diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 41e2674..c50c0d3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ hyper = "0.10"
 termion = "1.4.0"
 # pub-sub = "2.0"
 slog = "2.0.6"
-sloggers = "0.2"
+# sloggers = "0.2"
 slog-term = "2"
 # chashmap = "2"
 ordermap = "0.3"
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ uuid = { version = "0.5", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
 hdrhistogram = "6"
 slog-async = "2"
 
+sloggers = { path = "../sloggers" }
+
 decimal = { path = "../decimal", version = "2" }
 
 windows = { path = "../windows", version = "0.1" }
@@ -35,3 +37,4 @@ localhost = []
 harrison = []
 washington = []
 scholes = []
+no-influx-buffer = []
diff --git a/src/influx.rs b/src/influx.rs
index 7118a6a..f1062f9 100644
--- a/src/influx.rs
+++ b/src/influx.rs
@@ -234,7 +234,10 @@ impl InfluxWriter {
     pub fn new(host: &'static str, db: &'static str, log_path: &str, buffer_size: u16) -> Self {
         let (tx, rx): (Sender<Option<OwnedMeasurement>>, Receiver<Option<OwnedMeasurement>>) = channel();
         let logger = file_logger(log_path, LOG_LEVEL); // this needs to be outside the thread
-        let buffer_size = if cfg!(feature = "trace") { 0u16 } else { buffer_size };
+
+        #[cfg(feature = "no-influx-buffer")]
+        let buffer_size = 0u16;
+
         let thread = thread::Builder::new().name(format!("mm:inflx:{}", db)).spawn(move || {
             debug!(logger, "initializing url";
                   "DB_HOST" => host, 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index c5ba48e..a315e9b 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -62,12 +62,22 @@ pub fn file_logger(path: &str, level: Severity) -> slog::Logger {
     builder.build().unwrap()
 }
 
+pub fn truncating_file_logger(path: &str, level: Severity) -> slog::Logger {
+    let mut builder = FileLoggerBuilder::new(path);
+    builder.level(level);
+    builder.timezone(TimeZone::Utc);
+    builder.truncate();
+    builder.build().unwrap()
+}
+
 // #[cfg(any(test, feature = "test"))]
 // pub fn file_logger(_: &str, _: Severity) -> slog::Logger {
 //     use slog::*;
 //     Logger::root(Discard, o!())
 // }
 
+#[deprecated(since="0.4.0", note="Turns out the file logger in sloggers uses async, \
+                                  making the async here duplicative")]
 pub fn async_file_logger(path: &str, level: Severity) -> slog::Logger {
     let drain = file_logger(path, level);
     let async_drain =