diff --git a/internal/metrics/cmdopts.go b/internal/metrics/cmdopts.go
index 604e234184..d4d03566e9 100644
--- a/internal/metrics/cmdopts.go
+++ b/internal/metrics/cmdopts.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package metrics
 // CmdOpts specifies metric command-line options
 type CmdOpts struct {
 	Metrics                      string `short:"m" long:"metrics" mapstructure:"metrics" description:"File or folder of YAML files with metrics definitions" env:"PW_METRICS"`
-	NoHelperFunctions            bool   `long:"no-helper-functions" mapstructure:"no-helper-functions" description:"Ignore metric definitions using helper functions (in form get_smth()) and don't also roll out any helpers automatically" env:"PW_NO_HELPER_FUNCTIONS"`
+	CreateHelpers                bool   `long:"create-helpers" mapstructure:"create-helpers" description:"Create helper database objects from metric definitions" env:"PW_CREATE_HELPERS"`
 	DirectOSStats                bool   `long:"direct-os-stats" mapstructure:"direct-os-stats" description:"Extract OS related psutil statistics not via PL/Python wrappers but directly on host" env:"PW_DIRECT_OS_STATS"`
 	InstanceLevelCacheMaxSeconds int64  `long:"instance-level-cache-max-seconds" mapstructure:"instance-level-cache-max-seconds" description:"Max allowed staleness for instance level metric data shared between DBs of an instance. Affects 'continuous' host types only. Set to 0 to disable" env:"PW_INSTANCE_LEVEL_CACHE_MAX_SECONDS" default:"30"`
 	EmergencyPauseTriggerfile    string `long:"emergency-pause-triggerfile" mapstructure:"emergency-pause-triggerfile" description:"When the file exists no metrics will be temporarily fetched / scraped" env:"PW_EMERGENCY_PAUSE_TRIGGERFILE" default:"/tmp/pgwatch-emergency-pause"`
diff --git a/internal/reaper/reaper.go b/internal/reaper/reaper.go
index b25a2b8fce..32df25a237 100644
--- a/internal/reaper/reaper.go
+++ b/internal/reaper/reaper.go
@@ -91,12 +91,13 @@ func (r *Reaper) Reap(mainContext context.Context) (err error) {
 		logger.
 			WithField("sources", len(monitoredDbs)).
 			WithField("metrics", len(metricDefinitionMap.MetricDefs)).
+			WithField("presets", len(metricDefinitionMap.PresetDefs)).
 			Log(func() logrus.Level {
 				if firstLoop && len(monitoredDbs)*len(metricDefinitionMap.MetricDefs) == 0 {
 					return logrus.WarnLevel
 				}
 				return logrus.InfoLevel
-			}(), "host info refreshed")
+			}(), "sources and metrics refreshed")
 
 		firstLoop = false // only used for failing when 1st config reading fails
 
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ func (r *Reaper) Reap(mainContext context.Context) (err error) {
 				logger.Errorf("could not start metric gathering due to connection problem: %s", err)
 				continue
 			}
-			logger.Infof("Connect OK. Version: %s (in recovery: %v)", ver.VersionStr, ver.IsInRecovery)
+			logger.WithField("source", monitoredDB.Name).Infof("Connect OK. Version: %s (in recovery: %v)", ver.VersionStr, ver.IsInRecovery)
 			if ver.IsInRecovery && monitoredDB.OnlyIfMaster {
 				logger.Infof("not added to monitoring due to 'master only' property")
 				continue
@@ -151,14 +152,11 @@ func (r *Reaper) Reap(mainContext context.Context) (err error) {
 				}()
 			}
 
-			if monitoredDB.IsPostgresSource() && !ver.IsInRecovery {
-				if opts.Metrics.NoHelperFunctions {
-					logger.Infof("[%s] skipping rollout out helper functions due to the --no-helper-functions flag ...", dbUnique)
-				} else {
-					logger.Infof("Trying to create helper functions if missing for \"%s\"...", dbUnique)
-					if err = TryCreateMetricsFetchingHelpers(mainContext, monitoredDB); err != nil {
-						logger.Warningf("Failed to create helper functions for \"%s\": %w", dbUnique, err)
-					}
+			if monitoredDB.IsPostgresSource() && !ver.IsInRecovery && opts.Metrics.CreateHelpers {
+				ls := logger.WithField("source", dbUnique)
+				ls.Info("trying to create helper objects if missing")
+				if err = TryCreateMetricsFetchingHelpers(mainContext, monitoredDB); err != nil {
+					ls.Warning("failed to create helper functions: %w", err)
 				}
 			}
 
diff --git a/internal/sinks/multiwriter.go b/internal/sinks/multiwriter.go
index ce64c136f8..e789c4c1c1 100644
--- a/internal/sinks/multiwriter.go
+++ b/internal/sinks/multiwriter.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func NewMultiWriter(ctx context.Context, opts *CmdOpts, metricDefs *metrics.Metr
 			return nil, err
 		}
 		mw.AddWriter(w)
-		l.Info(`measurements sink actviated`)
+		l.Info(`measurements sink activated`)
 	}
 
 	if len(mw.writers) == 0 {