diff --git a/bottlecap/Cargo.lock b/bottlecap/Cargo.lock
index 41a6272da..bb6f5d25d 100644
--- a/bottlecap/Cargo.lock
+++ b/bottlecap/Cargo.lock
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
  "tonic-types",
- "tower 0.5.3",
+ "tower",
  "tower-http",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-core",
diff --git a/bottlecap/src/lifecycle/invocation/processor.rs b/bottlecap/src/lifecycle/invocation/processor.rs
index ccb9f497e..e369e5238 100644
--- a/bottlecap/src/lifecycle/invocation/processor.rs
+++ b/bottlecap/src/lifecycle/invocation/processor.rs
@@ -285,7 +285,10 @@ impl Processor {
     /// This is used to create a cold start span, since this telemetry event does not
     /// provide a `request_id`, we try to guess which invocation is the cold start.
     pub fn on_platform_init_start(&mut self, time: DateTime<Utc>, runtime_version: Option<String>) {
-        if runtime_version.as_deref().map_or(false, |rv| rv.contains("DurableFunction")) {
+        if runtime_version
+            .as_deref()
+            .is_some_and(|rv| rv.contains("DurableFunction"))
+        {
             self.enhanced_metrics.set_durable_function_tag();
         }
         let start_time: i64 = SystemTime::from(time)
diff --git a/bottlecap/src/logger.rs b/bottlecap/src/logger.rs
index 56079b90b..b9a828fc7 100644
--- a/bottlecap/src/logger.rs
+++ b/bottlecap/src/logger.rs
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ where
 
         let message = format!("DD_EXTENSION | {level} | {span_prefix}{}", visitor.0);
 
-        write!(writer, "{{\"level\":\"{level}\",\"message\":\"")?;
+        // Setting specifically `status` as opposed to `level` since AWS
+        // filters out logs by the `level` field. This allows our logs to
+        // appear in CWL regardless of the log level.
+        write!(writer, "{{\"status\":\"{level}\",\"message\":\"")?;
         write_json_escaped(&mut writer, &message)?;
         writeln!(writer, "\"}}")
     }
@@ -187,7 +190,7 @@ mod tests {
         let parsed: serde_json::Value =
             serde_json::from_str(output.trim()).expect("output should be valid JSON");
 
-        assert_eq!(parsed["level"], "INFO");
+        assert_eq!(parsed["status"], "INFO");
         assert!(
             parsed["message"]
                 .as_str()
@@ -204,7 +207,7 @@ mod tests {
 
         let parsed: serde_json::Value =
             serde_json::from_str(output.trim()).expect("output should be valid JSON");
-        assert_eq!(parsed["level"], "ERROR");
+        assert_eq!(parsed["status"], "ERROR");
         assert!(
             parsed["message"]
                 .as_str()
@@ -221,7 +224,7 @@ mod tests {
 
         let parsed: serde_json::Value =
             serde_json::from_str(output.trim()).expect("output should be valid JSON");
-        assert_eq!(parsed["level"], "DEBUG");
+        assert_eq!(parsed["status"], "DEBUG");
         assert!(
             parsed["message"]
                 .as_str()