diff --git a/instrumentation/couchbase/couchbase-common-2.0/javaagent-unit-tests/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/couchbase/common/v2_0/CouchbaseQuerySanitizerTest.java b/instrumentation/couchbase/couchbase-common-2.0/javaagent-unit-tests/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/couchbase/common/v2_0/CouchbaseQuerySanitizerTest.java
index 6962b6592722..8aa9d4649e78 100644
--- a/instrumentation/couchbase/couchbase-common-2.0/javaagent-unit-tests/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/couchbase/common/v2_0/CouchbaseQuerySanitizerTest.java
+++ b/instrumentation/couchbase/couchbase-common-2.0/javaagent-unit-tests/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/couchbase/common/v2_0/CouchbaseQuerySanitizerTest.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ class CouchbaseQuerySanitizerTest {
   @MethodSource("providesArguments")
   void testShouldNormalizeStringQuery(Parameter parameter) {
     String normalized = CouchbaseQuerySanitizer.analyze(parameter.query).getQueryText();
-    assertThat(normalized).isNotNull();
     // the analytics query ends up with trailing ';' in earlier couchbase version, but no trailing
     // ';' in later couchbase version
     assertThat(normalized.replaceFirst(";$", "")).isEqualTo(parameter.expected);