diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-IPA-metrics.yml b/.github/workflows/release-IPA-metrics.yml
index 389870fc55..7e7f1f8e2c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-IPA-metrics.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-IPA-metrics.yml
@@ -27,8 +27,11 @@ permissions:
   issues: write
 
 jobs:
-  release-IPA-metrics:
+  pre-IPA-metrics-release-checks:
+    name: IPA Metrics Release Pre-Checks
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      should_run_release: ${{ steps.get_previous_status.outputs.result }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -39,43 +42,46 @@ jobs:
         with:
           github-token: ${{ secrets.api_bot_pat }}
           script: |
-            const script = require('tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/getShouldRunMetricsRelease.js')
-            const shouldRunRelease = await getShouldRunMetricsRelease({github, context})
+            const { default: getShouldRunMetricsRelease } = await import('${{ github.workspace }}/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/getShouldRunMetricsRelease.js')
+            const shouldRunRelease = await getShouldRunMetricsRelease({github, context}).catch((error) => {
+              console.error(error.message);
+              process.exit(1)
+            })
             return shouldRunRelease
 
-      - name: Skip Metric Collection Job
-        if: ${{steps.get_previous_status.outputs.result == 'false' }}
-        run: echo "Skipping IPA metrics release!"
+  release-IPA-metrics:
+    name: Release IPA Validation Metrics
+    needs: [pre-IPA-metrics-release-checks]
+    if: ${{ needs.pre-IPA-metrics-release-checks.outputs.should_run_release == 'true' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Setup Node
-        if: ${{steps.get_previous_status.outputs.result == 'true' }}
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: '20.x'
           cache: 'npm'
 
       - name: Install npm dependencies
-        if: ${{steps.get_previous_status.outputs.result == 'true' }}
         run: npm install
 
-      - name: Download openapi-foas
-        if: ${{steps.get_previous_status.outputs.result == 'true' }}
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: openapi-foas-dev  # TODO: Change to passed input env
-          github-token: ${{ secrets.api_bot_pat }}
-          run-id: ${{ github.run_id }}
+#      - name: Download openapi-foas
+#        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+#        with:
+#          name: openapi-foas-dev  # TODO: Change to passed input env
+#          github-token: ${{ secrets.api_bot_pat }}
+#          run-id: ${{ github.run_id }}
 
       - name: Run Metric Collection Job
-        if: ${{steps.get_previous_status.outputs.result == 'true' }}
         working-directory: ./tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts
-        run: node runMetricCollection.js ../../../../../openapi-foas.json
+        run: node runMetricCollection.js ../../../../../openapi/v2.json # TODO: Change to foas from above
 
       - name: Dump Metric Collection Job Data to S3
-        if: ${{steps.get_previous_status.outputs.result == 'true' }}
         env:
           AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.IPA_S3_BUCKET_DW_STAGING_USERNAME }}       # TODO: Change to passed secret
           AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.IPA_S3_BUCKET_DW_STAGING_PASSWORD }}   # TODO: Change to passed secret
           S3_BUCKET_PREFIX: ${{ secrets.IPA_S3_BUCKET_DW_STAGING_PREFIX }}          # TODO: Change to passed secret
         working-directory: ./tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts
-        run: node dataDump.js ../../../../../openapi-foas.json
+        run: node dataDump.js
diff --git a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/metricS3Upload.js b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/metricS3Upload.js
index 606cb4e316..e4645aefa3 100644
--- a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/metricS3Upload.js
+++ b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/metricS3Upload.js
@@ -10,21 +10,33 @@ import { getS3Client, getS3FilePath } from './utils/dataDumpUtils.js';
  * @param filePath file path to the metrics collection results, uses config.js by default
  */
 export async function uploadMetricCollectionDataToS3(filePath = config.defaultMetricCollectionResultsFilePath) {
-  const client = getS3Client();
-  const formattedDate = new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0];
+  console.log('Loading metrics collection data from', filePath);
   const metricsCollectionData = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8'));
-  const table = tableFromJSON(metricsCollectionData);
+  if (metricsCollectionData === undefined || metricsCollectionData.length === 0) {
+    throw new Error('Loaded metrics collection data is empty');
+  }
 
-  const s3fileProps = getS3FilePath();
-  const command = new PutObjectCommand({
-    Bucket: s3fileProps.bucketName,
-    Key: path.join(s3fileProps.key, formattedDate, 'metric-collection-results.parquet'),
-    Body: tableToIPC(table, 'stream'),
-  });
+  const table = tableFromJSON(metricsCollectionData);
+  if (table === undefined) {
+    throw new Error('Unable to transform metrics collection data to table');
+  }
 
   try {
-    const response = await client.send(command);
-    console.log(response);
+    console.log('Creating S3 Client...');
+    const client = getS3Client();
+
+    console.log('Getting S3 file path...');
+    const s3fileProps = getS3FilePath();
+    const formattedDate = new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0];
+
+    const command = new PutObjectCommand({
+      Bucket: s3fileProps.bucketName,
+      Key: path.join(s3fileProps.key, formattedDate, 'metric-collection-results.parquet'),
+      Body: tableToIPC(table, 'stream'),
+    });
+
+    console.log('Dumping data to S3...');
+    return await client.send(command);
   } catch (caught) {
     if (caught instanceof S3ServiceException && caught.name === 'EntityTooLarge') {
       console.error(
diff --git a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/dataDump.js b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/dataDump.js
index 81603eb60b..df98b731b8 100644
--- a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/dataDump.js
+++ b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/dataDump.js
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ import { uploadMetricCollectionDataToS3 } from '../metricS3Upload.js';
 const args = process.argv.slice(2);
 const filePath = args[0];
 
-uploadMetricCollectionDataToS3(filePath)
-  .then(() => console.log('Data dump to S3 completed successfully.'))
-  .catch((error) => console.error(error.message));
+const response = await uploadMetricCollectionDataToS3(filePath).catch((error) => {
+  console.error(error.message);
+  process.exit(1);
+});
+
+if (!response) {
+  console.error('PutObject response is undefined');
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+console.log('Data dump to S3 completed successfully.');
diff --git a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/getShouldRunMetricsRelease.js b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/getShouldRunMetricsRelease.js
index f51c07fc4a..13e3cc3083 100644
--- a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/getShouldRunMetricsRelease.js
+++ b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/getShouldRunMetricsRelease.js
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 // Used in .github/workflows/release-IPA-metrics.yml
 export default async function getShouldRunMetricsRelease({ github, context }) {
-  const response = await github.actions.listWorkflowRuns({
+  const response = await github.rest.actions.listWorkflowRuns({
     owner: context.repo.owner,
     repo: context.repo.repo,
-    workflow_id: context.workflow,
+    workflow_id: 'release-IPA-metrics.yml',
     per_page: 2,
     page: 1,
   });
 
-  if (response === undefined) {
-    return true;
+  if (!response || !response.data) {
+    throw Error('listWorkFlowRuns response is empty');
   }
 
-  const { data: runs } = response;
+  const { workflow_runs: runs } = response.data;
 
   if (runs === undefined || runs.length === 0) {
-    return true;
+    throw Error('response.data.workflow_runs is empty');
   }
 
-  const previousStatus = runs[1].status;
+  const previousResult = runs[1].conclusion;
 
   const lastRunDate = new Date(runs[1].created_at);
   const today = new Date();
 
-  return previousStatus === 'failure' || today.toDateString() !== lastRunDate.toDateString();
+  return previousResult === 'failure' || today.toDateString() !== lastRunDate.toDateString();
 }
diff --git a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/runMetricCollection.js b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/runMetricCollection.js
index 6ee14bbe04..b0bc971f86 100644
--- a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/runMetricCollection.js
+++ b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/scripts/runMetricCollection.js
@@ -13,7 +13,28 @@ if (!fs.existsSync(config.defaultOutputsDir)) {
   console.log(`Output directory created successfully`);
 }
 
-const result = spawnSync('spectral', ['lint', config.defaultOasFilePath, '--ruleset', config.defaultRulesetFilePath]);
+if (!fs.existsSync(config.defaultRulesetFilePath)) {
+  console.error('Could not find ruleset file path', config.defaultRulesetFilePath);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+if (!oasFilePath && !fs.existsSync(config.defaultOasFilePath)) {
+  console.error('Could not find default OAS file path', config.defaultOasFilePath);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+if (oasFilePath && !fs.existsSync(oasFilePath)) {
+  console.error('Could not find OAS file path', oasFilePath);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+const result = spawnSync('npx', [
+  'spectral',
+  'lint',
+  oasFilePath ? oasFilePath : config.defaultOasFilePath,
+  '--ruleset',
+  config.defaultRulesetFilePath,
+]);
 
 if (result.error) {
   console.error('Error running Spectral lint:', result.error);
diff --git a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/utils/dataDumpUtils.js b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/utils/dataDumpUtils.js
index 2dd03628c7..23362e9837 100644
--- a/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/utils/dataDumpUtils.js
+++ b/tools/spectral/ipa/metrics/utils/dataDumpUtils.js
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import dotenv from 'dotenv';
 import { S3Client } from '@aws-sdk/client-s3';
 
 function loadS3Config() {
+  console.log('Loading S3 config...');
+
   if (existsSync('.env') && !process.env.S3_BUCKET_PREFIX) {
     dotenv.config();
   }