diff --git a/patroni/ctl.py b/patroni/ctl.py
index e8797989..5c98cf28 100644
--- a/patroni/ctl.py
+++ b/patroni/ctl.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ from patroni.config import Config
 from patroni.dcs import get_dcs as _get_dcs
 from patroni.exceptions import PatroniException
 from patroni.postgresql import Postgresql, get_conn_kwargs
-from patroni.api import RestApiServer
 from prettytable import PrettyTable
 from six.moves.urllib_parse import urlparse