diff --git a/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/metrics/index.ts b/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/metrics/index.ts
index 6142fb812..bfa411d4d 100644
--- a/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/metrics/index.ts
+++ b/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/metrics/index.ts
@@ -21,10 +21,14 @@ enum metricKeysMapping {
   PeersCount = "sub_libp2p_peers_count",
 }
 
-export async function fetchMetrics(metricUri: string): Promise<Metrics> {
+export async function fetchMetrics(
+  metricUri: string,
+  node_name = "",
+): Promise<Metrics> {
   let metrics = {}; // empty by default
+  const debug_msg = node_name ? `[${node_name}]` : "";
   try {
-    debug(`fetching: ${metricUri}`);
+    debug([debug_msg, `fetching: ${metricUri}`].join(" "));
     const fetchResult = await fetch(metricUri, {
       signal: TimeoutAbortController(2).signal,
       method: "GET",
@@ -34,6 +38,9 @@ export async function fetchMetrics(metricUri: string): Promise<Metrics> {
     });
 
     if (!fetchResult.ok) {
+      debug(
+        [debug_msg, `fetch error - status: ${fetchResult.status}`].join(" "),
+      );
       throw new Error(`Error - status: ${fetchResult.status}`);
     }
 
@@ -43,7 +50,7 @@ export async function fetchMetrics(metricUri: string): Promise<Metrics> {
     debug(`ERR: ${err}`);
     console.log(
       `\n${decorators.red(`Error`)} \t ${decorators.bright(
-        `fetching metrics from: ${metricUri}`,
+        `fetching metrics from: ${metricUri} ${debug_msg}`,
       )}`,
     );
   }
diff --git a/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/networkNode.ts b/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/networkNode.ts
index 60ff97870..09634a1be 100644
--- a/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/networkNode.ts
+++ b/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/networkNode.ts
@@ -233,7 +233,9 @@ export class NetworkNode implements NetworkNodeInterface {
           desiredMetricValue === null ||
           compare(comparator!, value, desiredMetricValue)
         ) {
-          debug(`value: ${value} ~ desiredMetricValue: ${desiredMetricValue}`);
+          debug(
+            `[${this.name}] value: ${value} ~ desiredMetricValue: ${desiredMetricValue}`,
+          );
           return value;
         }
       }
@@ -244,7 +246,9 @@ export class NetworkNode implements NetworkNodeInterface {
         while (!done && !timedout) {
           c++;
           await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
-          debug(`fetching metrics - q: ${c}  time:  ${new Date()}`);
+          debug(
+            `[${this.name}] Fetching metrics - q: ${c}  time:  ${new Date()}`,
+          );
           this.cachedMetrics = await fetchMetrics(this.prometheusUri);
           value = this._getMetric(metricName, desiredMetricValue === null);
 
@@ -256,7 +260,7 @@ export class NetworkNode implements NetworkNodeInterface {
             done = true;
           } else {
             debug(
-              `current value: ${value} for metric ${rawMetricName}, keep trying...`,
+              `[${this.name}] Current value: ${value} for metric ${rawMetricName}, keep trying...`,
             );
           }
         }
@@ -268,7 +272,7 @@ export class NetworkNode implements NetworkNodeInterface {
           setTimeout(() => {
             timedout = true;
             const err = new Error(
-              `Timeout(${timeout}), "getting desired metric value ${desiredMetricValue} within ${timeout} secs".`,
+              `[${this.name}] Timeout(${timeout}), "getting desired metric value ${desiredMetricValue} within ${timeout} secs".`,
             );
             return resolve(err);
           }, timeout * 1000),
diff --git a/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/spawner.ts b/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/spawner.ts
index 95ce291a6..449795f75 100644
--- a/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/spawner.ts
+++ b/javascript/packages/orchestrator/src/spawner.ts
@@ -122,16 +122,20 @@ export const spawnNode = async (
 
   const endpointPort = RPC_WS_PORT;
   if (opts.inCI) {
+    // UPDATE: 04-10-2024 Since we have several reports of failures related to
+    // can't access metrics by dns, we switch back to use the pod ip.
+
     // in CI we deploy a service (with the pod name) in front of each pod
     // so here we can use the name (as short dns in the ns) to connect to pod.
-    const nodeDns = `${podDef.metadata.name}.${namespace}.svc.cluster.local`;
+    // const nodeDns = `${podDef.metadata.name}.${namespace}.svc.cluster.local`;
+    const pod_ip = await client.getNodeIP(node.name);
     networkNode = new NetworkNode(
       node.name,
-      WS_URI_PATTERN.replace("{{IP}}", nodeDns).replace(
+      WS_URI_PATTERN.replace("{{IP}}", pod_ip).replace(
         "{{PORT}}",
         endpointPort.toString(),
       ),
-      METRICS_URI_PATTERN.replace("{{IP}}", nodeDns).replace(
+      METRICS_URI_PATTERN.replace("{{IP}}", pod_ip).replace(
         "{{PORT}}",
         PROMETHEUS_PORT.toString(),
       ),