diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 7671c0b5d171..beb1d2ec9adc 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ group :development, :test do
   gem 'webmock'
   gem 'zstandard'
   gem 'pry'
-  gem 'uuidtools'
 end
 
 group :docs do
diff --git a/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv b/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv
index 01f7f618e215..80f176adfd4c 100644
--- a/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv
+++ b/LICENSE-3rdparty.csv
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ tomlrb,MIT,Francois Bernier
 typhoeus,MIT,"David Balatero, Paul Dix, Hans Hasselberg"
 tzinfo,MIT,Philip Ross
 unicode-display_width,MIT,Jan Lelis
-uuidtools,Apache-2.0,Bob Aman
 vcr,"Hippocratic-2.1,MIT","Myron Marston, Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene, Olle Jonsson"
 webmock,MIT,Bartosz Blimke
 with_env,MIT,Zach Dennis
diff --git a/datadog_api_client.gemspec b/datadog_api_client.gemspec
index 3557414e0e67..2945e9cd456b 100644
--- a/datadog_api_client.gemspec
+++ b/datadog_api_client.gemspec
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
 
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "zeitwerk", "~> 2.6", ">= 2.6.0"
 
-  spec.add_runtime_dependency "uuidtools", "~> 2.1.5", ">= 2.1.5"
-
   spec.add_development_dependency "rspec", "~> 3.6", ">= 3.6.0"
 
   spec.files         = `git ls-files -z`.split("\x0").reject { |f| f.match(%r{^(test|spec|features|cassettes)/}) }