diff --git a/services/identity/Cargo.lock b/services/identity/Cargo.lock
--- a/services/identity/Cargo.lock
+++ b/services/identity/Cargo.lock
@@ -3014,6 +3014,16 @@
  "tracing-core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-serde"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bc6b213177105856957181934e4920de57730fc69bf42c37ee5bb664d406d9e1"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "tracing-core",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-subscriber"
 version = "0.3.18"
@@ -3024,12 +3034,15 @@
  "nu-ansi-term",
  "once_cell",
  "regex",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
  "sharded-slab",
  "smallvec",
  "thread_local",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-log",
+ "tracing-serde",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/services/identity/Cargo.toml b/services/identity/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/identity/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/identity/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   "grpc_clients",
 ] }
 tracing = "0.1"
-tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter", "json"] }
 chrono = "0.4.31"
 rand = "0.8"
 constant_time_eq = "0.2.2"
diff --git a/services/identity/src/constants.rs b/services/identity/src/constants.rs
--- a/services/identity/src/constants.rs
+++ b/services/identity/src/constants.rs
@@ -236,6 +236,10 @@
   pub const ALLOW_ORIGIN_LIST: &str = "ALLOW_ORIGIN_LIST";
 }
 
+// Tracing
+
+pub const COMM_SERVICES_USE_JSON_LOGS: &str = "COMM_SERVICES_USE_JSON_LOGS";
+
 // Regex
 
 pub const VALID_USERNAME_REGEX_STRING: &str =
diff --git a/services/identity/src/main.rs b/services/identity/src/main.rs
--- a/services/identity/src/main.rs
+++ b/services/identity/src/main.rs
@@ -26,9 +26,10 @@
 mod tunnelbroker;
 mod websockets;
 
-use constants::IDENTITY_SERVICE_SOCKET_ADDR;
+use constants::{COMM_SERVICES_USE_JSON_LOGS, IDENTITY_SERVICE_SOCKET_ADDR};
 use cors::cors_layer;
 use keygen::generate_and_persist_keypair;
+use std::env;
 use sync_identity_search::sync_index;
 use tracing::{self, info, Level};
 use tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter;
@@ -45,9 +46,22 @@
     .with_env_var(EnvFilter::DEFAULT_ENV)
     .from_env_lossy();
 
-  let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::fmt().with_env_filter(filter).finish();
+  let use_json_logs: bool = env::var(COMM_SERVICES_USE_JSON_LOGS)
+    .unwrap_or("false".to_string())
+    .parse()
+    .unwrap_or_default();
+
+  if use_json_logs {
+    let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+      .json()
+      .with_env_filter(filter)
+      .finish();
+    tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber)?;
+  } else {
+    let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::fmt().with_env_filter(filter).finish();
+    tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber)?;
+  }
 
-  tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber)?;
   match config::parse_cli_command() {
     Command::Keygen { dir } => {
       generate_and_persist_keypair(dir)?;