diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e01275b2e6..ba8c367d53 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4902,17 +4902,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tracing-flame"
-version = "0.2.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0bae117ee14789185e129aaee5d93750abe67fdc5a9a62650452bfe4e122a3a9"
-dependencies = [
- "lazy_static",
- "tracing",
- "tracing-subscriber",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-futures"
 version = "0.2.5"
@@ -5169,7 +5158,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-util",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-error",
- "tracing-flame",
  "tracing-subscriber",
  "url",
  "uuid",
diff --git a/libs/utils/Cargo.toml b/libs/utils/Cargo.toml
index f4206e1cc2..27df0265b4 100644
--- a/libs/utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ const_format.workspace = true
 # to use tokio channels as streams, this is faster to compile than async_stream
 # why is it only here? no other crate should use it, streams are rarely needed.
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.14" }
-tracing-flame = "0.2.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 byteorder.workspace = true
diff --git a/libs/utils/src/logging.rs b/libs/utils/src/logging.rs
index 105ac5860b..502e02dc71 100644
--- a/libs/utils/src/logging.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/logging.rs
@@ -77,8 +77,6 @@ pub fn init(
             .unwrap_or_else(|_| tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::new("info"))
     };
 
-    let (flame_layer, _guard) = tracing_flame::FlameLayer::with_file("./tracing.folded").unwrap();
-
     // NB: the order of the with() calls does not matter.
     // See https://docs.rs/tracing-subscriber/0.3.16/tracing_subscriber/layer/index.html#per-layer-filtering
     use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
@@ -96,7 +94,6 @@ pub fn init(
         log_layer.with_filter(rust_log_env_filter())
     });
     let r = r.with(TracingEventCountLayer(&TRACING_EVENT_COUNT).with_filter(rust_log_env_filter()));
-    let r = r.with(flame_layer);
     match tracing_error_layer_enablement {
         TracingErrorLayerEnablement::EnableWithRustLogFilter => r
             .with(tracing_error::ErrorLayer::default().with_filter(rust_log_env_filter()))