diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 93b697bd..9d81bedc 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ gem 'blacklight', '6.14.1'
 gem 'blacklight-spotlight', github: 'projectblacklight/spotlight', branch: "master"
 gem 'solr_wrapper'
 gem 'rsolr', '~> 1.0.6'
+gem 'ddtrace'
 gem 'devise'
 gem 'devise-guests', '~> 0.3'
 gem 'friendly_id', github: 'norman/friendly_id'
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ gem 'blacklight-oembed'
 gem 'devise_invitable'
 gem 'iso-639'
 gem 'iiif-presentation'
+gem 'rails_semantic_logger'
 gem 'omniauth-cas'
 gem 'sneakers'
 gem 'open_uri_redirections'
@@ -95,7 +97,6 @@ gem 'riiif'
 # PUL Assets
 gem 'pul-assets', github: 'pulibrary/pul_assets'
 # gem 'spotlight-resources-iiif', github: 'pulibrary/spotlight-resources-iiif', branch: 'default_vocab'
-gem 'newrelic_rpm'
 gem 'dalli'
 gem 'ruby-prof', require: false
 gem 'honeybadger', '~> 2.0'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 3c4a841d..5f2adb4b 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -213,6 +213,8 @@ GEM
     crass (1.0.3)
     dalli (2.7.6)
     database_cleaner (1.5.3)
+    ddtrace (0.11.2)
+      msgpack
     debug_inspector (0.0.2)
     declarative (0.0.10)
     declarative-option (0.1.0)
@@ -301,12 +303,12 @@ GEM
     mini_portile2 (2.3.0)
     minitest (5.11.3)
     modernizr-rails (2.7.1)
+    msgpack (1.2.4)
     multi_json (1.12.1)
     multipart-post (2.0.0)
     net-scp (1.2.1)
       net-ssh (>= 2.6.5)
     net-ssh (3.2.0)
-    newrelic_rpm (3.17.2.327)
     nio4r (2.2.0)
     nokogiri (1.8.2)
       mini_portile2 (~> 2.3.0)
@@ -373,6 +375,9 @@ GEM
       nokogiri (>= 1.6)
     rails-html-sanitizer (1.0.3)
       loofah (~> 2.0)
+    rails_semantic_logger (4.2.0)
+      rails (>= 3.2)
+      semantic_logger (~> 4.1)
     railties (5.0.6)
       actionpack (= 5.0.6)
       activesupport (= 5.0.6)
@@ -450,6 +455,8 @@ GEM
     sdoc (0.4.2)
       json (~> 1.7, >= 1.7.7)
       rdoc (~> 4.0)
+    semantic_logger (4.2.0)
+      concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
     serverengine (1.5.11)
       sigdump (~> 0.2.2)
     sidekiq (4.2.2)
@@ -573,6 +580,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   coveralls
   dalli
   database_cleaner
+  ddtrace
   devise
   devise-guests (~> 0.3)
   devise_invitable
@@ -583,7 +591,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   iso-639
   jbuilder (~> 2.0)
   jquery-rails
-  newrelic_rpm
   nokogiri (~> 1.8.1)
   omniauth-cas
   open_uri_redirections
@@ -595,6 +602,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   pul_uv_rails!
   rails (~> 5.0)
   rails-controller-testing
+  rails_semantic_logger
   redis-namespace
   riiif
   rsolr (~> 1.0.6)
diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
index 001dd533..406f7a02 100644
--- a/config/application.rb
+++ b/config/application.rb
@@ -26,5 +26,10 @@ class Application < Rails::Application
     # config.i18n.default_locale = :de
 
     config.autoload_paths += %W(#{Rails.root}/app/workers)
+    config.semantic_logger.backtrace_level = :info
+    config.rails_semantic_logger.quiet_assets = true
+    config.rails_semantic_logger.format = :json
+    config.rails_semantic_logger.rendered = false
+    config.semantic_logger.application = 'DPUL'
   end
 end
diff --git a/config/initializers/datadog.rb b/config/initializers/datadog.rb
index becdee5b..93e7cf30 100644
--- a/config/initializers/datadog.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/datadog.rb
@@ -1,23 +1,18 @@
-require 'net/http'
-require 'redis'
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+Datadog.configure do |c|
+  c.tracer(enabled: false) unless Rails.env.production?
+  # Rails
+  c.use :rails
 
-if Rails.env.staging? || Rails.env.production?
-  # require 'sidekiq'
-  # require 'ddtrace'
-  # require 'ddtrace/contrib/sidekiq/tracer'
-  # Rails.configuration.datadog_trace = {
-  #   auto_instrument: true,
-  #   auto_instrument_redis: true,
-  #   default_service: "Plum (#{Rails.env})"
-  # }
-  #
-  # Sidekiq.configure_server do |config|
-  #   config.server_middleware do |chain|
-  #     chain.add(
-  #       Datadog::Contrib::Sidekiq::Tracer,
-  #       sidekiq_service: 'sidekiq'
-  #     )
-  #   end
-  # end
-  # Datadog::Monkey.patch_all
+  # Redis
+  c.use :redis
+
+  # Net::HTTP
+  c.use :http
+
+  # Sidekiq
+  c.use :sidekiq
+
+  # Faraday
+  c.use :faraday
 end