diff --git a/api/routers/subs/metrics.py b/api/routers/subs/metrics.py
index c68eec3e9..b8332aa85 100644
--- a/api/routers/subs/metrics.py
+++ b/api/routers/subs/metrics.py
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ def get_custom_metrics(projectId: int, context: schemas.CurrentContext = Depends
 
 @app.get('/{projectId}/metrics/{metric_id}', tags=["dashboard"])
 @app.get('/{projectId}/custom_metrics/{metric_id}', tags=["customMetrics"])
-def get_custom_metric(projectId: int, metric_id: int, context: schemas.CurrentContext = Depends(OR_context)):
+def get_custom_metric(projectId: int, metric_id: str, context: schemas.CurrentContext = Depends(OR_context)):
     data = custom_metrics.get(project_id=projectId, user_id=context.user_id, metric_id=metric_id)
     if data is None:
         return {"errors": ["custom metric not found"]}
diff --git a/ee/api/app_crons.py b/ee/api/app_crons.py
index ced170bd1..3dfea4fe4 100644
--- a/ee/api/app_crons.py
+++ b/ee/api/app_crons.py
@@ -1,30 +1,19 @@
 print("============= CRONS =============")
+import sys
 
-import logging
-
-from apscheduler.schedulers.asyncio import AsyncIOScheduler
-from decouple import config
-from fastapi import FastAPI
-
-from routers.crons import core_crons, core_dynamic_crons
-
-app = FastAPI()
+from routers.crons import core_dynamic_crons
 
 
-@app.get("/")
-async def root():
-    return {"status": "Running"}
+def process(action):
+    {
+        "TELEMETRY": core_dynamic_crons.telemetry_cron,
+        "JOB": core_dynamic_crons.run_scheduled_jobs,
+        "REPORT": core_dynamic_crons.weekly_report2
+    }.get(action.upper(), lambda: print(f"{action} not found in crons-definitions"))()
 
 
-app.schedule = AsyncIOScheduler()
-app.schedule.start()
-
-if not config("LOCAL_CRONS", default=False, cast=bool):
-    for job in core_crons.cron_jobs + core_dynamic_crons.cron_jobs + core_dynamic_crons.SINGLE_CRONS:
-        app.schedule.add_job(id=job["func"].__name__, **job)
-
-    logging.basicConfig(level=config("LOGLEVEL", default=logging.INFO))
-    logging.getLogger('apscheduler').setLevel(config("LOGLEVEL", default=logging.INFO))
-
-else:
-    print("Nothing to do because LOCAL_CRONS mode is enabled.")
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2 or len(sys.argv[1]) < 1:
+        print("please provide actions as argument")
+    else:
+        process(sys.argv[1])
diff --git a/ee/api/entrypoint.sh b/ee/api/entrypoint.sh
index d8ca9fa4f..60396491c 100755
--- a/ee/api/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/ee/api/entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 bash env_vars.sh
+source .env.override
 cd sourcemap-reader
 nohup npm start &> /tmp/sourcemap-reader.log &
 cd ..
diff --git a/ee/api/entrypoint_alerts.sh b/ee/api/entrypoint_alerts.sh
index 3165a88c7..9d6c95358 100755
--- a/ee/api/entrypoint_alerts.sh
+++ b/ee/api/entrypoint_alerts.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 bash env_vars.sh
+source .env.override
 uvicorn app:app --host 0.0.0.0 --reload
diff --git a/ee/api/entrypoint_crons.sh b/ee/api/entrypoint_crons.sh
index cf2c18394..1817e547e 100755
--- a/ee/api/entrypoint_crons.sh
+++ b/ee/api/entrypoint_crons.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 bash env_vars.sh
+source .env.override
 uvicorn app:app --host 0.0.0.0 --reload --proxy-headers
diff --git a/ee/api/env_vars.sh b/ee/api/env_vars.sh
index 4375c3d89..5892bd10c 100755
--- a/ee/api/env_vars.sh
+++ b/ee/api/env_vars.sh
@@ -6,23 +6,8 @@ else
   override=$ENV_CONFIG_OVERRIDE_PATH
   if [ -f "$override" ]; then
     cp $override .env.override
-    override=.env.override
-    # to remove endOfLine form sed result
-    echo "" >> $override
-    sed 's/=.*//;/^$/d' $override > .replacements
-
-    # to remove all defined os-env-vars
-    cat .replacements | while read line
-    do
-       unset $line
-    done
-    rm .replacements
-
-    # to merge predefined .env with the override.env
-    cp .env .env.d
-    sort -u -t '=' -k 1,1 $override .env.d > .env
-    rm .env.d
   else
+    touch .env.override
     echo "$override does not exist."
   fi