diff --git a/deploy/asapo_orchestration_docker/scripts/influxdb/create_db_logs.sh.tpl b/deploy/asapo_orchestration_docker/scripts/influxdb/create_db_logs.sh.tpl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..52a7b788da2c397338f79b58a9b0b56cddac4952
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/asapo_orchestration_docker/scripts/influxdb/create_db_logs.sh.tpl
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+set -x
+
+influx -execute "CREATE DATABASE logs"
diff --git a/deploy/asapo_orchestration_docker/scripts/monitoring.nmd.tpl b/deploy/asapo_orchestration_docker/scripts/monitoring.nmd.tpl
index e0282a8db0df8e44932a7ab0d56958d2e437e70b..33dd52f41145a042576508fcbd33d4f0b6e1651c 100644
--- a/deploy/asapo_orchestration_docker/scripts/monitoring.nmd.tpl
+++ b/deploy/asapo_orchestration_docker/scripts/monitoring.nmd.tpl
@@ -30,15 +30,17 @@ job "monitoring" {
       driver = "docker"
       user = "${asapo_user}"
       config {
-        network_mode = "host"
+        network_mode = "bridge"
 	    security_opt = ["no-new-privileges"]
 	    userns_mode = "host"
         image = "influxdb:${influxdb_version}"
-        volumes = ["/${service_dir}/influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb"]
+        volumes = [
+          "/${service_dir}/influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb",
+          "local/influxdb:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d"]
+        command = "influxd"
       }
 
       env {
-        PRE_CREATE_DB="asapo_receivers;asapo_brokers"
         INFLUXDB_BIND_ADDRESS="127.0.0.1:$${NOMAD_PORT_influxdb_rpc}"
         INFLUXDB_HTTP_BIND_ADDRESS=":$${NOMAD_PORT_influxdb}"
       }
@@ -70,6 +72,10 @@ job "monitoring" {
        }
      }
 
+    template {
+      source = "${scripts_dir}/influxdb/create_db_logs.sh.tpl"
+      destination = "local/influxdb/create_db_logs.sh"
+    }
    } #influxdb