diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 35a3fa5f..6403a1e3 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1775,7 +1775,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "hyperlight-host",
  "hyperlight-js-common",
  "hyperlight-js-runtime",
- "lazy_static",
  "libc",
  "metrics",
  "metrics-exporter-prometheus",
diff --git a/docs/observability.md b/docs/observability.md
index 0fb0dad1..e0f948d7 100644
--- a/docs/observability.md
+++ b/docs/observability.md
@@ -13,11 +13,9 @@ To provide a registry to hyperlight-js, use the `set_metrics_registry` function
 ```rust
 use hyperlight_host::metrics::set_metrics_registry;
 use prometheus::Registry;
-use lazy_static::lazy_static;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
-lazy_static! {
-    static ref REGISTRY: Registry = Registry::new();
-}
+static REGISTRY: LazyLock<Registry> = LazyLock::new(Registry::new);
 
 set_metrics_registry(&REGISTRY);
 ```
diff --git a/src/hyperlight-js/Cargo.toml b/src/hyperlight-js/Cargo.toml
index 74e55b7c..d9b8566c 100644
--- a/src/hyperlight-js/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/hyperlight-js/Cargo.toml
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ crossbeam-queue = { version = "0.3", features = ["std"] }
 crossterm = "0.29.0"
 dashmap = "6.2.1"
 env_logger = "0.11"
-lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 metrics-exporter-prometheus = "0.18"
 metrics-util = "0.20.4"
 opentelemetry = "0.33.1"