diff --git a/ops/nixos/bvm-logger/default.nix b/ops/nixos/bvm-logger/default.nix
index 53efa2be55..5d4f9cf193 100644
--- a/ops/nixos/bvm-logger/default.nix
+++ b/ops/nixos/bvm-logger/default.nix
@@ -34,12 +34,14 @@ in {
   systemd.services.journal2clickhouse = {
     enable = true;
     after = [ "network-online.target" ];
+    wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
     serviceConfig = {
       ExecStart = let
         hosts = lib.concatStringsSep "," (lib.mapAttrsToList (k: v: "${k}=${v.addr}") depot.ops.nixos.scrapeJournalHosts);
       in
         "${depot.go.journal2clickhouse}/bin/journal2clickhouse -clickhouse_addr http://localhost:8123 -hosts '${hosts}'";
       User = "journal2clickhouse";
+      DynamicUser = true;
     };
   };