diff --git a/src/kubernetes.cc b/src/kubernetes.cc
index dab6485e..93ab7047 100644
--- a/src/kubernetes.cc
+++ b/src/kubernetes.cc
@@ -205,10 +205,6 @@ MetadataUpdater::ResourceMetadata KubernetesReader::GetPodMetadata(
       metadata->Get<json::String>("creationTimestamp");
   Timestamp created_at = time::rfc3339::FromString(created_str);
 
-  const json::Object* status = pod->Get<json::Object>("status");
-  const std::string started_str = status->Get<json::String>("startTime");
-  Timestamp started_at = time::rfc3339::FromString(started_str);
-
   const MonitoredResource k8s_pod("k8s_pod", {
     {"cluster_name", cluster_name},
     {"namespace_name", namespace_name},