diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 00be7ef..83d5b87 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1334,6 +1334,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-serde"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bc6b213177105856957181934e4920de57730fc69bf42c37ee5bb664d406d9e1"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "tracing-core",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-subscriber"
 version = "0.3.18"
@@ -1341,11 +1351,14 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ad0f048c97dbd9faa9b7df56362b8ebcaa52adb06b498c050d2f4e32f90a7a8b"
 dependencies = [
  "nu-ansi-term",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
  "sharded-slab",
  "smallvec",
  "thread_local",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-log",
+ "tracing-serde",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/databases/src/cpu/mod.rs b/databases/src/cpu/mod.rs
index 074db37..4c90313 100644
--- a/databases/src/cpu/mod.rs
+++ b/databases/src/cpu/mod.rs
@@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ impl CpuCache {
     }
 }
 
+impl Default for CpuCache {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::new()
+    }
+}
+
 /// Take the input model name, and try to parse it into an [IndexEntry]
 fn generate_index_entry(name: &str) -> Result<IndexEntry, Box<dyn std::error::Error + '_>> {
     let model_token = find_model(name);
diff --git a/server/Cargo.toml b/server/Cargo.toml
index 4fdaf2d..4a8db10 100644
--- a/server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.40.0", features = ["full"] }
 tower-http = { version = "0.5.1", features = ["cors", "trace"] }
 tracing = "0.1.40"
-tracing-subscriber = "0.3.18"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.18", features = ["json"] }
diff --git a/server/src/main.rs b/server/src/main.rs
index 55f4842..53996bd 100644
--- a/server/src/main.rs
+++ b/server/src/main.rs
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     // initialize logging
     let cli_args = Args::parse();
     tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+        .json()
         .with_span_events(FmtSpan::CLOSE)
         .init();
     // log::set_logger(&LOGGER)