diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/com/amazon/opendistroforelasticsearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/com/amazon/opendistroforelasticsearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt
index bf9c7017..67c19dff 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/com/amazon/opendistroforelasticsearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/com/amazon/opendistroforelasticsearch/alerting/MonitorRunner.kt
@@ -55,14 +55,13 @@ import com.amazon.opendistroforelasticsearch.alerting.settings.DestinationSettin
 import com.amazon.opendistroforelasticsearch.alerting.settings.DestinationSettings.Companion.loadDestinationSettings
 import com.amazon.opendistroforelasticsearch.alerting.util.IndexUtils
 import com.amazon.opendistroforelasticsearch.alerting.util.isAllowed
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager
 import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Job
 import kotlinx.coroutines.SupervisorJob
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
-import kotlinx.coroutines.runBlocking
 import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager
 import org.elasticsearch.ExceptionsHelper
 import org.elasticsearch.action.DocWriteRequest
 import org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BackoffPolicy
@@ -224,7 +223,7 @@ class MonitorRunner(
             logger.error("Error loading alerts for monitor: $id", e)
             return monitorResult.copy(error = e)
         }
-        runBlocking(InjectorContextElement(monitor.id, settings, threadPool.threadContext, roles)) {
+        withContext(InjectorContextElement(monitor.id, settings, threadPool.threadContext, roles)) {
             monitorResult = monitorResult.copy(inputResults = collectInputResults(monitor, periodStart, periodEnd))
         }
         val updatedAlerts = mutableListOf<Alert>()
diff --git a/core/build.gradle b/core/build.gradle
index e6867baf..bea25432 100644
--- a/core/build.gradle
+++ b/core/build.gradle
@@ -25,12 +25,9 @@ dependencies {
     compile "com.cronutils:cron-utils:7.0.5"
     compile "org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client:${es_version}"
     compile 'com.google.googlejavaformat:google-java-format:1.3'
+    compile "com.amazon.opendistroforelasticsearch:common-utils:${opendistroVersion}.0"
 
     testImplementation "org.elasticsearch.test:framework:${es_version}"
     testImplementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test:${kotlin_version}"
     testImplementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test-junit:${kotlin_version}"
-
-
-    //fixme: pick it from maven, pending on https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/common-utils/pull/3
-    compile files('libs/common-utils-1.10.1.0.jar')
 }
diff --git a/core/libs/common-utils-1.10.1.0.jar b/core/libs/common-utils-1.10.1.0.jar
deleted file mode 100644
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