diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index 47658e0ee..5b2356cff 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -204,10 +204,8 @@ type ScrapeConfig struct {
 	FileSDConfigs []*FileSDConfig `yaml:"file_sd_configs,omitempty"`
 	// List of Consul service discovery configurations.
 	ConsulSDConfigs []*ConsulSDConfig `yaml:"consul_sd_configs,omitempty"`
-	// List of target relabel configurations.
+	// List of relabel configurations.
 	RelabelConfigs []*RelabelConfig `yaml:"relabel_configs,omitempty"`
-	// List of metric relabel configurations.
-	MetricRelabelConfigs []*RelabelConfig `yaml:"metric_relabel_configs,omitempty"`
 
 	// Catches all undefined fields and must be empty after parsing.
 	XXX map[string]interface{} `yaml:",inline"`
diff --git a/config/config_test.go b/config/config_test.go
index 16fe1e119..c65e5e715 100644
--- a/config/config_test.go
+++ b/config/config_test.go
@@ -114,14 +114,6 @@ var expectedConf = &Config{
 					Action:       RelabelDrop,
 				},
 			},
-			MetricRelabelConfigs: []*RelabelConfig{
-				{
-					SourceLabels: clientmodel.LabelNames{"__name__"},
-					Regex:        &Regexp{*regexp.MustCompile("expensive_metric.*$")},
-					Separator:    ";",
-					Action:       RelabelDrop,
-				},
-			},
 		},
 		{
 			JobName: "service-y",
diff --git a/config/testdata/conf.good.yml b/config/testdata/conf.good.yml
index 9b4921996..112540ec0 100644
--- a/config/testdata/conf.good.yml
+++ b/config/testdata/conf.good.yml
@@ -71,13 +71,9 @@ scrape_configs:
     regex:         (.*)some-[regex]$
     action:        drop
 
-  metric_relabel_configs:
-  - source_labels: [__name__]
-    regex:         expensive_metric.*$
-    action:        drop
 
 - job_name: service-y
 
   consul_sd_configs:
   - server: 'localhost:1234'
-    services: ['nginx', 'cache', 'mysql']
+    services: ['nginx', 'cache', 'mysql']
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/retrieval/target.go b/retrieval/target.go
index 27ac48230..0365d5311 100644
--- a/retrieval/target.go
+++ b/retrieval/target.go
@@ -151,8 +151,6 @@ type Target struct {
 	scraperStopped chan struct{}
 	// Channel to buffer ingested samples.
 	ingestedSamples chan clientmodel.Samples
-	// Metric relabel configuration.
-	metricRelabelConfigs []*config.RelabelConfig
 
 	// Mutex protects the members below.
 	sync.RWMutex
@@ -214,7 +212,6 @@ func (t *Target) Update(cfg *config.ScrapeConfig, baseLabels, metaLabels clientm
 	if _, ok := t.baseLabels[clientmodel.InstanceLabel]; !ok {
 		t.baseLabels[clientmodel.InstanceLabel] = clientmodel.LabelValue(t.InstanceIdentifier())
 	}
-	t.metricRelabelConfigs = cfg.MetricRelabelConfigs
 }
 
 func (t *Target) String() string {
@@ -364,16 +361,6 @@ func (t *Target) scrape(sampleAppender storage.SampleAppender) (err error) {
 	for samples := range t.ingestedSamples {
 		for _, s := range samples {
 			s.Metric.MergeFromLabelSet(baseLabels, clientmodel.ExporterLabelPrefix)
-			labels, err := Relabel(clientmodel.LabelSet(s.Metric), t.metricRelabelConfigs...)
-			if err != nil {
-				log.Errorf("error while relabeling metric %s of instance %s: ", s.Metric, t.url, err)
-				continue
-			}
-			// Check if the timeseries was dropped.
-			if labels == nil {
-				continue
-			}
-			s.Metric = clientmodel.Metric(labels)
 			sampleAppender.Append(s)
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/retrieval/target_test.go b/retrieval/target_test.go
index 87522ee0f..5b4231ae1 100644
--- a/retrieval/target_test.go
+++ b/retrieval/target_test.go
@@ -20,14 +20,12 @@ import (
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"net/url"
 	"reflect"
-	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
 	clientmodel "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/model"
 
-	"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/config"
 	"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/util/httputil"
 )
 
@@ -79,77 +77,6 @@ func TestTargetScrapeWithFullChannel(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestTargetScrapeMetricRelabelConfigs(t *testing.T) {
-	server := httptest.NewServer(
-		http.HandlerFunc(
-			func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-				w.Header().Set("Content-Type", `text/plain; version=0.0.4`)
-				w.Write([]byte("test_metric_drop 0\n"))
-				w.Write([]byte("test_metric_relabel 1\n"))
-			},
-		),
-	)
-	defer server.Close()
-	testTarget := newTestTarget(server.URL, 10*time.Millisecond, clientmodel.LabelSet{})
-	testTarget.metricRelabelConfigs = []*config.RelabelConfig{
-		{
-			SourceLabels: clientmodel.LabelNames{"__name__"},
-			Regex:        &config.Regexp{*regexp.MustCompile(".*drop.*")},
-			Action:       config.RelabelDrop,
-		},
-		{
-			SourceLabels: clientmodel.LabelNames{"__name__"},
-			Regex:        &config.Regexp{*regexp.MustCompile(".*(relabel|up).*")},
-			TargetLabel:  "foo",
-			Replacement:  "bar",
-			Action:       config.RelabelReplace,
-		},
-	}
-
-	appender := &collectResultAppender{}
-	testTarget.scrape(appender)
-
-	// Remove variables part of result.
-	for _, sample := range appender.result {
-		sample.Timestamp = 0
-		sample.Value = 0
-	}
-
-	expected := []*clientmodel.Sample{
-		{
-			Metric: clientmodel.Metric{
-				clientmodel.MetricNameLabel: "test_metric_relabel",
-				"foo": "bar",
-				clientmodel.InstanceLabel: clientmodel.LabelValue(testTarget.url.Host),
-			},
-			Timestamp: 0,
-			Value:     0,
-		},
-		// The metrics about the scrape are not affected.
-		{
-			Metric: clientmodel.Metric{
-				clientmodel.MetricNameLabel: scrapeHealthMetricName,
-				clientmodel.InstanceLabel:   clientmodel.LabelValue(testTarget.url.Host),
-			},
-			Timestamp: 0,
-			Value:     0,
-		},
-		{
-			Metric: clientmodel.Metric{
-				clientmodel.MetricNameLabel: scrapeDurationMetricName,
-				clientmodel.InstanceLabel:   clientmodel.LabelValue(testTarget.url.Host),
-			},
-			Timestamp: 0,
-			Value:     0,
-		},
-	}
-
-	if !appender.result.Equal(expected) {
-		t.Fatalf("Expected and actual samples not equal. Expected: %s, actual: %s", expected, appender.result)
-	}
-
-}
-
 func TestTargetRecordScrapeHealth(t *testing.T) {
 	testTarget := newTestTarget("example.url:80", 0, clientmodel.LabelSet{clientmodel.JobLabel: "testjob"})