diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundMessage.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundMessage.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c68257557061..0000000000000
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/transport/InboundMessage.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- *
- * The OpenSearch Contributors require contributions made to
- * this file be licensed under the Apache-2.0 license or a
- * compatible open source license.
- */
-
-/*
- * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
- * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright
- * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
- * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
- * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-/*
- * Modifications Copyright OpenSearch Contributors. See
- * GitHub history for details.
- */
-
-package org.opensearch.transport;
-
-import org.opensearch.common.annotation.DeprecatedApi;
-import org.opensearch.common.bytes.ReleasableBytesReference;
-import org.opensearch.common.lease.Releasable;
-import org.opensearch.core.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
-import org.opensearch.transport.nativeprotocol.NativeInboundMessage;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-/**
- * Inbound data as a message
- * This api is deprecated, please use {@link org.opensearch.transport.nativeprotocol.NativeInboundMessage} instead.
- * @opensearch.api
- */
-@DeprecatedApi(since = "2.14.0")
-public class InboundMessage implements Releasable, ProtocolInboundMessage {
-
-    private final NativeInboundMessage nativeInboundMessage;
-
-    public InboundMessage(Header header, ReleasableBytesReference content, Releasable breakerRelease) {
-        this.nativeInboundMessage = new NativeInboundMessage(header, content, breakerRelease);
-    }
-
-    public InboundMessage(Header header, Exception exception) {
-        this.nativeInboundMessage = new NativeInboundMessage(header, exception);
-    }
-
-    public InboundMessage(Header header, boolean isPing) {
-        this.nativeInboundMessage = new NativeInboundMessage(header, isPing);
-    }
-
-    public Header getHeader() {
-        return this.nativeInboundMessage.getHeader();
-    }
-
-    public int getContentLength() {
-        return this.nativeInboundMessage.getContentLength();
-    }
-
-    public Exception getException() {
-        return this.nativeInboundMessage.getException();
-    }
-
-    public boolean isPing() {
-        return this.nativeInboundMessage.isPing();
-    }
-
-    public boolean isShortCircuit() {
-        return this.nativeInboundMessage.getException() != null;
-    }
-
-    public Releasable takeBreakerReleaseControl() {
-        return this.nativeInboundMessage.takeBreakerReleaseControl();
-    }
-
-    public StreamInput openOrGetStreamInput() throws IOException {
-        return this.nativeInboundMessage.openOrGetStreamInput();
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void close() {
-        this.nativeInboundMessage.close();
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public String toString() {
-        return this.nativeInboundMessage.toString();
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public String getProtocol() {
-        return this.nativeInboundMessage.getProtocol();
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/transport/TcpTransport.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/transport/TcpTransport.java
index e32bba5e836d3..8ba0178577232 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/transport/TcpTransport.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/transport/TcpTransport.java
@@ -761,18 +761,6 @@ protected void serverAcceptedChannel(TcpChannel channel) {
      */
     protected abstract void stopInternal();
 
-    /**
-     * @deprecated use {@link #inboundMessage(TcpChannel, ProtocolInboundMessage)}
-     * Handles inbound message that has been decoded.
-     *
-     * @param channel the channel the message is from
-     * @param message the message
-     */
-    @Deprecated(since = "2.14.0", forRemoval = true)
-    public void inboundMessage(TcpChannel channel, InboundMessage message) {
-        inboundMessage(channel, (ProtocolInboundMessage) message);
-    }
-
     /**
      * Handles inbound message that has been decoded.
      *