diff --git a/.github/workflows/pytest.yml b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a2e6ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# This workflow will install Python dependencies, run tests and lint with a single version of Python
+# For more information see: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/automating-builds-and-tests/building-and-testing-python
+
+name: Run automated Tests
+
+on:
+  push:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up Python 3.11
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      with:
+        python-version: "3.11"
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install flake8 pytest
+        if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+    - name: Lint with flake8
+      run: |
+        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+        flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+    - name: Test with pytest
+      run: |
+        pytest
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 94fe9f1..648b2e7 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# pylint: disable=invalid-name
 import uvicorn
 from fastapi import FastAPI
 from fastapi.responses import RedirectResponse, JSONResponse
@@ -11,6 +10,28 @@
 load_dotenv()
 port = os.environ["PORT"]
 
+# Set up logs export to Azure Application Insights
+logger_provider = LoggerProvider()
+set_logger_provider(logger_provider)
+exporter = AzureMonitorLogExporter(
+    connection_string=os.environ["APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING"]
+)
+logger_provider.add_log_record_processor(BatchLogRecordProcessor(exporter))
+
+# Attach LoggingHandler to root logger
+handler = LoggingHandler()
+logging.getLogger().addHandler(handler)
+logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.NOTSET)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Silence noisy loggers
+logging.getLogger("requests").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+logging.getLogger("urllib3").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+logging.getLogger("azure").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+logging.getLogger("requests_oauthlib").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+logging.getLogger("asyncio").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+logging.getLogger("opentelemetry").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
+
 # initialize FastAPI
 app = FastAPI(
     title="kobo-connect",
@@ -25,6 +46,16 @@
     },
 )
 
+# initialize CosmosDB
+client_ = cosmos_client.CosmosClient(
+    os.getenv("COSMOS_URL"),
+    {"masterKey": os.getenv("COSMOS_KEY")},
+    user_agent="kobo-connect",
+    user_agent_overwrite=True,
+)
+cosmos_db = client_.get_database_client("kobo-connect")
+cosmos_container_client = cosmos_db.get_container_client("kobo-submissions")
+
 
 @app.get("/", include_in_schema=False)
 async def docs_redirect():
diff --git a/routes/__init__.py b/routes/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000