diff --git a/scripts/scalability-tests/event-count.py b/scripts/scalability-tests/event-count.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 24f3c0b5354..00000000000
--- a/scripts/scalability-tests/event-count.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-# Count the number of events received from the master
-
-from __future__ import print_function
-import XenAPI, sys, time
-
-iso8601 = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"
-
-
-def main(session):
-    global iso8601
-
-    token = ''
-    call_timeout = 30.0
-
-    while True:
-        sys.stdout.flush()
-
-        now = time.time()
-        now_string = time.strftime(iso8601, time.gmtime(now))
-
-        try:
-            output = session.xenapi.event_from(["*"], token, call_timeout)
-            events = output['events']
-            token = output['token']
-            print("%s %10d 0" % (now_string, len(events)))
-            time.sleep(5)
-
-        except KeyboardInterrupt:
-            break
-
-        except XenAPI.Failure as e:
-            print(e.details)
-            sys.exit(1)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    if len(sys.argv) != 4:
-        print("Usage:")
-        print(sys.argv[0], " <url> <username> <password>")
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-    url = sys.argv[1]
-    if url[:5] != "https":
-        raise Exception("Must use SSL for a realistic test")
-    
-    username = sys.argv[2]
-    password = sys.argv[3]
-    
-    new_session = XenAPI.Session(url)
-    try:
-        new_session.xenapi.login_with_password(username, password, "1.0", "xen-api-scripts-eventcount.py")
-    except XenAPI.Failure as f:
-        print("Failed to acquire a session: %s" % f.details)
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-    try:
-        main(new_session)
-    finally:
-        new_session.xenapi.logout()