diff --git a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/index.ts b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/index.ts
index bd0a16d5dc1..0490bd59cab 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import chalk from 'chalk';
 import { program } from 'commander';
 
-import { closeMilestoneTask } from './tasks/closeMilestone';
 import { componentCreateTask } from './tasks/component.create';
 import { nodeVersionCheckerTask } from './tasks/nodeVersionChecker';
 import { buildPackageTask } from './tasks/package.build';
@@ -65,23 +64,6 @@ export const run = (includeInternalScripts = false) => {
         await execTask(searchTestDataSetupTask)({ count: cmd.count });
       });
 
-    program
-      .command('close-milestone')
-      .option('-m, --milestone <milestone>', 'Specify milestone')
-      .option('--dryRun', 'Only simulate actions')
-      .description('Helps ends a milestone by removing the cherry-pick label and closing it')
-      .action(async (cmd) => {
-        if (!cmd.milestone) {
-          console.log('Please specify milestone, example: -m <milestone id from github milestone URL>');
-          return;
-        }
-
-        await execTask(closeMilestoneTask)({
-          milestone: cmd.milestone,
-          dryRun: !!cmd.dryRun,
-        });
-      });
-
     // React generator
     program
       .command('component:create')
diff --git a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/closeMilestone.ts b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/closeMilestone.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 39a67830510..00000000000
--- a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/closeMilestone.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-import GithubClient from '../utils/githubClient';
-
-import { Task, TaskRunner } from './task';
-
-interface CloseMilestoneOptions {
-  milestone: string;
-  dryRun: boolean;
-}
-
-const closeMilestoneTaskRunner: TaskRunner<CloseMilestoneOptions> = async ({ milestone, dryRun }) => {
-  const githubClient = new GithubClient({ required: true });
-
-  const cherryPickLabel = 'cherry-pick needed';
-  const client = githubClient.client;
-
-  if (!/^\d+$/.test(milestone)) {
-    console.log('Use milestone number not title, find number in milestone url');
-    return;
-  }
-
-  if (dryRun) {
-    console.log('dry run is enabled');
-  }
-
-  const milestoneRes = await client.get(`/milestones/${milestone}`, {});
-
-  const milestoneState = milestoneRes.data.state;
-
-  if (milestoneState === 'closed') {
-    console.log('milestone already closed. ✅');
-    return;
-  }
-
-  console.log('fetching issues/PRs of the milestone ⏬');
-
-  let totalIssues = 0;
-
-  while (true) {
-    // Get first 100 issues/PRs with the label cherry-pick
-    // Every pull request is actually an issue
-    const issuesRes = await client.get('/issues', {
-      params: {
-        state: 'closed',
-        labels: cherryPickLabel,
-        per_page: 100,
-        milestone: milestone,
-      },
-    });
-
-    if (issuesRes.data.length < 1) {
-      break;
-    }
-
-    const comparativeStr = totalIssues === 0 ? ' ' : ' more ';
-    console.log(`found ${issuesRes.data.length}${comparativeStr}issues to remove the cherry-pick label from 🔎`);
-    totalIssues += issuesRes.data.length;
-
-    for (const issue of issuesRes.data) {
-      // the reason for using stdout.write is for achieving 'action -> result' on
-      // the same line
-      process.stdout.write(`🔧removing label from issue #${issue.number} 🗑...`);
-      if (!dryRun) {
-        const resDelete = await client.delete(`/issues/${issue.number}/labels/${cherryPickLabel}`, {});
-        if (resDelete.status === 200) {
-          process.stdout.write('done ✅\n');
-        } else {
-          console.log('failed ❌');
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  if (totalIssues === 0) {
-    console.log('no issues to remove label from');
-  } else {
-    console.log(`cleaned up ${totalIssues} issues/prs ⚡️`);
-  }
-
-  if (!dryRun) {
-    const resClose = await client.patch(`/milestones/${milestone}`, {
-      state: 'closed',
-    });
-
-    if (resClose.status === 200) {
-      console.log('milestone closed 🙌');
-    } else {
-      console.log('failed to close the milestone, response:');
-      console.log(resClose);
-    }
-  }
-};
-
-export const closeMilestoneTask = new Task<CloseMilestoneOptions>(
-  'Close Milestone generator task',
-  closeMilestoneTaskRunner
-);