diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c25abc1..feeac7b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ You will need the following build tooling installed.
 - [AWS SAM](https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/sam/), used to build and deploy most of the application
 - The [AWS CLI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html)
 - esbuild
+- SLIC Watch: By default, the target AWS account should have the [SLIC Watch](https://github.com/fourTheorem/slic-watch) SAR Application installed. It can be installed by going to _[this page](https://serverlessrepo.aws.amazon.com/applications/eu-west-1/949339270388/slic-watch-app) in the AWS Console. SLIC Watch is used to create alarms and dashboards for our transcription application. If you want to skip this option, just remove the single line referring to the `SlicWatch-v2` macro from the relevant template, [transcript-orchestration/template.yaml](https://github.com/fourTheorem/podwhisperer/blob/cc73c5d4d52dc01f2249a032a9e2186012e24201/transcript-orchestration/template.yaml#L4).
 
-By default, the target AWS account should have the [SLIC Watch](https://github.com/fourTheorem/slic-watch) SAR Application installed. It can be installed by going to _[this page](https://serverlessrepo.aws.amazon.com/applications/eu-west-1/949339270388/slic-watch-app) in the AWS Console. SLIC Watch is used to create alarms and dashboards for our transcription application. If you want to skip this option, just remove the single line referring to the `SlicWatch-v2` macro from the relevant template, [transcript-orchestration/template.yaml](https://github.com/fourTheorem/podwhisperer/blob/cc73c5d4d52dc01f2249a032a9e2186012e24201/transcript-orchestration/template.yaml#L4).
 
 ## Getting Started
 
diff --git a/transcript-orchestration/template.yaml b/transcript-orchestration/template.yaml
index 438aaea..425e054 100644
--- a/transcript-orchestration/template.yaml
+++ b/transcript-orchestration/template.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
 Transform:
   - AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
-  - SlicWatch-v2
+  - SlicWatch-v3
 Description: |
   transcript-orchestration
   Orchestration of Whisper and Polly transcripts
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ Resources:
   TranscriptionStateMachine:
     Type: AWS::Serverless::StateMachine
     Properties:
+      Tracing:
+        Enabled: true
       DefinitionUri: statemachine/transcription-step-function.asl.json
       DefinitionSubstitutions:
         ManifestCreatorFunctionArn: !GetAtt ManifestCreatorFunction.Arn
@@ -111,7 +113,7 @@ Resources:
     Properties:
       CodeUri: .
       Handler: app.handleEvent
-      Runtime: nodejs16.x
+      Runtime: nodejs18.x
       Timeout: 900
       Environment:
         Variables:
@@ -131,7 +133,7 @@ Resources:
     Properties:
       CodeUri: .
       Handler: app.handleEvent
-      Runtime: nodejs16.x
+      Runtime: nodejs18.x
       Timeout: 900
       Environment:
         Variables:
@@ -162,7 +164,7 @@ Resources:
       Layers:
         - !GetAtt FfmpegLambdaLayer.Outputs.LayerVersion
       Handler: app.handleEvent
-      Runtime: nodejs16.x
+      Runtime: nodejs18.x
       MemorySize: 2048
       Timeout: 600
       Environment:
@@ -187,7 +189,7 @@ Resources:
     Properties:
       CodeUri: .
       Handler: manifest-creator.handleEvent
-      Runtime: nodejs16.x
+      Runtime: nodejs18.x
       Timeout: 60
       Environment:
         Variables: