diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/resources/application.properties b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f910af1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Note that the start.sh script sets the following System Properties
+# We provide default values here for testing purposes
+AJSC_HOME=.
+CONFIG_HOME=appconfig-local
+com.att.eelf.logging.path=src/main/resources
+com.att.eelf.logging.file=logback.xml
+logback.configurationFile=${com.att.eelf.logging.path}/${com.att.eelf.logging.file}
+
+server.port=9500
+#server.ssl.key-store=
+#server.ssl.key-store-password=
+#server.ssl.keyStoreType=
+#server.ssl.keyAlias=
+
+spring.application.name=aai-model-loader
+
+spring.sleuth.enabled={{ .Values.tracing.enabled }}
+spring.zipkin.baseUrl={{ .Values.tracing.collector.baseUrl }}
+spring.sleuth.messaging.jms.enabled=false
+spring.sleuth.trace-id128=true
+spring.sleuth.sampler.probability={{ .Values.tracing.sampling.probability }}
+spring.sleuth.propagation.type=w3c,b3
+spring.sleuth.supports-join=false
+spring.sleuth.web.skip-pattern={{ join "," .Values.tracing.ignorePatterns }}
+
+server.tomcat.threads.max=200
+# The minimum number of threads always kept alive
+server.tomcat.threads.min-spare=25
+
+# Spring Boot logging
+logging.config=${logback.configurationFile}
diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/templates/configmap.yaml b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/templates/configmap.yaml
index 534fd02..d3fd509 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/templates/configmap.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/templates/configmap.yaml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}
 data:
 {{ tpl (.Files.Glob "resources/config/model-loader.properties").AsConfig . | indent 2 }}
+{{ tpl (.Files.Glob "resources/application.properties").AsConfig . | indent 2 }}
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: ConfigMap
diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/templates/deployment.yaml b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/templates/deployment.yaml
index 139c254..8dee92f 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@
         - mountPath: /opt/app/model-loader/config/model-loader.properties
           subPath: model-loader.properties
           name: prop-config
+        - mountPath: /opt/app/model-loader/application.properties
+          subPath: application.properties
+          name: prop-config
         - mountPath: {{ .Values.log.path }}
           name: logs
         - mountPath: /opt/app/model-loader/logback.xml
diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/values.yaml b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/values.yaml
index aa62f60..ab3d864 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-modelloader/values.yaml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   nodePortPrefix: 302
 
 # application image
-image: onap/model-loader:1.12.0
+image: onap/model-loader:1.13.6
 pullPolicy: Always
 restartPolicy: Always
 flavor: small
@@ -79,6 +79,15 @@
       memory: "2Gi"
   unlimited: {}
 
+tracing:
+  enabled: true
+  collector:
+    baseUrl: http://jaeger-collector.istio-system:9411
+  sampling:
+    probability: 1.0 # percentage of requests that are sampled (between 0-1/0%-100%)
+  ignorePatterns:
+    - /aai/util.*
+
 #Pods Service Account
 serviceAccount:
   nameOverride: aai-modelloader