diff --git a/statusd.conf b/statusd.conf
index d5539f6..4c0dd47 100644
--- a/statusd.conf
+++ b/statusd.conf
@@ -22,5 +22,6 @@ CLIENT_CERT = './certs/client.crt'
 API_TEMPLATE = './api_template'
 API = './api'
 
-# loglevel (maybe ERROR, INFO, DEBUG) - not implementet at the moment.
-VERBOSITY = 'error'
+# loglevel (maybe CRITICAL(50), ERROR(40), WARNING(30), INFO(20), DEBUG(10))
+# default is warning
+VERBOSITY = 'debug'