diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 2d2574d..5e11209 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ services:
       # Show print() in logs:
       PYTHONUNBUFFERED: '1'
       LOG_LEVEL: 'INFO'
-      NO_JAEGER: true
+      NO_JAEGER: "true"
     entrypoint: uvicorn trapi.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8808 --debug --reload
 
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ services:
     environment:
       PYTHONUNBUFFERED: '1'
       LOG_LEVEL: 'INFO'
-      NO_JAEGER: true
+      NO_JAEGER: "true"
     entrypoint: pytest --cov=src tests/integration
     # entrypoint:  pytest tests/integration/test_train_model.py -s
     # entrypoint:  pytest tests/integration/test_openpredict_api.py::test_post_trapi -s
diff --git a/src/trapi/main.py b/src/trapi/main.py
index dda9368..810c059 100644
--- a/src/trapi/main.py
+++ b/src/trapi/main.py
@@ -127,12 +127,12 @@ def configure_otel(app):
         from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
         from opentelemetry.instrumentation.httpx import HTTPXClientInstrumentor
 
+        service_name = os.environ.get('OTEL_SERVICE_NAME', 'OPENPREDICT')
         # httpx connections need to be open a little longer by the otel decorators
         # but some libs display warnings of resource being unclosed.
         # these supresses such warnings.
         logging.captureWarnings(capture=True)
         warnings.filterwarnings("ignore",category=ResourceWarning)
-        service_name = os.environ.get('OTEL_SERVICE_NAME', 'OPENPREDICT')
         trace.set_tracer_provider(
             TracerProvider(
                 resource=Resource.create({telemetery_service_name_key: service_name})