diff --git a/app/lib/admin/backend.dart b/app/lib/admin/backend.dart
index 3a423ff1c2..2f752acc15 100644
--- a/app/lib/admin/backend.dart
+++ b/app/lib/admin/backend.dart
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ import '../shared/versions.dart';
 import 'actions/actions.dart' show AdminAction;
 import 'tools/delete_all_staging.dart';
 import 'tools/list_tools.dart';
-import 'tools/notify_service.dart';
 import 'tools/recent_uploaders.dart';
 import 'tools/user_merger.dart';
 
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ typedef Tool = Future<String> Function(List<String> args);
 
 final Map<String, Tool> availableTools = {
   'delete-all-staging': executeDeleteAllStaging,
-  'notify-service': executeNotifyService,
   'recent-uploaders': executeRecentUploaders,
   'user-merger': executeUserMergerTool,
   'list-tools': executeListTools,
diff --git a/app/lib/admin/tools/notify_service.dart b/app/lib/admin/tools/notify_service.dart
deleted file mode 100644
index 52f894c469..0000000000
--- a/app/lib/admin/tools/notify_service.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2017, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
-// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
-// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-import 'dart:async';
-
-import 'package:pub_dev/task/backend.dart';
-
-String _printHelp() {
-  return 'Notifies the auxiliary services about a new package or version.\n'
-      'Syntax:\n'
-      '  <tool-command> task [package]\n';
-}
-
-/// Notifies the analyzer or the search service.
-Future<String> executeNotifyService(List<String> args) async {
-  if (args.isEmpty) {
-    return _printHelp();
-  }
-
-  final service = args[0];
-  if (service == 'task' && args.length == 2) {
-    await taskBackend.adminBumpPriority(args[1]);
-  } else {
-    return _printHelp();
-  }
-  return 'Done.';
-}