diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
index ee47c03b..0881a3f2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -51,15 +51,27 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       CARGO_FLAGS: --profile ci --features kamu/ftp
+      KAMU_CONTRACTS_DIR: ../../../kamu-contracts
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          repository: kamu-data/kamu-contracts
+          path: kamu-contracts
+          token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
       - uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
       - uses: swatinem/rust-cache@v2
         with:
           cache-on-failure: true
-      - name: build
+      - uses: cargo-bins/cargo-binstall@main
+      - name: Install cargo tools
+        run: |
+          cargo binstall cargo-nextest -y --force
+      - name: Install foundry
+        uses: foundry-rs/foundry-toolchain@v1
+      - name: Build
         run: cargo test ${{ env.CARGO_FLAGS }} --no-run
-      - name: run tests
-        run: cargo test ${{ env.CARGO_FLAGS }}
-      - name: check git diff
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: cargo nextest run
+      - name: Check git diff
         run: git diff && git diff-index --quiet HEAD
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index bab03c3f..c2f370b9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1732,15 +1732,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "crossbeam-channel"
-version = "0.5.12"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ab3db02a9c5b5121e1e42fbdb1aeb65f5e02624cc58c43f2884c6ccac0b82f95"
-dependencies = [
- "crossbeam-utils",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "crossbeam-deque"
 version = "0.8.5"
@@ -4213,7 +4204,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "ciborium",
  "clap",
  "confique",
- "dill",
  "ethers",
  "http",
  "internal-error",
@@ -4225,8 +4215,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
- "tracing-appender",
- "tracing-bunyan-formatter",
  "tracing-log 0.2.0",
  "tracing-subscriber",
  "url",
@@ -7053,18 +7041,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-core",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tracing-appender"
-version = "0.2.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3566e8ce28cc0a3fe42519fc80e6b4c943cc4c8cef275620eb8dac2d3d4e06cf"
-dependencies = [
- "crossbeam-channel",
- "thiserror",
- "time",
- "tracing-subscriber",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-attributes"
 version = "0.1.27"
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3efa434a..e4104b14 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+TEST_LOG_PARAMS=RUST_LOG_SPAN_EVENTS=new,close RUST_LOG=debug
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Lint
@@ -27,7 +28,12 @@ lint-fix:
 
 .PHONY: test
 test:
-	cargo test
+	$(TEST_LOG_PARAMS) cargo nextest run
+
+
+.PHONY: test-no-oracle
+test-no-oracle:
+	$(TEST_LOG_PARAMS) cargo nextest run -E 'not test(::oracle::)'
 
 
 ###############################################################################
diff --git a/src/app/oracle-executor/Cargo.toml b/src/app/oracle-executor/Cargo.toml
index 648d75d3..f914e2e4 100644
--- a/src/app/oracle-executor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/app/oracle-executor/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ clap = { version = "4", default-features = false, features = [
     "wrap_help",
 ] }
 chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["serde"] }
-dill = { version = "0.8", default-features = false }
 ciborium = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
 confique = { version = "0.2", default-features = false, features = ["yaml"] }
 ethers = { version = "2", default-features = false, features = [
@@ -52,8 +51,6 @@ tokio = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = [
     "macros",
 ] }
 tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = [] }
-tracing-appender = "0.2"
-tracing-bunyan-formatter = "0.3"
 tracing-log = "0.2"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = [
     "ansi",
diff --git a/src/app/oracle-executor/src/main.rs b/src/app/oracle-executor/src/main.rs
index 08fd2240..976ae6f3 100644
--- a/src/app/oracle-executor/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/app/oracle-executor/src/main.rs
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@
 
 use clap::Parser;
 use kamu_oracle_executor::{Cli, Config};
-use tracing_subscriber::fmt::format::FmtSpan;
-use tracing_subscriber::layer::SubscriberExt;
-use tracing_subscriber::util::SubscriberInitExt;
+
+const DEFAULT_RUST_LOG: &str = "RUST_LOG=debug,kamu=trace,hyper=info,h2=info";
 
 fn main() {
     let args = Cli::parse();
@@ -22,14 +21,7 @@ fn main() {
         .load()
         .unwrap();
 
-    tracing_subscriber::registry()
-        .with(
-            tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer()
-                .with_span_events(FmtSpan::NEW | FmtSpan::CLOSE)
-                .with_ansi(true),
-        )
-        .with(tracing_subscriber::filter::EnvFilter::from_default_env())
-        .init();
+    configure_tracing();
 
     let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
         .enable_all()
@@ -44,3 +36,25 @@ fn main() {
         }
     }
 }
+
+fn configure_tracing() {
+    use tracing_log::LogTracer;
+    use tracing_subscriber::fmt::format::FmtSpan;
+    use tracing_subscriber::layer::SubscriberExt;
+    use tracing_subscriber::util::SubscriberInitExt;
+    use tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter;
+
+    let env_filter = EnvFilter::try_from_default_env().unwrap_or(EnvFilter::new(DEFAULT_RUST_LOG));
+
+    tracing_subscriber::registry()
+        .with(env_filter)
+        .with(
+            tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer()
+                .with_span_events(FmtSpan::NEW | FmtSpan::CLOSE)
+                .with_ansi(true),
+        )
+        .init();
+
+    // Redirect all standard logging to tracing events
+    LogTracer::init().expect("Failed to set LogTracer");
+}
diff --git a/src/app/oracle-executor/tests/tests/test_e2e.rs b/src/app/oracle-executor/tests/tests/test_e2e.rs
index 7d62c9af..8306b387 100644
--- a/src/app/oracle-executor/tests/tests/test_e2e.rs
+++ b/src/app/oracle-executor/tests/tests/test_e2e.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 // the Business Source License, use of this software will be governed
 // by the Apache License, Version 2.0.
 
+use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use ethers::prelude::*;
@@ -32,14 +33,26 @@ abigen!(
 
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
+fn get_contracts_dir() -> PathBuf {
+    let dir = if let Ok(dir) = std::env::var("KAMU_CONTRACTS_DIR") {
+        PathBuf::from(dir)
+    } else {
+        std::fs::canonicalize(".")
+            .unwrap()
+            .join("../../../../kamu-contracts")
+    };
+    if !dir.exists() {
+        panic!("Contracts dir not found at {}", dir.display());
+    }
+    dir
+}
+
+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+#[test_group::group(e2e, oracle)]
 #[test_log::test(tokio::test)]
 async fn test_e2e() {
-    let contracts_dir = std::fs::canonicalize(".")
-        .unwrap()
-        .join("../../../../kamu-contracts");
-    if !contracts_dir.exists() {
-        panic!("Contracts dir not found at {}", contracts_dir.display());
-    }
+    let contracts_dir = get_contracts_dir();
 
     let anvil = ethers::core::utils::Anvil::new().spawn();
     let rpc_endpoint = anvil.endpoint();
@@ -56,7 +69,7 @@ async fn test_e2e() {
 
     std::process::Command::new("forge")
         .current_dir(&contracts_dir)
-        .args(&[
+        .args([
             "script",
             "script/Deploy.s.sol",
             "--fork-url",
@@ -66,7 +79,7 @@ async fn test_e2e() {
             "--broadcast",
         ])
         .status()
-        .unwrap()
+        .expect("Failed to deploy contracts. Is foundry installed?")
         .exit_ok()
         .unwrap();