diff --git a/services/filestore/app.js b/services/filestore/app.js
index 6bf68f6a34..232c5b24bc 100644
--- a/services/filestore/app.js
+++ b/services/filestore/app.js
@@ -12,11 +12,8 @@ const fileController = require('./app/js/FileController')
 const bucketController = require('./app/js/BucketController')
 const keyBuilder = require('./app/js/KeyBuilder')
 const healthCheckController = require('./app/js/HealthCheckController')
-const ExceptionHandler = require('./app/js/ExceptionHandler')
-const exceptionHandler = new ExceptionHandler()
 
 const app = express()
-app.exceptionHandler = exceptionHandler
 
 if (settings.sentry && settings.sentry.dsn) {
   logger.initializeErrorReporting(settings.sentry.dsn)
@@ -34,8 +31,6 @@ app.use(function(req, res, next) {
   next()
 })
 
-exceptionHandler.addMiddleware(app)
-
 Metrics.injectMetricsRoute(app)
 
 app.head(
@@ -133,24 +128,12 @@ app.get('/heapdump', (req, res, next) =>
   )
 )
 
-app.post('/shutdown', function(req, res) {
-  exceptionHandler.setNotOk()
-  res.sendStatus(200)
-})
-
 app.get('/status', function(req, res) {
-  if (exceptionHandler.appIsOk()) {
-    res.send('filestore sharelatex up')
-  } else {
-    logger.log('app is not ok - shutting down')
-    res.send('server is being shut down').status(500)
-  }
+  res.send('filestore sharelatex up')
 })
 
 app.get('/health_check', healthCheckController.check)
 
-app.get('*', (req, res) => res.sendStatus(404))
-
 const port = settings.internal.filestore.port || 3009
 const host = '0.0.0.0'
 
@@ -163,21 +146,6 @@ if (!module.parent) {
     }
     logger.info(`Filestore starting up, listening on ${host}:${port}`)
   })
-  exceptionHandler.server = server
 }
 
 module.exports = app
-
-process.on('SIGTERM', function() {
-  logger.log('filestore got SIGTERM, shutting down gracefully')
-  exceptionHandler.beginShutdown()
-})
-
-if (global.gc) {
-  const oneMinute = 60 * 1000
-  const gcTimer = setInterval(function() {
-    global.gc()
-    logger.log(process.memoryUsage(), 'global.gc')
-  }, 3 * oneMinute)
-  gcTimer.unref()
-}
diff --git a/services/filestore/app/js/ExceptionHandler.js b/services/filestore/app/js/ExceptionHandler.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 122e78805c..0000000000
--- a/services/filestore/app/js/ExceptionHandler.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-const Metrics = require('metrics-sharelatex')
-const logger = require('logger-sharelatex')
-
-// TODO: domain has been deprecated for some time - do we need it and is there a better way?
-
-// eslint-disable-next-line node/no-deprecated-api
-const domain = require('domain')
-
-const TWO_MINUTES = 120 * 1000
-
-class ExceptionHandler {
-  constructor() {
-    this._appIsOk = true
-  }
-
-  beginShutdown() {
-    if (this._appIsOk) {
-      this._appIsOk = false
-
-      // hard-terminate this process if graceful shutdown fails
-      const killTimer = setTimeout(() => process.exit(1), TWO_MINUTES)
-
-      if (typeof killTimer.unref === 'function') {
-        killTimer.unref()
-      } // prevent timer from keeping process alive
-
-      this.server.close(function() {
-        logger.log('closed all connections')
-        Metrics.close()
-        if (typeof process.disconnect === 'function') {
-          process.disconnect()
-        }
-      })
-      logger.log('server will stop accepting connections')
-    }
-  }
-
-  addMiddleware(app) {
-    app.use(this.middleware.bind(this))
-  }
-
-  appIsOk() {
-    return this._appIsOk
-  }
-
-  setNotOk() {
-    this._appIsOk = false
-  }
-
-  middleware(req, res, next) {
-    const rescueLogger = require('logger-sharelatex')
-    const requestDomain = domain.create()
-    requestDomain.add(req)
-    requestDomain.add(res)
-    requestDomain.on('error', err => {
-      try {
-        // request a shutdown to prevent memory leaks
-        this.beginShutdown()
-        if (!res.headerSent) {
-          res.send('uncaught exception').status(500)
-        }
-        req = {
-          body: req.body,
-          headers: req.headers,
-          url: req.url,
-          key: req.key,
-          statusCode: req.statusCode
-        }
-        err = {
-          message: err.message,
-          stack: err.stack,
-          name: err.name,
-          type: err.type,
-          arguments: err.arguments
-        }
-        rescueLogger.err(
-          { err, req, res },
-          'uncaught exception thrown on request'
-        )
-      } catch (exception) {
-        rescueLogger.err(
-          { err: exception },
-          'exception in request domain handler'
-        )
-      }
-    })
-
-    if (!this._appIsOk) {
-      // when shutting down, close any HTTP keep-alive connections
-      res.set('Connection', 'close')
-    }
-
-    requestDomain.run(next)
-  }
-}
-
-module.exports = ExceptionHandler
diff --git a/services/filestore/test/acceptance/js/FilestoreApp.js b/services/filestore/test/acceptance/js/FilestoreApp.js
index 32ec7a5adf..718d53bcf8 100644
--- a/services/filestore/test/acceptance/js/FilestoreApp.js
+++ b/services/filestore/test/acceptance/js/FilestoreApp.js
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ class FilestoreApp {
           resolve()
         }
       )
-      this.app.exceptionHandler.server = this.server
     })
 
     if (Settings.filestore.backend === 's3') {