diff --git a/requirements/monitoring/requirements.txt b/requirements/monitoring/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 918dd79bb1..0000000000
--- a/requirements/monitoring/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# This requirements.txt file is meant to pull in other requirements.txt files so that
-# dependency monitoring tools like gemnasium.com can easily process them.
-
-# These tools should be updated to use requirements/edx/development.txt
-# instead, as that is now a comprehensive collection of all dependencies
-# used to run, test, or develop LMS and Studio.  Then this file can be
-# safely deleted.
-
--r ../edx/development.txt
diff --git a/requirements/monitoring/sandbox-requirements.txt b/requirements/monitoring/sandbox-requirements.txt
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index d3cacb6ccd..0000000000
--- a/requirements/monitoring/sandbox-requirements.txt
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@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-# This requirements.txt file is meant to pull in other requirements.txt files so that
-# dependency monitoring tools like gemnasium.com can easily process them.
-
-# These tools should be updated to use requirements/edx-sandbox/base.txt
-# instead, as that is now a comprehensive collection of all dependencies
-# installed in code sandboxes.  Then this file can be safely deleted.
-
--r ../edx-sandbox/base.txt