diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 2c60fb4..e7e2371 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
 FROM python:3.9-buster
 
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
-#newRelic changes
-ARG NEWRELIC_KEY
 WORKDIR /ars
 RUN apt-get update && apt install -y netcat
-#newRelic changes
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir newrelic
-RUN newrelic-admin generate-config $NEWRELIC_KEY newrelic.ini
 
 COPY requirements.txt /ars/
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a4c6bac..ad3e186 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -29,5 +29,4 @@ opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc
 opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests
 opentelemetry-instrumentation-celery
 brotli
-git+https://github.com/biothings/biothings_annotator#egg=biothings_annotator
-newrelic
+git+https://github.com/biothings/biothings_annotator#egg=biothings_annotator
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