diff --git a/.github/workflows/cloud-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/cloud-ci.yml
index c19954c71..7b73be6cb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cloud-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cloud-ci.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: tests
+name: cloud-tests
 
 on:
   # Runs for pull requests
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ jobs:
       AZURE_CORE_OUTPUT: none
 
     steps:
+      - name: Dump GitHub context
+        env:
+          GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
+        run: echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"
+
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           token: ${{ github.token }}
@@ -84,30 +89,17 @@ jobs:
           echo "aws_secret_access_key=${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}" >>~/.aws/credentials
           chmod -R a-rwx,u+rwX ~/.aws ~/.ssh
 
+      - name: start covalent server
+        run: |
+          poetry run -- python3 -m milabench.scripts.covalent serve start --develop
+
       - name: setup cloud
         run: |
-          _system=$(
           poetry run milabench cloud \
             --setup \
-            --run-on ${{ matrix.run_on }}
-          )
-          { read _hash ; }< <(
-          echo -n "$_system" | while read l
-          do
-              if [[ "$l" == "# hash::>"* ]]
-              then
-                  echo -n "${l#*::>}"
-              fi
-          done
-          echo
-          )
-          if [[ -z "${_hash}" ]]
-          then
-            >&2 echo "Failed to fetch system config hash"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          echo -n "$_system" >$MILABENCH_SYSTEM.$_hash
-          echo "MILABENCH_SYSTEM=$MILABENCH_SYSTEM.$_hash" >>$GITHUB_ENV
+            --run-on ${{ matrix.run_on }} \
+            --system "$MILABENCH_SYSTEM" >$MILABENCH_SYSTEM.${{ matrix.run_on }}
+          echo "MILABENCH_SYSTEM=$MILABENCH_SYSTEM.${{ matrix.run_on }}" >>$GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: install benchmarks
         run: |
@@ -139,3 +131,8 @@ jobs:
             --teardown \
             --run-on ${{ matrix.run_on }} \
             --all
+
+      - name: debug logs
+          if: always()
+          run: |
+            cat ~/.cache/covalent/covalent_ui.log