diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ce42941e8c959e5c9af1f4b8b0d4f6478787183f..b11e42239411e49f47851e71781e97f52ddd78d5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ that users understand how the changes affect the new version.
 
 version 5.0.0-dev
 ---------------------------
++ Centrifuge: Remove metrics file from classification (which causes the
+  summary report to be empty). https://github.com/DaehwanKimLab/centrifuge/issues/83
 + Add NanoPlot and NanoQC tasks.
 + Centrifuge: Add `timeMinutes` to `Classify` task and remove unnecessary
   downloading tasks (alternative is refseqtools).
diff --git a/centrifuge.wdl b/centrifuge.wdl
index bc2ea462df88b17a8d0065c9586a06978c3e0ca8..1e7a0b4566c1b782877ee37689a7a49045ea7fad 100644
--- a/centrifuge.wdl
+++ b/centrifuge.wdl
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@ task Classify {
         ~{inputFormatOptions[inputFormat]} \
         ~{true="--phred64" false="--phred33" phred64} \
         --min-hitlen ~{minHitLength} \
-        ~{"--met-file " + outputPrefix + "_alignment_metrics.tsv"} \
         --threads ~{threads} \
         ~{"--trim5 " + trim5} \
         ~{"--trim3 " + trim3} \
@@ -143,7 +142,6 @@ task Classify {
     >>>
 
     output {
-        File metrics = outputPrefix + "_alignment_metrics.tsv"
         File classification = outputPrefix + "_classification.tsv"
         File report = outputPrefix + "_output_report.tsv"
     }
@@ -175,7 +173,6 @@ task Classify {
         dockerImage: {description: "The docker image used for this task. Changing this may result in errors which the developers may choose not to address.", category: "advanced"}
 
         # outputs
-        metrics: {description: "File with centrifuge metrics."}
         classification: {description: "File with the classification results."}
         report: {description: "File with a classification summary."}
     }