diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/.OwlBot.yaml b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/.OwlBot.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c446f1cbd6f..000000000000
--- a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/.OwlBot.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2021 Google LLC
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-
-deep-remove-regex:
-  - /owl-bot-staging
-
-deep-copy-regex:
-  - source: /google/monitoring/(v.*)/.*-py
-    dest: /owl-bot-staging/google-cloud-monitoring/$1
-
-begin-after-commit-hash: 9f1fe1408a1799948f1b17add7c3a15145057718
-
-api-name: google-cloud-monitoring
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/google/cloud/monitoring/gapic_version.py b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/google/cloud/monitoring/gapic_version.py
index 20a9cd975b02..dc8f75f7f536 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/google/cloud/monitoring/gapic_version.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/google/cloud/monitoring/gapic_version.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-__version__ = "0.0.0"  # {x-release-please-version}
+__version__ = "2.27.2"  # {x-release-please-version}
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/google/cloud/monitoring_v3/gapic_version.py b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/google/cloud/monitoring_v3/gapic_version.py
index 20a9cd975b02..dc8f75f7f536 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/google/cloud/monitoring_v3/gapic_version.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/google/cloud/monitoring_v3/gapic_version.py
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-__version__ = "0.0.0"  # {x-release-please-version}
+__version__ = "2.27.2"  # {x-release-please-version}
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/samples/snippets/README b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/samples/snippets/README
deleted file mode 100644
index ceb0b8e9bad0..000000000000
--- a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/samples/snippets/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-These samples have been moved.
-
-https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/tree/main/monitoring/snippets/v3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/testing/constraints-3.7.txt b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/testing/constraints-3.7.txt
index 712c6297bb6b..d34f539c9c0a 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/testing/constraints-3.7.txt
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-monitoring/testing/constraints-3.7.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # e.g., if setup.py has "google-cloud-foo >= 1.14.0, < 2.0.0",
 # Then this file should have google-cloud-foo==1.14.0
 google-api-core==1.34.1
-google-auth==2.14.1
 pandas==0.23.2
+google-auth==2.14.1
 proto-plus==1.22.3
 protobuf==3.20.2