diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 14a5998..da245e6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ __pycache__/
 *.pyc
 .venv
 .env
+env/
 *.py[cod]
 *$py.class
 my_config.local.cfg
@@ -11,3 +12,12 @@ config.copilot.cfg
 _df_average_active_users.csv
 _df_daily_active_users.csv
 _df_seats.csv
+notebooks/.ipynb_checkpoints/
+notebooks/copilot_metrics_active_users.csv
+notebooks/copilot_metrics_average_active_users.csv
+notebooks/copilot_metrics_billing_global.csv
+notebooks/copilot_metrics_chat_global.csv
+notebooks/copilot_metrics_chat_team.csv
+notebooks/copilot_metrics_completion_global.csv
+notebooks/copilot_metrics_completion_team.csv
+_submodules/splunk
diff --git a/notebooks/debug_copilot_usage.ipynb b/notebooks/debug_copilot_usage.ipynb
index 2230315..bab465f 100644
--- a/notebooks/debug_copilot_usage.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/debug_copilot_usage.ipynb
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
     "# Create a DataFrame from the global metrics data and normalize nested JSON\n",
     "import pandas as pd\n",
     "import json\n",
-    "from pandas.io.json import json_normalize\n",
+    "from pandas import json_normalize\n",
     "\n",
     "# First flatten the nested copilot_ide_chat structure\n",
     "flattened_metrics = []\n",
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.13.0"
+   "version": "3.11.9"
   }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
diff --git a/requirements/dev_requirements.txt b/requirements/dev_requirements.txt
index d5a5e7f..2f629de 100644
--- a/requirements/dev_requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev_requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,6 @@ pandas == 2.2.3
 sqlalchemy == 1.4.42
 pymysql == 1.0.3
 coverage 
-pytest
\ No newline at end of file
+pytest
+matplotlib>=3.7.1
+seaborn>=0.12.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/extractor/github_exporter.py b/src/extractor/github_exporter.py
index 2160e6a..b06597d 100644
--- a/src/extractor/github_exporter.py
+++ b/src/extractor/github_exporter.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def initialize_data(self, config):
         self.github_org = config["GITHUB"]["github_org"]
         self.github_repo_list = config["GITHUB"]["github_repo_list"].split(",")
         self.github_token = config["GITHUB"]["github_token"]
-        # self.certificate_path = config["COMMON"]["certificat_path"]
+        self.certificate_path = config["COMMON"]["certificate_path"]
         with open("src/extractor/github_mappings.json") as json_file:
             self.mappings = json.load(json_file)
         self.commits = dict()
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def execute_paginated_request(
                 # r = session.get(
                 #     url, params=parameters, verify=self.certificate_path
                 # )
-                r = session.get(url, params=parameters, verify=False)
+                r = session.get(url, params=parameters, verify=self.certificate_path)
             json_response = r.json()
             results.extend(json_response)
             if (
diff --git a/src/extractor/gitlab_exporter.py b/src/extractor/gitlab_exporter.py
index e373bcb..41f0862 100644
--- a/src/extractor/gitlab_exporter.py
+++ b/src/extractor/gitlab_exporter.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def execute_paginated_request(self, endpoint, parameters={}):
         results = []
         while another_page:
             with self.create_session() as session:
-                r = session.get(url, params=parameters, verify=False)
+                r = session.get(url, params=parameters)
             json_response = r.json()
             if not isinstance(json_response, list):
                 json_response = [json_response]