diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-checks.yml b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
similarity index 66%
rename from .github/workflows/run-checks.yml
rename to .github/workflows/checks.yml
index 9f7d2410..6d294de1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-checks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
@@ -1,30 +1,26 @@
 name: Linter, formatter, and docs checks
-on: [pull_request]
 
-permissions:
-  contents: read
+on: pull_request
 
 jobs:
-  build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'CI Bot')"
 
+  checks:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'CI Bot')"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 1
 
-      - name: Set up Python 3.10
+      - name: Set up Python 3.12
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.12"
           cache: "pip"
 
       - name: Install package and dependencies
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -m pip install ruff
-          python -m pip install .[docs]
+          pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install ruff
+          pip install .[docs]
 
       - name: Run linter and formatter checks using ruff
         run: make checks
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3025537b..e6f81697 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -96,7 +96,3 @@ tests:
 .PHONY: tests-notebooks
 tests-notebooks:
 	pytest --nbmake "notebooks/" --nbmake-timeout=600 --ignore=notebooks/dask_from_CLI.ipynb
-
-.PHONY: tests-all
-tests-all:
-	pytest
diff --git a/src/flowcept/commons/daos/mq_dao/mq_dao_redis.py b/src/flowcept/commons/daos/mq_dao/mq_dao_redis.py
index 82321ea5..d31d791c 100644
--- a/src/flowcept/commons/daos/mq_dao/mq_dao_redis.py
+++ b/src/flowcept/commons/daos/mq_dao/mq_dao_redis.py
@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ def _bulk_publish(self, buffer, channel=MQ_CHANNEL, serializer=msgpack.dumps):
         pipe = self._producer.pipeline()
         for message in buffer:
             try:
-                # self.logger.debug(
-                #     f"Going to send Message:" f"\n\t[BEGIN_MSG]{message}\n[END_MSG]\t"
-                # )
                 pipe.publish(MQ_CHANNEL, serializer(message))
             except Exception as e:
                 self.logger.exception(e)
diff --git a/src/flowcept/commons/flowcept_logger.py b/src/flowcept/commons/flowcept_logger.py
index dbf0567f..ecbc97f0 100644
--- a/src/flowcept/commons/flowcept_logger.py
+++ b/src/flowcept/commons/flowcept_logger.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def _build_logger(cls):
             logger.addHandler(stream_handler)
 
         if file_level <= logging.CRITICAL:
-            file_handler = logging.FileHandler(LOG_FILE_PATH, mode="a+")
+            file_handler = logging.FileHandler(LOG_FILE_PATH, delay=True, mode="a+")
             file_handler.setLevel(file_level)
             file_format = logging.Formatter(f"[%(asctime)s]{_BASE_FORMAT}")
             file_handler.setFormatter(file_format)
diff --git a/src/flowcept/flowceptor/adapters/tensorboard/tensorboard_interceptor.py b/src/flowcept/flowceptor/adapters/tensorboard/tensorboard_interceptor.py
index 70a28d9a..84980fb8 100644
--- a/src/flowcept/flowceptor/adapters/tensorboard/tensorboard_interceptor.py
+++ b/src/flowcept/flowceptor/adapters/tensorboard/tensorboard_interceptor.py
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def observe(self):
                 f"I can't watch the file {self.settings.file_path}, as it does not exist."
             )
             self.logger.debug(
-                f"\tI will sleep for {self.settings.watch_interval_sec} sec. to see if it appears."
+                f"\tI will sleep for {self.settings.watch_interval_sec} s to see if it appears."
             )
             sleep(self.settings.watch_interval_sec)
 
diff --git a/src/flowcept/flowceptor/consumers/document_inserter.py b/src/flowcept/flowceptor/consumers/document_inserter.py
index e2cf721d..15118c66 100644
--- a/src/flowcept/flowceptor/consumers/document_inserter.py
+++ b/src/flowcept/flowceptor/consumers/document_inserter.py
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ def flush_function(buffer, doc_daos, logger):
         for dao in doc_daos:
             dao.insert_and_update_many_tasks(buffer, TaskObject.task_id_field())
             logger.debug(
-                f"DocDao={id(dao)},DocDaoClass={dao.__class__.__name__};"
-                f" Flushed {len(buffer)} msgs to this DocDB!"
+                f"DocDao={id(dao)},DocDaoClass={dao.__class__.__name__};\
+                Flushed {len(buffer)} msgs to this DocDB!"
             )  # TODO: add name
 
     def _handle_task_message(self, message: Dict):
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ def _handle_task_message(self, message: Dict):
     def _handle_workflow_message(self, message: Dict):
         message.pop("type")
         self.logger.debug(
-            f"Received following Workflow msg in DocInserter: \n\t[BEGIN_MSG]{message}\n[END_MSG]\t"
+            f"Received following Workflow msg in DocInserter:\n\t[BEGIN_MSG]{message}\n[END_MSG]\t"
         )
         if REMOVE_EMPTY_FIELDS:
             remove_empty_fields_from_dict(message)