diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index d03cceb6e..dead8de3b 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -21,12 +21,7 @@ redis>=2.10.0 # MIT
 pyzmq>=14.3.1 # LGPL+BSD
 
 # for test_impl_kafka
-# NOTE(sileht) temporary commented since requirements repo cap it to <1.0.0
-# due to monasca project that have some concern with newer version.
-# The driver is currently experimental, python-kafka<1.0.0 API have major issue
-# that can't make the oslo.messaging driver works, so we prefer having a working
-# driver with a non-synced dep, that the reverse
-# kafka-python>=1.3.1 # Apache-2.0
+kafka-python>=1.3.1 # Apache-2.0
 
 # when we can require tox>= 1.4, this can go into tox.ini:
 #  [testenv:cover]
diff --git a/tools/tox_install.sh b/tools/tox_install.sh
index 8572755db..97a198da4 100755
--- a/tools/tox_install.sh
+++ b/tools/tox_install.sh
@@ -27,11 +27,5 @@ pip install -c$localfile openstack-requirements
 edit-constraints $localfile -- $CLIENT_NAME
 
 pip install -c$localfile -U $*
-# NOTE(sileht) temporary overrided since requirements repo cap it to <1.0.0
-# due to monasca project that have some concern with newer version.
-# The driver is currently experimental, python-kafka<1.0.0 API have major issue
-# that can't make the oslo.messaging driver works, so we prefer having a working
-# driver with a non-synced dep, that the reverse
-pip install -U 'kafka-python>=1.3.1'
 
 exit $?