diff --git a/services/real-time/.nvmrc b/services/real-time/.nvmrc
index d36e8d82f3..5b7269c0a9 100644
--- a/services/real-time/.nvmrc
+++ b/services/real-time/.nvmrc
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6.15.1
+10.19.0
diff --git a/services/real-time/buildscript.txt b/services/real-time/buildscript.txt
index 1818ad74a9..712fc87174 100644
--- a/services/real-time/buildscript.txt
+++ b/services/real-time/buildscript.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 real-time
 --language=coffeescript
---node-version=6.15.1
+--node-version=10.19.0
 --acceptance-creds=None
 --dependencies=mongo,redis
 --docker-repos=gcr.io/overleaf-ops