diff --git a/monitoring/unit_tests/test_client.py b/monitoring/unit_tests/test_client.py
index affa2d557645e..bc0ed7cc60cf4 100644
--- a/monitoring/unit_tests/test_client.py
+++ b/monitoring/unit_tests/test_client.py
@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@ def test_resource_factory(self):
     def test_timeseries_factory_gauge(self):
         import datetime
         import mock
-        import google.cloud.monitoring.client
         from google.cloud._helpers import _datetime_to_rfc3339
         METRIC_TYPE = 'custom.googleapis.com/my_metric'
         METRIC_LABELS = {