diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a311908..9b4c510 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@
 				<type>pom</type>
 				<scope>import</scope>
 			</dependency>
+			<dependency>
+				<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
+				<artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
+				<version>${spring-cloud.version}</version>
+				<type>pom</type>
+				<scope>import</scope>
+			</dependency>
 		</dependencies>
 	</dependencyManagement>
 
@@ -52,6 +59,7 @@
 		<nexusproxy>https://nexus.onap.org</nexusproxy>
 		<docker.location>${basedir}/target</docker.location>
 		<spring-boot.version>2.4.13</spring-boot.version>
+		<spring-cloud.version>2020.0.2</spring-cloud.version>
 		<apache.commons-text.version>1.10.0</apache.commons-text.version>
 		<commons-compress.version>1.22</commons-compress.version>
 		<hamcrest-all.version>1.3</hamcrest-all.version>
@@ -214,6 +222,7 @@
 			</build>
 		</profile>
 	</profiles>
+
 	<dependencies>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
@@ -322,6 +331,14 @@
 			<artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
 			<version>${apache.commons-text.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-sleuth</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+				<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
+				<artifactId>spring-cloud-sleuth-zipkin</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Test dependencies -->
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 7273277..d3b4f45 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -12,6 +12,17 @@
 #server.ssl.keyStoreType=
 #server.ssl.keyAlias=
 
+spring.application.name=model-loader
+
+spring.sleuth.enabled=false
+spring.zipkin.baseUrl=http://jaeger-collector.istio-system:9411
+spring.sleuth.messaging.jms.enabled=false
+spring.sleuth.trace-id128=true
+spring.sleuth.sampler.probability=1.0
+spring.sleuth.propagation.type=w3c,b3
+spring.sleuth.supports-join=false
+spring.sleuth.web.skip-pattern=/aai/util.*
+
 server.tomcat.threads.max=200
 # The minimum number of threads always kept alive
 server.tomcat.threads.min-spare=25