diff --git a/.config/hakari.toml b/.config/hakari.toml
index 15b939e86f..9913ecc9c0 100644
--- a/.config/hakari.toml
+++ b/.config/hakari.toml
@@ -22,5 +22,11 @@ platforms = [
     # "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc",
 ]
 
+[final-excludes]
+# vm_monitor benefits from the same Cargo.lock as the rest of our artifacts, but
+# it is built primarly in separate repo neondatabase/autoscaling and thus is excluded
+# from depending on workspace-hack because most of the dependencies are not used.
+workspace-members = ["vm_monitor"]
+
 # Write out exact versions rather than a semver range. (Defaults to false.)
 # exact-versions = true
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 10f13e21fd..5e7fce3e8d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -6055,7 +6055,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-util",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
- "workspace_hack",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/libs/vm_monitor/Cargo.toml b/libs/vm_monitor/Cargo.toml
index 26b976830a..46e9f880a1 100644
--- a/libs/vm_monitor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/vm_monitor/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,13 +19,12 @@ inotify.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 sysinfo.workspace = true
-tokio.workspace = true
+tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 tokio-postgres.workspace = true
 tokio-stream.workspace = true
 tokio-util.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 tracing-subscriber.workspace = true
-workspace_hack = { version = "0.1", path = "../../workspace_hack" }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
 cgroups-rs = "0.3.3"