diff --git a/.github/workflows/microk8s-ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/microk8s-ci.yaml
index 87cc9692..b2a95468 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/microk8s-ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/microk8s-ci.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: balchua/microk8s-actions@v0.3.1
         with:
           channel: '1.25/stable'
-          addons: '["dns", "helm3", "hostpath-storage", "registry", "metrics-server", "host-access"]'
+          addons: '["dns", "helm3", "hostpath-storage", "registry", "host-access"]'
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
diff --git a/chart/test/microk8s-ci.yaml b/chart/test/microk8s-ci.yaml
index 97c4da29..23d95426 100644
--- a/chart/test/microk8s-ci.yaml
+++ b/chart/test/microk8s-ci.yaml
@@ -7,3 +7,8 @@ frontend_image: "localhost:32000/webrecorder/browsertrix-frontend:latest"
 
 backend_pull_policy: "IfNotPresent"
 frontend_pull_policy: "IfNotPresent"
+
+# for testing only
+crawler_extra_cpu_per_browser: 300m
+
+crawler_extra_memory_per_browser: 256Mi