diff --git a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application.yaml b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application.yaml
index 645a6e9..7234733 100644
--- a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application.yaml
+++ b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application.yaml
@@ -18,10 +18,13 @@
 # H2
 spring:
   datasource:
-    jdbcUrl: jdbc:mariadb://${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/requestdb
-    username: ${DB_USERNAME}
-    password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
-    driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
+    hikari:
+      jdbc-url: jdbc:mariadb://${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/requestdb
+      username: ${DB_USERNAME}
+      password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
+      driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver 
+      pool-name: reqdb-pool
+      registerMbeans: true
   flyway:
     baseline-on-migrate: false
     url:  jdbc:mariadb://${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/requestdb
@@ -57,4 +60,4 @@
     export:
       prometheus:
         enabled: true # Whether exporting of metrics to Prometheus is enabled.
-        step: 1m # Step size (i.e. reporting frequency) to use.
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+        step: 1m # Step size (i.e. reporting frequency) to use.