diff --git a/app/const.py b/app/const.py
index 8db0918..0aacda3 100644
--- a/app/const.py
+++ b/app/const.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+ALEMBIC_CONFIG = '/app/alembic.ini'
 DB_URL = 'sqlite:////app/storage/was.db'
 DIR_ASSET = '/app/storage/asset'
 DIR_OTA = '/app/storage/ota'
diff --git a/app/db/main.py b/app/db/main.py
index 17644d0..4b24a62 100644
--- a/app/db/main.py
+++ b/app/db/main.py
@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@
 engine = create_engine(DB_URL, echo=True, connect_args=connect_args)
 
 
-def create_db_and_tables():
-    SQLModel.metadata.create_all(engine)
-
-
 def get_config_db(config_type):
     config = WillowConfig()
 
diff --git a/app/main.py b/app/main.py
index 71cc08f..6859218 100644
--- a/app/main.py
+++ b/app/main.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import asyncio
 import json
 import os
+
+import alembic
+import alembic.config
 from fastapi import (
     FastAPI,
     Header,
@@ -18,11 +21,12 @@
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
 
 from app.const import (
+    ALEMBIC_CONFIG,
     DIR_OTA,
     STORAGE_USER_CONFIG,
 )
 
-from app.db.main import create_db_and_tables, migrate_user_config
+from app.db.main import migrate_user_config
 from app.internal.command_endpoints import (
     CommandEndpointResponse,
     CommandEndpointResult,
@@ -59,9 +63,16 @@
     pass
 
 
+def db_migrations():
+    cfg = alembic.config.Config(ALEMBIC_CONFIG)
+    cfg.attributes['logger'] = log
+    alembic.command.upgrade(cfg, "head")
+
+
 @asynccontextmanager
 async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
-    create_db_and_tables()
+    # database schema migrations
+    db_migrations()
 
     migrate_user_files()
     get_tz_config(refresh=True)
diff --git a/migrations/env.py b/migrations/env.py
index 84b2e36..a6418dc 100644
--- a/migrations/env.py
+++ b/migrations/env.py
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
 
 # Interpret the config file for Python logging.
 # This line sets up loggers basically.
-if config.config_file_name is not None:
+# We must skip this when config has a logger attribute to prevent the WAS logger config from being overwritten
+if config.config_file_name is not None and config.attributes.get('logger', None) is None:
     fileConfig(config.config_file_name)
 
 # add your model's MetaData object here