diff --git a/src/api/src/backend/views/ETLPipelines.py b/src/api/src/backend/views/ETLPipelines.py
index fc129ae8..f0fdd119 100644
--- a/src/api/src/backend/views/ETLPipelines.py
+++ b/src/api/src/backend/views/ETLPipelines.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 class ETLPipelines(RestrictedAPIView):
     def post(self, request, group_id, *_, **__):
         """ETL Pipelines"""
+        print("START")
         # Get the group
         group = group_service.get(group_id, request.tenant_id)
         if group == None:
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ def post(self, request, group_id, *_, **__):
         # Check that the user belongs to the group
         if not group_service.user_in_group(request.username, group_id, request.tenant_id):
             return Forbidden(message="You do not have access to this group")
-
+        print("AFTER GROUP CHECK")
         # Git repository that contains the pipeline and task definitions for the
         # tapis etl pipeline
         uses = Uses(
@@ -61,36 +62,37 @@ def post(self, request, group_id, *_, **__):
                 branch=TAPIS_ETL_TEMPLATE_REPO_BRANCH
             )
         )
-
+        print("AFTER USES")
         # Validate the request body based on the type of pipeline specified
         prepared_request = self.prepare(
             TapisETLPipeline,
             uses=uses
         )
-
+        print("AFTER REQUEST PREP")
         # Return the failure view instance if validation failed
         if not prepared_request.is_valid:
             return prepared_request.failure_view
-
+        print("AFTER PREPARED REQUEST CHECK")
         # Get the JSON encoded body from the validation result
         body = prepared_request.body
         
         # Check that the id of the pipeline is unique
         if PipelineModel.objects.filter(id=body.id, group=group).exists():
             return Conflict(f"A Pipeline already exists with the id '{body.id}'")
-        
+        print("AFTER PIPELINE CONFLICT CHECK")
         # Clone the git repository that contains the pipeline and task definitions that will be used
         tapis_owe_templates_dir = "/tmp/git/tapis-owe-templates"
         try:
             Repo.clone(uses.source.url, tapis_owe_templates_dir)
         except Exception as e:
             return ServerErrorResp(f"Error cloning the Tapis OWE Template repository: {str(e)}")
-        
+        print("AFTER GIT CLONE")
         try:
             # Open the owe-config.json file
             with open(os.path.join(tapis_owe_templates_dir, "owe-config.json")) as file:
                 owe_config = json.loads(file.read())
 
+            print("AFTER CONFIG LOAD")
             # Open the etl pipeline schema.json
             with open(
                 os.path.join(
@@ -99,10 +101,10 @@ def post(self, request, group_id, *_, **__):
                 )
             ) as file:
                 pipeline_template = json.loads(file.read())
+            print("AFTER SCHEMA LOAD")
         except Exception as e:
             return UnprocessableEntity(f"Configuration Error (owe-config.json): {str(e)}")
 
-
         # Create the pipeline
         try:
             pipeline = PipelineModel.objects.create(
@@ -177,6 +179,7 @@ def post(self, request, group_id, *_, **__):
             return BadRequest(message=e.__cause__)
         except Exception as e:
             return ServerErrorResp(f"{e}")
+        print("AFTER PIPELINE CREATE")
 
         # Fetch the archives specified in the request then create relations
         # between them and the pipline
@@ -205,7 +208,7 @@ def post(self, request, group_id, *_, **__):
             # Delete the pipeline archive relationships that were just created
             [pipeline_archive.delete() for pipeline_archive in pipeline_archives]
             return BadRequest(message=e.__cause__)
-
+        print("AFTER ARCHIVE CREATE")
         # The first tapis job should be dependent on the gen-inbound-manifests task
         last_task_id = "gen-inbound-manifests"
 
@@ -226,6 +229,7 @@ def post(self, request, group_id, *_, **__):
         # Add the tasks from the template to the tasks list
         tasks.extend([TemplateTask(**task) for task in pipeline_template.tasks])
 
+        print("AFTER TASK REQUEST CREATE")
         # Update the dependecies of the gen-outbound-manifests task to
         # include the last tapis job task
         gen_outbound_manifests_task = next(filter(lambda t: t.id == "gen-outbound-manifests", tasks))
@@ -251,7 +255,7 @@ def post(self, request, group_id, *_, **__):
                 task_service.delete(tasks)
                 pipeline.delete()
                 return ServerErrorResp(message=e)
-
+        print("AFTER TASK CREATE")
         return ResourceURLResponse(
             url=resource_url_builder(request.url, pipeline.id)
         )