diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/services/memTracker.hpp b/src/hotspot/share/services/memTracker.hpp
index 0070959ab35..9ba4da26477 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/services/memTracker.hpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/services/memTracker.hpp
@@ -231,7 +231,6 @@ class MemTracker : AllStatic {
   static void tuning_statistics(outputStream* out);
 
  private:
-  static NMT_TrackingLevel init_tracking_level();
   static void report(bool summary_only, outputStream* output, size_t scale);
 
  private: