diff --git a/config/default.toml b/config/default.toml
index b68eb79..1c2c818 100644
--- a/config/default.toml
+++ b/config/default.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-debug = true
+log = "info" # possible values: "info", "warn", "trace", "error", "debug"
 source_code = "https://github.com/realaravinth/pages"
-
 pages = [
     { branch = "gh-pages", repo = "https://github.com/mCaptcha/website/", path ="/tmp/pages/mcaptcha/website", secret = "faee1b650ac586068a54cb160bd6353c5e16be7c64b49113fe57726e5393" },
 ]
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 69cb0a5..1d50ac0 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ pub const PKG_HOMEPAGE: &str = env!("CARGO_PKG_HOMEPAGE");
 #[cfg(not(tarpaulin_include))]
 #[actix_web::main]
 async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
-    env::set_var("RUST_LOG", "info");
-
+    lazy_static::initialize(&SETTINGS);
     pretty_env_logger::init();
 
     info!(
diff --git a/src/settings.rs b/src/settings.rs
index b884c81..2572ae0 100644
--- a/src/settings.rs
+++ b/src/settings.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ use std::env;
 use std::path::Path;
 
 use config::{Config, ConfigError, Environment, File};
+use derive_more::Display;
 use log::warn;
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use url::Url;
@@ -40,9 +41,24 @@ impl Server {
     }
 }
 
+#[derive(Deserialize, Display, Clone, Debug)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
+pub enum LogLevel {
+    #[display(fmt = "debug")]
+    Debug,
+    #[display(fmt = "info")]
+    Info,
+    #[display(fmt = "trace")]
+    Trace,
+    #[display(fmt = "error")]
+    Error,
+    #[display(fmt = "warn")]
+    Warn,
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize)]
 pub struct Settings {
-    pub debug: bool,
+    pub log: LogLevel,
     //    pub database: Database,
     pub server: Server,
     pub source_code: String,
@@ -108,6 +124,10 @@ impl Settings {
             page.fetch_upstream(&page.branch);
         }
 
+        const LOG_VAR: &str = "RUST_LOG";
+        if env::var(LOG_VAR).is_err() {
+            env::set_var("RUST_LOG", format!("{}", settings.log));
+        }
         Ok(settings)
     }
 }