diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 385de894f..0db053dea 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3012,9 +3012,9 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.25.0"
+version = "1.26.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c8e00990ebabbe4c14c08aca901caed183ecd5c09562a12c824bb53d3c3fd3af"
+checksum = "03201d01c3c27a29c8a5cee5b55a93ddae1ccf6f08f65365c2c918f8c1b76f64"
 dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
  "bytes",
@@ -3027,7 +3027,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "signal-hook-registry",
  "socket2",
  "tokio-macros",
- "windows-sys 0.42.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/core/Cargo.toml b/core/Cargo.toml
index 62ed5d08a..affa8f883 100644
--- a/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ types = { package = "monitor_types", path = "../lib/types" }
 db = { package = "db_client", path = "../lib/db_client" }
 periphery = { package = "periphery_client", path = "../lib/periphery_client" }
 axum_oauth2 = { path = "../lib/axum_oauth2" }
-tokio = { version = "1.25", features = ["full"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.26", features = ["full"] }
 tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.18", features=["native-tls"] }
 tokio-util = "0.7"
 axum = { version = "0.6", features = ["ws", "json"] }
diff --git a/core/src/main.rs b/core/src/main.rs
index 7cad6d0e1..f10663fef 100644
--- a/core/src/main.rs
+++ b/core/src/main.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ mod ws;
 type ResponseResult<T> = Result<T, (StatusCode, String)>;
 
 #[tokio::main]
-async fn main() {
+async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let (config, spa_router) = config::load();
 
     println!("starting monitor core on port {}...", config.port);
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ async fn main() {
 
     axum::Server::bind(&get_socket_addr(config.port))
         .serve(app.into_make_service())
-        .await
-        .expect("monitor core axum server crashed");
+        .await?;
+
+    Ok(())
 }