diff --git a/packages/server/src/jsRunner/vm/index.ts b/packages/server/src/jsRunner/vm/index.ts
index 01e0daa354..cc50a5eeaa 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/jsRunner/vm/index.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/jsRunner/vm/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 export * from "./isolated-vm"
 export * from "./builtin-vm"
-export * from "./vm2"
diff --git a/packages/server/src/jsRunner/vm/vm2.ts b/packages/server/src/jsRunner/vm/vm2.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 5825025d26..0000000000
--- a/packages/server/src/jsRunner/vm/vm2.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-import vm2 from "vm2"
-import { VM } from "@budibase/types"
-
-const JS_TIMEOUT_MS = 1000
-
-export class VM2 implements VM {
-  vm: vm2.VM
-  results: { out: string }
-
-  constructor() {
-    this.vm = new vm2.VM({
-      timeout: JS_TIMEOUT_MS,
-    })
-    this.results = { out: "" }
-    this.vm.setGlobal("fetch", fetch)
-    this.vm.setGlobal("results", this.results)
-  }
-
-  withContext<T>(context: Record<string, any>, executeWithContext: () => T): T {
-    this.vm.setGlobals(context)
-    try {
-      return executeWithContext()
-    } finally {
-      for (const key in context) {
-        this.vm.setGlobal(key, undefined)
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  execute(script: string) {
-    const code = `let fn = () => {\n${script}\n}; results.out = fn();`
-    const vmScript = new vm2.VMScript(code)
-    this.vm.run(vmScript)
-    return this.results.out
-  }
-}
diff --git a/packages/server/src/threads/query.ts b/packages/server/src/threads/query.ts
index 6cc07c1256..9366f2b12c 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/threads/query.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/threads/query.ts
@@ -7,20 +7,18 @@ import {
   QueryVariable,
   QueryResponse,
 } from "./definitions"
-import { IsolatedVM, VM2 } from "../jsRunner/vm"
+import { IsolatedVM } from "../jsRunner/vm"
 import { getIntegration } from "../integrations"
 import { processStringSync } from "@budibase/string-templates"
 import { context, cache, auth } from "@budibase/backend-core"
 import { getGlobalIDFromUserMetadataID } from "../db/utils"
 import sdk from "../sdk"
 import { cloneDeep } from "lodash/fp"
-import { Datasource, Query, SourceName, VM } from "@budibase/types"
+import { Datasource, Query, SourceName } from "@budibase/types"
 
 import { isSQL } from "../integrations/utils"
 import { interpolateSQL } from "../integrations/queries/sql"
 
-const USE_ISOLATED_VM = true
-
 class QueryRunner {
   datasource: Datasource
   queryVerb: string
@@ -129,23 +127,17 @@ class QueryRunner {
 
     // transform as required
     if (transformer) {
-      let runner: VM
-      if (!USE_ISOLATED_VM) {
-        runner = new VM2()
-      } else {
-        transformer = `(function(){\n${transformer}\n})();`
-        let vm = new IsolatedVM()
-        if (datasource.source === SourceName.MONGODB) {
-          vm = vm.withParsingBson(rows)
-        }
-        runner = vm
+      transformer = `(function(){\n${transformer}\n})();`
+      let vm = new IsolatedVM()
+      if (datasource.source === SourceName.MONGODB) {
+        vm = vm.withParsingBson(rows)
       }
 
       const ctx = {
         data: rows,
         params: enrichedParameters,
       }
-      rows = runner.withContext(ctx, () => runner.execute(transformer))
+      rows = vm.withContext(ctx, () => vm.execute(transformer))
     }
 
     // if the request fails we retry once, invalidating the cached value