diff --git a/logger_config.k8s.yaml b/logger_config.k8s.yaml
index 6d5c7298..36fe3704 100644
--- a/logger_config.k8s.yaml
+++ b/logger_config.k8s.yaml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ loggers:
     - stderr
 
   ccb:
-    level: WARNING
+    level: INFO
     handlers:
     - stderr
     propagate: false
diff --git a/logger_config.yaml b/logger_config.yaml
index 67e1949d..4efa2e11 100644
--- a/logger_config.yaml
+++ b/logger_config.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ formatters:
 handlers:
   stderr:
     class: logging.StreamHandler
-    level: WARNING
+    level: DEBUG
     formatter: default
     stream: ext://sys.stderr
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ loggers:
     - file_json
 
   ccb:
-    level: DEBUG
+    level: INFO
     handlers:
     - stderr
     - file_json
diff --git a/logger_config_em.yaml b/logger_config_em.yaml
index dfb430ea..fc3849ad 100644
--- a/logger_config_em.yaml
+++ b/logger_config_em.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ formatters:
 handlers:
   stderr:
     class: logging.StreamHandler
-    level: WARNING
+    level: DEBUG
     formatter: default
     stream: ext://sys.stderr
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ loggers:
     - file_json
 
   emserver:
-    level: DEBUG
+    level: INFO
     handlers:
     - stderr
     - file_json
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 8fd5c6a5..f082787b 100755
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -21,38 +21,15 @@
 LOGGER_CONFIG_NAME = 'logger_config.yaml'
 LOGGER_K8S_CONFIG_NAME = 'logger_config.k8s.yaml'
 
-def _setup_log_levels(debug: bool):
-	'''
-	Set log levels for the modules at once for a cleaner usage later.
-	'''
-	if not debug:
-		# warning is the default level
-		return
-
-	LOGGERS = (
-		'ccb',
-		'ccb.chain',
-		'ccb.doc_loader',
-		'ccb.injest',
-		'ccb.models',
-		'ccb.vectordb',
-		'ccb.controller',
-		'ccb.dyn_loader',
-		'ccb.ocs_utils',
-		'ccb.utils',
-	)
-
-	for name in LOGGERS:
-		logger = logging.getLogger(name)
-		logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
-
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 	k8s_env = is_k8s_env()
 	logging_config = get_logging_config(LOGGER_K8S_CONFIG_NAME if k8s_env else LOGGER_CONFIG_NAME)
 	setup_logging(logging_config)
 	app_config: TConfig = app.extra['CONFIG']
-	_setup_log_levels(app_config.debug)
+	if app_config.debug:
+		logger = logging.getLogger('ccb')
+		logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
 
 	# do forks from a clean process that doesn't have any threads or locks
 	mp.set_start_method('forkserver')
diff --git a/main_em.py b/main_em.py
index addcfd60..0162d9ea 100755
--- a/main_em.py
+++ b/main_em.py
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ def _wait_main_app_enabled() -> None:
 			'model_files',
 			em_conf.llama['model'],
 		)
-		logger.debug(f'Trying model path: {em_conf.llama["model"]}')
+		logger.info(f'Trying model path: {em_conf.llama["model"]}')
 
 		# if the model file is still not found, raise an error
 		if not os.path.isfile(em_conf.llama['model']):