diff --git a/cmd/rp-indexer/main.go b/cmd/rp-indexer/main.go
index 89179f8..f019e82 100644
--- a/cmd/rp-indexer/main.go
+++ b/cmd/rp-indexer/main.go
@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@ func main() {
 	logHandler := slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stdout, &slog.HandlerOptions{Level: level})
 	slog.SetDefault(slog.New(logHandler))
 
-	logger := slog.With("comp", "main")
-	logger.Info("starting indexer", "version", version, "released", date)
-
 	// if we have a DSN entry, try to initialize it
 	if rt.Config.SentryDSN != "" {
 		err := sentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{
@@ -60,7 +57,7 @@ func main() {
 
 		defer sentry.Flush(2 * time.Second)
 
-		logger = slog.New(
+		logger := slog.New(
 			slogmulti.Fanout(
 				logHandler,
 				slogsentry.Option{Level: slog.LevelError}.NewSentryHandler(),
@@ -70,16 +67,17 @@ func main() {
 		slog.SetDefault(logger)
 	}
 
+	log := slog.With("comp", "main")
+	log.Info("starting indexer", "version", version, "released", date)
+
 	rt.DB, err = sql.Open("postgres", cfg.DB)
 	if err != nil {
-		logger.Error("unable to connect to database")
+		log.Error("unable to connect to database", "error", err)
 	}
 
-	if rt.Config.DeploymentID != "dev" {
-		rt.CW, err = cwatch.NewService(rt.Config.AWSAccessKeyID, rt.Config.AWSSecretAccessKey, rt.Config.AWSRegion, rt.Config.CloudwatchNamespace, rt.Config.DeploymentID)
-		if err != nil {
-			logger.Error("unable to create cloudwatch service")
-		}
+	rt.CW, err = cwatch.NewService(rt.Config.AWSAccessKeyID, rt.Config.AWSSecretAccessKey, rt.Config.AWSRegion, rt.Config.CloudwatchNamespace, rt.Config.DeploymentID)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Error("unable to create cloudwatch service", "error", err)
 	}
 
 	idxrs := []indexers.Indexer{
@@ -91,7 +89,7 @@ func main() {
 		// the rebuild argument can be become the name of the index to rebuild, e.g. --rebuild=contacts
 		idxr := idxrs[0]
 		if _, err := idxr.Index(rt, true, rt.Config.Cleanup); err != nil {
-			logger.Error("error during rebuilding", "error", err, "indexer", idxr.Name())
+			log.Error("error during rebuilding", "error", err, "indexer", idxr.Name())
 		}
 	} else {
 		d := indexer.NewDaemon(rt, idxrs)
diff --git a/daemon.go b/daemon.go
index 51eadc6..e7dafff 100644
--- a/daemon.go
+++ b/daemon.go
@@ -38,13 +38,6 @@ func NewDaemon(rt *runtime.Runtime, ixs []indexers.Indexer) *Daemon {
 
 // Start starts this daemon
 func (d *Daemon) Start() {
-	// if we have a librato token, configure it
-	if d.rt.Config.LibratoToken != "" {
-		analytics.RegisterBackend(analytics.NewLibrato(d.rt.Config.LibratoUsername, d.rt.Config.LibratoToken, d.rt.Config.InstanceName, time.Second, d.wg))
-	}
-
-	analytics.Start()
-
 	for _, i := range d.indexers {
 		d.startIndexer(i)
 	}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index fe9519c..70b3672 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/getsentry/sentry-go v0.30.0
 	github.com/lib/pq v1.10.9
 	github.com/nyaruka/ezconf v0.3.0
-	github.com/nyaruka/gocommon v1.60.1
+	github.com/nyaruka/gocommon v1.60.2
 	github.com/samber/slog-multi v1.2.4
 	github.com/samber/slog-sentry v1.2.2
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.10.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index ed50210..f76545e 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ github.com/naoina/toml v0.1.1 h1:PT/lllxVVN0gzzSqSlHEmP8MJB4MY2U7STGxiouV4X8=
 github.com/naoina/toml v0.1.1/go.mod h1:NBIhNtsFMo3G2szEBne+bO4gS192HuIYRqfvOWb4i1E=
 github.com/nyaruka/ezconf v0.3.0 h1:kGvJqVN8AHowb4HdaHAviJ0Z3yI5Pyekp1WqibFEaGk=
 github.com/nyaruka/ezconf v0.3.0/go.mod h1:89GUW6EPRNLIxT7lC4LWnjWTgZeQwRoX7lBmc8ralAU=
-github.com/nyaruka/gocommon v1.60.1 h1:m/BXoBQ1KVzbpmTJ5vuQrv084mWyQ6gtuX6cOeva+lM=
-github.com/nyaruka/gocommon v1.60.1/go.mod h1:kFJuOq8COneV7ssfK6xgCMJ8gP8fQifLQnNXBnE4YL0=
+github.com/nyaruka/gocommon v1.60.2 h1:AvvSSAV70SV49ocNtvjpdb9NlcdiA2OQAL4NYVUcuV0=
+github.com/nyaruka/gocommon v1.60.2/go.mod h1:kFJuOq8COneV7ssfK6xgCMJ8gP8fQifLQnNXBnE4YL0=
 github.com/nyaruka/librato v1.1.1 h1:0nTYtJLl3Sn7lX3CuHsLf+nXy1k/tGV0OjVxLy3Et4s=
 github.com/nyaruka/librato v1.1.1/go.mod h1:fme1Fu1PT2qvkaBZyw8WW+SrnFe2qeeCWpvqmAaKAKE=
 github.com/nyaruka/null/v2 v2.0.3 h1:rdmMRQyVzrOF3Jff/gpU/7BDR9mQX0lcLl4yImsA3kw=
diff --git a/runtime/config.go b/runtime/config.go
index 056b618..05a591e 100644
--- a/runtime/config.go
+++ b/runtime/config.go
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 package runtime
 
-import "os"
-
 type Config struct {
 	ElasticURL string `help:"the url for our elastic search instance"`
 	DB         string `help:"the connection string for our database"`
@@ -18,18 +16,12 @@ type Config struct {
 	CloudwatchNamespace string `help:"the namespace to use for cloudwatch metrics"`
 	DeploymentID        string `help:"the deployment identifier to use for metrics"`
 
-	LibratoUsername string `help:"the username that will be used to authenticate to Librato"`
-	LibratoToken    string `help:"the token that will be used to authenticate to Librato"`
-	InstanceName    string `help:"the unique name of this instance used for analytics"`
-
 	ContactsIndex    string `help:"the alias to use for the contact index"`
 	ContactsShards   int    `help:"the number of shards to use for the contacts index"`
 	ContactsReplicas int    `help:"the number of replicas to use for the contacts index"`
 }
 
 func NewDefaultConfig() *Config {
-	hostname, _ := os.Hostname()
-
 	return &Config{
 		ElasticURL: "http://localhost:9200",
 		DB:         "postgres://localhost/temba?sslmode=disable",
@@ -45,8 +37,6 @@ func NewDefaultConfig() *Config {
 		CloudwatchNamespace: "Temba",
 		DeploymentID:        "dev",
 
-		InstanceName: hostname,
-
 		ContactsIndex:    "contacts",
 		ContactsShards:   2,
 		ContactsReplicas: 1,