diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/beam-commons/build.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/beam-commons/build.gradle
index c3b07a8b3cfc7f778610865082d6dfd4d9f86ed5..ba814e1eda196cd5871071277e80949333102395 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/beam-commons/build.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/beam-commons/build.gradle
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ dependencies {
   implementation('org.industrial-devops:titan-ccp-common-kafka:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT') { changing = true }
   implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
   implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:24.1-jre'
-  implementation 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.25'
 
   implementation('org.apache.beam:beam-sdks-java-io-kafka:2.22.0'){
     exclude group: 'org.apache.kafka', module: 'kafka-clients'