diff --git a/backend/Cargo.lock b/backend/Cargo.lock
index 30d392af13..130987e61e 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.lock
+++ b/backend/Cargo.lock
@@ -9590,6 +9590,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project",
  "prost 0.13.3",
+ "rustls-native-certs 0.8.1",
  "rustls-pemfile 2.2.0",
  "socket2",
  "tokio",
@@ -10839,6 +10840,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror 2.0.4",
  "tikv-jemalloc-ctl",
  "tokio",
+ "tonic",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-appender",
  "tracing-flame",
diff --git a/backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/Cargo.toml
index d3cfd7ea63..714ae5ab3f 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -286,6 +286,8 @@ opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.27.0", features = ["grpc-tonic", "tls"] }
 opentelemetry-appender-tracing = "0.27.0"
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "*"
 
+tonic = { version = "^0", features = ["tls-native-roots"] }
+
 tikv-jemallocator = { version = "0.5" }
 tikv-jemalloc-sys  = { version = "^0.5" }
 tikv-jemalloc-ctl = { version = "^0.5" }
diff --git a/backend/ee-repo-ref.txt b/backend/ee-repo-ref.txt
index b5181c39f2..af9c8b5328 100644
--- a/backend/ee-repo-ref.txt
+++ b/backend/ee-repo-ref.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-ad89b5a1566159490eceb59c3e5c9416d9aa855c
\ No newline at end of file
+81a479d534e7c1ed55c095bf8fcb42104f0b33f5
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend/src/monitor.rs b/backend/src/monitor.rs
index 262927cce3..9acbbb1378 100644
--- a/backend/src/monitor.rs
+++ b/backend/src/monitor.rs
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ pub async fn load_otel(db: &DB) {
                 if let Some(compression) = o.otel_exporter_otlp_compression {
                     std::env::set_var("OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_COMPRESSION", compression);
                 }
-                tracing::info!("OTEL settings loaded: tracing ({tracing_enabled}), logs ({logs_enabled}), metrics ({metrics_enabled}), endpoint ({:?}), headers defined: ({})",
+                println!("OTEL settings loaded: tracing ({tracing_enabled}), logs ({logs_enabled}), metrics ({metrics_enabled}), endpoint ({:?}), headers defined: ({})",
                 o.otel_exporter_otlp_endpoint, o.otel_exporter_otlp_headers.is_some());
             } else {
                 tracing::error!("Error deserializing otel settings");
diff --git a/backend/windmill-api/src/tracing_init.rs b/backend/windmill-api/src/tracing_init.rs
index c12cbe3192..5c4385f270 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-api/src/tracing_init.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-api/src/tracing_init.rs
@@ -29,18 +29,12 @@ impl<B> OnResponse<B> for MyOnResponse {
         _span: &tracing::Span,
     ) {
         if *LOG_REQUESTS {
+            let latency = latency.as_millis();
+            let status = response.status().as_u16();
             if response.status().is_success() {
-                tracing::info!(
-                    latency = latency.as_millis(),
-                    status = response.status().as_u16(),
-                    "response"
-                )
+                tracing::info!(latency = latency, status = status, "response")
             } else {
-                tracing::error!(
-                    latency = latency.as_millis(),
-                    status = response.status().as_u16(),
-                    "response"
-                )
+                tracing::error!(latency = latency, status = status, "response")
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/backend/windmill-common/Cargo.toml b/backend/windmill-common/Cargo.toml
index 5b9a74c361..99d5670f1b 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/windmill-common/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ flamegraph = ["dep:tracing-flame"]
 loki = ["dep:tracing-loki"]
 benchmark = []
 parquet = ["dep:object_store", "dep:aws-config", "dep:aws-sdk-sts"]
-otel = ["dep:opentelemetry-semantic-conventions", "dep:opentelemetry-otlp", "dep:opentelemetry_sdk", "dep:opentelemetry", "dep:tracing-opentelemetry", "dep:opentelemetry-appender-tracing"]
+otel = ["dep:opentelemetry-semantic-conventions", "dep:opentelemetry-otlp", "dep:opentelemetry_sdk", 
+    "dep:opentelemetry", "dep:tracing-opentelemetry", "dep:opentelemetry-appender-tracing", "dep:tonic"]
 
 [lib]
 name = "windmill_common"
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ opentelemetry_sdk = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 opentelemetry = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tracing-opentelemetry = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 opentelemetry-appender-tracing = { workspace = true, optional = true }
+tonic = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_env = "msvc"))'.dependencies]
 tikv-jemalloc-ctl = { optional = true, workspace = true }