diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 4dc0c84e971..7ac8f982d75 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -2763,6 +2763,7 @@ project(':connect:runtime') {
     implementation libs.reflections
     implementation libs.mavenArtifact
     implementation libs.swaggerAnnotations
+    implementation project(':server-common')
 
     // We use this library to generate OpenAPI docs for the REST API, but we don't want or need it at compile
     // or run time. So, we add it to a separate configuration, which we use later on during docs generation
diff --git a/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/tools/SchemaSourceTask.java b/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/tools/SchemaSourceTask.java
index b5fb3d5fb57..b73d93ea6ee 100644
--- a/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/tools/SchemaSourceTask.java
+++ b/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/tools/SchemaSourceTask.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import org.apache.kafka.connect.data.Struct;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.SourceRecord;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.SourceTask;
-import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.ThroughputThrottler;
+import org.apache.kafka.server.util.ThroughputThrottler;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
diff --git a/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/tools/VerifiableSourceTask.java b/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/tools/VerifiableSourceTask.java
index da2ce3b4c4e..bf90500d323 100644
--- a/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/tools/VerifiableSourceTask.java
+++ b/connect/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/tools/VerifiableSourceTask.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.data.SchemaBuilder;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.data.Struct;
-import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.ThroughputThrottler;
+import org.apache.kafka.server.util.ThroughputThrottler;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.RecordMetadata;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.data.Schema;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException;
diff --git a/connect/runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/integration/MonitorableSourceConnector.java b/connect/runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/integration/MonitorableSourceConnector.java
index 7e6d2b792f7..1645aa0ecc2 100644
--- a/connect/runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/integration/MonitorableSourceConnector.java
+++ b/connect/runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/integration/MonitorableSourceConnector.java
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.ConnectorTransactionBoundaries;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.ExactlyOnceSupport;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.SourceRecord;
 import org.apache.kafka.connect.source.SourceTask;
-import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.ThroughputThrottler;
+import org.apache.kafka.server.util.ThroughputThrottler;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
diff --git a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/utils/ThroughputThrottler.java b/server-common/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/server/util/ThroughputThrottler.java
similarity index 99%
rename from clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/utils/ThroughputThrottler.java
rename to server-common/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/server/util/ThroughputThrottler.java
index f0ac7433ce3..d826ddda85e 100644
--- a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/utils/ThroughputThrottler.java
+++ b/server-common/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/server/util/ThroughputThrottler.java
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-package org.apache.kafka.common.utils;
+package org.apache.kafka.server.util;
 
 
 /**
diff --git a/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/tools/ProducerPerformance.java b/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/tools/ProducerPerformance.java
index 891c24141de..ef0c05ac62c 100644
--- a/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/tools/ProducerPerformance.java
+++ b/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/tools/ProducerPerformance.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ import net.sourceforge.argparse4j.inf.ArgumentParser;
 import net.sourceforge.argparse4j.inf.ArgumentParserException;
 import net.sourceforge.argparse4j.inf.Namespace;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Exit;
-import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.ThroughputThrottler;
+import org.apache.kafka.server.util.ThroughputThrottler;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Utils;
 
 public class ProducerPerformance {
diff --git a/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/tools/VerifiableProducer.java b/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/tools/VerifiableProducer.java
index ed6fac856d1..bda15f8306d 100644
--- a/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/tools/VerifiableProducer.java
+++ b/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/tools/VerifiableProducer.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.RecordMetadata;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer;
-import org.apache.kafka.common.utils.ThroughputThrottler;
+import org.apache.kafka.server.util.ThroughputThrottler;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;