diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 650ce3f..d2ebb27 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git submodule init
       - 'git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git@github.com:'
-      - "git submodule update --recursive --remote"
+      - "git submodule update --recursive"
   - name: build and publish
     image: plugins/docker
     settings:
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git submodule init
       - 'git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git@github.com:'
-      - "git submodule update --recursive --remote"
+      - "git submodule update --recursive"
   - name: build and publish
     image: plugins/docker
     settings:
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git submodule init
       - 'git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git@github.com:'
-      - "git submodule update --recursive --remote"
+      - "git submodule update --recursive"
   - name: build and publish
     image: plugins/docker
     settings:
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - git submodule init
       - 'git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git@github.com:'
-      - "git submodule update --recursive --remote"
+      - "git submodule update --recursive"
   - name: build and publish
     image: plugins/docker
     settings:
diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index 0e9f191..c86292c 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -1,11 +1,29 @@
+import os
+import logging
 from fastapi import FastAPI, responses, status
 from fastapi.encoders import jsonable_encoder
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 from submodules.model.business_objects import general
 import util
-from submodules.model import session
+from submodules.model import session, telemetry
 
-app = FastAPI()
+
+OTLP_GRPC_ENDPOINT = os.getenv("OTLP_GRPC_ENDPOINT", "tempo:4317")
+
+app_name = "refinery-updater"
+app = FastAPI(title=app_name)
+
+if telemetry.ENABLE_TELEMETRY:
+    print("WARNING:  Running telemetry.", flush=True)
+    telemetry.setting_app_name(app_name)
+    telemetry.setting_otlp(app, app_name=app_name, endpoint=OTLP_GRPC_ENDPOINT)
+    app.add_middleware(telemetry.PrometheusMiddleware, app_name=app_name)
+    app.add_route("/metrics", telemetry.metrics)
+
+    # Filter out /metrics
+    logging.getLogger("uvicorn.access").addFilter(
+        lambda record: "GET /metrics" not in record.getMessage()
+    )
 
 
 @app.post("/update_to_newest")
diff --git a/daemon.py b/daemon.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d87da0e..0000000
--- a/daemon.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-import threading
-from typing import Callable
-
-
-def run(target: Callable, *args, **kwargs) -> None:
-    threading.Thread(
-        target=target,
-        args=args,
-        kwargs=kwargs,
-        daemon=True,
-    ).start()
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 9534895..e4fd425 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 -r requirements.txt
-httpx==0.25.0
+httpx==0.28.1
 pytest==8.1.1
 debugpy==1.8.12
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/start b/start
index d5331fc..26f7b14 100755
--- a/start
+++ b/start
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 
 DEBUG_MODE=false
 DEBUG_PORT=15674
+ENABLE_TELEMETRY=false
 
-while getopts d flag
+while getopts dg flag
 do
     case "${flag}" in
         d) DEBUG_MODE=true;;
+        g) ENABLE_TELEMETRY=true;;
     esac
 done
 
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@ docker run -d --rm \
 -e NEURAL_SEARCH=http://refinery-neural-search:80 \
 -e COGNITION_GATEWAY=http://cognition-gateway:80 \
 -e POSTGRES=postgresql://postgres:kern@graphql-postgres:5432 \
+-e ENABLE_TELEMETRY=$ENABLE_TELEMETRY \
 --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/,target=/app \
 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
 --network dev-setup_default \
diff --git a/submodules/model b/submodules/model
index 4cdfbd2..fa52e17 160000
--- a/submodules/model
+++ b/submodules/model
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 4cdfbd240114f22ba493d9a552b812499e0c5298
+Subproject commit fa52e1725d0691979895644d63c0b61728ea771b