diff --git a/stackdriver/README.md b/stackdriver/README.md
index f96dcc8d1..842a2f675 100644
--- a/stackdriver/README.md
+++ b/stackdriver/README.md
@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@
 ## Deprecation Note
 As of December 10, 2018, Cloud Dataproc Stackdriver Monitoring is automatically enabled on Cloud Dataproc clusters, and collects and reports HDFS, YARN, and other Cloud Dataproc cluster and job metrics. See [Release Notes](https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/release-notes#december_10_2018). This initialization action effectively does nothing for clusters created after this date.
 
-This initialization action downloads and installs the [Google Stackdriver](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/)
-installations script. This will enable monitoring for a Cloud Dataproc cluster within Stackdriver. With this monitoring
-you can, for example, look at fine-grained resource use across the cluster, alarm on various triggers, or
-analyze the performance of your cluster. 
+This initialization action is a no op and is kept for the backwards compatibility.
 
 ## Using this initialization action
 
diff --git a/stackdriver/stackdriver.sh b/stackdriver/stackdriver.sh
index eb49d3cd5..914a30429 100755
--- a/stackdriver/stackdriver.sh
+++ b/stackdriver/stackdriver.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,4 @@
 # instances created with that prefix and use this group as the basis for
 # your alerting policies and dashboards
 
-# Download and run the Stackdriver installation script
-curl -sSO https://dl.google.com/cloudagents/install-monitoring-agent.sh
-sudo bash install-monitoring-agent.sh
+# Previous script (install-monitoring-agent.sh) has been deprecated. Keeping a no op file for backwards compatibility.