diff --git a/src/Parquet/File/DataColumnReader.cs b/src/Parquet/File/DataColumnReader.cs
index 9bc5bcbe..81a62294 100644
--- a/src/Parquet/File/DataColumnReader.cs
+++ b/src/Parquet/File/DataColumnReader.cs
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ public DataColumn Read()
 
          _inputStream.Seek(fileOffset, SeekOrigin.Begin);
 
-         ParquetEventSource.Current.SeekColumn(_dataField.Path, fileOffset);
-
          var colData = new ColumnRawData();
          colData.maxCount = (int)_thriftColumnChunk.Meta_data.Num_values;
 
@@ -193,8 +191,6 @@ private void ReadDataPage(Thrift.PageHeader ph, ColumnRawData cd, long maxValues
             //todo: this is ugly, but will be removed once other parts are migrated to System.Memory
             using (var ms = bytes.ToStream())
             {
-               ParquetEventSource.Current.OpenDataPage(_dataField.Path, _thriftColumnChunk.Meta_data.Codec.ToString(), ms.Length);
-
                int valueCount = ph.Data_page_header.Num_values;
                using (var reader = new BinaryReader(ms))
                {
diff --git a/src/Parquet/ParquetEventSource.cs b/src/Parquet/ParquetEventSource.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index 45fb7590..00000000
--- a/src/Parquet/ParquetEventSource.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Diagnostics.Tracing;
-using System.Text;
-
-namespace Parquet
-{
-   [EventSource(Name = "Parquet.Net")]
-   internal sealed class ParquetEventSource : EventSource
-   {
-      public static readonly ParquetEventSource Current = new ParquetEventSource();
-
-      // Instance constructor is private to enforce singleton semantics
-      private ParquetEventSource() : base() { }
-
-      // Event keywords can be used to categorize events. 
-      // Each keyword is a bit flag. A single event can be associated with multiple keywords (via EventAttribute.Keywords property).
-      // Keywords must be defined as a public class named 'Keywords' inside EventSource that uses them.
-      static class Keywords
-      {
-         public const EventKeywords Read = (EventKeywords)0x1L;
-         public const EventKeywords Write = (EventKeywords)0x2L;
-      }
-
-      [Event(1, Level = EventLevel.Informational, Message = "length: {2}, rows: {3}")]
-      public void OpenStream(long length, bool leaveOpen, int rowGroupCount, long numRows)
-      {
-         if (!IsEnabled()) return;
-
-         WriteEvent(1, length, leaveOpen);
-      }
-
-      [Event(2, Level = EventLevel.Informational, Message = "path: {0}")]
-      public void ReadColumn(string path)
-      {
-         if (!IsEnabled()) return;
-
-         WriteEvent(2, path);
-      }
-
-      [Event(3, Level = EventLevel.Verbose, Message = "seeking to column {0} start @ {1}")]
-      public void SeekColumn(string path, long offset)
-      {
-         if (!IsEnabled()) return;
-
-         WriteEvent(3, path, offset);
-      }
-
-      [Event(4, Level = EventLevel.Verbose, Message = "opened data page")]
-      public void OpenDataPage(string path, string compressionMethod, long length)
-      {
-         if (!IsEnabled()) return;
-
-         WriteEvent(4, path, compressionMethod, length);
-      }
-   }
-}
diff --git a/src/Parquet/ParquetReader.cs b/src/Parquet/ParquetReader.cs
index 284ee029..eea28591 100644
--- a/src/Parquet/ParquetReader.cs
+++ b/src/Parquet/ParquetReader.cs
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ public ParquetReader(Stream input, ParquetOptions parquetOptions = null, bool le
          _meta = ReadMetadata();
          _footer = new ThriftFooter(_meta);
 
-         ParquetEventSource.Current.OpenStream(input.Length, leaveStreamOpen, _meta.Row_groups.Count, _meta.Num_rows);
-
          InitRowGroupReaders();
       }
 
diff --git a/src/Parquet/ParquetRowGroupReader.cs b/src/Parquet/ParquetRowGroupReader.cs
index 4647ddc5..3f172bbb 100644
--- a/src/Parquet/ParquetRowGroupReader.cs
+++ b/src/Parquet/ParquetRowGroupReader.cs
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ public DataColumn ReadColumn(DataField field)
       {
          if (field == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(field));
 
-         ParquetEventSource.Current.ReadColumn(field.Path);
-
          if (!_pathToChunk.TryGetValue(field.Path, out Thrift.ColumnChunk columnChunk))
          {
             throw new ParquetException($"'{field.Path}' does not exist in this file");