diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a970716..3ec1c88 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.0.15
+1.0.16-dev
diff --git a/internal/pkg/commands/events.go b/internal/pkg/commands/events.go
index a9d20c8..5aa9751 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/commands/events.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/commands/events.go
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
 	if options.ShowBody {
 		if options.OutputAs == "json" {
 			// need a descriptor source, any method will do
-			descriptor, _, _ := GetMethod("device-list")
+			descriptor, _, err := GetMethod("device-list")
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
diff --git a/internal/pkg/commands/loglevel.go b/internal/pkg/commands/loglevel.go
index 7887622..2bdd5cf 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/commands/loglevel.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/commands/loglevel.go
@@ -221,7 +221,9 @@
 func (options *ListLogLevelsOpts) Execute(args []string) error {
 
 	var (
-		data           []model.LogLevel
+		// Initialize to empty as opposed to nil so that -o json will
+		// display empty list and not null VOL-2742
+		data           []model.LogLevel = []model.LogLevel{}
 		componentList  []string
 		logLevelConfig map[string]string
 		err            error