diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 472ef0feb..b3cffecb7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [unreleased]
+### Fixed
+- KafkaEventReceiver progress logger will actually log the process during normal application bootstrapping.
+
 ## [1.4.2] 2023-09-21
 ### No change
 - The release deployment for 1.4.1 failed (502 Bad Gateway) so releasing it again as 1.4.2
diff --git a/state/kafka-receiver/src/main/java/com/expediagroup/streamplatform/streamregistry/state/kafka/KafkaEventReceiver.java b/state/kafka-receiver/src/main/java/com/expediagroup/streamplatform/streamregistry/state/kafka/KafkaEventReceiver.java
index c62c3960c..768c6514e 100644
--- a/state/kafka-receiver/src/main/java/com/expediagroup/streamplatform/streamregistry/state/kafka/KafkaEventReceiver.java
+++ b/state/kafka-receiver/src/main/java/com/expediagroup/streamplatform/streamregistry/state/kafka/KafkaEventReceiver.java
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
 
-import com.expediagroup.streamplatform.streamregistry.state.Configurator;
 import lombok.Builder;
 import lombok.NonNull;
 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
@@ -52,6 +51,7 @@
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition;
 
+import com.expediagroup.streamplatform.streamregistry.state.Configurator;
 import com.expediagroup.streamplatform.streamregistry.state.EventReceiver;
 import com.expediagroup.streamplatform.streamregistry.state.EventReceiverListener;
 import com.expediagroup.streamplatform.streamregistry.state.avro.AvroConverter;
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@
 @Slf4j
 @RequiredArgsConstructor(access = PACKAGE)
 public class KafkaEventReceiver implements EventReceiver {
+
+  /**
+   * Most of the time, there will only ever be a single process running on the ExecutorService. However, we need this to be two during
+   * application bootstrapping. 1 thread for the consumer, 1 thread for the progress logger.
+   */
+  private static final int THREAD_POOL_SIZE = 2;
+
+
   @NonNull private final Config config;
   private final EventCorrelator correlator;
   @NonNull private final AvroConverter converter;
@@ -77,7 +85,7 @@ public KafkaEventReceiver(Config config, EventCorrelator correlator, Configurato
         correlator,
         new AvroConverter(),
         getKafkaConsumer(config, consumerConfigurator),
-        newScheduledThreadPool(1)
+        newScheduledThreadPool(THREAD_POOL_SIZE)
     );
   }