If you used to run Salesforce Optimizer once a month and now can't find it in Setup, that is expected. Salesforce lists the Optimizer App as officially retired, with a retirement date of June 1, 2026.

There is no one-to-one clone. Optimizer covered several jobs in a single report, and the replacements split those jobs apart. This piece maps what to use for what, what none of the free options do, and where a connected diagnosis fits.

Yes, Optimizer is retired

Salesforce's own retirement list records the Optimizer App as officially retired on June 1, 2026. Salesforce Admins had announced the retirement for the Winter '26 release, and pointed admins to a free replacement for metadata analysis (below).

If you are reading an older guide that starts with "run Optimizer," treat it as out of date.

Why there isn't a single replacement

Optimizer was used as a general "how is my org doing" report. Today that question splits into at least three:

| The question | Where to look | |---|---| | Are our security settings in line with a baseline? | Salesforce's built-in Health Check in Setup | | What metadata and technical debt have piled up? | Org Check, a free tool from Salesforce Labs | | How do we compare with similar companies, and what should we look at first? | A peer-benchmarked read such as Wrenk's free health check |

Security settings: Health Check (built into Setup)

In Setup, search "Health Check." It gives a summary score showing how your org's security settings measure against a baseline, by default the Salesforce Baseline Standard. You can upload up to five custom baselines to measure against your own standards instead. It is scoped to security settings. It does not tell you how tidy your automation or configuration is.

Metadata and technical debt: Org Check (free, from Salesforce Labs)

Salesforce Admins named Org Check as a free replacement for Optimizer when identifying and drilling into metadata and reducing technical debt. Two things to know before you plan around it:

It is installed **into the org you want to analyze** from the AppExchange, and its own documentation notes that your security team will likely have questions about installing a package.
It is a Salesforce Labs project, **not a Salesforce product**. It hasn't been officially tested or documented by Salesforce, and Salesforce support isn't available for it. Support is through the open-source community.

What neither of those does

Health Check reports on security settings against a baseline. Org Check helps you inspect your metadata. Neither is built to be a schedule that keeps watching the org, a way to see how you compare with peers, or a way to plan and make a change safely. Those are the gaps to decide about deliberately, rather than by default.

A practical sequence after Optimizer disappears

**Run Health Check in Setup.** Note anything flagged and decide which items to fix. Test changes in a sandbox first where you can.
**Install Org Check** (with your security team's sign-off) and use it to look at unused or redundant metadata and technical debt.
**Write down what neither tells you.** Who is watching for drift between releases? Who owns the backlog of fixes? How do you know a change is safe to make?
**Get a peer reference point** so you know whether what you found is normal for a company like yours, and what to raise with leadership first.
**Decide whether you need a connected look** at things a questionnaire can't see (below).

Where Wrenk's free health check fits

Wrenk's [free health check](/free-health-check) is a short questionnaire that returns a peer percentile.

**No account and no org connection** for the questionnaire.
Three answers produce a preliminary score. Up to ten refine it, and you can stop any time.
It is benchmarked against your industry and size band.
Results appear on the page.
It is **an estimate from what you tell it, not a measurement of your org.**

Some things can't be self-reported with any accuracy, so the questionnaire doesn't score them: performance (things like Apex execution times, API call volume against limits, and storage headroom) and technical debt (unused fields and objects, deprecated API versions still in use, dead metadata). Those are measured only when Wrenk reads your org directly. That connected diagnosis is a different path from the questionnaire.

Use the questionnaire to get a peer reference point and a first list of areas to look at. Use a connected diagnosis when you need evidence about what is actually in the org.

When the free tools are enough, and when you want more

Health Check plus Org Check is probably enough if: - Your org is small or well-documented, and someone on your team has time to run the tools and act on the findings.

Look for something more if: - Findings pile up faster than you can clear them. - You want scheduled checks and drift detection instead of a manual run after each release. - You want fixes that show their risk and rollback before anything changes, with production changes requiring explicit approval. - You run HubSpot or ServiceNow alongside Salesforce and want them looked at in one place. - You have several orgs, and change sets need to be promoted between them safely and undone if needed.

Wrenk does those things. It runs scheduled health checks with drift detection, plans fixes before running them and shows risk and rollback up front, promotes and rolls back change sets across orgs, and works through a backlog. It covers Salesforce, HubSpot and ServiceNow.

If you don't have anyone with the time to act on the findings, [Wrenk Managed Operations](/managed-operations) does the work for you: Wrenk triages and clears your backlog across one org or several.

FAQ

When was Salesforce Optimizer retired?

Salesforce's retirement list records the Optimizer App as officially retired on June 1, 2026. Salesforce Admins announced the retirement for the Winter '26 release.

What replaced Salesforce Optimizer?

Nothing replaced it one-to-one. For security settings, use Health Check in Setup. For metadata and technical debt, Salesforce Admins pointed to Org Check, a free Salesforce Labs tool that is not an official Salesforce product.

Is Security Health Check the same as Optimizer?

No. Health Check gives a score for how your security settings compare with a baseline such as the Salesforce Baseline Standard. It is not a general org-health report.

Is Org Check free?

Yes. Org Check is a free Salesforce Labs tool installed from the AppExchange into the org you want to analyze. It is not a Salesforce product, and Salesforce support is not available for it.

Does Wrenk's free health check connect to my Salesforce org?

No. The free questionnaire needs no account and no org connection. It gives a peer-benchmarked estimate from your own answers, not a measurement of your org. Performance and technical debt can't be scored from a questionnaire; those need a connected diagnosis.

Start your free health check

Three answers. A peer percentile. Results on the page.

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