diff --git a/src/sentry/tasks/post_process.py b/src/sentry/tasks/post_process.py
index 2d17a49a2ea9ee..c534836f339da0 100644
--- a/src/sentry/tasks/post_process.py
+++ b/src/sentry/tasks/post_process.py
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
 from sentry.issues.grouptype import GroupCategory
 from sentry.issues.issue_occurrence import IssueOccurrence
 from sentry.killswitches import killswitch_matches_context
-from sentry.sentry_metrics.kafka import KafkaMetricsBackend
-from sentry.sentry_metrics.use_case_id_registry import UseCaseID
 from sentry.signals import event_processed, issue_unignored, transaction_processed
 from sentry.tasks.base import instrumented_task
 from sentry.utils import metrics
@@ -117,23 +115,6 @@ def _capture_event_stats(event: Event) -> None:
     metrics.timing("events.size.data", event.size, tags=tags)
 
 
-def _update_escalating_metrics(event: Event) -> None:
-    """
-    Update metrics for escalating issues when an event is processed.
-    """
-    metrics_backend = KafkaMetricsBackend()
-    metrics_backend.counter(
-        UseCaseID.ESCALATING_ISSUES,
-        org_id=event.project.organization_id,
-        project_id=event.project.id,
-        metric_name="event_ingested",
-        value=1,
-        tags={"group": str(event.group_id)},
-        unit=None,
-    )
-    metrics_backend.close()
-
-
 def _capture_group_stats(job: PostProcessJob) -> None:
     event = job["event"]
     if not job["group_state"]["is_new"] or not should_write_event_stats(event):
@@ -590,7 +571,6 @@ def get_event_raise_exception() -> Event:
         update_event_groups(event, group_states)
         bind_organization_context(event.project.organization)
         _capture_event_stats(event)
-        _update_escalating_metrics(event)
 
         group_events: Mapping[int, GroupEvent] = {
             ge.group_id: ge for ge in list(event.build_group_events())