diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e079632..5674094 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
     <url>https://github.com/apache/accumulo-proxy/actions</url>
   </ciManagement>
   <properties>
-    <accumulo.version>2.1.3</accumulo.version>
+    <accumulo.version>2.1.4</accumulo.version>
     <eclipseFormatterStyle>contrib/Eclipse-Accumulo-Codestyle.xml</eclipseFormatterStyle>
     <!-- extra release args for testing -->
     <extraReleaseArguments />
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
     <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
     <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
     <maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>true</maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>
-    <slf4j.version>2.0.12</slf4j.version>
+    <slf4j.version>2.0.17</slf4j.version>
     <sourceReleaseAssemblyDescriptor>source-release-tar</sourceReleaseAssemblyDescriptor>
     <spotbugs.excludeFilterFile>src/main/spotbugs/exclude-filter.xml</spotbugs.excludeFilterFile>
     <thrift.version>0.17.0</thrift.version>
@@ -108,14 +108,14 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
         <artifactId>micrometer-bom</artifactId>
-        <version>1.12.2</version>
+        <version>1.14.5</version>
         <type>pom</type>
         <scope>import</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>log4j-bom</artifactId>
-        <version>2.23.1</version>
+        <version>2.24.3</version>
         <type>pom</type>
         <scope>import</scope>
       </dependency>
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
       <artifactId>spotbugs-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>4.8.3</version>
+      <version>4.9.3</version>
       <optional>true</optional>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
       <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
-      <version>32.0.0-jre</version>
+      <version>33.4.6-jre</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
@@ -222,13 +222,13 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
       <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
-      <version>5.1.0</version>
+      <version>5.5.0</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
-      <version>5.10.1</version>
+      <version>5.12.1</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/Proxy.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/Proxy.java
index 631320c..ae2df7b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/Proxy.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/Proxy.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.Collection;
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.cli.Help;
@@ -61,7 +60,6 @@
 import com.google.auto.service.AutoService;
 
 import edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.SuppressFBWarnings;
-import io.micrometer.core.instrument.MeterRegistry;
 import io.micrometer.core.instrument.Tag;
 
 @AutoService(KeywordExecutable.class)
@@ -267,8 +265,8 @@ public static ServerAddress createProxyServer(HostAndPort address,
         serverSocketTimeout, address);
   }
 
-  // TODO: This MetricsInfo is a stub Metrics Info to allow the timed processor to build. If Metrics
-  // are wanted or needed in a later version of the proxy, this can be updated.
+  // This MetricsInfo is a stub MetricsInfo to allow the timed processor to build.
+  // Issue #85 in the GitHub regards updating this with a proper implementation.
   static private class ProxyMetricsInfo implements MetricsInfo {
 
     @Override
@@ -276,44 +274,19 @@ public boolean isMetricsEnabled() {
       return false;
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public void addServiceTags(String applicationName, HostAndPort hostAndPort) {
-      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unimplemented method 'addServiceTags'");
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void addCommonTags(List<Tag> updates) {
-      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unimplemented method 'addCommonTags'");
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public Collection<Tag> getCommonTags() {
-      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unimplemented method 'getCommonTags'");
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void addRegistry(MeterRegistry registry) {
-      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unimplemented method 'addRegistry'");
-    }
-
     @Override
     public void addMetricsProducers(MetricsProducer... producer) {
       return;
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void init() {
-      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unimplemented method 'init'");
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public MeterRegistry getRegistry() {
-      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unimplemented method 'getRegistry'");
+    public void close() {
+      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unimplemented method 'close'");
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void close() {
-      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unimplemented method 'close'");
+    public void init(Collection<Tag> commonTags) {
+      throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unimplemented method 'init'");
     }
 
   }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/TServerUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/TServerUtils.java
index 6c4af19..fe24f5d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/TServerUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/proxy/TServerUtils.java
@@ -505,11 +505,11 @@ public static ServerAddress startTServer(ThriftServerType serverType, TimedProce
 
     final TServer finalServer = serverAddress.server;
 
-    Threads.createThread(threadName, () -> {
+    Threads.createNonCriticalThread(threadName, () -> {
       try {
         finalServer.serve();
       } catch (Error e) {
-        Halt.halt("Unexpected error in TThreadPoolServer " + e + ", halting.", 1);
+        Halt.halt(1, "Unexpected error in TThreadPoolServer " + e + ", halting.");
       }
     }).start();