diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index d166fb1f5d..7fde44e68c 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -24,23 +24,11 @@ apt-run: &apt-install
   command: |
     sudo apt update -qq
     sudo apt install -y python-dev python3-dev jq -qq
-    # install go for other testing tools
-    # but first lets clean up the env
-    if  [ -f goinstall.sh ]; then
-        rm goinstall.sh
-    fi
-    if [ -d ~/.go ]; then
-        rm -rf ~/.go
-    fi
-    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/canha/golang-tools-install-script/master/goinstall.sh
-    sudo chown circleci goinstall.sh
-    chmod +x goinstall.sh
-    ./goinstall.sh
 
 executors:
   content-executor:
     docker:
-      - image: circleci/python:latest
+      - image: cimg/python:3.9.5-browsers
     working_directory: ~/repo
 
 jobs:
@@ -193,8 +181,6 @@ jobs:
           name: install splunk packaging toolkit (slim)
           command: |
               cd ~/slim-latest
-              sudo pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-              sudo pip install virtualenv
               virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python2.7 --clear venv
               source venv/bin/activate
               pip install semantic_version
diff --git a/bin/doc_gen.py b/bin/doc_gen.py
index 774fc30d92..a290184409 100644
--- a/bin/doc_gen.py
+++ b/bin/doc_gen.py
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ def generate_doc_stories(REPO_PATH, OUTPUT_DIR, TEMPLATE_PATH, attack, sorted_de
     manifest_files = []
     for root, dirs, files in walk(REPO_PATH + '/stories'):
         for file in files:
-            print(root)
             if file.endswith(".yml") and root == './stories':
                 manifest_files.append((path.join(root, file)))
 
diff --git a/bin/reporting.py b/bin/reporting.py
index 371785f7c0..189f932470 100644
--- a/bin/reporting.py
+++ b/bin/reporting.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ def load_file(file_path):
 
 
 def main(args):
+    print("generated reporting information for our detections")
 
     # process all detections
     REPO_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '../')
@@ -42,13 +43,14 @@ def main(args):
 
     detections_all = detections.copy()
 
-    #lets exclude all deprecated detections from our reporting
+    #lets exclude all deprecated detections from our reporting and experimental
     # detections_all.extend(load_objects("detections/deprecated/*.yml", REPO_PATH))
-    
-    detections_all.extend(load_objects("detections/experimental/*/*.yml", REPO_PATH))
+    # detections_all.extend(load_objects("detections/experimental/*/*.yml", REPO_PATH))
     count_detections_all = len(detections_all)
+    print("detection count: {}".format(count_detections_all))
 
     tests = load_objects("tests/*/*.yml", REPO_PATH)
+    print("test count: {}".format(len(tests)))
 
     counter_tests=0
     counter_detection=0
@@ -59,8 +61,9 @@ def main(args):
     for test in tests:
         counter_tests=counter_tests+1
 
+    detection_coverage = "{:.0%}".format(counter_detection/counter_tests)
 
-    detection_coverage = "{:.0%}".format(counter_tests/counter_detection)
+    print("detection_coverage {}".format(detection_coverage))
 
     TEMPLATE_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'jinja2_templates')
     OUTPUT_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'reporting')
@@ -70,12 +73,14 @@ def main(args):
     output = template.render(detection_coverage=detection_coverage)
     with open(output_path, 'w', encoding="utf-8") as f:
         f.write(output)
+    print("writting detection coverage report: {}".format(output_path))
 
     template = j2_env.get_template('detection_count.j2')
     output_path = path.join(OUTPUT_PATH, 'detection_count.svg')
     output = template.render(detection_count=count_detections_all)
     with open(output_path, 'w', encoding="utf-8") as f:
         f.write(output)
+    print("writting detection count report: {}".format(output_path))
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/bin/reporting/detection_count.svg b/bin/reporting/detection_count.svg
index b8211b491e..34dd27b7c5 100644
--- a/bin/reporting/detection_count.svg
+++ b/bin/reporting/detection_count.svg
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@
 <rect rx="3" width="105" height="20" fill="url(#a)"/>
 <g fill="#fff" text-anchor="middle" font-family="DejaVu Sans,Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif" font-size="11">
     <text x="30" y="14">detections</text>
-    <text x="83" y="14">440</text>
+    <text x="83" y="14">368</text>
 </g>
 </svg>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bin/reporting/detection_coverage.svg b/bin/reporting/detection_coverage.svg
index ed37733b35..c516490f8f 100644
--- a/bin/reporting/detection_coverage.svg
+++ b/bin/reporting/detection_coverage.svg
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@
 <rect rx="3" width="100" height="20" fill="url(#a)"/>
 <g fill="#fff" text-anchor="middle" font-family="DejaVu Sans,Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif" font-size="11">
     <text x="30" y="14">coverage</text>
-    <text x="80" y="14">100%</text>
+    <text x="80" y="14">99%</text>
 </g>
 </svg>
\ No newline at end of file