diff --git a/guardrails_api/app.py b/guardrails_api/app.py
index 7ac5adc..e123475 100644
--- a/guardrails_api/app.py
+++ b/guardrails_api/app.py
@@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ def create_app(
     self_endpoint = os.environ.get("SELF_ENDPOINT", f"{host}:{set_port}")
     os.environ["SELF_ENDPOINT"] = self_endpoint
 
-    register_config(config)
-
     app = Flask(__name__)
     app.json = OverrideJsonProvider(app)
 
@@ -84,6 +82,8 @@ def create_app(
         FlaskInstrumentor().instrument_app(app)
         initialize()
 
+    register_config(config)
+
     # if no pg_host is set, don't set up postgres
     if postgres_is_enabled():
         from guardrails_api.clients.postgres_client import PostgresClient
diff --git a/guardrails_api/otel/traces.py b/guardrails_api/otel/traces.py
index fdbcb8b..8d6c7c0 100644
--- a/guardrails_api/otel/traces.py
+++ b/guardrails_api/otel/traces.py
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@
 from guardrails_api.otel.constants import none
 
 
+class GuardrailsInstrumentorSentinel:
+    pass
+
+try:
+    from openinference.instrumentation.guardrails import GuardrailsInstrumentor
+except ImportError:
+    GuardrailsInstrumentor = GuardrailsInstrumentorSentinel()
+
 def traces_are_disabled() -> bool:
     otel_traces_exporter = os.environ.get("OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER", none)
     return otel_traces_exporter == none
@@ -68,5 +76,9 @@ def initialize_tracer():
         for exporter in trace_exporters:
             set_span_processors(tracer_provider, exporter, use_batch)
 
+        if not isinstance(GuardrailsInstrumentor, GuardrailsInstrumentorSentinel):
+            # Instrument with OpenInference
+            GuardrailsInstrumentor().instrument(tracer_provider=tracer_provider)
+
         # Initialize singleton
         get_tracer()
diff --git a/guardrails_api/start-dev.sh b/guardrails_api/start-dev.sh
index a27f2d3..8c0bc1e 100755
--- a/guardrails_api/start-dev.sh
+++ b/guardrails_api/start-dev.sh
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 --timeout=5 --threads=10 "guardrails_api.app:create_app()" --reload --capture-output --enable-stdio-inheritance
+# TODO: Have to pass the config file to this now or it will blow up.
+gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 --timeout=5 --workers=1 "guardrails_api.app:create_app()" --reload --capture-output --enable-stdio-inheritance
diff --git a/guardrails_api/start.sh b/guardrails_api/start.sh
index 2696b88..d1882d5 100755
--- a/guardrails_api/start.sh
+++ b/guardrails_api/start.sh
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 --timeout=5 --threads=10 "guardrails_api.app:create_app()"
+# TODO: Have to pass the config file to this now or it will blow up.
+gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 --timeout=5 --workers=1 "guardrails_api.app:create_app()"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b8078d2..d086c20 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["Guardrails", "Guardrails AI", "Guardrails API", "Guardrails API"]
 requires-python = ">= 3.8.1"
 dependencies = [
-    "guardrails-ai>=0.5.0a11",
+    "guardrails-ai>=0.5.0",
     "flask>=3.0.3,<4",
     "Flask-SQLAlchemy>=3.1.1,<4",
     "Flask-Caching>=2.3.0,<3",
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ dev = [
     "gunicorn>=22.0.0,<23",
 ]
 
+openinference = [
+    "openinference-instrumentation-guardrails>=0.1.0"
+]
+
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 minversion = "6.0"
 addopts = "-rP"