diff --git a/galasa-extensions-parent/dev.galasa.auth.couchdb/src/test/java/dev/galasa/auth/couchdb/TestCouchdbAuthStore.java b/galasa-extensions-parent/dev.galasa.auth.couchdb/src/test/java/dev/galasa/auth/couchdb/TestCouchdbAuthStore.java
index 0ec9b21d..975c65d8 100644
--- a/galasa-extensions-parent/dev.galasa.auth.couchdb/src/test/java/dev/galasa/auth/couchdb/TestCouchdbAuthStore.java
+++ b/galasa-extensions-parent/dev.galasa.auth.couchdb/src/test/java/dev/galasa/auth/couchdb/TestCouchdbAuthStore.java
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ public void testGetTokensReturnsTokensWithFailingRequestReturnsError() throws Ex
         MockLogFactory logFactory = new MockLogFactory();
 
         List<HttpInteraction> interactions = new ArrayList<HttpInteraction>();
-        interactions.add(new GetAllTokenDocumentsInteraction("https://my-auth-store/galasa_tokens/_all_docs?include_docs=true&endkey=%22_%22", HttpStatus.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, null));
+        interactions.add(new GetAllTokenDocumentsInteraction("https://my-auth-store/galasa_tokens/_all_docs", HttpStatus.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, null));
 
         MockCloseableHttpClient mockHttpClient = new MockCloseableHttpClient(interactions);
 
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ public void testGetTokensReturnsTokensFromCouchdbOK() throws Exception {
 
         CouchdbAuthToken mockToken = new CouchdbAuthToken("token1", "dex-client", "my test token", Instant.now(), new CouchdbUser("johndoe", "dex-user-id"));
         List<HttpInteraction> interactions = new ArrayList<HttpInteraction>();
-        interactions.add(new GetAllTokenDocumentsInteraction("https://my-auth-store/galasa_tokens/_all_docs?include_docs=true&endkey=%22_%22", HttpStatus.SC_OK, mockAllDocsResponse));
+        interactions.add(new GetAllTokenDocumentsInteraction("https://my-auth-store/galasa_tokens/_all_docs", HttpStatus.SC_OK, mockAllDocsResponse));
         interactions.add(new GetTokenDocumentInteraction<CouchdbAuthToken>("https://my-auth-store/galasa_tokens/token1", HttpStatus.SC_OK, mockToken));
 
         MockCloseableHttpClient mockHttpClient = new MockCloseableHttpClient(interactions);
diff --git a/galasa-extensions-parent/dev.galasa.extensions.common/src/main/java/dev/galasa/extensions/common/couchdb/CouchdbStore.java b/galasa-extensions-parent/dev.galasa.extensions.common/src/main/java/dev/galasa/extensions/common/couchdb/CouchdbStore.java
index a7d86b99..5f93876b 100644
--- a/galasa-extensions-parent/dev.galasa.extensions.common/src/main/java/dev/galasa/extensions/common/couchdb/CouchdbStore.java
+++ b/galasa-extensions-parent/dev.galasa.extensions.common/src/main/java/dev/galasa/extensions/common/couchdb/CouchdbStore.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import static dev.galasa.extensions.common.Errors.*;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URLEncoder;
@@ -20,8 +19,6 @@
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import java.util.stream.IntStream;
 
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
 import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
 import org.apache.http.ParseException;
@@ -55,8 +52,6 @@ public abstract class CouchdbStore {
 
     protected final URI storeUri;
 
-    private Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(this.getClass());
-
     protected HttpRequestFactory httpRequestFactory;
     protected CloseableHttpClient httpClient;
     protected GalasaGson gson = new GalasaGson();
@@ -117,9 +112,7 @@ protected PutPostResponse createDocument(String dbName, String jsonContent) thro
      */
     protected List<ViewRow> getAllDocsFromDatabase(String dbName) throws CouchdbException {
 
-        //The end key is "_" because, design docs start with "_design",
-        // this will exclude any design documents from being fetched from couchdb.
-        HttpGet getTokensDocs = httpRequestFactory.getHttpGetRequest(storeUri + "/" + dbName + "/_all_docs?include_docs=true&endkey=%22_%22");
+        HttpGet getTokensDocs = httpRequestFactory.getHttpGetRequest(storeUri + "/" + dbName + "/_all_docs");
         String responseEntity = sendHttpRequest(getTokensDocs, HttpStatus.SC_OK);
 
         ViewResponse allDocs = gson.fromJson(responseEntity, ViewResponse.class);
@@ -129,6 +122,11 @@ protected List<ViewRow> getAllDocsFromDatabase(String dbName) throws CouchdbExce
             String errorMessage = ERROR_FAILED_TO_GET_DOCUMENTS_FROM_DATABASE.getMessage(dbName);
             throw new CouchdbException(errorMessage);
         }
+
+        // Filter out design documents from the results
+        viewRows = viewRows.stream()
+            .filter((row) -> !row.key.equals("_design/docs"))
+            .collect(Collectors.toList());
         
         return viewRows;
     }
@@ -144,7 +142,6 @@ protected List<ViewRow> getAllDocsFromDatabase(String dbName) throws CouchdbExce
      * @return a list of rows corresponding to documents within the database
      * @throws CouchdbException             if there was a problem accessing the
      *                                      CouchDB store or its response
-     * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException A failure occurred.
      */
     protected List<ViewRow> getAllDocsByLoginId(String dbName, String loginId) throws CouchdbException {