diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7caab9f7..e666acfd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <artifactId>api</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>
-    <version>3.4.34</version>
+    <version>3.4.35</version>
     <description>Hygieia Rest API Layer</description>
     <url>https://github.com/Hygieia/api</url>
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/rest/DashboardController.java b/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/rest/DashboardController.java
index d6713924..fd0da8b5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/rest/DashboardController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/rest/DashboardController.java
@@ -481,4 +481,11 @@ public ResponseEntity<List<Dashboard>> myDashboardByTitlePage(@RequestParam(valu
                 .headers(paginationHeaderUtility.buildPaginationHeaders(pageDashboardItems))
                 .body(pageDashboardItems.getContent());
     }
+
+    @RequestMapping(value = "/dashboard/removeWidgetDuplicates", method = DELETE)
+    public ResponseEntity<String> removeWidgetDuplicates(@RequestParam(value="title", required = false)String title,
+    @RequestParam(value="dryRun", required = true) boolean dryRun){
+        String message = dashboardService.removeWidgetDuplicates(title, dryRun);
+        return ResponseEntity.ok().body(message);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardRemoteServiceImpl.java b/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardRemoteServiceImpl.java
index 669d7a74..2e7c1e06 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardRemoteServiceImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardRemoteServiceImpl.java
@@ -170,16 +170,12 @@ public Dashboard remoteCreate(DashboardRemoteRequest request, boolean isUpdate)
 
             component = dashboardService.associateCollectorToComponent(dashboard.getApplication().getComponents().get(0).getId(), widgetRequest.getCollectorItemIds(),component,true);
             Widget newWidget = widgetRequest.widget();
-            if (isUpdate) {
-                Widget oldWidget = existingWidgets.get(newWidget.getName());
-                if (oldWidget == null) {
-                    dashboardService.addWidget(dashboard, newWidget);
-                } else {
-                    Widget widget = widgetRequest.updateWidget(dashboardService.getWidget(dashboard, oldWidget.getId()));
-                    dashboardService.updateWidget(dashboard, widget);
-                }
-            } else {
+            Widget oldWidget = existingWidgets.get(newWidget.getName());
+            if (oldWidget == null) {
                 dashboardService.addWidget(dashboard, newWidget);
+            } else {
+                Widget widget = widgetRequest.updateWidget(dashboardService.getWidget(dashboard, oldWidget.getId()));
+                dashboardService.updateWidget(dashboard, widget);
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardService.java b/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardService.java
index 034564a0..b3ce073a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardService.java
@@ -243,6 +243,8 @@ public interface DashboardService {
     Dashboard updateScoreSettings(ObjectId dashboardId, boolean scoreEnabled, ScoreDisplayType scoreDisplay);
 
     Iterable<Dashboard> allTemplate(String template);
+
+    String removeWidgetDuplicates(String title, boolean dryRun);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardServiceImpl.java b/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardServiceImpl.java
index 8c732955..770a28ea 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardServiceImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardServiceImpl.java
@@ -1005,4 +1005,53 @@ public Dashboard updateScoreSettings(ObjectId dashboardId, boolean scoreEnabled,
         return savedDashboard;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public String removeWidgetDuplicates(String title, boolean dryRun) {
+
+        List<Dashboard> dashboards;
+        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(title)){
+            dashboards = (List<Dashboard>) all();
+        }
+        else{
+            dashboards = dashboardRepository.findByTitle(title);
+            if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(dashboards)){return "No dashboards with that title";}
+        }
+
+        for (Dashboard dashboard : dashboards) {
+            List<Widget> nonDuplicates = new ArrayList<Widget>();
+            List<Widget> dashWidgets = dashboard.getWidgets();
+
+            // loop through existing widgets, if the widget is not in the nonDuplicates list add it
+            for (Widget widget : dashWidgets) {
+                if (nonDuplicates.stream().noneMatch(w -> w.getName().equalsIgnoreCase(widget.getName()))) {
+                    nonDuplicates.add(widget);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if(!dryRun){
+                dashboard.setWidgets(nonDuplicates);
+                dashboard.setUpdatedAt(System.currentTimeMillis());
+                dashboardRepository.save(dashboard);
+            }
+
+            // Logs number of original widgets along with contents of new widget array
+            LOG.info("Removing duplicates from dashboard " + dashboard.getTitle() + ": " + dashWidgets.size() +
+                    " widgets simplified to " + nonDuplicates.stream().map(Widget::getName).collect(Collectors.toList()));
+        }
+
+        if(StringUtils.isEmpty(title)){
+            if(dryRun){
+                return "DRY_RUN: All Dashboard widgets cleaned";
+            } else{
+                return "All Dashboard widgets cleaned";
+            }
+        }
+        else {
+            if(dryRun){
+                return "DRY_RUN: Cleaned widgets for dashboard " + title;
+            } else{
+                return "Cleaned widgets for dashboard " + title;
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/rest/DashboardControllerTest.java b/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/rest/DashboardControllerTest.java
index 28965c5f..158fd690 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/rest/DashboardControllerTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/rest/DashboardControllerTest.java
@@ -436,7 +436,6 @@ public void updateScoreSettings() throws Exception {
           .andExpect(status().isOk());
     }
 
-    
     private DashboardRequestTitle makeDashboardRequestTitle(String title) {
         DashboardRequestTitle request = new DashboardRequestTitle();
         request.setTitle(title);
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardRemoteServiceTest.java b/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardRemoteServiceTest.java
index d1e99593..78a3d087 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardRemoteServiceTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardRemoteServiceTest.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import com.capitalone.dashboard.model.CollectorType;
 import com.capitalone.dashboard.model.Owner;
 import com.capitalone.dashboard.model.AuthType;
+import com.capitalone.dashboard.model.Widget;
 import com.capitalone.dashboard.repository.CollectorItemRepository;
 import com.capitalone.dashboard.repository.DashboardRepository;
 import com.capitalone.dashboard.repository.UserInfoRepository;
@@ -301,6 +302,36 @@ public void remoteCreateBuild() throws HygieiaException, IOException {
         assertEquals(1, component.getCollectorItems().get(CollectorType.Build).size());
         assertEquals(2, dashboard.get(0).getOwners().size());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void remoteCreateWithoutDuplicateWidgets() throws IOException, HygieiaException {
+
+        for(int i = 0; i < 2; i++){
+            // Creating codeRepoEntry to add to the request
+            List<DashboardRemoteRequest.CodeRepoEntry> entries = new ArrayList<>();
+            DashboardRemoteRequest.CodeRepoEntry entry = new DashboardRemoteRequest.CodeRepoEntry();
+            entry.setToolName("GitHub");
+            Map options = new HashMap();
+            if (i==0) {
+                options.put("url", "http://git.test.com/capone/better.git");
+                options.put("branch", "master");
+            }else{
+                options.put("url", "http://git.test.com/captwo/best.git");
+                options.put("branch", "main");
+            }
+            entry.setOptions(options);
+            entries.add(entry);
+
+            // create remote request with repo and call remote create
+            DashboardRemoteRequest request = getRemoteRequest("./dashboardRemoteRequests/Remote-Request-Base.json");
+            request.getMetaData().setTitle("dupWidgetTest");
+            request.setCodeRepoEntries(entries);
+            Dashboard dash = dashboardRemoteService.remoteCreate(request, false);
+            assertEquals(1, dash.getWidgets().size());
+            assertEquals("repo", dash.getWidgets().get(0).getName());
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void remoteUpdateNonExisting() throws IOException {
         DashboardRemoteRequest request = getRemoteRequest("./dashboardRemoteRequests/Remote-Request-Base.json");
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardServiceTest.java b/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardServiceTest.java
index 47a04919..3c921965 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardServiceTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/capitalone/dashboard/service/DashboardServiceTest.java
@@ -941,6 +941,25 @@ public void compareMapsTest() {
         Assert.assertTrue(result);
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void removeWidgetDuplicates(){
+        Dashboard dashboard = makeTeamDashboard("template", "title", "appName", "Test",configItemBusServName,configItemBusAppName, "comp1");
+        Widget widget = new Widget();
+        Widget widget2 = new Widget();
+
+        widget.setName("build");
+        dashboard.getWidgets().add(widget);
+        dashboard.getWidgets().add(widget);
+        widget2.setName("repo");
+        dashboard.getWidgets().add(widget2);
+        dashboard.getWidgets().add(widget2);
+        assertThat(dashboard.getWidgets().size(), is(4));
+
+        when(dashboardRepository.findByTitle(dashboard.getTitle())).thenReturn(Collections.singletonList(dashboard));
+        dashboardService.removeWidgetDuplicates(dashboard.getTitle(), false);
+        assertThat(dashboard.getWidgets().size(), is(2));
+    }
+
     private Dashboard makeTeamDashboard(String template, String title, String appName, String owner,String configItemBusServName,String configItemBusAppName, String... compNames) {
         Application app = new Application(appName);
         for (String compName : compNames) {