diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 0bf02231..18c4b2ec 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -20,13 +20,11 @@ ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED True
 
 COPY --chown=kerrokantasi:kerrokantasi requirements.txt .
 COPY --chown=kerrokantasi:kerrokantasi requirements-prod.txt .
-COPY --chown=kerrokantasi:kerrokantasi deploy/escape_json.c ./deploy/escape_json.c
 
 # less & netcat-openbsd are there for in-container manual debugging
 # kerrokantasi needs gdal
 RUN apt-get update  \
     && apt-get install -y  \
-    build-essential  \
     postgresql-client  \
     less  \
     netcat-openbsd  \
@@ -39,10 +37,7 @@ RUN apt-get update  \
     && locale-gen \
     && pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel \
     && pip install --no-cache-dir -r ./requirements.txt \
-    && pip install --no-cache-dir -r ./requirements-prod.txt \
-    && uwsgi --build-plugin ./deploy/escape_json.c \
-    && mv ./escape_json_plugin.so ./deploy/escape_json_plugin.so \
-    && apt-get remove -y build-essential
+    && pip install --no-cache-dir -r ./requirements-prod.txt
 
 # Sentry CLI for sending events from non-Python processes to Sentry
 # eg. https://docs.sentry.io/cli/send-event/#bash-hook
diff --git a/deploy/escape_json.c b/deploy/escape_json.c
deleted file mode 100644
index f9943c7b..00000000
--- a/deploy/escape_json.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-/*
-  https://github.com/velebit-ai/uwsgi-json-logging-plugin/blob/4edb5cc59013b18f32658195b328afb2ac21b2d2/escape_json.c
-  uWSGI plugin that creates custom json-escaped logging variables.
-  build plugin with `uwsgi --build-plugin <filename.c>`
-  and use it with `uwsgi --plugin <filename_plugin.so> ...`
-*/
-#include <uwsgi.h>
-
-
-static ssize_t uwsgi_lf_json_uri(struct wsgi_request *wsgi_req, char **buf) {
-    long pos = offsetof(struct wsgi_request, uri);
-    long pos_len = offsetof(struct wsgi_request, uri_len);
-    char **var = (char **) (((char *) wsgi_req) + pos);
-    uint16_t *varlen = (uint16_t *) (((char *) wsgi_req) + pos_len);
-
-    char *e_json = uwsgi_malloc((*varlen * 2) + 1);
-    escape_json(*var, *varlen, e_json);
-    *buf = e_json;
-    return strlen(*buf);
-}
-
-static ssize_t uwsgi_lf_json_host(struct wsgi_request *wsgi_req, char **buf) {
-    long pos = offsetof(struct wsgi_request, host);
-    long pos_len = offsetof(struct wsgi_request, host_len);
-    char **var = (char **) (((char *) wsgi_req) + pos);
-    uint16_t *varlen = (uint16_t *) (((char *) wsgi_req) + pos_len);
-
-    char *e_json = uwsgi_malloc((*varlen * 2) + 1);
-    escape_json(*var, *varlen, e_json);
-    *buf = e_json;
-    return strlen(*buf);
-}
-
-static void register_logchunks() {
-        uwsgi_register_logchunk("json_uri", uwsgi_lf_json_uri, 1);
-        uwsgi_register_logchunk("json_host", uwsgi_lf_json_host, 1);
-}
-
-struct uwsgi_plugin escape_json_plugin = {
-        .name = "escape_json",
-        .on_load = register_logchunks,
-};
diff --git a/deploy/uwsgi.yml b/deploy/uwsgi.yml
index 78885b5b..1a1e09fd 100644
--- a/deploy/uwsgi.yml
+++ b/deploy/uwsgi.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 uwsgi:
-  plugin: deploy/escape_json_plugin.so
   # Needed plugins if running against Debian uwsgi-package
   # python docker image cannot use that due to linker mishaps
   # plugins: python3,http
@@ -23,6 +22,6 @@ uwsgi:
   disable-write-exception: true
 
   logger-req: stdio
-  log-format: '"remote_addr": "%(addr)", "x_forwarded_for":"%(var.HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR)", "request_id":"%(var.HTTP_X_REQUEST_ID)", "remote_user":"%(user)", "bytes_sent":%(size), "request_time":%(secs), "status":%(status), "host":"%(json_host)", "request_proto":"%(proto)", "path":"%(json_uri)", "request_length":%(cl), "http_referer":"%(referer)", "http_user_agent":"%(uagent)"'
+  log-format: '"remote_addr": "%(addr)", "x_forwarded_for":"%(var.HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR)", "request_id":"%(var.HTTP_X_REQUEST_ID)", "remote_user":"%(user)", "bytes_sent":%(size), "request_time":%(secs), "status":%(status), "host":"%(host)", "request_proto":"%(proto)", "path":"%(uri)", "request_length":%(cl), "http_referer":"%(referer)", "http_user_agent":"%(uagent)"'
   log-req-encoder: format {"time":"${strftime:%%Y:%%m:%%d %%H:%%M:%%S}", "source":"uwsgi-req", ${msg}}
   log-req-encoder: nl