diff --git a/.github/actions/sandbox/.gitignore b/.github/actions/sandbox/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..17372bd8ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actions/sandbox/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+devnet
diff --git a/.github/actions/sandbox/action.yaml b/.github/actions/sandbox/action.yaml
index eb30281884..5ed70b301d 100644
--- a/.github/actions/sandbox/action.yaml
+++ b/.github/actions/sandbox/action.yaml
@@ -1,13 +1,40 @@
 name: 'Start Kadena sandbox'
+description: 'Start a Kadena Devnet environment using docker-compose with indexer components'
 runs:
   using: 'composite'
   steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4  # Use the latest version
+      with:
+        repository: 'kadena-io/devnet'
+        path: 'devnet'
+        ref: 'ag/kadena-js-devnet'
+
     - name: Start sandbox
       shell: bash
-      run: docker compose up -d
-      working-directory: .github/actions/sandbox
+      working-directory: ./devnet
+      # git clone --depth=1 -b ag/kadena-js-devnet git@github.com:kadena-io/devnet.git
+      run: docker compose -f docker-compose.kadenajs.yaml up -d --quiet-pull
+
+      # TODO: add health check, this one's for kadena/devnet not for hackachain indexer
+    # - name: Check sandbox health
+    #   shell: bash
+    #   run: ./healthcheck.sh
 
-    - name: Check sandbox health
+    - name: Collect docker logs on failure
+      if: failure()
+      uses: jwalton/gh-docker-logs@v2
+      with:
+        dest: './logs'
+
+    - name: Tar logs
+      if: failure()
       shell: bash
-      run: ./healthcheck.sh
-      working-directory: .github/actions/sandbox
+      run: tar cvzf ./logs.tgz ./logs
+
+    - name: Upload logs to GitHub
+      if: failure()
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+      with:
+        name: docker_logs.tgz
+        path: ./logs.tgz
diff --git a/.github/actions/sandbox/docker-compose.yaml b/.github/actions/sandbox/docker-compose.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 98de096877..0000000000
--- a/.github/actions/sandbox/docker-compose.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-version: '3'
-services:
-  devnet:
-    image: kadena/devnet:latest
-    ports:
-      - 1848:1848 # Node Service Port
-      - 1789:1789 # Chainweb node’s p2p API port
-      - 1790:1790 # On-Demand Mining API
-      - 5432:5432 # Postgres
-      - 8080:8080 # HTTP
-      - 9999:9999 # Info
-    environment:
-      - MINING_BATCH_PERIOD=0.05
-      - MINING_IDLE_PERIOD=2
-      - MINING_CONFIRMATION_PERIOD=1
-    volumes:
-      - ../../../packages/apps/graph/cwd-extra-migrations:/cwd-extra-migrations:ro
-      - sandbox:/data
-volumes:
-  sandbox:
diff --git a/.github/actions/sandbox/healthcheck.sh b/.github/actions/sandbox/healthcheck.sh
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 7d50b0e91b..da49216d5c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 2
           show-progress: false
 
+# moved this to the top for testing
+      - name: Setup Kadena sandbox
+        uses: ./.github/actions/sandbox
+# remove to above when done testing
+
       - name: Runner setup
         uses: ./.github/actions/runner-setup
 
diff --git a/.prettierignore b/.prettierignore
index 30260aad7a..074fb1935b 100644
--- a/.prettierignore
+++ b/.prettierignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 .github/actions
 !.changeset
 pnpm-lock.yaml
+devnet