diff --git a/include/grpc/support/port_platform.h b/include/grpc/support/port_platform.h
index 9c999b9c811e97b3908a02b305ef563f6482477a..2b99e630dd0f161c63df4be6ee8d35f8b1733f1a 100644
--- a/include/grpc/support/port_platform.h
+++ b/include/grpc/support/port_platform.h
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
 #define GPR_ARCH_32 1
 #define GPR_CPU_LINUX 1
 #define GPR_GCC_SYNC 1
-#define GPR_LIBEVENT 1
 #define GPR_POSIX_MULTIPOLL_WITH_POLL 1
 #define GPR_POSIX_SOCKET 1
 #define GPR_POSIX_SOCKETADDR 1
@@ -64,7 +63,6 @@
 #elif defined(__linux__)
 #define GPR_CPU_LINUX 1
 #define GPR_GCC_ATOMIC 1
-#define GPR_LIBEVENT 1
 #define GPR_LINUX 1
 #define GPR_POSIX_MULTIPOLL_WITH_POLL 1
 #define GPR_POSIX_SOCKET 1
@@ -80,7 +78,6 @@
 #elif defined(__APPLE__)
 #define GPR_CPU_POSIX 1
 #define GPR_GCC_ATOMIC 1
-#define GPR_LIBEVENT 1
 #define GPR_POSIX_LOG 1
 #define GPR_POSIX_MULTIPOLL_WITH_POLL 1
 #define GPR_POSIX_SOCKET 1
diff --git a/test/build/event2.c b/test/build/event2.c
deleted file mode 100644
index f632b1e43e6369936485abca9c90b3de982434dd..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/test/build/event2.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-/* This is only a compilation test, to see if we have libevent installed. */
-
-#include <event2/event.h>
-
-int main() {
-  event_base_new();
-  return 0;
-}
diff --git a/tools/dockerfile/grpc_base/Dockerfile b/tools/dockerfile/grpc_base/Dockerfile
index 76e585a7d0df4893eeda7cc9cd7c1119b9b50d11..45be17259355ac5230e7506d19b7d7bcfbf84ac2 100644
--- a/tools/dockerfile/grpc_base/Dockerfile
+++ b/tools/dockerfile/grpc_base/Dockerfile
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
   libc6 \
   libc6-dbg \
   libc6-dev \
-  libevent-dev \
   libtool \
   make \
   strace \