diff --git a/airbyte-cron/src/main/java/io/airbyte/cron/selfhealing/WorkspaceCleaner.java b/airbyte-cron/src/main/java/io/airbyte/cron/selfhealing/WorkspaceCleaner.java
index 156aef8cf250..6af6af927b2d 100644
--- a/airbyte-cron/src/main/java/io/airbyte/cron/selfhealing/WorkspaceCleaner.java
+++ b/airbyte-cron/src/main/java/io/airbyte/cron/selfhealing/WorkspaceCleaner.java
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 import io.airbyte.config.Configs;
 import io.airbyte.config.EnvConfigs;
+import io.micronaut.context.annotation.Requires;
+import io.micronaut.context.env.Environment;
 import io.micronaut.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled;
 import jakarta.inject.Singleton;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -22,12 +24,15 @@
 
 @Singleton
 @Slf4j
+@Requires(notEnv = Environment.KUBERNETES)
 public class WorkspaceCleaner {
 
   private final Path workspaceRoot;
   private final long maxAgeFilesInDays;
 
   WorkspaceCleaner() {
+    log.info("Creating workspace cleaner");
+
     // TODO Configs should get injected through micronaut
     final Configs configs = new EnvConfigs();
 
diff --git a/airbyte-cron/src/main/resources/application.yml b/airbyte-cron/src/main/resources/application.yml
index 6961c8a3801c..46e61662ebd2 100644
--- a/airbyte-cron/src/main/resources/application.yml
+++ b/airbyte-cron/src/main/resources/application.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 micronaut:
   application:
-    name: airbyte-workers
+    name: airbyte-cron
   security:
     intercept-url-map:
       - pattern: /**