diff --git a/Package.swift b/Package.swift
index 79fd2cb..53a6fda 100755
--- a/Package.swift
+++ b/Package.swift
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ let package = Package(
     ],
     dependencies: [
         .package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/vapor", from: "4.0.0"),
-        .package(url: "https://github.com/christophhagen/Clairvoyant", from: "0.9.0"),
-        .package(url: "https://github.com/christophhagen/ClairvoyantVapor", from: "0.2.0"),
+        .package(url: "https://github.com/christophhagen/Clairvoyant", from: "0.11.2"),
+        .package(url: "https://github.com/christophhagen/ClairvoyantVapor", from: "0.4.0"),
         .package(url: "https://github.com/christophhagen/ClairvoyantBinaryCodable", from: "0.3.0"),
     ],
     targets: [
diff --git a/Sources/App/CapServer.swift b/Sources/App/CapServer.swift
index dd49704..a88f4a7 100644
--- a/Sources/App/CapServer.swift
+++ b/Sources/App/CapServer.swift
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ final class CapServer {
         caps.reduce(0) { $0 + $1.value.count }
     }
 
-    init(in folder: URL) async {
+    init(in folder: URL) {
         self.imageFolder = folder.appendingPathComponent("images")
         self.thumbnailFolder = folder.appendingPathComponent("thumbnails")
         self.gridCountFile = folder.appendingPathComponent("count.js")
@@ -95,15 +95,15 @@ final class CapServer {
         changedImageEntryDateFormatter.dateFormat = "yy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss"
 
         // Metric initializers only fail if observer is missing or ID is duplicate
-        self.capCountMetric = try! await .init("caps.count",
+        self.capCountMetric = .init("caps.count",
                                     name: "Number of caps",
                                     description: "The total number of caps in the database")
 
-        self.imageCountMetric = try! await .init("caps.images",
+        self.imageCountMetric = .init("caps.images",
                                       name: "Total images",
                                       description: "The total number of images for all caps")
 
-        self.classifierMetric = try! await .init("caps.classifier",
+        self.classifierMetric = .init("caps.classifier",
                                       name: "Classifier Version",
                                       description: "The current version of the image classifier")
     }
diff --git a/Sources/App/EventLoopScheduler.swift b/Sources/App/EventLoopScheduler.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3997c05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Sources/App/EventLoopScheduler.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import Foundation
+import Clairvoyant
+import Vapor
+import NIOCore
+
+final class EventLoopScheduler {
+
+    private let backgroundGroup: EventLoopGroup
+
+    init(numberOfThreads: Int = 2) {
+        backgroundGroup = MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup(numberOfThreads: numberOfThreads)
+    }
+
+    func next() -> EventLoop {
+        backgroundGroup.next()
+    }
+
+    func provider() -> NIOEventLoopGroupProvider {
+        return .shared(backgroundGroup)
+    }
+
+    func shutdown() {
+        backgroundGroup.shutdownGracefully { _ in
+
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+extension EventLoopScheduler: AsyncScheduler {
+
+    func schedule(asyncJob: @escaping @Sendable () async throws -> Void) {
+        _ = backgroundGroup.any().makeFutureWithTask(asyncJob)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Sources/App/configure.swift b/Sources/App/configure.swift
index 93bb7cb..52ca1d6 100755
--- a/Sources/App/configure.swift
+++ b/Sources/App/configure.swift
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import ClairvoyantBinaryCodable
 
 private var provider: VaporMetricProvider!
 
+private let asyncScheduler = EventLoopScheduler()
+
 public func configure(_ app: Application) async throws {
 
     let resourceDirectory = URL(fileURLWithPath: app.directory.resourcesDirectory)
@@ -17,7 +19,7 @@ public func configure(_ app: Application) async throws {
     let monitor = MetricObserver(logFileFolder: config.logURL, logMetricId: "caps.log")
     MetricObserver.standard = monitor
 
-    let status = try await Metric<ServerStatus>("caps.status",
+    let status = Metric<ServerStatus>("caps.status",
                                       name: "Status",
                                       description: "The general status of the service")
     try await status.update(.initializing)
@@ -25,9 +27,10 @@ public func configure(_ app: Application) async throws {
     app.http.server.configuration.port = config.port
     app.routes.defaultMaxBodySize = .init(stringLiteral: config.maxBodySize)
 
-    let server = await CapServer(in: URL(fileURLWithPath: publicDirectory))
+    let server = CapServer(in: URL(fileURLWithPath: publicDirectory))
 
     provider = .init(observer: monitor, accessManager: config.writers)
+    provider.asyncScheduler = asyncScheduler
     provider.registerRoutes(app)
 
     if config.serveFiles {
@@ -52,5 +55,7 @@ func log(_ message: String) {
         print(message)
         return
     }
-    observer.log(message)
+    asyncScheduler.schedule {
+        await observer.log(message)
+    }
 }