diff --git a/catalog-service/pom.xml b/catalog-service/pom.xml
index d6642fe2..5d31bd45 100644
--- a/catalog-service/pom.xml
+++ b/catalog-service/pom.xml
@@ -102,12 +102,6 @@
             <artifactId>resilience4j-micrometer</artifactId>
             <scope>runtime</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.github.loki4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>loki-logback-appender</artifactId>
-            <scope>runtime</scope>
-            <version>1.4.1</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.ttddyy.observation</groupId>
             <artifactId>datasource-micrometer-spring-boot</artifactId>
diff --git a/catalog-service/src/main/java/com/example/catalogservice/config/ObservabilityConfiguration.java b/catalog-service/src/main/java/com/example/catalogservice/config/ObservabilityConfiguration.java
index 2eec2131..96f92ef5 100644
--- a/catalog-service/src/main/java/com/example/catalogservice/config/ObservabilityConfiguration.java
+++ b/catalog-service/src/main/java/com/example/catalogservice/config/ObservabilityConfiguration.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /***
 <p>
-    Licensed under MIT License Copyright (c) 2021-2023 Raja Kolli.
+    Licensed under MIT License Copyright (c) 2022-2023 Raja Kolli.
 </p>
 ***/
 
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ ObservedAspect observedAspect(ObservationRegistry observationRegistry) {
     }
 
     @Bean
-    WebClient webClient() {
-        return WebClient.builder()
+    WebClient webClient(WebClient.Builder webClientBuilder) {
+        return webClientBuilder
                 .defaultHeader(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
                 .defaultHeader(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
                 .baseUrl(applicationProperties.getInventoryServiceUrl())
diff --git a/catalog-service/src/main/resources/application.properties b/catalog-service/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 50fe748b..622c6088 100644
--- a/catalog-service/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/catalog-service/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ server.port=18080
 
 spring.webflux.base-path=/${spring.application.name}
 
-spring.config.import=optional:configserver:${CONFIG_SERVER:http://localhost:8888}/
-
 # spring.kafka.bootstrap-servers=localhost:9092
 spring.kafka.producer.key-serializer=org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer
 spring.kafka.producer.value-serializer=org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer.JsonSerializer
diff --git a/catalog-service/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml b/catalog-service/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
index c5269b8c..a8f1a904 100644
--- a/catalog-service/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
+++ b/catalog-service/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
@@ -4,20 +4,15 @@
     <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/console-appender.xml" />
 
     <springProperty scope="context" name="appName" source="spring.application.name"/>
- 	<springProperty scope="context" name="lokiUri" source="loki.uri"/>
 
     <springProfile name="default">
         <root level="INFO">
             <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
         </root>
     </springProfile>
-    <springProfile name="dockerLoki">
-        <root level="INFO">
-            <appender-ref ref="LOKI"/>
-            <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
-        </root>
-    </springProfile>
-        <springProfile name="!default,!dockerLoki">
+
+    <springProfile name="!default">
+        <property name="LOG_FILE" value="logs/${appName}.log"/>
         <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/file-appender.xml" />
         <root level="INFO">
             <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
@@ -25,23 +20,9 @@
         </root>
     </springProfile>
 
-    <appender name="LOKI" class="com.github.loki4j.logback.Loki4jAppender">
- 		<batchTimeoutMs>2000</batchTimeoutMs>
- 		<http>
- 			<url>${lokiUri:-http://localhost:3100/loki/api/v1/push}</url>
- 		</http>
- 		<format>
- 			<label>
- 				<pattern>application=${appName},hostname=${HOSTNAME},level=%level</pattern>
- 			</label>
- 			<message>
- 				<pattern>${FILE_LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
- 			</message>
- 			<sortByTime>true</sortByTime>
- 		</format>
- 		<metricsEnabled>true</metricsEnabled>
- 	</appender>
-
     <logger name="com.example.catalogservice" level="DEBUG"/>
+    <logger name="org.springframework.transaction" level="DEBUG" />
+    <logger name="org.springframework.kafka.transaction" level="DEBUG" />
+    <logger name="org.apache.kafka.clients.Metadata" level="WARN" />
 
 </configuration>
diff --git a/config-server/src/main/resources/config-repository/catalog-service.yml b/config-server/src/main/resources/config-repository/catalog-service.yml
index 13920651..e705fead 100644
--- a/config-server/src/main/resources/config-repository/catalog-service.yml
+++ b/config-server/src/main/resources/config-repository/catalog-service.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-logging:
-  file:
-    name: logs/catalog-service.log
 resilience4j:
   bulkhead:
     instances: