diff --git a/ui/Dockerfile b/ui/Dockerfile
index 30c2d77fa..25a0f089d 100644
--- a/ui/Dockerfile
+++ b/ui/Dockerfile
@@ -1,53 +1,22 @@
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=registry.opensource.zalan.do/library/alpine-3.15:latest
-ARG NODE_IMAGE=node:14.21.2-alpine
-
-FROM $NODE_IMAGE AS build
-
-COPY . /workdir
-WORKDIR /workdir/app
-
-RUN npm install &&\
-    npm run build
-
-FROM $BASE_IMAGE
-
+FROM registry.opensource.zalan.do/library/python-3.11-slim:latest
 LABEL maintainer="Team ACID @ Zalando <team-acid@zalando.de>"
 
 EXPOSE 8081
+WORKDIR /app
 
-RUN \
-  apk add --no-cache \
-    alpine-sdk \
-    autoconf \
-    automake \
-    ca-certificates \
-    libffi-dev \
-    libtool \
-    python3 \
-    python3-dev \
-    zlib-dev \
-    && \
-  python3 -m ensurepip && \
-  rm -r /usr/lib/python*/ensurepip && \
-  pip3 install --upgrade \
-    gevent \
-    jq \
-    pip \
-    setuptools \
-    && \
-  rm -rf \
-    /root/.cache \
-    /tmp/* \
-    /var/cache/apk/*
+RUN apt-get -qq -y update \
+ # https://www.psycopg.org/docs/install.html#psycopg-vs-psycopg-binary
+ && apt-get -qq -y install --no-install-recommends g++ libpq-dev python3-dev python3-distutils \
+ && apt-get -qq -y clean \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-COPY requirements.txt /
-COPY start_server.sh /
-RUN pip3 install -r /requirements.txt
+COPY requirements.txt .
+COPY start_server.sh .
+RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+COPY operator_ui operator_ui/
 
-COPY operator_ui /operator_ui
-COPY --from=build /workdir/operator_ui/static/build /operator_ui/static/build
 ARG VERSION=dev
-RUN sed -i "s/__version__ = .*/__version__ = '${VERSION}'/" /operator_ui/__init__.py
+RUN sed -i "s/__version__ = .*/__version__ = '${VERSION}'/" operator_ui/__init__.py
 
-WORKDIR /
-CMD ["/usr/bin/python3", "-m", "operator_ui"]
+CMD ["python", "-m", "operator_ui"]
diff --git a/ui/app/src/postgresql.tag.pug b/ui/app/src/postgresql.tag.pug
index 960c3bd07..7f91ff525 100644
--- a/ui/app/src/postgresql.tag.pug
+++ b/ui/app/src/postgresql.tag.pug
@@ -87,9 +87,6 @@ postgresql
         .alert.alert-info(if='{ progress.statefulSet && !progress.containerFirst }') Waiting for 1st container to spawn
         .alert.alert-success(if='{ progress.containerFirst }') First PostgreSQL cluster container spawned
 
-        .alert.alert-info(if='{ !progress.postgresql }') PostgreSQL cluster manifest pending
-        .alert.alert-success(if='{ progress.postgresql }') PostgreSQL cluster manifest created
-
         .alert.alert-info(if='{ progress.containerFirst && !progress.masterLabel }') Waiting for master to become available
         .alert.alert-success(if='{ progress.masterLabel }') PostgreSQL master available, label is attached
         .alert.alert-success(if='{ progress.masterLabel && progress.dnsName }') PostgreSQL ready: <strong>{ progress.dnsName }</strong>
diff --git a/ui/operator_ui/adapters/__init__ .py b/ui/operator_ui/adapters/__init__ .py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/ui/operator_ui/adapters/logger.py b/ui/operator_ui/adapters/logger.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb1ccdf49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/operator_ui/adapters/logger.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import logging
+from logging.config import dictConfig
+
+dictConfig(
+    {
+        "version": 1,
+        "disable_existing_loggers": True,
+        "formatters": {
+            "json": {
+                "class": "pythonjsonlogger.jsonlogger.JsonFormatter",
+                "format": "%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s",
+            }
+        },
+        "handlers": {
+            "stream_handler": {
+                "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
+                "formatter": "json",
+                "stream": "ext://flask.logging.wsgi_errors_stream",
+            }
+        },
+        "root": {
+            "level": "INFO",
+            "handlers": ["stream_handler"]
+        }
+    }
+)
+
+
+class Logger:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+    def debug(self, msg: str, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.logger.debug(msg, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def info(self, msg: str, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.logger.info(msg, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def error(self, msg: str, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.logger.error(msg, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    def exception(self, msg: str, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.logger.exception(msg, *args, **kwargs)
+
+
+logger = Logger()
diff --git a/ui/operator_ui/main.py b/ui/operator_ui/main.py
index ec33d6776..eb77418c8 100644
--- a/ui/operator_ui/main.py
+++ b/ui/operator_ui/main.py
@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # pylama:ignore=E402
 
-import gevent.monkey
-
-gevent.monkey.patch_all()
-
 import requests
 import tokens
-import sys
 
 from backoff import expo, on_exception
 from click import ParamType, command, echo, option
@@ -25,7 +20,6 @@ from gevent import sleep, spawn
 from gevent.pywsgi import WSGIServer
 from jq import jq
 from json import dumps, loads
-from logging import DEBUG, ERROR, INFO, basicConfig, exception, getLogger
 from os import getenv
 from re import X, compile
 from requests.exceptions import RequestException
@@ -56,11 +50,7 @@ from .utils import (
     these,
 )
 
-
-# Disable access logs from Flask
-getLogger('gevent').setLevel(ERROR)
-
-logger = getLogger(__name__)
+from operator_ui.adapters.logger import logger
 
 SERVER_STATUS = {'shutdown': False}
 
@@ -77,7 +67,7 @@ SPILO_S3_BACKUP_PREFIX = getenv('SPILO_S3_BACKUP_PREFIX', 'spilo/')
 SUPERUSER_TEAM = getenv('SUPERUSER_TEAM', 'acid')
 TARGET_NAMESPACE = getenv('TARGET_NAMESPACE')
 GOOGLE_ANALYTICS = getenv('GOOGLE_ANALYTICS', False)
-MIN_PODS= getenv('MIN_PODS', 2)
+MIN_PODS = getenv('MIN_PODS', 2)
 RESOURCES_VISIBLE = getenv('RESOURCES_VISIBLE', True)
 CUSTOM_MESSAGE_RED = getenv('CUSTOM_MESSAGE_RED', '')
 
@@ -984,8 +974,6 @@ def init_cluster():
 def main(port, debug, clusters: list):
     global TARGET_NAMESPACE
 
-    basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=(DEBUG if debug else INFO), format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s',)
-
     init_cluster()
 
     logger.info(f'App URL: {APP_URL}')
diff --git a/ui/operator_ui/spiloutils.py b/ui/operator_ui/spiloutils.py
index 8126e07f3..dd2d938df 100644
--- a/ui/operator_ui/spiloutils.py
+++ b/ui/operator_ui/spiloutils.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ from boto3 import client
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
 from furl import furl
 from json import dumps, loads
-from logging import getLogger
 from os import environ, getenv
 from requests import Session
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
@@ -11,8 +10,7 @@ from wal_e.cmd import configure_backup_cxt
 
 from .utils import Attrs, defaulting, these
 
-
-logger = getLogger(__name__)
+from operator_ui.adapters.logger import logger
 
 session = Session()
 
diff --git a/ui/requirements.txt b/ui/requirements.txt
index 97d1467c6..edd649d2a 100644
--- a/ui/requirements.txt
+++ b/ui/requirements.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ gevent==24.2.1
 jq==1.7.0
 json_delta>=2.0.2
 kubernetes==11.0.0
+python-json-logger==2.0.7
 requests==2.32.2
 stups-tokens>=1.1.19
 wal_e==1.1.1