If you went looking for Salesforce Optimizer in Setup and could not find it, you are not going mad. It is gone. Salesforce retired the app across the Winter ’26 and Spring ’26 releases, and orgs created after August 2025 never had it in the first place.
The short version: there is no single replacement, because Optimizer did two unrelated jobs. Security settings are still covered natively and free by Security Health Check in Setup. Metadata and technical debt now point to Org Check, a free open-source app from Salesforce Labs — with one catch worth knowing before you install it.
What actually happened
Optimizer had been on a slow path out for a while. Salesforce stopped provisioning it for new orgs in August 2025, removed it from Hyperforce orgs in Winter ’26, and finished the job for everyone else in Spring ’26. There was no forced migration and no replacement switched on in its place, which is why so many admins only discovered it was gone when they went looking.
Worth being fair to it: Optimizer was never especially good. It produced a static PDF-style report, it could not tell you what would break if you deleted something, and plenty of teams ran it once and never opened it again. What it did have was the one quality nothing else has — it was already there, in Setup, free, in every org.
What replaces each thing it did
| What Optimizer did | Use this now | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Security and session settings | Security Health Check — still native, still in Setup | Free |
| Unused fields, config bloat, metadata debt | Org Check (Salesforce Labs) | Free, community-supported |
| Limits and storage usage | Setup > System Overview, plus Org Check | Free |
| Dependency and deletion-impact analysis | Never really did this — Metazoa Snapshot, Elements.cloud, or FieldRat | Paid / freemium |
| Change tracking across releases | Metazoa Snapshot, Elements.cloud | Paid |
| A single report to hand to leadership | OrgAudit, or a consultant-led health check | Free / paid |
The catch with Org Check
Org Check is genuinely good, and for metadata analysis it is better than Optimizer ever was. It is free, open source, and installs without adding custom objects or external connections to your org — which matters if you have a security team asking questions.
The catch is that it is a Salesforce Labs app, not an official Salesforce product. Salesforce Support will not help you with it. If it misreports something, or breaks after a release, your recourse is the community and the GitHub issue tracker. For most teams that is a perfectly reasonable trade for a free tool. It just should not be a surprise you discover during an incident.
If your org is under change control or you need an audit trail someone will sign off on, budget for a supported paid tool. If you just need to see what has accumulated, Org Check is the right first move and it costs nothing.
A sensible sequence
- Run Security Health Check first. It is native, takes a minute, and gives you a score you can track. Security problems outrank tidiness problems.
- Install Org Check in a sandbox before production. Not because it is risky, but because you want to see the volume of findings before anyone senior does.
- Sort findings by blast radius, not by count. Two thousand unused fields matter less than one automation that silently fails on a record type nobody tests.
- Check dependencies before deleting anything. This is the gap in every free tool: knowing a field is unused is not the same as knowing what breaks when it goes.
- Fix in small batches with a rollback plan, and re-run the scan after each batch so you can prove movement.
Where our own tools fit
Being upfront, since this is our site: we build two tools in this space, and neither is a reason to skip the free native options above. Run Security Health Check and Org Check first — they cost nothing and they may be all you need.
OrgAudit runs 65 checks across technical debt, access risk, silent failures, and AI readiness, and returns a report written for someone who has to approve budget rather than someone who lives in Setup. It is free and read-only, and nothing about your org leaves your environment. FieldRat covers the dependency gap specifically: which fields are genuinely unused, what references them, and what the deletion risk actually is.
The bottom line
Optimizer going away is not a crisis, but it did remove the one org-health tool that was on by default. That means org health is now something you have to choose to look at rather than something Setup nudges you toward, and the orgs that most need looking at are exactly the ones where nobody will choose to. Put a scan on the calendar, quarterly, and give it an owner.
Want the report without doing the legwork? Run a free OrgAudit — read-only, no cloud footprint, and you keep the findings whether or not you ever talk to us.
Frequently asked questions
Is Salesforce Optimizer gone?
Yes. Salesforce retired the Optimizer app across the Winter '26 and Spring '26 releases. Orgs created after 4 August 2025 never had it at all. If a checklist or blog post tells you to open Setup and run Optimizer, that content predates 2026 and the menu item will not be there.
What replaced Salesforce Optimizer?
There is no single replacement, because Optimizer did two different jobs. For security settings, Security Health Check is still native, free, and in Setup. For metadata and technical-debt analysis, Salesforce points admins to Org Check, a free open-source app from Salesforce Labs. Anything beyond that — dependency mapping, deletion-risk scoring, cross-org comparison — needs a third-party tool.
Is Org Check an official Salesforce product?
No, and this is the part that catches people out. Org Check comes from Salesforce Labs, which means it is free and open source but carries no official support. If it breaks or misreports, Salesforce Support will not help you — the community is your only recourse. That is a reasonable trade for a free tool, but it should be a deliberate choice rather than a surprise.
Do I need to pay for a Salesforce org audit now that Optimizer is gone?
No. Security Health Check and Org Check together cover a good deal of what Optimizer did, and both are free. Paid tools such as Metazoa Snapshot and Elements.cloud go further into dependency analysis and change management if you need it. TechParrot's OrgAudit is also free and read-only. Pay for remediation work, not for finding out what is wrong.