diff --git a/docs/migration/migrate_7_0.asciidoc b/docs/migration/migrate_7_0.asciidoc
index 254ca720ad38c95..60272acc8ad2852 100644
--- a/docs/migration/migrate_7_0.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/migration/migrate_7_0.asciidoc
@@ -49,4 +49,10 @@ to Kibana's advanced setting.
 
 *Impact:* This setting is no longer necessary. If you enable {monitoring} across the Elastic Stack, a monitoring agent runs
 on each Elasticsearch node, Logstash node, Kibana instance, and Beat to collect and index metrics. Each node and instance is
-considered unique based on its persistent UUID, which is written to the path.data directory when the node or instance starts.
\ No newline at end of file
+considered unique based on its persistent UUID, which is written to the path.data directory when the node or instance starts.
+
+[float]
+=== Deprecated API `/shorten` has been removed
+*Details:* The `/shorten` API has been deprecated since 6.5, when it was replaced by the `/api/shorten_url` API.
+
+*Impact:* The '/shorten' API has been removed. Use the '/api/shorten_url' API instead.
diff --git a/src/server/url_shortening/routes/create_routes.js b/src/server/url_shortening/routes/create_routes.js
index 938a154b953b68b..e5596cacd85d0c3 100644
--- a/src/server/url_shortening/routes/create_routes.js
+++ b/src/server/url_shortening/routes/create_routes.js
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-import { handleShortUrlError } from './lib/short_url_error';
-import { shortUrlAssertValid } from './lib/short_url_assert_valid';
 import { shortUrlLookupProvider } from './lib/short_url_lookup';
 import { createGotoRoute } from './goto';
 import { createShortenUrlRoute } from './shorten_url';
@@ -29,22 +27,4 @@ export function createRoutes(server, config) {
 
   server.route(createGotoRoute({ server, config, shortUrlLookup }));
   server.route(createShortenUrlRoute({ shortUrlLookup }));
-
-  // TODO remove deprecated '/shorten' API in master (7.0)
-  server.route({
-    method: 'POST',
-    path: '/shorten',
-    handler: async function (request, reply) {
-      server.log(
-        ['warning', 'deprecation'],
-        `'/shorten' API has been deprecated and will be removed in 7.0, use the '/api/shorten_url' API instead`);
-      try {
-        shortUrlAssertValid(request.payload.url);
-        const urlId = await shortUrlLookup.generateUrlId(request.payload.url, request);
-        reply(urlId);
-      } catch (err) {
-        reply(handleShortUrlError(err));
-      }
-    }
-  });
 }
diff --git a/test/api_integration/apis/shorten/index.js b/test/api_integration/apis/shorten/index.js
index 6c2118cbb9eb984..fdd5421b7774f16 100644
--- a/test/api_integration/apis/shorten/index.js
+++ b/test/api_integration/apis/shorten/index.js
@@ -27,18 +27,6 @@ export default function ({ getService }) {
     before(() => esArchiver.load('saved_objects/basic'));
     after(() => esArchiver.unload('saved_objects/basic'));
 
-    // TODO remove deprecated '/shorten' API in master (7.0)
-    it('generates shortened urls with deprecated URL', async () => {
-      const resp = await supertest
-        .post('/shorten')
-        .set('content-type', 'application/json')
-        .send({ url: '/app/kibana#/visualize/create' })
-        .expect(200);
-
-      expect(typeof resp.text).to.be('string');
-      expect(resp.text.length > 0).to.be(true);
-    });
-
     it('generates shortened urls', async () => {
       const resp = await supertest
         .post('/api/shorten_url')