Follow-up from "Adds Kubernetes Pod Logs to GitLab"

The following discussion from !5654 (merged) should be addressed:

@reprazent started a discussion: (+1 comment)

I really hope we don't need to merge this without the aforementioned PR merged.

But if we do, could you move this monkeypatch into an initializer, and add a comment linking the github PR and a GitLab issue ~"technical debt" issue? 😁