diff --git a/app/vmagent/promremotewrite/request_handler.go b/app/vmagent/promremotewrite/request_handler.go
index 4fd0ce0e6..e3e08abe6 100644
--- a/app/vmagent/promremotewrite/request_handler.go
+++ b/app/vmagent/promremotewrite/request_handler.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package promremotewrite
 
 import (
-	"io"
 	"net/http"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmagent/common"
@@ -33,13 +32,6 @@ func InsertHandler(at *auth.Token, req *http.Request) error {
 	})
 }
 
-// InsertHandlerForReader processes metrics from given reader
-func InsertHandlerForReader(at *auth.Token, r io.Reader) error {
-	return parser.ParseStream(r, func(tss []prompb.TimeSeries) error {
-		return insertRows(at, tss, nil)
-	})
-}
-
 func insertRows(at *auth.Token, timeseries []prompb.TimeSeries, extraLabels []prompbmarshal.Label) error {
 	ctx := common.GetPushCtx()
 	defer common.PutPushCtx(ctx)
diff --git a/app/vmagent/vmimport/request_handler.go b/app/vmagent/vmimport/request_handler.go
index 781f75753..f0eb010ba 100644
--- a/app/vmagent/vmimport/request_handler.go
+++ b/app/vmagent/vmimport/request_handler.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package vmimport
 
 import (
-	"io"
 	"net/http"
 
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmagent/common"
@@ -36,13 +35,6 @@ func InsertHandler(at *auth.Token, req *http.Request) error {
 	})
 }
 
-// InsertHandlerForReader processes metrics from given reader
-func InsertHandlerForReader(r io.Reader, isGzipped bool) error {
-	return parser.ParseStream(r, isGzipped, func(rows []parser.Row) error {
-		return insertRows(nil, rows, nil)
-	})
-}
-
 func insertRows(at *auth.Token, rows []parser.Row, extraLabels []prompbmarshal.Label) error {
 	ctx := common.GetPushCtx()
 	defer common.PutPushCtx(ctx)