diff --git a/app/__init__.py b/app/__init__.py
index 4563cd473..52a527021 100644
--- a/app/__init__.py
+++ b/app/__init__.py
@@ -269,10 +269,6 @@ def register_v2_blueprints(application):
 
 def init_app(app):
 
-    @app.before_request
-    def record_user_agent():
-        statsd_client.incr("user-agent.{}".format(process_user_agent(request.headers.get('User-Agent', None))))
-
     @app.before_request
     def record_request_details():
         CONCURRENT_REQUESTS.inc()
@@ -319,18 +315,6 @@ def create_random_identifier():
     return ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for _ in range(16))
 
 
-def process_user_agent(user_agent_string):
-    if user_agent_string and user_agent_string.lower().startswith("notify"):
-        components = user_agent_string.split("/")
-        client_name = components[0].lower()
-        client_version = components[1].replace(".", "-")
-        return "{}.{}".format(client_name, client_version)
-    elif user_agent_string and not user_agent_string.lower().startswith("notify"):
-        return "non-notify-user-agent"
-    else:
-        return "unknown"
-
-
 def setup_sqlalchemy_events(app):
 
     TOTAL_DB_CONNECTIONS = Gauge(
diff --git a/app/dao/notifications_dao.py b/app/dao/notifications_dao.py
index 8b0b67568..8bc62657e 100644
--- a/app/dao/notifications_dao.py
+++ b/app/dao/notifications_dao.py
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ def dao_get_last_date_template_was_used(template_id, service_id):
     return last_date
 
 
-@statsd(namespace="dao")
 @transactional
 def dao_create_notification(notification):
     if not notification.id:
diff --git a/requirements-app.txt b/requirements-app.txt
index 444164308..58add7c6c 100644
--- a/requirements-app.txt
+++ b/requirements-app.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ notifications-python-client==5.5.1
 # PaaS
 awscli-cwlogs>=1.4,<1.5
 
-git+https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils.git@39.7.1#egg=notifications-utils==39.7.1
+git+https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils.git@40.0.0#egg=notifications-utils==40.0.0
 
 # gds-metrics requires prometheseus 0.2.0, override that requirement as 0.7.1 brings significant performance gains
 prometheus-client==0.7.1
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c70959d8c..3d1087c14 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ notifications-python-client==5.5.1
 # PaaS
 awscli-cwlogs>=1.4,<1.5
 
-git+https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils.git@39.7.1#egg=notifications-utils==39.7.1
+git+https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils.git@40.0.0#egg=notifications-utils==40.0.0
 
 # gds-metrics requires prometheseus 0.2.0, override that requirement as 0.7.1 brings significant performance gains
 prometheus-client==0.7.1
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ alembic==1.4.2
 amqp==1.4.9
 anyjson==0.3.3
 attrs==19.3.0
-awscli==1.18.85
+awscli==1.18.89
 bcrypt==3.1.7
 billiard==3.3.0.23
 bleach==3.1.4
 blinker==1.4
 boto==2.49.0
 boto3==1.10.38
-botocore==1.17.8
+botocore==1.17.12
 certifi==2020.6.20
 chardet==3.0.4
 click==7.1.2
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ flask-redis==0.4.0
 future==0.18.2
 govuk-bank-holidays==0.6
 greenlet==0.4.16
-idna==2.9
-importlib-metadata==1.6.1
+idna==2.10
+importlib-metadata==1.7.0
 Jinja2==2.11.2
 jmespath==0.10.0
 kombu==3.0.37
diff --git a/tests/app/test_user_agent_processing.py b/tests/app/test_user_agent_processing.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 161b0e475..000000000
--- a/tests/app/test_user_agent_processing.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-from app import process_user_agent
-
-
-def test_can_process_notify_api_user_agent():
-    assert "notify-api-python-client.3-0-0" == process_user_agent("NOTIFY-API-PYTHON-CLIENT/3.0.0")
-
-
-def test_can_handle_non_notify_api_user_agent():
-    assert "non-notify-user-agent" == process_user_agent("Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B405")  # noqa
-
-
-def test_handles_null_user_agent():
-    assert "unknown" == process_user_agent(None)