diff --git a/monitoring/api/v3/custom_metric.py b/monitoring/api/v3/custom_metric.py
index c3e050bea342..c25a6b303a12 100644
--- a/monitoring/api/v3/custom_metric.py
+++ b/monitoring/api/v3/custom_metric.py
@@ -120,8 +120,6 @@ def write_timeseries_value(client, project_resource,
                 'zone': 'us-central1-f'
             }
         },
-        "metricKind": metric_kind,
-        "valueType": "INT64",
         "points": [
             {
                 "interval": {