diff --git a/.sharing.io/init b/.sharing.io/init
index ee3c17a5c..6131c0568 100755
--- a/.sharing.io/init
+++ b/.sharing.io/init
@@ -2,10 +2,18 @@
 
 export SCRIPT_PATH="$(dirname $(realpath $0))"
 
+EXTRA_ENV=""
+
+if [[ -z "${TESTING_ONLY}" ]]; then
+  EXTRA_ENV=""
+else
+  echo "TESTING!!!"
+  EXTRA_ENV="--set extraEnv[0].name=TESTING_ONLY --set extraEnv[0].value=on"
+
 if [ -f /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/namespace ]; then
     echo "install APISnoop into this cluster"
     kubectl get ns apisnoop || kubectl create ns apisnoop
-    helm upgrade --install snoopdb -n apisnoop "$SCRIPT_PATH"/../charts/snoopdb
+    helm upgrade --install $EXTRA_ENV snoopdb -n apisnoop "$SCRIPT_PATH"/../charts/snoopdb
     helm upgrade --install auditlogger -n apisnoop "$SCRIPT_PATH"/../charts/auditlogger
 fi
 go get github.com/vmware-tanzu/sonobuoy@latest
diff --git a/apps/snoopdb/postgres/initdb/301_fn_load_audit_events.sql b/apps/snoopdb/postgres/initdb/301_fn_load_audit_events.sql
index c51e08f78..590df1cc0 100644
--- a/apps/snoopdb/postgres/initdb/301_fn_load_audit_events.sql
+++ b/apps/snoopdb/postgres/initdb/301_fn_load_audit_events.sql
@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ create or replace function load_audit_events(
   from urllib.request import urlopen
   import json
   import yaml
+  import os
   from snoopUtils import determine_bucket_job, download_and_process_auditlogs
 
   GCS_LOGS="https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-jenkins/logs/"
   RELEASES_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cncf/apisnoop/master/resources/coverage/releases.yaml"
 
+  if "TESTING_ONLY" in os.environ:
+    return "TESTING_ONLY is set, no audit events loaded."
+
   releases = yaml.safe_load(urlopen(RELEASES_URL))
   latest_release = releases[0]['version']