diff --git a/aodh/api/__init__.py b/aodh/api/__init__.py
index ad5b2b4c7..88ec7d297 100644
--- a/aodh/api/__init__.py
+++ b/aodh/api/__init__.py
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ OPTS = [
     cfg.IntOpt('workers', default=1,
                min=1,
                help='Number of workers for aodh API server.'),
-    cfg.BoolOpt('pecan_debug',
-                default=False,
-                help='Toggle Pecan Debug Middleware.'),
     cfg.BoolOpt('enable_combination_alarms',
                 default=False,
                 help="Enable deprecated combination alarms.",
diff --git a/aodh/api/app.py b/aodh/api/app.py
index 5cecb835a..cbd01cde3 100644
--- a/aodh/api/app.py
+++ b/aodh/api/app.py
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ def setup_app(pecan_config=PECAN_CONFIG, conf=None):
 
     app = pecan.make_app(
         pecan_config['app']['root'],
-        debug=conf.api.pecan_debug,
         hooks=app_hooks,
         wrap_app=middleware.ParsableErrorMiddleware,
         guess_content_type_from_ext=False
diff --git a/aodh/tests/functional/gabbi/fixtures.py b/aodh/tests/functional/gabbi/fixtures.py
index abaa45642..54031ea8f 100644
--- a/aodh/tests/functional/gabbi/fixtures.py
+++ b/aodh/tests/functional/gabbi/fixtures.py
@@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ class ConfigFixture(fixture.GabbiFixture):
             group='api',
         )
 
-        conf.set_override('pecan_debug', True, group='api',
-                          enforce_type=True)
-
         parsed_url = urlparse.urlparse(db_url)
         if parsed_url.scheme != 'sqlite':
             parsed_url = list(parsed_url)
diff --git a/devstack/plugin.sh b/devstack/plugin.sh
index 2b6701d7e..013ed2ec0 100644
--- a/devstack/plugin.sh
+++ b/devstack/plugin.sh
@@ -238,7 +238,6 @@ function configure_aodh {
     # NOTE: This must come after database configuration as those can
     # call cleanup_aodh which will wipe the WSGI config.
     if [ "$AODH_DEPLOY" == "mod_wsgi" ]; then
-        iniset $AODH_CONF api pecan_debug "False"
         _aodh_config_apache_wsgi
     elif [ "$AODH_DEPLOY" == "uwsgi" ]; then
         # iniset creates these files when it's called if they don't exist.
diff --git a/doc/source/install/mod_wsgi.rst b/doc/source/install/mod_wsgi.rst
index b67dfb304..b204a0dab 100644
--- a/doc/source/install/mod_wsgi.rst
+++ b/doc/source/install/mod_wsgi.rst
@@ -51,16 +51,3 @@ work with a copy of Aodh installed via devstack.
    On rpm-based systems::
 
       $ service httpd reload
-
-
-Limitation
-==========
-
-As Aodh is using Pecan and Pecan's DebugMiddleware doesn't support
-multiple processes, there is no way to set debug mode in the multiprocessing
-case. To allow multiple processes the DebugMiddleware may be turned off by
-setting ``pecan_debug`` to ``False`` in the ``api`` section of
-``aodh.conf``.
-
-For other WSGI setup you can refer to the `pecan deployment`_ documentation.
-.. _`pecan deployment`: http://pecan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/deployment.html#deployment
diff --git a/doc/source/install/uwsgi.rst b/doc/source/install/uwsgi.rst
index 98588ef16..480bc23ee 100644
--- a/doc/source/install/uwsgi.rst
+++ b/doc/source/install/uwsgi.rst
@@ -60,15 +60,3 @@ Run the server:
 
     uwsgi_python --master --die-on-term --logto /var/log/aodh/aodh-api.log \
         --http-socket :8042 --wsgi-file /usr/share/aodh-common/app.wsgi
-
-Limitation
-==========
-
-As Aodh is using Pecan and Pecan's DebugMiddleware doesn't support
-multiple processes, there is no way to set debug mode in the multiprocessing
-case. To allow multiple processes the DebugMiddleware may be turned off by
-setting ``pecan_debug`` to ``False`` in the ``api`` section of
-``aodh.conf``.
-
-For other WSGI setup you can refer to the `pecan deployment`_ documentation.
-.. _`pecan deployment`: http://pecan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/deployment.html#deployment
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/pecan-debug-removed-7c7a528a1aea98bf.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/pecan-debug-removed-7c7a528a1aea98bf.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2732bbb8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/pecan-debug-removed-7c7a528a1aea98bf.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+upgrade:
+  - The api.pecan_debug option has been removed.