diff --git a/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-api/api.conf.j2 b/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-api/api.conf.j2
index c42716e8bf8e559ba614ed403d4765e6c58bc3d2..cb55fadbdcad709afe4cbe730853dfe529270efb 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-api/api.conf.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-api/api.conf.j2
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ ip_address = {{ monasca_influxdb_address }}
 port = {{ monasca_influxdb_http_port }}
 
 [kafka]
-# NOTE(dszumski): This will become the default in Victoria and can then
-# be removed: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/740954
-legacy_kafka_client_enabled = False
 metrics_topic = {{ monasca_metrics_topic }}
 logs_topics = {{ monasca_raw_logs_topic }}
 uri = {{ monasca_kafka_servers }}
diff --git a/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-notification/notification.conf.j2 b/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-notification/notification.conf.j2
index 97d8931deffd2238d9856bca6a863153b94fda74..ce934eea126232c181512df86e22f4ed6a90aeac 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-notification/notification.conf.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-notification/notification.conf.j2
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ alarm_topic = {{ monasca_alarm_state_transitions_topic }}
 notification_topic = {{ monasca_alarm_notifications_topic }}
 notification_retry_topic = {{ monasca_alarm_notifications_retry_topic }}
 periodic = {{ monasca_periodic_notifications_period }}:{{ monasca_periodic_notifications_topic }}
-# NOTE(dszumski): This will become the default in Victoria and can then
-# be removed: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/740959
-legacy_kafka_client_enabled = False
 
 [mysql]
 host = {{ monasca_database_address }}
diff --git a/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-persister/persister.conf.j2 b/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-persister/persister.conf.j2
index 7f0d229694563b418808aeae754fff3b479e094f..f0d1a602dae8d757590e5cb752d08c400eb2c1d1 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-persister/persister.conf.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/monasca/templates/monasca-persister/persister.conf.j2
@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@ database_name = {{ monasca_influxdb_name }}
 ip_address = {{ kolla_internal_vip_address }}
 port = {{ monasca_influxdb_http_port }}
 
-[kafka]
-# NOTE(dszumski): This will become the default in Victoria and can then
-# be removed: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/740966
-legacy_kafka_client_enabled = False
-
 [kafka_alarm_history]
 {% if not monasca_enable_alerting_pipeline | bool %}
 enabled = False