diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index ca72022..252abce 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,5 @@ ADD who.ini /who.ini
 ADD ckan.ini /ckan.ini
 ADD resource_formats.json /resource_formats.json
 
-ADD newrelic.ini /newrelic.ini
-ENV NEW_RELIC_CONFIG_FILE=/newrelic.ini
 
-CMD ["newrelic-admin", "run-program", "gunicorn", "--workers", "2", "--worker-class", "gevent", "--paste", "ckan.ini", "-t", "600", "--log-file", "-"]
+CMD ["gunicorn", "--workers", "2", "--worker-class", "gevent", "--paste", "ckan.ini", "-t", "600", "--log-file", "-"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9942c0d..19c59eb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -118,8 +118,6 @@ dokku config:set ckan CKAN_SQLALCHEMY_URL=postgres://ckan_default:password@host/
                       CKAN___CKANEXT__S3FILESTORE__HOST_NAME=http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/treasury-data-portal \
                       CKAN___CKANEXT__S3FILESTORE__REGION_NAME=eu-west-1 \
                       CKAN___CKANEXT__S3FILESTORE__SIGNATURE_VERSION=s3v4 \
-                      NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME="Treasury CKAN" \
-                      NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY=... \
                       CKAN_DISCOURSE_URL= \
                       CKAN_DISCOURSE_SSO_SECRET=
 ```
@@ -334,9 +332,9 @@ cd ../treasury-ckan
 - create database
 - create a file `env.dev` in the project root, based on `env.tmpl` with DB and S3 bucket config
   - To help you avoid committing sensitive information in this file to git, env* is hidden by gitignore.
-  
+
 Remove certain ckan plugins we don't strictly need in development mode. Edit `ckan.ini` and for the `plugins` entry, remove: s3filestore, discourse-sso-client, datastore and datapusher.
-  
+
 Now start the containers and their services:
 
 ```
diff --git a/newrelic.ini b/newrelic.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index 5793b77..0000000
--- a/newrelic.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[newrelic]
-browser_monitoring.auto_instrument = false
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 954eeec..6bf94af 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Jinja2==2.8               # via flask
 Mako==1.0.4               # via pylons
 Markdown==2.6.7
 MarkupSafe==0.23          # via jinja2, mako, webhelpers
-newrelic==2.94.0.79
 nose==1.3.7               # via pylons
 ofs==0.4.2
 ordereddict==1.1