diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/metrics/BigtableGrpcStreamTracer.java b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/metrics/BigtableGrpcStreamTracer.java
index 3b2242385a..698b1e0ac5 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/metrics/BigtableGrpcStreamTracer.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/metrics/BigtableGrpcStreamTracer.java
@@ -28,18 +28,13 @@
  */
 class BigtableGrpcStreamTracer extends ClientStreamTracer {
 
-  private final Stopwatch stopwatch = Stopwatch.createUnstarted();
+  private final Stopwatch stopwatch = Stopwatch.createStarted();
   private final BigtableTracer tracer;
 
   public BigtableGrpcStreamTracer(BigtableTracer tracer) {
     this.tracer = tracer;
   }
 
-  @Override
-  public void streamCreated(Attributes transportAttrs, Metadata headers) {
-    stopwatch.start();
-  }
-
   @Override
   public void outboundMessageSent(int seqNo, long optionalWireSize, long optionalUncompressedSize) {
     tracer.grpcChannelQueuedLatencies(stopwatch.elapsed(TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS));