diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b712f09f..e261bd3e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -75,14 +75,6 @@ supervisord | Exposes service status from [supervisord](http://supervisord.org/)
 systemd | Exposes service and system status from [systemd](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/). | Linux
 tcpstat | Exposes TCP connection status information from `/proc/net/tcp` and `/proc/net/tcp6`. (Warning: the current version has potential performance issues in high load situations.) | Linux
 
-### Deprecated
-
-*These collectors will be (re)moved in the future.*
-
-Name     | Description | OS
----------|-------------|----
-gmond | Exposes statistics from Ganglia. | _any_
-
 ### Textfile Collector
 
 The textfile collector is similar to the [Pushgateway](https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway),
diff --git a/collector/ganglia/format.go b/collector/ganglia/format.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 89ec0440..00000000
--- a/collector/ganglia/format.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2015 The Prometheus Authors
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-// Package ganglia provides types for unmarshalling gmond's XML output.
-//
-// Not used elements in gmond's XML output are commented.
-// In case you want to use them, please change the names so that one
-// can understand without needing to know what the acronym stands for.
-package ganglia
-
-import "encoding/xml"
-
-// ExtraElement describes EXTRA_ELEMENT elements.
-type ExtraElement struct {
-	Name string `xml:"NAME,attr"`
-	Val  string `xml:"VAL,attr"`
-}
-
-// ExtraData describes EXTRA_DATA elements.
-type ExtraData struct {
-	ExtraElements []ExtraElement `xml:"EXTRA_ELEMENT"`
-}
-
-// Metric describes METRIC elements.
-type Metric struct {
-	Name  string  `xml:"NAME,attr"`
-	Value float64 `xml:"VAL,attr"`
-	/*
-		Unit      string    `xml:"UNITS,attr"`
-		Slope     string    `xml:"SLOPE,attr"`
-		Tn        int       `xml:"TN,attr"`
-		Tmax      int       `xml:"TMAX,attr"`
-		Dmax      int       `xml:"DMAX,attr"`
-	*/
-	ExtraData ExtraData `xml:"EXTRA_DATA"`
-}
-
-// Host describes HOST elements.
-type Host struct {
-	Name string `xml:"NAME,attr"`
-	/*
-		Ip           string `xml:"IP,attr"`
-		Tags         string `xml:"TAGS,attr"`
-		Reported     int    `xml:"REPORTED,attr"`
-		Tn           int    `xml:"TN,attr"`
-		Tmax         int    `xml:"TMAX,attr"`
-		Dmax         int    `xml:"DMAX,attr"`
-		Location     string `xml:"LOCATION,attr"`
-		GmondStarted int    `xml:"GMOND_STARTED",attr"`
-	*/
-	Metrics []Metric `xml:"METRIC"`
-}
-
-// Cluster describes CLUSTER elements.
-type Cluster struct {
-	Name string `xml:"NAME,attr"`
-	/*
-		Owner     string `xml:"OWNER,attr"`
-		LatLong   string `xml:"LATLONG,attr"`
-		Url       string `xml:"URL,attr"`
-		Localtime int    `xml:"LOCALTIME,attr"`
-	*/
-	Hosts []Host `xml:"HOST"`
-}
-
-// Ganglia describes the top-level XML structure.
-type Ganglia struct {
-	XMLNAME  xml.Name  `xml:"GANGLIA_XML"`
-	Clusters []Cluster `xml:"CLUSTER"`
-}
diff --git a/collector/gmond.go b/collector/gmond.go
deleted file mode 100644
index f0d4119b..00000000
--- a/collector/gmond.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,123 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2015 The Prometheus Authors
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-// +build !nogmond
-
-package collector
-
-import (
-	"bufio"
-	"encoding/xml"
-	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"net"
-	"regexp"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
-	"github.com/prometheus/common/log"
-	"github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/collector/ganglia"
-)
-
-const (
-	gangliaAddress   = "127.0.0.1:8649"
-	gangliaProto     = "tcp"
-	gangliaTimeout   = 30 * time.Second
-	gangliaNamespace = "ganglia"
-)
-
-type gmondCollector struct {
-	metrics map[string]*prometheus.GaugeVec
-}
-
-func init() {
-	registerCollector("gmond", defaultDisabled, NewGmondCollector)
-}
-
-var illegalCharsRE = regexp.MustCompile(`[^a-zA-Z0-9_]`)
-
-// NewGmondCollector returns a new Collector scraping ganglia.
-func NewGmondCollector() (Collector, error) {
-	warnDeprecated("gmond")
-	c := gmondCollector{
-		metrics: map[string]*prometheus.GaugeVec{},
-	}
-
-	return &c, nil
-}
-
-func (c *gmondCollector) Update(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) error {
-	conn, err := net.Dial(gangliaProto, gangliaAddress)
-	log.Debugf("gmondCollector Update")
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("can't connect to gmond: %s", err)
-	}
-	conn.SetDeadline(time.Now().Add(gangliaTimeout))
-
-	ganglia := ganglia.Ganglia{}
-	decoder := xml.NewDecoder(bufio.NewReader(conn))
-	decoder.CharsetReader = toUtf8
-
-	err = decoder.Decode(&ganglia)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("couldn't parse xml: %s", err)
-	}
-
-	for _, cluster := range ganglia.Clusters {
-		for _, host := range cluster.Hosts {
-
-			for _, metric := range host.Metrics {
-				name := illegalCharsRE.ReplaceAllString(metric.Name, "_")
-
-				c.setMetric(name, cluster.Name, metric)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	for _, m := range c.metrics {
-		m.Collect(ch)
-	}
-	return err
-}
-
-func (c *gmondCollector) setMetric(name, cluster string, metric ganglia.Metric) {
-	if _, ok := c.metrics[name]; !ok {
-		var desc string
-		var title string
-		for _, element := range metric.ExtraData.ExtraElements {
-			switch element.Name {
-			case "DESC":
-				desc = element.Val
-			case "TITLE":
-				title = element.Val
-			}
-			if title != "" && desc != "" {
-				break
-			}
-		}
-		log.Debugf("Register %s: %s", name, desc)
-		c.metrics[name] = prometheus.NewGaugeVec(
-			prometheus.GaugeOpts{
-				Namespace: gangliaNamespace,
-				Name:      name,
-				Help:      desc,
-			},
-			[]string{"cluster"},
-		)
-	}
-	log.Debugf("Set %s{cluster=%q}: %f", name, cluster, metric.Value)
-	c.metrics[name].WithLabelValues(cluster).Set(metric.Value)
-}
-
-func toUtf8(charset string, input io.Reader) (io.Reader, error) {
-	return input, nil //FIXME
-}