diff --git a/Package.swift b/Package.swift
index 73089a6..8bc3ee9 100644
--- a/Package.swift
+++ b/Package.swift
@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ let package = Package(
         .package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/fluent.git", from: "4.0.0"),
         .package(url: "https://github.com/vapor/fluent-sqlite.git", from: "4.0.0"),
         // Alternatives:
-        // https://github.com/onevcat/Hedwig
-        // https://github.com/Joannis/SMTPKitten
-        // https://github.com/Joannis/VaporSMTPKit <- Uses SMTPKitten
+        // https://github.com/onevcat/Hedwig <- No updates since Jun 2017
+        // https://github.com/Joannis/SMTPKitten <- No updates since 0ct 2020
+        // https://github.com/Joannis/VaporSMTPKit <- No updates since 0ct. 2020, uses SMTPKitten
         .package(url: "https://github.com/Kitura/Swift-SMTP", from: "6.0.0"),
+        .package(url: "https://github.com/christophhagen/clairvoyant.git", from: "0.3.0"),
     ],
     targets: [
         .target(
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ let package = Package(
                 .product(name: "FluentSQLiteDriver", package: "fluent-sqlite"),
                 .product(name: "Vapor", package: "vapor"),
                 .product(name: "SwiftSMTP", package: "Swift-SMTP"),
+                .product(name: "Clairvoyant", package: "Clairvoyant"),
             ],
             swiftSettings: [
                 // Enable better optimizations when building in Release configuration. Despite the use of
diff --git a/Resources/config_example.json b/Resources/config_example.json
index 894ff7a..0a2c65a 100644
--- a/Resources/config_example.json
+++ b/Resources/config_example.json
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@
         "email": "schafkopf@example.com",
         "password": "some-secret-string",
         "tokenExpiryDuration": 15,
-    }
+    },
+    "monitoringTokens": [],
 }
diff --git a/Sources/App/Management/Configuration.swift b/Sources/App/Management/Configuration.swift
index 4e5219c..f930eb9 100644
--- a/Sources/App/Management/Configuration.swift
+++ b/Sources/App/Management/Configuration.swift
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ struct Configuration {
         /// The number of minutes until a password reset token is no longer valid
         let tokenExpiryDuration: Int
     }
+
+    /// The authentication tokens to access the metrics
+    let monitoringTokens: Set<String>
 }
 
 extension Configuration {
diff --git a/Sources/App/configure.swift b/Sources/App/configure.swift
index f7b63e8..8b39e0f 100644
--- a/Sources/App/configure.swift
+++ b/Sources/App/configure.swift
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Vapor
 import Fluent
+import Clairvoyant
 
 var server: SQLiteDatabase!
 
@@ -7,9 +8,22 @@ var server: SQLiteDatabase!
 public func configure(_ app: Application) throws {
     let storageFolder = URL(fileURLWithPath: app.directory.resourcesDirectory)
 
+    let logFolder = storageFolder.appendingPathComponent("logs")
+    let accessManager = AccessTokenManager([])
+    let monitor = MetricObserver(
+        logFolder: logFolder,
+        accessManager: accessManager,
+        logMetricId: "schafkopf.log")
+    MetricObserver.standard = monitor
+
+    let status = Metric<ServerStatus>("schafkopf.status")
+    status.update(.initializing)
+    monitor.registerRoutes(app)
+
     let configPath = URL(fileURLWithPath: app.directory.resourcesDirectory)
         .appendingPathComponent("config.json")
     let configuration = try Configuration(loadFromUrl: configPath)
+    configuration.monitoringTokens.map { $0.data(using: .utf8)! }.forEach(accessManager.add)
 
     app.http.server.configuration.port = configuration.serverPort
 
@@ -29,7 +43,13 @@ public func configure(_ app: Application) throws {
     app.migrations.add(UserTableMigration())
     app.migrations.add(PasswordResetMigration())
 
-    try app.autoMigrate().wait()
+    do {
+        try app.autoMigrate().wait()
+    } catch {
+        monitor.log("Failed to migrate database: \(error)")
+        status.update(.initializationFailure)
+        return
+    }
 
     // serve files from /Public folder
     app.middleware.use(FileMiddleware(publicDirectory: app.directory.publicDirectory))
@@ -46,4 +66,6 @@ public func configure(_ app: Application) throws {
 
     // register routes
     try routes(app)
+
+    status.update(.nominal)
 }