diff --git a/jmxtrans-output/jmxtrans-output-core/src/main/java/com/googlecode/jmxtrans/model/output/support/opentsdb/OpenTSDBMessageFormatter.java b/jmxtrans-output/jmxtrans-output-core/src/main/java/com/googlecode/jmxtrans/model/output/support/opentsdb/OpenTSDBMessageFormatter.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/jmxtrans-output/jmxtrans-output-core/src/main/java/com/googlecode/jmxtrans/model/output/support/opentsdb/OpenTSDBMessageFormatter.java
+++ b/jmxtrans-output/jmxtrans-output-core/src/main/java/com/googlecode/jmxtrans/model/output/support/opentsdb/OpenTSDBMessageFormatter.java
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ public class OpenTSDBMessageFormatter {
 
 	private final boolean mergeTypeNamesTags;
 	private final boolean hostnameTag;
-	private final Server server = null;
 
 	public OpenTSDBMessageFormatter(@Nonnull ImmutableList<String> typeNames,
 									@Nonnull ImmutableMap<String, String> tags) throws LifecycleException {
....need to be tidier