diff --git a/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/NamedCache.java b/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/NamedCache.java
index 6ea32a96e01..be8e4340af2 100644
--- a/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/NamedCache.java
+++ b/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/state/internals/NamedCache.java
@@ -47,10 +47,7 @@ class NamedCache {
     private LRUNode head;
     private long currentSizeBytes;
     private NamedCacheMetrics namedCacheMetrics;
-    // JMX stats
-    private Sensor hitRatio = null;
-
-
+    
     // internal stats
     private long numReadHits = 0;
     private long numReadMisses = 0;