diff --git a/hosting/docker/clickhouse/override.xml b/hosting/docker/clickhouse/override.xml
index 41897c29849..253669ab09d 100644
--- a/hosting/docker/clickhouse/override.xml
+++ b/hosting/docker/clickhouse/override.xml
@@ -9,12 +9,33 @@
     <!-- Official recommendations for systems with <16GB RAM -->
     <mark_cache_size>524288000</mark_cache_size> <!-- 500MB -->
     <concurrent_threads_soft_limit_num>1</concurrent_threads_soft_limit_num>
-    <profiles>
-        <default>
-        <max_block_size>8192</max_block_size>
-        <max_download_threads>1</max_download_threads>
-        <input_format_parallel_parsing>0</input_format_parallel_parsing>
-        <output_format_parallel_formatting>0</output_format_parallel_formatting>
-        </default>
-    </profiles>
-</clickhouse>
\ No newline at end of file
+
+    <!-- ClickHouse's own telemetry, too heavy for the recommended machine size -->
+    <metric_log remove="1"/>
+    <asynchronous_metric_log remove="1"/>
+    <trace_log remove="1"/>
+    <query_thread_log remove="1"/>
+    <session_log remove="1"/>
+    <text_log remove="1"/>
+    <zookeeper_log remove="1"/>
+    <processors_profile_log remove="1"/>
+    <asynchronous_insert_log remove="1"/>
+    <backup_log remove="1"/>
+    <latency_log remove="1"/>
+    <query_metric_log remove="1"/>
+    <opentelemetry_span_log remove="1"/>
+    <query_views_log remove="1"/>
+
+    <!-- A config-level ttl survives log-table recreation, unlike ALTER ... MODIFY TTL -->
+    <part_log>
+        <ttl>event_date + INTERVAL 7 DAY DELETE</ttl>
+    </part_log>
+    <query_log>
+        <ttl>event_date + INTERVAL 7 DAY DELETE</ttl>
+    </query_log>
+    <error_log>
+        <ttl>event_date + INTERVAL 30 DAY DELETE</ttl>
+    </error_log>
+
+    <!-- Profile settings only apply from users.d, see users-override.xml -->
+</clickhouse>
diff --git a/hosting/docker/clickhouse/users-override.xml b/hosting/docker/clickhouse/users-override.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..46699505e34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hosting/docker/clickhouse/users-override.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<clickhouse>
+    <profiles>
+        <default>
+            <max_threads>1</max_threads>
+            <max_block_size>8192</max_block_size>
+            <max_download_threads>1</max_download_threads>
+            <input_format_parallel_parsing>0</input_format_parallel_parsing>
+            <output_format_parallel_formatting>0</output_format_parallel_formatting>
+            <!-- Samplers only feed trace_log, which is disabled -->
+            <memory_profiler_step>0</memory_profiler_step>
+            <memory_profiler_sample_probability>0</memory_profiler_sample_probability>
+            <query_profiler_real_time_period_ns>0</query_profiler_real_time_period_ns>
+            <query_profiler_cpu_time_period_ns>0</query_profiler_cpu_time_period_ns>
+        </default>
+    </profiles>
+</clickhouse>
diff --git a/hosting/docker/webapp/docker-compose.yml b/hosting/docker/webapp/docker-compose.yml
index a8bc1167b77..b893c17eca9 100644
--- a/hosting/docker/webapp/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/hosting/docker/webapp/docker-compose.yml
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ services:
       - clickhouse:/var/lib/clickhouse
       - ../clickhouse/data-paths.xml:/etc/clickhouse-server/config.d/data-paths.xml:ro
       - ../clickhouse/override.xml:/etc/clickhouse-server/config.d/override.xml:ro
+      - ../clickhouse/users-override.xml:/etc/clickhouse-server/users.d/override.xml:ro
     networks:
       - webapp
     healthcheck: