diff --git a/apisix/plugins/echo-copy.lua b/apisix/plugins/echo-copy.lua
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d71880ccf7e2..0000000000000
--- a/apisix/plugins/echo-copy.lua
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
---
--- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
--- contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
--- this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
--- The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
---
-local core = require("apisix.core")
-local balancer = require("ngx.balancer")
-local ngx         = ngx
-
-
-local schema = {
-    type = "object",
-    properties = {
-        before_body = {type = "string"},
-        body = {type = "string"},
-        after_body = {type = "string"},
-        status_code = {type = "integer"},
-        headers = {
-            type = "object",
-            minProperties = 1,
-        },
-        request_uri = {type = "string"},
-        redirect_uri = {type = "string"}
-    }
-}
-
-local plugin_name = "echo-plugin"
-
-local _M = {
-    version = 0.1,
-    priority = 100,
-    name = plugin_name,
-    schema = schema,
-}
-
-
-function _M.check_schema(conf)
-    return core.schema.check(schema, conf)
-end
-
-function _M.init(conf, ctx)
-    core.log.warn("plugin init phase start you can initialize the lua_shared_dict shm storage at this phase")
-    local dict = ngx.shared.dogs;
-
-    if dict then
-        core.log.warn("plugin init phase removing cache for dogs shm storage")
-        dict.flush_all(dict)
-        dict.flush_expired(dict)
-    end
-
-    core.log.warn("plugin init phase you can preload lua modules during this phase")
-end
-
-
-function _M.body_filter(conf, ctx)
-    core.log.warn("plugin body filter phase, before body overide", core.json.encode(conf.before_body))
-    core.log.warn("plugin body filter phase, response body to use for the overide", core.json.encode(conf.body))
-    core.log.warn("plugin body filter phase, after response overide", core.json.encode(conf.after_body))
-end
-
-function _M.header_filter(conf, ctx)
-    if conf.status_code then
-        core.log.warn("plugin header filter phase, set the new status code ", core.json.encode(conf.status_code))
-    end
-
-    if conf.headers then
-        local field_cnt = #conf.headers
-        for i = 1, field_cnt, 2 do
-            core.log.warn("plugin header filter phase, header to add", core.json.encode(conf.headers_arr[i]))
-            core.log.warn("plugin header filter phase, corresponding value", core.json.encode(conf.headers_arr[i+1]))
-        end
-    end
-end
-
-function _M.access(conf, ctx)
-    local res = ngx.location.capture("/hello")
-    if res.status == ngx.HTTP_OK then
-        core.log.warn("plugin acess phase, The end point is accessible")
-    end
-
-    if res.status == ngx.HTTP_FORBIDDEN then
-        core.log.warn("plugin acess phase, The endpoint is not accessible try with authentication headers")
-    end
-
-    if(res.status_code == ngx.HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR) then
-        core.log.warn("plugin acess phase, Internal server error please check you're configurations")
-    end
-end
-
-function _M.rewrite(conf, ctx)
-    core.log.warn("plugin rewrite phase, current location uri", core.json.encode(conf.request_uri))
-    core.log.warn("In case of spam, black list or unauthorized access or even in a need of redirect we can use this phase to"
-            +"redirect to new URI")
-    core.log.warn("plugin rewrite phase, we can redirect the request in this location to a new uri",
-            core.json.encode(conf.redirect_uri))
-end
-
-function _M.balancer(conf, ctx)
-    core.log.warn("plugin balancer phase, conf: ", core.json.encode(conf))
-
-    if not conf.ip then
-        return
-    end
-    -- NOTE: update `ctx.balancer_name` is important, APISIX will skip other
-    -- balancer handler.
-    ctx.balancer_name = plugin_name
-
-    local ok, err = balancer.set_current_peer(conf.ip, conf.port)
-    if not ok then
-        core.log.error("failed to set server peer: ", err)
-        return core.response.exit(502)
-    end
-end
-
-function _M.log(conf, ctx)
-    core.log.warn("plugin log phase you can perform the task from the data that gathered during the other phases")
-end
-
-function _M.echo_simple(conf, ctx)
-    return 200, {message = "echo sample"}
-end
-
-return _M