diff --git a/services/blob/Cargo.lock b/services/blob/Cargo.lock
--- a/services/blob/Cargo.lock
+++ b/services/blob/Cargo.lock
@@ -486,6 +486,8 @@
  "tokio-stream",
  "tonic",
  "tonic-build",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1006,6 +1008,15 @@
  "cfg-if",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "matchers"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8263075bb86c5a1b1427b5ae862e8889656f126e9f77c484496e8b47cf5c5558"
+dependencies = [
+ "regex-automata",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "matchit"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -1051,6 +1062,16 @@
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e5ce46fe64a9d73be07dcbe690a38ce1b293be448fd8ce1e6c1b8062c9f72c6a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nu-ansi-term"
+version = "0.46.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "77a8165726e8236064dbb45459242600304b42a5ea24ee2948e18e023bf7ba84"
+dependencies = [
+ "overload",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-integer"
 version = "0.1.45"
@@ -1092,6 +1113,12 @@
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ff011a302c396a5197692431fc1948019154afc178baf7d8e37367442a4601cf"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "overload"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b15813163c1d831bf4a13c3610c05c0d03b39feb07f7e09fa234dac9b15aaf39"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "percent-encoding"
 version = "2.2.0"
@@ -1279,6 +1306,15 @@
  "regex-syntax",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "regex-automata"
+version = "0.1.10"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6c230d73fb8d8c1b9c0b3135c5142a8acee3a0558fb8db5cf1cb65f8d7862132"
+dependencies = [
+ "regex-syntax",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "regex-syntax"
 version = "0.6.28"
@@ -1440,6 +1476,15 @@
  "digest",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sharded-slab"
+version = "0.1.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "900fba806f70c630b0a382d0d825e17a0f19fcd059a2ade1ff237bcddf446b31"
+dependencies = [
+ "lazy_static",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "slab"
 version = "0.4.7"
@@ -1449,6 +1494,12 @@
  "autocfg",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "smallvec"
+version = "1.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a507befe795404456341dfab10cef66ead4c041f62b8b11bbb92bffe5d0953e0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "socket2"
 version = "0.4.7"
@@ -1505,6 +1556,15 @@
  "winapi-util",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "thread_local"
+version = "1.1.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5516c27b78311c50bf42c071425c560ac799b11c30b31f87e3081965fe5e0180"
+dependencies = [
+ "once_cell",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "time"
 version = "0.1.44"
@@ -1744,6 +1804,7 @@
 checksum = "24eb03ba0eab1fd845050058ce5e616558e8f8d8fca633e6b163fe25c797213a"
 dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
+ "valuable",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1756,6 +1817,35 @@
  "tracing",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-log"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "78ddad33d2d10b1ed7eb9d1f518a5674713876e97e5bb9b7345a7984fbb4f922"
+dependencies = [
+ "lazy_static",
+ "log",
+ "tracing-core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-subscriber"
+version = "0.3.16"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a6176eae26dd70d0c919749377897b54a9276bd7061339665dd68777926b5a70"
+dependencies = [
+ "matchers",
+ "nu-ansi-term",
+ "once_cell",
+ "regex",
+ "sharded-slab",
+ "smallvec",
+ "thread_local",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-core",
+ "tracing-log",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "try-lock"
 version = "0.2.3"
@@ -1792,6 +1882,12 @@
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e8db7427f936968176eaa7cdf81b7f98b980b18495ec28f1b5791ac3bfe3eea9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "valuable"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "830b7e5d4d90034032940e4ace0d9a9a057e7a45cd94e6c007832e39edb82f6d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "version_check"
 version = "0.9.4"
diff --git a/services/blob/Cargo.toml b/services/blob/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/blob/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/blob/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 tokio = { version = "1.21", features = ["rt-multi-thread"]}
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
 tonic = "0.8"
+tracing = "0.1"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"]}
 
 [build-dependencies]
 tonic-build = "0.8"
diff --git a/services/blob/src/constants.rs b/services/blob/src/constants.rs
--- a/services/blob/src/constants.rs
+++ b/services/blob/src/constants.rs
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
 // Environment variables
 
 pub const SANDBOX_ENV_VAR: &str = "COMM_SERVICES_SANDBOX";
+pub const LOG_LEVEL_ENV_VAR: &str =
+  tracing_subscriber::filter::EnvFilter::DEFAULT_ENV;
 
 // S3 constants
 
diff --git a/services/blob/src/main.rs b/services/blob/src/main.rs
--- a/services/blob/src/main.rs
+++ b/services/blob/src/main.rs
@@ -10,12 +10,26 @@
 use service::{blob::blob_service_server::BlobServiceServer, MyBlobService};
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
 use tonic::transport::{Server, Uri};
+use tracing::info;
+use tracing_subscriber::filter::{EnvFilter, LevelFilter};
+
+fn configure_logging() -> Result<()> {
+  let filter = EnvFilter::builder()
+    .with_default_directive(LevelFilter::INFO.into())
+    .with_env_var(constants::LOG_LEVEL_ENV_VAR)
+    .from_env_lossy();
+
+  let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::fmt().with_env_filter(filter).finish();
+  tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber)?;
+  Ok(())
+}
 
 async fn get_aws_config() -> aws_types::SdkConfig {
   let mut config_builder =
     aws_config::from_env().region(Region::new(constants::AWS_REGION));
 
   if tools::is_sandbox_env() {
+    info!("Running in sandbox environment");
     config_builder = config_builder.endpoint_resolver(Endpoint::immutable(
       Uri::from_static(constants::LOCALSTACK_URL),
     ));
@@ -32,7 +46,7 @@
     format!("[::]:{}", constants::GRPC_SERVER_DEFAULT_PORT).parse()?;
   let blob_service = MyBlobService::new(db_client, s3_client);
 
-  println!("Starting gRPC server at port {}", addr.port());
+  info!("Starting gRPC server listening at {}", addr.to_string());
   Server::builder()
     .add_service(BlobServiceServer::new(blob_service))
     .serve(addr)
@@ -43,6 +57,8 @@
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+  configure_logging()?;
+
   let aws_config = get_aws_config().await;
   let db = database::DatabaseClient::new(&aws_config);
   let s3 = aws_sdk_s3::Client::new(&aws_config);