Hi, I am trying to scale down my retool instance to save money, biggest issue fo far seems to be available memory. Looking at the container stats: [image] Since I dont really use workflows in retool: [image] Looking at Architecture here , can I simply remove Workflow Backend and Workflow Worke…

Hi @johnymachine ! Yes, if your app doesn't use workflows then you don't need to run those containers. Just make sure that if you remove them that you don't reference them anywhere. Since your concern is about available memory, it doesn't look like you'd save much memory on not including retool-db, …

Optimizing Self Hosted Instance Memory usage (disabling workflows)

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johnymachine July 28, 2025, 8:35pm 5

Also found this thread: Self Hosted retool without workflows (and temporal)

From @Cole_Diffin and seems like he is not using code executor either?

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Optimizing Self Hosted Instance Memory usage (disabling workflows)

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