diff --git a/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/event/SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java b/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/event/SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java
index 503efacc4f1..2ca8e8d092d 100644
--- a/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/event/SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java
+++ b/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/event/SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEvent;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationListener;
 import org.springframework.core.ResolvableType;
-import org.springframework.core.metrics.ApplicationStartup;
-import org.springframework.core.metrics.StartupStep;
 import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
 import org.springframework.util.ErrorHandler;
 
@@ -57,9 +55,6 @@ public class SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster extends AbstractApplicationEventM
 	@Nullable
 	private ErrorHandler errorHandler;
 
-	@Nullable
-	private ApplicationStartup applicationStartup;
-
 
 	/**
 	 * Create a new SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.
@@ -127,22 +122,6 @@ public class SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster extends AbstractApplicationEventM
 		return this.errorHandler;
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Set the {@link ApplicationStartup} to track event listener invocations during startup.
-	 * @since 5.3
-	 */
-	public void setApplicationStartup(@Nullable ApplicationStartup applicationStartup) {
-		this.applicationStartup = applicationStartup;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Return the current application startup for this multicaster.
-	 */
-	@Nullable
-	public ApplicationStartup getApplicationStartup() {
-		return this.applicationStartup;
-	}
-
 	@Override
 	public void multicastEvent(ApplicationEvent event) {
 		multicastEvent(event, resolveDefaultEventType(event));
@@ -156,16 +135,6 @@ public class SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster extends AbstractApplicationEventM
 			if (executor != null) {
 				executor.execute(() -> invokeListener(listener, event));
 			}
-			else if (this.applicationStartup != null) {
-				StartupStep invocationStep = this.applicationStartup.start("spring.event.invoke-listener");
-				invokeListener(listener, event);
-				invocationStep.tag("event", event::toString);
-				if (eventType != null) {
-					invocationStep.tag("eventType", eventType::toString);
-				}
-				invocationStep.tag("listener", listener::toString);
-				invocationStep.end();
-			}
 			else {
 				invokeListener(listener, event);
 			}
diff --git a/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/support/AbstractApplicationContext.java b/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/support/AbstractApplicationContext.java
index 2a2aa818e2b..e87edab5f62 100644
--- a/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/support/AbstractApplicationContext.java
+++ b/spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/support/AbstractApplicationContext.java
@@ -815,9 +815,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractApplicationContext extends DefaultResourceLoader
 			}
 		}
 		else {
-			SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster simpleApplicationEventMulticaster = new SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster(beanFactory);
-			simpleApplicationEventMulticaster.setApplicationStartup(getApplicationStartup());
-			this.applicationEventMulticaster = simpleApplicationEventMulticaster;
+			this.applicationEventMulticaster = new SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster(beanFactory);
 			beanFactory.registerSingleton(APPLICATION_EVENT_MULTICASTER_BEAN_NAME, this.applicationEventMulticaster);
 			if (logger.isTraceEnabled()) {
 				logger.trace("No '" + APPLICATION_EVENT_MULTICASTER_BEAN_NAME + "' bean, using " +
diff --git a/src/docs/asciidoc/core/core-appendix.adoc b/src/docs/asciidoc/core/core-appendix.adoc
index 877b9b1bfbf..7d3645fba1a 100644
--- a/src/docs/asciidoc/core/core-appendix.adoc
+++ b/src/docs/asciidoc/core/core-appendix.adoc
@@ -1669,8 +1669,4 @@ its behavior changes.
 | `spring.context.refresh`
 | Application context refresh phase.
 |
-
-| `spring.event.invoke-listener`
-| Invocation of event listeners, if done in the main thread.
-| `event` the current application event, `eventType` its type and `listener` the listener processing this event.
 |===
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