diff --git a/blueprints/cloud-operations/network-dashboard/README.md b/blueprints/cloud-operations/network-dashboard/README.md
index 777f89a38..cc0557c18 100644
--- a/blueprints/cloud-operations/network-dashboard/README.md
+++ b/blueprints/cloud-operations/network-dashboard/README.md
@@ -34,11 +34,10 @@ Clone this repository, then go through the following steps to create resources:
 
 Note: Org level viewing permission is required for some metrics such as firewall policies.
 
-Once the resources are deployed, go to the following page to see the dashboard: https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/dashboards?project=<YOUR-MONITORING-PROJECT> (or <YOUR-METRICS-PROJECT> if populated)
-A dashboard called "quotas-utilization" should be created.
+Once the resources are deployed, go to the following page to see the dashboard: https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/dashboards?project=<YOUR-MONITORING-PROJECT> a dashboard called "quotas-utilization" should be created.
 
 The Cloud Function runs every 10 minutes by default so you should start getting some data points after a few minutes.
-You can use the metric explorer to view the data points for the different custom metrics created: https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/metrics-explorer?project=<YOUR-MONITORING-PROJECT> (or <YOUR-METRICS-PROJECT> if populated).
+You can use the metric explorer to view the data points for the different custom metrics created: https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/metrics-explorer?project=<YOUR-MONITORING-PROJECT>.
 You can change this frequency by modifying the "schedule_cron" variable in variables.tf.
 
 Note that some charts in the dashboard align values over 1h so you might need to wait 1h to see charts on the dashboard views.
diff --git a/blueprints/cloud-operations/network-dashboard/main.tf b/blueprints/cloud-operations/network-dashboard/main.tf
index 3e1700ca5..d4e587c18 100644
--- a/blueprints/cloud-operations/network-dashboard/main.tf
+++ b/blueprints/cloud-operations/network-dashboard/main.tf
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ locals {
   folder_ids         = toset(var.monitored_folders_list)
   folders            = join(",", local.folder_ids)
   monitoring_project = var.monitoring_project_id == "" ? module.project-monitoring[0].project_id : var.monitoring_project_id
-  metrics_project    = var.metrics_project_id == "" ? (var.monitoring_project_id == "" ? module.project-monitoring[0].project_id : var.monitoring_project_id) : var.metrics_project_id
 }
 
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@@ -190,5 +189,5 @@ module "cloud-function" {
 
 resource "google_monitoring_dashboard" "dashboard" {
   dashboard_json = file("${path.module}/dashboards/quotas-utilization.json")
-  project        = local.metrics_project
+  project        = local.monitoring_project
 }