By default, Watchtower will clean up other instances and won't allow multiple instances running on the same Docker host or swarm. It is possible to override this behavior by defining a [scope](https://containrrr.github.io/watchtower/arguments/#filter_by_scope) to each running instance.
By default, Watchtower will clean up other instances and won't allow multiple instances running on the same Docker host or swarm. It is possible to override this behavior by defining a [scope](https://nicholas-fedor.github.io/watchtower/arguments/#filter_by_scope) to each running instance.
!!! note
- Multiple instances can't run with the same scope;