diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3e4f1b4..7ab6661 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ include .config.mk
 
 # Define commands via docker
 DOCKER = docker
-DOCKER_RUN := $(DOCKER) run --rm -i
+DOCKER_RUN := $(DOCKER) run --rm -it
 WORKDIR :=/workdir
 DOCKER_COMMAND := $(DOCKER_RUN) -v $(PWD):$(WORKDIR):Z -w $(WORKDIR) \
 	-e XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$(WORKDIR) \
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ debug-%: ## Debug a variable by calling `make debug-VARIABLE`
 help: ## Show this help, includes list of all actions.
 	@awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; /^.+: .*?## / && !/awk/ {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}' ${MAKEFILE_LIST}
 
+.PHONY:run
+run: ## purge build time artifacts
+	$(DOCKER_COMMAND) bash
 .PHONY:clean
 clean: ## purge build time artifacts
 	rm -rf dist/ build/ coverage/ pypoetry/ pip/ **/__pycache__/ .pytest_cache/ .cache .coverage
diff --git a/logdna/logdna.py b/logdna/logdna.py
index 2ad02fc..8ccfc19 100644
--- a/logdna/logdna.py
+++ b/logdna/logdna.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import sys
 import threading
 import time
+import traceback
 
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 
@@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ def buffer_log_sync(self, message):
             else:
                 self.start_flusher()
         else:
+            print('could not acquire a lock')
             self.secondary.append(message)
 
     def clean_after_success(self):
@@ -135,6 +137,8 @@ def flush(self):
                 self.internalLogger.debug('Error in calling flush: %s', e)
 
     def flush_sync(self):
+        print('buf_size {}'.format(self.buf_size))
+        print('\n'.join(traceback.format_stack()))
         if self.buf_size == 0:
             return
         if self.lock.acquire(blocking=False):
@@ -189,6 +193,8 @@ def send_request(self, data):
 
             response.raise_for_status()
             status_code = response.status_code
+            print(status_code)
+            print(response.text)
             if status_code in [401, 403]:
                 self.internalLogger.debug(
                     'Please provide a valid ingestion key.' +
diff --git a/t.py b/t.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9967170
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import logging
+import os
+from logdna import LogDNAHandler
+
+app = os.environ.get('APP', 'bloop')
+# Set your key as an env variable
+# then import here, its best not to
+# hard code your key!
+key = '50193c701e25003b9e40124015bf2c2d'
+
+log = logging.getLogger('logdna')
+log.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+
+options = {
+  'hostname': 'pytest',
+  'ip': '10.0.1.1',
+  'mac': 'C0:FF:EE:C0:FF:EE',
+  'url': 'https://logs.use.dev.logdna.net/logs/ingest'
+}
+
+# Defaults to False; when True meta objects are searchable
+options['index_meta'] = True
+
+test = LogDNAHandler(key, options)
+
+log.addHandler(test)
+
+log.warning("Warning message", {'app': app})
+log.info("Info message", {'app': app})