diff --git a/backend/resources/log4j2.xml b/backend/resources/log4j2.xml
index acfa8c7a9..0c7dca017 100644
--- a/backend/resources/log4j2.xml
+++ b/backend/resources/log4j2.xml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     <Logger name="com.zaxxer.hikari" level="error"/>
     <Logger name="io.lettuce" level="error" />
     <Logger name="org.eclipse.jetty" level="error" />
+    <Logger name="org.postgresql" level="error" />
 
     <Logger name="app.cli" level="debug" additivity="false">
       <AppenderRef ref="console"/>
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@
       <AppenderRef ref="main" level="debug" />
     </Logger>
 
-    <Logger name="app" level="debug" additivity="false">
+    <Logger name="app" level="all" additivity="false">
       <AppenderRef ref="main" level="trace" />
       <AppenderRef ref="zmq" level="debug" />
     </Logger>
diff --git a/backend/scripts/repl b/backend/scripts/repl
index 147661f35..cfbf661f4 100755
--- a/backend/scripts/repl
+++ b/backend/scripts/repl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 export PENPOT_ASSERTS_ENABLED=true
 
-export OPTIONS="-A:jmx-remote:dev -J-Dclojure.tools.logging.factory=clojure.tools.logging.impl/log4j2-factory -J-Xms512m -J-Xmx512m"
+export OPTIONS="-A:jmx-remote:dev -J-Dclojure.tools.logging.factory=clojure.tools.logging.impl/log4j2-factory -J-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.logging.log4j.jul.LogManager -J-Xms512m -J-Xmx512m"
 export OPTIONS_EVAL="nil"
 # export OPTIONS_EVAL="(set! *warn-on-reflection* true)"
 
diff --git a/backend/src/app/http/session.clj b/backend/src/app/http/session.clj
index 0c047b310..bb5afecc5 100644
--- a/backend/src/app/http/session.clj
+++ b/backend/src/app/http/session.clj
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
           (mcnt :inc)
           (if (ex/exception? result)
             (log/error result "updater: unexpected error on update sessions")
-            (log/tracef "updater: updated %s sessions (reason: %s)." result (name reason)))
+            (log/debugf "updater: updated %s sessions (reason: %s)." result (name reason)))
           (recur))))))
 
 (defn- timeout-chan