diff --git a/bin/cfn-push-stats b/bin/cfn-push-stats
deleted file mode 100755
index 29f1fab..0000000
--- a/bin/cfn-push-stats
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,286 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-#
-#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-#    a copy of the License at
-#
-#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-#    under the License.
-
-"""
-Implements cfn-push-stats CloudFormation functionality
-"""
-import argparse
-import logging
-import os
-import subprocess
-
-# Override BOTO_CONFIG, which makes boto look only at the specified
-# config file, instead of the default locations
-os.environ['BOTO_CONFIG'] = '/var/lib/heat-cfntools/cfn-boto-cfg'
-from boto.ec2 import cloudwatch  # noqa
-
-
-log_format = '%(levelname)s [%(asctime)s] %(message)s'
-log_file_name = "/var/log/cfn-push-stats.log"
-logging.basicConfig(filename=log_file_name,
-                    format=log_format)
-LOG = logging.getLogger('cfntools')
-
-try:
-    import psutil
-except ImportError:
-    LOG.warning("psutil not available. If you want process and memory "
-                "statistics, you need to install it.")
-
-from heat_cfntools.cfntools import cfn_helper  # noqa
-
-KILO = 1024
-MEGA = 1048576
-GIGA = 1073741824
-unit_map = {'bytes': 1,
-            'kilobytes': KILO,
-            'megabytes': MEGA,
-            'gigabytes': GIGA}
-
-description = " "
-parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description)
-parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', action="store_true",
-                    help="Verbose logging", required=False)
-parser.add_argument('--credential-file', dest="credential_file",
-                    help="credential-file", required=False,
-                    default='/etc/cfn/cfn-credentials')
-parser.add_argument('--service-failure', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports a service failure.')
-parser.add_argument('--mem-util', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports memory utilization in percentages.')
-parser.add_argument('--mem-used', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports memory used (excluding cache/buffers) '
-                         'in megabytes.')
-parser.add_argument('--mem-avail', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports available memory (including cache/buffers) '
-                         'in megabytes.')
-parser.add_argument('--swap-util', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports swap utilization in percentages.')
-parser.add_argument('--swap-used', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports allocated swap space in megabytes.')
-parser.add_argument('--disk-space-util', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports disk space utilization in percentages.')
-parser.add_argument('--disk-space-used', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports allocated disk space in gigabytes.')
-parser.add_argument('--disk-space-avail', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports available disk space in gigabytes.')
-parser.add_argument('--memory-units', required=False, default='megabytes',
-                    help='Specifies units for memory metrics.')
-parser.add_argument('--disk-units', required=False, default='megabytes',
-                    help='Specifies units for disk metrics.')
-parser.add_argument('--disk-path', required=False, default='/',
-                    help='Selects the disk by the path on which to report.')
-parser.add_argument('--cpu-util', required=False, action="store_true",
-                    help='Reports cpu utilization in percentages.')
-parser.add_argument('--haproxy', required=False, action='store_true',
-                    help='Reports HAProxy loadbalancer usage.')
-parser.add_argument('--haproxy-latency', required=False, action='store_true',
-                    help='Reports HAProxy latency')
-parser.add_argument('--heartbeat', required=False, action='store_true',
-                    help='Sends a Heartbeat.')
-parser.add_argument('--watch', required=False,
-                    help='the name of the watch to post to.')
-parser.add_argument('--metric', required=False,
-                    help='name of the metric to post to.')
-parser.add_argument('--units', required=False,
-                    help='name of the units to be used for the specified'
-                    'metric')
-parser.add_argument('--value', required=False,
-                    help='value to post to the specified metric')
-args = parser.parse_args()
-
-LOG.debug('cfn-push-stats called %s ' % (str(args)))
-
-credentials = cfn_helper.parse_creds_file(args.credential_file)
-
-namespace = 'system/linux'
-data = {}
-
-# Logging
-# =======
-if args.verbose:
-    LOG.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
-
-# Generic user-specified metric
-# =============================
-if args.metric and args.units and args.value:
-    data[args.metric] = {
-        'Value': args.value,
-        'Units': args.units}
-
-# service failure
-# ===============
-if args.service_failure:
-    data['ServiceFailure'] = {
-        'Value': 1,
-        'Units': 'Counter'}
-
-# heartbeat
-# ========
-if args.heartbeat:
-    data['Heartbeat'] = {
-        'Value': 1,
-        'Units': 'Counter'}
-
-# memory space
-# ============
-if args.mem_util or args.mem_used or args.mem_avail:
-    mem = psutil.phymem_usage()
-if args.mem_util:
-    data['MemoryUtilization'] = {
-        'Value': mem.percent,
-        'Units': 'Percent'}
-if args.mem_used:
-    data['MemoryUsed'] = {
-        'Value': mem.used / unit_map[args.memory_units],
-        'Units': args.memory_units}
-if args.mem_avail:
-    data['MemoryAvailable'] = {
-        'Value': mem.free / unit_map[args.memory_units],
-        'Units': args.memory_units}
-
-# swap space
-# ==========
-if args.swap_util or args.swap_used:
-    swap = psutil.virtmem_usage()
-if args.swap_util:
-    data['SwapUtilization'] = {
-        'Value': swap.percent,
-        'Units': 'Percent'}
-if args.swap_used:
-    data['SwapUsed'] = {
-        'Value': swap.used / unit_map[args.memory_units],
-        'Units': args.memory_units}
-
-# disk space
-# ==========
-if args.disk_space_util or args.disk_space_used or args.disk_space_avail:
-    disk = psutil.disk_usage(args.disk_path)
-if args.disk_space_util:
-    data['DiskSpaceUtilization'] = {
-        'Value': disk.percent,
-        'Units': 'Percent'}
-if args.disk_space_used:
-    data['DiskSpaceUsed'] = {
-        'Value': disk.used / unit_map[args.disk_units],
-        'Units': args.disk_units}
-if args.disk_space_avail:
-    data['DiskSpaceAvailable'] = {
-        'Value': disk.free / unit_map[args.disk_units],
-        'Units': args.disk_units}
-
-# cpu utilization
-# ===============
-if args.cpu_util:
-    # blocks for 1 second.
-    cpu_percent = psutil.cpu_percent(interval=1)
-    data['CPUUtilization'] = {
-        'Value': cpu_percent,
-        'Units': 'Percent'}
-
-
-# HAProxy
-# =======
-def parse_haproxy_unix_socket(res, latency_only=False):
-    # http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest
-    # /DeveloperGuide/US_MonitoringLoadBalancerWithCW.html
-
-    type_map = {'FRONTEND': '0', 'BACKEND': '1', 'SERVER': '2', 'SOCKET': '3'}
-    num_map = {'status': 17, 'svname': 1, 'check_duration': 38, 'type': 32,
-               'req_tot': 48, 'hrsp_2xx': 40, 'hrsp_3xx': 41, 'hrsp_4xx': 42,
-               'hrsp_5xx': 43}
-
-    def add_stat(key, value, unit='Counter'):
-        res[key] = {'Value': value,
-                    'Units': unit}
-
-    echo = subprocess.Popen(['echo', 'show stat'],
-                            stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
-    socat = subprocess.Popen(['socat', 'stdio', '/tmp/.haproxy-stats'],
-                             stdin=echo.stdout,
-                             stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
-    end_pipe = socat.stdout
-    raw = [l.strip('\n').split(',')
-           for l in end_pipe if l[0] != '#' and len(l) > 2]
-    latency = 0
-    up_count = 0
-    down_count = 0
-    for f in raw:
-        if latency_only is False:
-            if f[num_map['type']] == type_map['FRONTEND']:
-                add_stat('RequestCount', f[num_map['req_tot']])
-                add_stat('HTTPCode_ELB_4XX', f[num_map['hrsp_4xx']])
-                add_stat('HTTPCode_ELB_5XX', f[num_map['hrsp_5xx']])
-            elif f[num_map['type']] == type_map['BACKEND']:
-                add_stat('HTTPCode_Backend_2XX', f[num_map['hrsp_2xx']])
-                add_stat('HTTPCode_Backend_3XX', f[num_map['hrsp_3xx']])
-                add_stat('HTTPCode_Backend_4XX', f[num_map['hrsp_4xx']])
-                add_stat('HTTPCode_Backend_5XX', f[num_map['hrsp_5xx']])
-            else:
-                if f[num_map['status']] == 'UP':
-                    up_count = up_count + 1
-                else:
-                    down_count = down_count + 1
-        if f[num_map['check_duration']] != '':
-            latency = max(float(f[num_map['check_duration']]), latency)
-
-    # note: haproxy's check_duration is in ms, but Latency is in seconds
-    add_stat('Latency', str(latency / 1000), unit='Seconds')
-    if latency_only is False:
-        add_stat('HealthyHostCount', str(up_count))
-        add_stat('UnHealthyHostCount', str(down_count))
-
-
-def send_stats(info):
-
-    # Create boto connection, need the hard-coded port/path as boto
-    # can't read these from config values in BOTO_CONFIG
-    # FIXME : currently only http due to is_secure=False
-    client = cloudwatch.CloudWatchConnection(
-        aws_access_key_id=credentials['AWSAccessKeyId'],
-        aws_secret_access_key=credentials['AWSSecretKey'],
-        is_secure=False, port=8003, path="/v1", debug=0)
-
-    # Then we send the metric datapoints passed in "info", note this could
-    # contain multiple keys as the options parsed above are not exclusive
-    # The alarm name is passed as a dimension so the metric datapoint can
-    # be associated with the alarm/watch in the engine
-    metadata = cfn_helper.Metadata('not-used', None)
-    metric_dims = metadata.get_tags()
-    if args.watch:
-        metric_dims['AlarmName'] = args.watch
-    for key in info:
-        LOG.info("Sending metric %s, Units %s, Value %s" %
-                 (key, info[key]['Units'], info[key]['Value']))
-        client.put_metric_data(namespace=namespace,
-                               name=key,
-                               value=info[key]['Value'],
-                               timestamp=None,  # means use "now" in the engine
-                               unit=info[key]['Units'],
-                               dimensions=metric_dims,
-                               statistics=None)
-
-
-if args.haproxy:
-    namespace = 'AWS/ELB'
-    lb_data = {}
-    parse_haproxy_unix_socket(lb_data)
-    send_stats(lb_data)
-elif args.haproxy_latency:
-    namespace = 'AWS/ELB'
-    lb_data = {}
-    parse_haproxy_unix_socket(lb_data, latency_only=True)
-    send_stats(lb_data)
-else:
-    send_stats(data)
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/remove-cfn-push-stats-fe0cb5de0d6077cc.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/remove-cfn-push-stats-fe0cb5de0d6077cc.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2caa140
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/remove-cfn-push-stats-fe0cb5de0d6077cc.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+upgrade:
+  - |
+    The ``cfn-push-stats`` tool has been removed. This tools required
+    the CloudWatch API of heat, which was already removed.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 54f86e1..14da8ba 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -29,5 +29,4 @@ scripts =
     bin/cfn-get-metadata
     bin/cfn-hup
     bin/cfn-init
-    bin/cfn-push-stats
     bin/cfn-signal