diff --git a/files/apts/sysstat b/files/apts/sysstat
deleted file mode 100644
index ea0c342d91..0000000000
--- a/files/apts/sysstat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-sysstat
diff --git a/files/rpms-suse/sysstat b/files/rpms-suse/sysstat
deleted file mode 100644
index ea0c342d91..0000000000
--- a/files/rpms-suse/sysstat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-sysstat
diff --git a/files/rpms/sysstat b/files/rpms/sysstat
deleted file mode 100644
index ea0c342d91..0000000000
--- a/files/rpms/sysstat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-sysstat
diff --git a/stack.sh b/stack.sh
index 9f08e0f017..1d281587b1 100755
--- a/stack.sh
+++ b/stack.sh
@@ -294,15 +294,9 @@ SYSLOG=`trueorfalse False $SYSLOG`
 SYSLOG_HOST=${SYSLOG_HOST:-$HOST_IP}
 SYSLOG_PORT=${SYSLOG_PORT:-516}
 
-# Enable sysstat logging
-SYSSTAT_FILE=${SYSSTAT_FILE:-"sysstat.dat"}
-SYSSTAT_INTERVAL=${SYSSTAT_INTERVAL:-"1"}
-
+# for DSTAT logging
 DSTAT_FILE=${DSTAT_FILE:-"dstat.txt"}
 
-PIDSTAT_FILE=${PIDSTAT_FILE:-"pidstat.txt"}
-PIDSTAT_INTERVAL=${PIDSTAT_INTERVAL:-"5"}
-
 # Use color for logging output (only available if syslog is not used)
 LOG_COLOR=`trueorfalse True $LOG_COLOR`
 
@@ -862,23 +856,9 @@ fi
 # Initialize the directory for service status check
 init_service_check
 
-
-# Sysstat and friends
+# Dstat
 # -------
 
-# If enabled, systat has to start early to track OpenStack service startup.
-# what we want to measure
-# -u : cpu statitics
-# -q : load
-# -b : io load rates
-# -w : process creation and context switch rates
-SYSSTAT_OPTS="-u -q -b -w"
-if [[ -n ${SCREEN_LOGDIR} ]]; then
-    screen_it sysstat "cd $TOP_DIR; ./tools/sar_filter.py $SYSSTAT_OPTS -o $SCREEN_LOGDIR/$SYSSTAT_FILE $SYSSTAT_INTERVAL"
-else
-    screen_it sysstat "./tools/sar_filter.py $SYSSTAT_OPTS $SYSSTAT_INTERVAL"
-fi
-
 # A better kind of sysstat, with the top process per time slice
 DSTAT_OPTS="-tcndylp --top-cpu-adv"
 if [[ -n ${SCREEN_LOGDIR} ]]; then
@@ -887,15 +867,6 @@ else
     screen_it dstat "dstat $DSTAT_OPTS"
 fi
 
-# Per-process stats
-PIDSTAT_OPTS="-l -p ALL -T ALL"
-if [[ -n ${SCREEN_LOGDIR} ]]; then
-    screen_it pidstat "cd $TOP_DIR; pidstat $PIDSTAT_OPTS $PIDSTAT_INTERVAL > $SCREEN_LOGDIR/$PIDSTAT_FILE"
-else
-    screen_it pidstat "pidstat $PIDSTAT_OPTS $PIDSTAT_INTERVAL"
-fi
-
-
 # Start Services
 # ==============
 
diff --git a/tools/sar_filter.py b/tools/sar_filter.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 24ef0e476c..0000000000
--- a/tools/sar_filter.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-#
-# Copyright 2014 Samsung Electronics Corp. All Rights Reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-import re
-import subprocess
-import sys
-
-
-def is_data_line(line):
-    timestamp, data = parse_line(line)
-    return re.search('\d\.d', data)
-
-
-def parse_line(line):
-    m = re.search('(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d( \w\w)?)(\s+((\S+)\s*)+)', line)
-    if m:
-        date = m.group(1)
-        data = m.group(3).rstrip()
-        return date, data
-    else:
-        return None, None
-
-
-process = subprocess.Popen(
-    "sar %s" % " ".join(sys.argv[1:]),
-    shell=True,
-    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-    stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
-
-# Poll process for new output until finished
-
-start_time = ""
-header = ""
-data_line = ""
-printed_header = False
-current_ts = None
-
-# print out the first sysstat line regardless
-print process.stdout.readline()
-
-while True:
-    nextline = process.stdout.readline()
-    if nextline == '' and process.poll() is not None:
-        break
-
-    date, data = parse_line(nextline)
-    # stop until we get to the first set of real lines
-    if not date:
-        continue
-
-    # now we eat the header lines, and only print out the header
-    # if we've never seen them before
-    if not start_time:
-        start_time = date
-        header += "%s   %s" % (date, data)
-    elif date == start_time:
-        header += "   %s" % data
-    elif not printed_header:
-        printed_header = True
-        print header
-
-    # now we know this is a data line, printing out if the timestamp
-    # has changed, and stacking up otherwise.
-    nextline = process.stdout.readline()
-    date, data = parse_line(nextline)
-    if date != current_ts:
-        current_ts = date
-        print data_line
-        data_line = "%s   %s" % (date, data)
-    else:
-        data_line += "   %s" % data
-
-    sys.stdout.flush()