diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 99a3c73754..9dd0d951fc 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ jobs:
     docker:
       - image: quay.io/influxdb/rust:ci
     environment:
+        # Disable incremental compilation to avoid overhead. We are not preserving these files anyway.
+        CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
         # Disable full debug symbol generation to speed up CI build
         # "1" means line tables only, which is useful for panic tracebacks.
         RUSTFLAGS: "-C debuginfo=1"
@@ -73,6 +75,8 @@ jobs:
     docker:
       - image: quay.io/influxdb/rust:ci
     environment:
+        # Disable incremental compilation to avoid overhead. We are not preserving these files anyway.
+        CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
         # Disable full debug symbol generation to speed up CI build
         # "1" means line tables only, which is useful for panic tracebacks.
         RUSTFLAGS: "-C debuginfo=1"
@@ -88,6 +92,8 @@ jobs:
     docker:
       - image: quay.io/influxdb/rust:ci
     environment:
+        # Disable incremental compilation to avoid overhead. We are not preserving these files anyway.
+        CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
         # Disable full debug symbol generation to speed up CI build
         # "1" means line tables only, which is useful for panic tracebacks.
         RUSTFLAGS: "-C debuginfo=1"
@@ -104,6 +110,8 @@ jobs:
       - image: quay.io/influxdb/rust:ci
     resource_class: xlarge # use of a smaller executor tends crashes on link
     environment:
+        # Disable incremental compilation to avoid overhead. We are not preserving these files anyway.
+        CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
         # Disable full debug symbol generation to speed up CI build
         # "1" means line tables only, which is useful for panic tracebacks.
         RUSTFLAGS: "-C debuginfo=1"
@@ -121,6 +129,8 @@ jobs:
     docker:
       - image: quay.io/influxdb/rust:ci
     environment:
+        # Disable incremental compilation to avoid overhead. We are not preserving these files anyway.
+        CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
         # Disable full debug symbol generation to speed up CI build
         # "1" means line tables only, which is useful for panic tracebacks.
         RUSTFLAGS: "-C debuginfo=1"
@@ -142,6 +152,8 @@ jobs:
       - image: quay.io/influxdb/rust:ci
     resource_class: xlarge # use of a smaller executor tends crashes on link
     environment:
+        # Disable incremental compilation to avoid overhead. We are not preserving these files anyway.
+        CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
         # Disable full debug symbol generation to speed up CI build
         # "1" means line tables only, which is useful for panic tracebacks.
         RUSTFLAGS: "-C debuginfo=1"
@@ -198,6 +210,8 @@ jobs:
     docker:
       - image: quay.io/influxdb/rust:ci
     environment:
+        # Disable incremental compilation to avoid overhead. We are not preserving these files anyway.
+        CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
         # Disable full debug symbol generation to speed up CI build
         # "1" means line tables only, which is useful for panic tracebacks.
         RUSTFLAGS: "-C debuginfo=1"