diff --git a/microservices/gatewayApi/v1/routes/gateway.py b/microservices/gatewayApi/v1/routes/gateway.py
index 9681b5c..0751e9a 100644
--- a/microservices/gatewayApi/v1/routes/gateway.py
+++ b/microservices/gatewayApi/v1/routes/gateway.py
@@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ def write_config(namespace: str) -> object:
                     }
                 }
                 dp = get_data_plane(ns_attributes)
+                log.debug("[%s] - Initiating request to kube API %s" % (dp, route_payload))
                 rqst_url = app.config['data_planes'][dp]["kube-api"]
-                log.debug("[%s] - Initiating request to kube API" % (dp))
                 res = session.put(rqst_url + "/namespaces/%s/routes" % namespace, json=route_payload, auth=(
                     app.config['kubeApiCreds']['kubeApiUser'], app.config['kubeApiCreds']['kubeApiPass']))
                 log.debug("[%s] - The kube API responded with %s" % (dp, res.status_code))
diff --git a/microservices/gatewayApi/v2/routes/gateway.py b/microservices/gatewayApi/v2/routes/gateway.py
index af41e28..7401867 100644
--- a/microservices/gatewayApi/v2/routes/gateway.py
+++ b/microservices/gatewayApi/v2/routes/gateway.py
@@ -344,7 +344,6 @@ def write_config(namespace: str) -> object:
                 }
                 log.debug("[%s] - Initiating request to kube API %s" % (dp, route_payload))
                 rqst_url = app.config['data_planes'][dp]["kube-api"]
-                log.debug("[%s] - Initiating request to kube API" % (dp))
                 res = session.put(rqst_url + "/namespaces/%s/routes" % namespace, json=route_payload, auth=(
                     app.config['kubeApiCreds']['kubeApiUser'], app.config['kubeApiCreds']['kubeApiPass']))
                 log.debug("[%s] - The kube API responded with %s" % (dp, res.status_code))