diff --git a/prometheus/prometheus_targets.yml b/prometheus/prometheus_targets.yml
index 016fec3e..7d0a8277 100644
--- a/prometheus/prometheus_targets.yml
+++ b/prometheus/prometheus_targets.yml
@@ -56,11 +56,6 @@
     job: searcher
   targets:
     - searcher-0:6060
-- labels:
-    nodename: "sourcegraph-docker-compose-host"
-    job: symbols
-  targets:
-    - symbols-0:6060
 - labels:
     nodename: "sourcegraph-docker-compose-host"
     job: pgsql
diff --git a/pure-docker/deploy-frontend-internal.sh b/pure-docker/deploy-frontend-internal.sh
index 5518ad8d..c6eacf62 100755
--- a/pure-docker/deploy-frontend-internal.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/deploy-frontend-internal.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ docker run --detach \
     -e SRC_GIT_SERVERS="$(addresses "gitserver-" $NUM_GITSERVER ":3178")" \
     -e SRC_SYNTECT_SERVER=http://syntect-server:9238 \
     -e SEARCHER_URL="$(addresses "http://searcher-" $NUM_SEARCHER ":3181")" \
-    -e SYMBOLS_URL="$(addresses "http://symbols-" $NUM_SYMBOLS ":3184")" \
     -e INDEXED_SEARCH_SERVERS="$(addresses "zoekt-webserver-" $NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH ":6070")" \
     -e SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090 \
     -e REPO_UPDATER_URL=http://repo-updater:3182 \
diff --git a/pure-docker/deploy-frontend.sh b/pure-docker/deploy-frontend.sh
index d30520d7..44f2b955 100755
--- a/pure-docker/deploy-frontend.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/deploy-frontend.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ docker run --detach \
     -e SRC_GIT_SERVERS="$(addresses "gitserver-" $NUM_GITSERVER ":3178")" \
     -e SRC_SYNTECT_SERVER=http://syntect-server:9238 \
     -e SEARCHER_URL="$(addresses "http://searcher-" $NUM_SEARCHER ":3181")" \
-    -e SYMBOLS_URL="$(addresses "http://symbols-" $NUM_SYMBOLS ":3184")" \
     -e INDEXED_SEARCH_SERVERS="$(addresses "zoekt-webserver-" $NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH ":6070")" \
     -e SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090 \
     -e REPO_UPDATER_URL=http://repo-updater:3182 \
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ docker run --detach \
     -p 0.0.0.0:$((3080 + $1)):3080 \
     index.docker.io/sourcegraph/frontend:4.4.0@sha256:403c76413df819964e9eb2762ff2ff73a901718a28e0546475d0293a18d5dea5
 
-# Note: SRC_GIT_SERVERS, SEARCHER_URL, and SYMBOLS_URL are space-separated
+# Note: SRC_GIT_SERVERS, and SEARCHER_URL are space-separated
 # lists which each allow you to specify more container instances for scaling
 # purposes. Be sure to also apply such a change here to the frontend-internal
 # service.
diff --git a/pure-docker/deploy-symbols.sh b/pure-docker/deploy-symbols.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 1f7623c1..00000000
--- a/pure-docker/deploy-symbols.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
-source ./replicas.sh
-
-# Description: Backend for symbols operations.
-#
-# Disk: 128GB / non-persistent SSD
-# Network: 100mbps
-# Liveness probe: none
-# Ports exposed to other Sourcegraph services: 3184/TCP 6060/TCP
-# Ports exposed to the public internet: none
-#
-VOLUME="$HOME/sourcegraph-docker/symbols-$1-disk"
-./ensure-volume.sh $VOLUME 100
-docker run --detach \
-    --name=symbols-$1 \
-    --network=sourcegraph \
-    --restart=always \
-    --cpus=2 \
-    --memory=4g \
-    -e GOMAXPROCS=2 \
-    -e SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090 \
-    -e 'OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://otel-collector:4317' \
-    -v $VOLUME:/mnt/cache \
-    index.docker.io/sourcegraph/symbols:4.4.0@sha256:20b353a54c237674bca518fec97ffa83fd14045b85da3d5405fd79a69bb6a8db
-
-echo "Deployed symbols $1 service"
diff --git a/pure-docker/deploy-worker.sh b/pure-docker/deploy-worker.sh
index f6553511..b6f59f56 100755
--- a/pure-docker/deploy-worker.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/deploy-worker.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ docker run --detach \
     -e INDEXED_SEARCH_SERVERS="$(addresses "zoekt-webserver-" $NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH ":6070")" \
     -e SEARCHER_URL="$(addresses "http://searcher-" $NUM_SEARCHER ":3181")" \
     -e SRC_GIT_SERVERS="$(addresses "gitserver-" $NUM_GITSERVER ":3178")" \
-    -e SYMBOLS_URL="$(addresses "http://symbols-" $NUM_SYMBOLS ":3184")" \
     -e PRECISE_CODE_INTEL_UPLOAD_BACKEND=blobstore \
     -e PRECISE_CODE_INTEL_UPLOAD_AWS_ENDPOINT=http://blobstore:9000 \
     -v $VOLUME:/mnt/cache \
diff --git a/pure-docker/deploy.sh b/pure-docker/deploy.sh
index 7ec43628..13ddee6f 100755
--- a/pure-docker/deploy.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/deploy.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ for i in $(seq 0 $(($NUM_GITSERVER - 1))); do ./deploy-gitserver.sh $i; done
 ./deploy-worker.sh
 ./deploy-otel-collector.sh
 for i in $(seq 0 $(($NUM_SEARCHER - 1))); do ./deploy-searcher.sh $i; done
-for i in $(seq 0 $(($NUM_SYMBOLS - 1))); do ./deploy-symbols.sh $i; done
 ./deploy-syntect-server.sh
 for i in $(seq 0 $(($NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH - 1))); do ./deploy-zoekt-indexserver.sh $i; done
 for i in $(seq 0 $(($NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH - 1))); do ./deploy-zoekt-webserver.sh $i; done
diff --git a/pure-docker/replicas.sh b/pure-docker/replicas.sh
index 6fa13cab..a2312560 100755
--- a/pure-docker/replicas.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/replicas.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # Here you can specify the number of service replicas to deploy.
 NUM_GITSERVER=18
 NUM_SEARCHER=16
-NUM_SYMBOLS=4
 NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH=1
 NUM_FRONTEND=3
 
-addresses() { for i in $(seq 0 $(($2 - 1))); do echo -n "$1$i$3 "; done }
+addresses() { for i in $(seq 0 $(($2 - 1))); do echo -n "$1$i$3 "; done; }
diff --git a/pure-docker/teardown.sh b/pure-docker/teardown.sh
index 41d3c65c..b7a01ca4 100755
--- a/pure-docker/teardown.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/teardown.sh
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ docker rm -f redis-store &>/dev/null || true &
 docker rm -f repo-updater &>/dev/null || true &
 docker rm -f worker &>/dev/null || true &
 docker rm -f $(addresses "searcher-" $NUM_SEARCHER "") &>/dev/null || true &
-docker rm -f $(addresses "symbols-" $NUM_SYMBOLS "") &>/dev/null || true &
 docker rm -f syntect-server &>/dev/null || true &
 docker rm -f $(addresses "zoekt-indexserver-" $NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH "") &>/dev/null || true &
 docker rm -f $(addresses "zoekt-webserver-" $NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH "") &>/dev/null || true &
diff --git a/test/pure-docker/Vagrantfile b/test/pure-docker/Vagrantfile
index d2e791e9..251938ed 100644
--- a/test/pure-docker/Vagrantfile
+++ b/test/pure-docker/Vagrantfile
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
     echo "forcing static permissions on volume directories"
     echo
     pushd ~/sourcegraph-docker
-    chown -R 100:101 gitserver* lsif-server* prometheus-v2* repo-updater* searcher* sourcegraph-frontend* symbols* zoekt*
+    chown -R 100:101 gitserver* lsif-server* prometheus-v2* repo-updater* searcher* sourcegraph-frontend* zoekt*
     chown -R 999:1000 redis-store-disk redis-cache-disk
     chown -R 472:472 grafana-disk
     chown -R 999:999 pgsql-disk
diff --git a/test/pure-docker/volume-config.sh b/test/pure-docker/volume-config.sh
index 0d72258e..694d4e1b 100755
--- a/test/pure-docker/volume-config.sh
+++ b/test/pure-docker/volume-config.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ echo
 echo "forcing static permissions on volume directories"
 echo
 pushd ~/sourcegraph-docker
-chown -R 100:101 gitserver* lsif-server* prometheus-v2* repo-updater* searcher* sourcegraph-frontend* symbols* zoekt* minio-disk
+chown -R 100:101 gitserver* lsif-server* prometheus-v2* repo-updater* searcher* sourcegraph-frontend* zoekt* minio-disk
 chown -R 999:1000 redis-store-disk redis-cache-disk
 chown -R 472:472 grafana-disk
 chown -R 999:999 pgsql-disk codeintel-db-disk
diff --git a/test/volume-config.sh b/test/volume-config.sh
index f298734a..a4a47579 100755
--- a/test/volume-config.sh
+++ b/test/volume-config.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ echo
 echo "forcing static permissions on volume directories"
 echo
 pushd ~/sourcegraph-docker
-chown -R 100:101 gitserver* prometheus-v2* worker* repo-updater* searcher* sourcegraph-frontend* symbols* zoekt* blobstore-disk
+chown -R 100:101 gitserver* prometheus-v2* worker* repo-updater* searcher* sourcegraph-frontend* zoekt* blobstore-disk
 chown -R 999:1000 redis-store-disk redis-cache-disk
 chown -R 472:472 grafana-disk
 chown -R 999:999 pgsql-disk codeintel-db-disk