/pr-4838.v2.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+type: improvement
+improvement:
+  description: 'AtlasDB no longer publishes `transactionsReadFromDB`: it was a high
+    cardinality metric of limited value. Consider using `TransactionService.get` if
+    attempting to determine the total number of start-commit timestamp mappings looked
+    up from the transactions tables. Otherwise, consider enabling TRACE logging to
+    get this data.'
+  links:
+  - https://github.com/palantir/atlasdb/pull/4838