diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index fe3ecb7..cbfc180 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ History
 =======
 
 
+v0.9.0 (2020-11-17)
+-----------------------
+
+* Set logger.propogate to False after adding handler.
+* Remove use_ddtrace logic from DatadogLogger.
+
+
 v0.8.5 (2020-11-11)
 -----------------------
 
diff --git a/aioradio/logger.py b/aioradio/logger.py
index 9547b82..098b06f 100644
--- a/aioradio/logger.py
+++ b/aioradio/logger.py
@@ -2,16 +2,12 @@
 for cleaner datadog logging.'''
 
 # pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
-# pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
-# pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes
 
 import logging
-import os
 import sys
 from datetime import datetime
 from typing import List
 
-from ddtrace import tracer
 from pythonjsonlogger import jsonlogger
 
 
@@ -45,8 +41,7 @@ def __init__(
             main_logger='',
             datadog_loggers=List[str],
             log_level=logging.INFO,
-            log_format="%(timestamp)d %(level)d %(name)d %(message)d",
-            use_ddtrace=True
+            log_format="%(timestamp)d %(level)d %(name)d %(message)d"
     ):
 
         self.logger = logging.getLogger(main_logger)
@@ -54,13 +49,6 @@ def __init__(
         self.log_level = log_level
         self.datadog_loggers = set(datadog_loggers) if datadog_loggers else []
         self.format = log_format
-
-        if use_ddtrace:
-            tracer.configure(
-                hostname=os.getenv('DD_AGENT_HOST', ''),
-                port=os.getenv('DD_TRACE_AGENT_PORT', '')
-            )
-
         self.add_handlers()
 
     def add_handlers(self):
@@ -73,3 +61,4 @@ def add_handlers(self):
             handler.setLevel(self.log_level)
             handler.setFormatter(formatter)
             logger.addHandler(handler)
+            logger.propagate = False
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index aa746f8..6b99eab 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     long_description = fileobj.read()
 
 setup(name='aioradio',
-    version='0.8.5',
+    version='0.9.0',
     description='Generic asynchronous i/o python utilities for AWS services (SQS, S3, DynamoDB, Secrets Manager), Redis, MSSQL (pyodbc), JIRA and more',
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",