diff --git a/docker-compose/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose/docker-compose.yaml
index f7a1d564..f298132c 100644
--- a/docker-compose/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ services:
   # Ports exposed to other Sourcegraph services: 6060/TCP, 3080 (HTTP), and/or 3443 (HTTPS)
   # Ports exposed to the public internet: none
   #
-  # 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.
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ services:
       - 'SRC_GIT_SERVERS=gitserver-0:3178'
       - 'SRC_SYNTECT_SERVER=http://syntect-server:9238'
       - 'SEARCHER_URL=http://searcher-0:3181'
-      - 'SYMBOLS_URL=http://symbols-0:3184'
       - 'INDEXED_SEARCH_SERVERS=zoekt-webserver-0:6070'
       - 'SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090'
       - 'GRAFANA_SERVER_URL=http://grafana:3370'
@@ -150,7 +149,6 @@ services:
             { "Name": "frontend-internal-0", "Host": "sourcegraph-frontend-internal:6060" },
             { "Name": "gitserver-0", "Host": "gitserver-0:6060" },
             { "Name": "searcher-0", "Host": "searcher-0:6060" },
-            { "Name": "symbols-0", "Host": "symbols-0:6060" },
             { "Name": "worker", "Host": "worker:6060" },
             { "Name": "zoekt-indexserver-0", "Host": "zoekt-indexserver-0:6072" },
             { "Name": "zoekt-webserver-0", "Host": "zoekt-webserver-0:6070", "DefaultPath": "/debug/requests/" }
@@ -189,7 +187,6 @@ services:
       - 'SRC_GIT_SERVERS=gitserver-0:3178'
       - 'SRC_SYNTECT_SERVER=http://syntect-server:9238'
       - 'SEARCHER_URL=http://searcher-0:3181'
-      - 'SYMBOLS_URL=http://symbols-0:3184'
       - 'INDEXED_SEARCH_SERVERS=zoekt-webserver-0:6070'
       - 'SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090'
       - 'GRAFANA_SERVER_URL=http://grafana:3370'
@@ -355,7 +352,6 @@ services:
       - 'OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://otel-collector:4317'
       - 'SRC_GIT_SERVERS=gitserver-0:3178'
       - 'SEARCHER_URL=http://searcher-0:3181'
-      - 'SYMBOLS_URL=http://symbols-0:3184'
       - 'INDEXED_SEARCH_SERVERS=zoekt-webserver-0:6070'
       - 'PRECISE_CODE_INTEL_UPLOAD_BACKEND=blobstore'
       - 'PRECISE_CODE_INTEL_UPLOAD_AWS_ENDPOINT=http://blobstore:9000'
@@ -413,32 +409,6 @@ services:
       - sourcegraph
     restart: always
 
-  # Description: Backend for symbols operations.
-  #
-  # Disk: 128GB / non-persistent SSD
-  # Ports exposed to other Sourcegraph services: 3184/TCP 6060/TCP
-  # Ports exposed to the public internet: none
-  #
-  symbols-0:
-    container_name: symbols-0
-    image: 'index.docker.io/sourcegraph/symbols:6.1.2889@sha256:0ffea2e2d7641decf87587a2c0fbcedb172d876f71a10da4cd3e72b566ce12b4'
-    cpus: 2
-    mem_limit: '4g'
-    environment:
-      - 'SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090'
-      - 'OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://otel-collector:4317'
-    healthcheck:
-      test: "wget -q 'http://127.0.0.1:3184/healthz' -O /dev/null || exit 1"
-      interval: 5s
-      timeout: 5s
-      retries: 3
-      start_period: 60s
-    volumes:
-      - 'symbols-0:/mnt/cache'
-    networks:
-      - sourcegraph
-    restart: always
-
   # Description: Prometheus collects metrics and aggregates them into graphs.
   #
   # Disk: 200GB / persistent SSD
@@ -781,7 +751,6 @@ volumes:
   searcher-0:
   sourcegraph-frontend-0:
   sourcegraph-frontend-internal-0:
-  symbols-0:
   zoekt-0-shared:
 networks:
   sourcegraph:
diff --git a/prometheus/prometheus_targets.yml b/prometheus/prometheus_targets.yml
index c7c0594e..e7cc3e62 100644
--- a/prometheus/prometheus_targets.yml
+++ b/prometheus/prometheus_targets.yml
@@ -51,11 +51,6 @@
     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 b3d25b6d..c1596e98 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-" $NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH ":6070")" \
     -e SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090 \
     -e GRAFANA_SERVER_URL=http://grafana:3000 \
diff --git a/pure-docker/deploy-frontend.sh b/pure-docker/deploy-frontend.sh
index c6d8bf47..77037aa2 100755
--- a/pure-docker/deploy-frontend.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/deploy-frontend.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ docker run --detach \
     -e SRC_GIT_SERVERS="$(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-" $NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH ":6070")" \
     -e SRC_FRONTEND_INTERNAL=sourcegraph-frontend-internal:3090 \
     -e GRAFANA_SERVER_URL=http://grafana:3370 \
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ docker run --detach \
     -p 0.0.0.0:$((3080 + $1)):3080 \
     index.docker.io/sourcegraph/frontend:187572_2022-12-06_cbecc5321c7d@sha256:73e64a8636e70ebbaf7f4a3300479529294f67e8cf644cdaea02435915aec869
 
-# 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 726202a1..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:187572_2022-12-06_cbecc5321c7d@sha256:75615a60f318dc898eae2e5037efcd53e63cf28c2b8fca388b6923d215ff9db9
-
-echo "Deployed symbols $1 service"
diff --git a/pure-docker/deploy-worker.sh b/pure-docker/deploy-worker.sh
index 326351e8..c4876b81 100755
--- a/pure-docker/deploy-worker.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/deploy-worker.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ docker run --detach \
     -e INDEXED_SEARCH_SERVERS="$(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 28a1c71b..3f79e1cc 100755
--- a/pure-docker/deploy.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/deploy.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ 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 e4782d9f..23ca3ca9 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=1
 NUM_SEARCHER=1
-NUM_SYMBOLS=1
 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 81a6dc0e..4ae10d8e 100755
--- a/pure-docker/teardown.sh
+++ b/pure-docker/teardown.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ docker rm -f redis-cache &>/dev/null || true &
 docker rm -f redis-store &>/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-" $NUM_INDEXED_SEARCH "") &>/dev/null || true &
diff --git a/test/smoke-test.sh b/test/smoke-test.sh
index c6a3bbc3..b8621e34 100755
--- a/test/smoke-test.sh
+++ b/test/smoke-test.sh
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ deploy_sourcegraph() {
 	if [[ "$TEST_TYPE" == "pure-docker-test" ]]; then
 		./test/volume-config.sh
 		timeout 600s ./pure-docker/deploy.sh
-		expect_containers="24"
+		expect_containers="23"
 	elif [[ "$TEST_TYPE" == "docker-compose-test" ]]; then
 		docker-compose --file docker-compose/docker-compose.yaml up -d -t 600
-		expect_containers="26"
+		expect_containers="25"
 	fi
 
 	echo "Giving containers 90s to start..."
diff --git a/test/volume-config.sh b/test/volume-config.sh
index 45f4bc15..020677b7 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* searcher* sourcegraph-frontend* symbols* zoekt* blobstore-disk
+chown -R 100:101 gitserver* prometheus-v2* worker* 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