diff --git a/ProjectPlugins/CodexPlugin/CodexContainerRecipe.cs b/ProjectPlugins/CodexPlugin/CodexContainerRecipe.cs
index 6a0b76e7..b18e1cfb 100644
--- a/ProjectPlugins/CodexPlugin/CodexContainerRecipe.cs
+++ b/ProjectPlugins/CodexPlugin/CodexContainerRecipe.cs
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ namespace CodexPlugin
         public const string MetricsPortTag = "codex_metrics_port";
         public const string DiscoveryPortTag = "codex_discovery_port";
 
+        public const string ProfilerExecTimeThreshold = "0.2s";
+
         // Used by tests for time-constraint assertions.
         public static readonly TimeSpan MaxUploadTimePerMegabyte = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2.0);
         public static readonly TimeSpan MaxDownloadTimePerMegabyte = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2.0);
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ namespace CodexPlugin
             var discPort = CreateDiscoveryPort(config);
             AddEnvVar("CODEX_DISC_PORT", discPort);
             AddEnvVar("CODEX_LOG_LEVEL", config.LogLevelWithTopics());
+            AddEnvVar("CODEX_EXEC_TIME_THRESHOLD", ProfilerExecTimeThreshold);
 
             if (config.PublicTestNet != null)
             {
diff --git a/ProjectPlugins/CodexPlugin/CodexDockerImage.cs b/ProjectPlugins/CodexPlugin/CodexDockerImage.cs
index bbb09c0b..77b76f80 100644
--- a/ProjectPlugins/CodexPlugin/CodexDockerImage.cs
+++ b/ProjectPlugins/CodexPlugin/CodexDockerImage.cs
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 {
     public class CodexDockerImage
     {
-        private const string DefaultDockerImage = "codexstorage/nim-codex:latest-dist-tests";
+        private const string DefaultDockerImage =
+            "codexstorage/nim-codex:sha-49bb3d3-dist-tests";
 
         public static string Override { get; set; } = string.Empty;
 
diff --git a/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/NodeTests/ProfilerCheckTest.cs b/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/NodeTests/ProfilerCheckTest.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bfbd60c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/NodeTests/ProfilerCheckTest.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+using CodexTests;
+using DistTestCore;
+using NUnit.Framework;
+
+namespace CodexReleaseTests.NodeTests
+{
+    [TestFixture]
+    public class ProfilerCheckTest : CodexDistTest
+    {
+        [Test]
+        public void IsProfilingImage()
+        {
+            var node = StartCodex();
+            var log = node.DownloadLog();
+            node.Stop(waitTillStopped: false);
+
+            log.AssertLogContains("Enabling profiling");
+        }
+    }
+}