diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/java/java-concurrent/java-concurrent-1.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/java/concurrent/WrapRunnableAsNewTaskInstrumentation.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/java/java-concurrent/java-concurrent-1.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/java/concurrent/WrapRunnableAsNewTaskInstrumentation.java
index f4690009d1d..41303a9f006 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/java/java-concurrent/java-concurrent-1.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/java/concurrent/WrapRunnableAsNewTaskInstrumentation.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/java/java-concurrent/java-concurrent-1.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/java/concurrent/WrapRunnableAsNewTaskInstrumentation.java
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import com.google.auto.service.AutoService;
 import datadog.trace.agent.tooling.Instrumenter;
 import datadog.trace.agent.tooling.InstrumenterModule;
+import datadog.trace.bootstrap.CallDepthThreadLocalMap;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.java.concurrent.NewTaskForPlaceholder;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.java.concurrent.Wrapper;
 import java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService;
@@ -97,7 +98,16 @@ public static void cancel(
         @Advice.Thrown Throwable error) {
       // don't cancel unless we did the wrapping
       if (wrapped && null != error && task instanceof RunnableFuture) {
-        ((RunnableFuture) task).cancel(true);
+        // Guard against recursive cancel calls which can cause StackOverflowError
+        // when executor.execute() fails during shutdown and triggers promise notifications
+        int callDepth = CallDepthThreadLocalMap.incrementCallDepth(RunnableFuture.class);
+        try {
+          if (callDepth == 0) {
+            ((RunnableFuture) task).cancel(true);
+          }
+        } finally {
+          CallDepthThreadLocalMap.decrementCallDepth(RunnableFuture.class);
+        }
       }
     }
   }
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/vertx/vertx-web/vertx-web-3.4/build.gradle b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/vertx/vertx-web/vertx-web-3.4/build.gradle
index 823193ea978..56311523214 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/vertx/vertx-web/vertx-web-3.4/build.gradle
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/vertx/vertx-web/vertx-web-3.4/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 apply from: "$rootDir/gradle/java.gradle"
-// Use slf4j-simple as default; logback has a high chance of getting stuck in a deadlock on CI.
-apply from: "$rootDir/gradle/slf4j-simple.gradle"
 
 testJvmConstraints {
   // TODO Java 17: This version of vertx-web doesn't support Java 17