diff --git a/src/app/main.py b/src/app/main.py
index 2194fc4f3..27f89b1c5 100644
--- a/src/app/main.py
+++ b/src/app/main.py
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 from fastapi import FastAPI
 from app import routers
 import version
+import logging
+from log import get_logger
+
+
+logger = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+logger.info("Initializing app")
 
 app = FastAPI(
     title="Lightspeed-core service - OpenAPI",
@@ -12,4 +20,10 @@
     },
 )
 
+logger.info("Including routers")
 routers.include_routers(app)
+
+
+@app.on_event("startup")
+async def startup_event():
+    get_logger("app.endpoints.handlers")
diff --git a/src/lightspeed-stack.py b/src/lightspeed-stack.py
index 22330527c..3f7407229 100644
--- a/src/lightspeed-stack.py
+++ b/src/lightspeed-stack.py
@@ -9,11 +9,9 @@
 
 FORMAT = "%(message)s"
 logging.basicConfig(
-    level="NOTSET", format=FORMAT, datefmt="[%X]", handlers=[RichHandler()]
-)  # set level=20 or logging.INFO to turn off debug
-logger = logging.getLogger("rich")
+    level="INFO", format=FORMAT, datefmt="[%X]", handlers=[RichHandler()]
+)
 
-logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/src/log.py b/src/log.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fce99ba66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/log.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import logging
+from rich.logging import RichHandler
+
+
+def get_logger(name):
+    logger = logging.getLogger(name)
+    logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+    logger.handlers = [RichHandler()]
+    logger.propagate = False
+    return logger
diff --git a/src/runners/uvicorn.py b/src/runners/uvicorn.py
index d24fbbfc9..4f0497cd0 100644
--- a/src/runners/uvicorn.py
+++ b/src/runners/uvicorn.py
@@ -22,4 +22,6 @@ def start_uvicorn() -> None:
         port=port,
         workers=workers,
         log_level=log_level,
+        use_colors=True,
+        access_log=True,
     )