diff --git a/apps/sft/main.py b/apps/sft/main.py
index 93ba05eed..adddde0f3 100644
--- a/apps/sft/main.py
+++ b/apps/sft/main.py
@@ -28,9 +28,10 @@
 from forge.data.datasets.sft_dataset import AlpacaToMessages, sft_iterable_dataset
 from forge.data.tokenizer import HuggingFaceModelTokenizer
 from forge.observability import get_or_create_metric_logger, record_metric, Reduce
+from forge.observability.metric_actors import GlobalLoggingActor
 from forge.util.config import parse
 
-from monarch.actor import current_rank, current_size, endpoint
+from monarch.actor import current_rank, current_size, endpoint, get_or_spawn_controller
 from omegaconf import DictConfig, OmegaConf
 from torch import nn
 from torchdata.stateful_dataloader import StatefulDataLoader
@@ -110,8 +111,12 @@ def _init_dist(self):
         logger.info("env: {}".format(env))
 
     async def setup_metric_logger(self):
-        """Initialization happens in the main process. Here we just retrieve it"""
-        mlogger = await get_or_create_metric_logger()
+        """Retrieve the already-initialized metric logger from main process"""
+
+        # The global logger was already created in main process.
+        # Use get_or_spawn_controller from monarch to get reference to it
+        # Get reference to the existing global logger (don't create new one)
+        mlogger = await get_or_spawn_controller("global_logger", GlobalLoggingActor)
         return mlogger
 
     def record_batch_metrics(self, data_metrics: list):
@@ -123,6 +128,7 @@ def record_batch_metrics(self, data_metrics: list):
     @endpoint
     async def setup(self):
         self.train_dataloader = self.setup_data()
+
         self.mlogger = await self.setup_metric_logger()
 
         # self.train_dataloader = self.setup_data(