diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1b64983..b11684d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "heck",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn",
+ "syn 2.0.14",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "color-eyre",
  "serde",
  "toml",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-error",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -305,6 +308,24 @@ version = "0.3.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d59d8c75012853d2e872fb56bc8a2e53718e2cafe1a4c823143141c6d90c322f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "log"
+version = "0.4.17"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "abb12e687cfb44aa40f41fc3978ef76448f9b6038cad6aef4259d3c095a2382e"
+dependencies = [
+ "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 = "memchr"
 version = "2.5.0"
@@ -320,6 +341,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "adler",
 ]
 
+[[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 = "object"
 version = "0.30.3"
@@ -335,6 +366,12 @@ version = "1.17.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b7e5500299e16ebb147ae15a00a942af264cf3688f47923b8fc2cd5858f23ad3"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "overload"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b15813163c1d831bf4a13c3610c05c0d03b39feb07f7e09fa234dac9b15aaf39"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "owo-colors"
 version = "3.5.0"
@@ -365,6 +402,30 @@ dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "regex"
+version = "1.7.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8b1f693b24f6ac912f4893ef08244d70b6067480d2f1a46e950c9691e6749d1d"
+dependencies = [
+ "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 = "0.6.29"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f162c6dd7b008981e4d40210aca20b4bd0f9b60ca9271061b07f78537722f2e1"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustc-demangle"
 version = "0.1.22"
@@ -402,7 +463,7 @@ checksum = "291a097c63d8497e00160b166a967a4a79c64f3facdd01cbd7502231688d77df"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn",
+ "syn 2.0.14",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -423,12 +484,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "lazy_static",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "smallvec"
+version = "1.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a507befe795404456341dfab10cef66ead4c041f62b8b11bbb92bffe5d0953e0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "strsim"
 version = "0.10.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "73473c0e59e6d5812c5dfe2a064a6444949f089e20eec9a2e5506596494e4623"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "syn"
+version = "1.0.109"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "72b64191b275b66ffe2469e8af2c1cfe3bafa67b529ead792a6d0160888b4237"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "unicode-ident",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
 version = "2.0.14"
@@ -492,9 +570,21 @@ checksum = "8ce8c33a8d48bd45d624a6e523445fd21ec13d3653cd51f681abf67418f54eb8"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "pin-project-lite",
+ "tracing-attributes",
  "tracing-core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-attributes"
+version = "0.1.23"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4017f8f45139870ca7e672686113917c71c7a6e02d4924eda67186083c03081a"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 1.0.109",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-core"
 version = "0.1.30"
@@ -515,15 +605,33 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
+[[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]]
@@ -565,6 +673,28 @@ version = "0.9.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "49874b5167b65d7193b8aba1567f5c7d93d001cafc34600cee003eda787e483f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi"
+version = "0.3.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5c839a674fcd7a98952e593242ea400abe93992746761e38641405d28b00f419"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu",
+ "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ac3b87c63620426dd9b991e5ce0329eff545bccbbb34f3be09ff6fb6ab51b7b6"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "712e227841d057c1ee1cd2fb22fa7e5a5461ae8e48fa2ca79ec42cfc1931183f"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-sys"
 version = "0.45.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index de948c8..5e87427 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ clap = { version = "4.2.1", features = ["cargo", "color", "unicode", "std", "der
 color-eyre = "0.6.2"
 serde = { version = "1.0.160", features = ["derive"] }
 toml = "0.7.3"
+tracing = "0.1.37"
+tracing-error = "0.2.0"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.16", features = ["env-filter"] }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 0d93f9f..0b8bf3e 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-use std::fs;
-use std::io::{stdin, ErrorKind, Read, Write};
+use std::fs::{self, File};
+use std::io::{stderr, stdin, ErrorKind, Read, Write};
 use std::os::unix::net::{UnixListener, UnixStream};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::thread;
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ use clap::{Parser, Subcommand};
 use color_eyre::eyre::Context;
 use color_eyre::Result;
 use serde::Deserialize;
+use tracing::metadata::LevelFilter;
+use tracing_error::ErrorLayer;
+use tracing_subscriber::fmt;
+use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
 
 #[derive(Parser)]
 #[command(author, version, about, long_about = None)]
@@ -15,6 +19,9 @@ struct Cli {
     /// Set the level of verbosity
     #[arg(short, long, action = clap::ArgAction::Count)]
     verbose: u8,
+    /// File to write log events to
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "FILENAME")]
+    log: Option<PathBuf>,
     /// The command to run
     #[command(subcommand)]
     command: Command,
@@ -36,9 +43,35 @@ struct Request {
     session: String,
 }
 
+#[tracing::instrument]
 fn main() -> Result<()> {
     let cli = Cli::parse();
 
+    {
+        let filter_layer = match cli.verbose {
+            0 => LevelFilter::WARN,
+            1 => LevelFilter::INFO,
+            2 => LevelFilter::DEBUG,
+            _ => LevelFilter::TRACE,
+        };
+        let stderr_layer = fmt::layer().pretty().with_writer(stderr);
+        let file_layer = if let Some(path) = cli.log {
+            let f = File::create(&path)
+                .wrap_err_with(|| format!("Failed to create log file '{}'", path.display()))?;
+            let layer = fmt::layer().pretty().with_writer(f);
+            Some(layer)
+        } else {
+            None
+        };
+
+        tracing_subscriber::registry()
+            .with(filter_layer)
+            .with(stderr_layer)
+            .with(file_layer)
+            .with(ErrorLayer::new(fmt::format::Pretty::default()))
+            .init();
+    }
+
     let runtime_dir = std::env::var("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")
         .map(PathBuf::from)
         .unwrap_or_else(|_| "/var".into())
@@ -61,11 +94,13 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             let listener = UnixListener::bind(&path)
                 .wrap_err_with(|| format!("Failed to bind listener to {}", path.display()))?;
 
+            tracing::info!("Listening on {}", path.display());
+
             for stream in listener.incoming() {
                 let stream = stream.wrap_err("Failed to accept incoming connection")?;
                 thread::spawn(|| {
                     if let Err(err) = handle_connection(stream) {
-                        eprintln!("{:?}", err);
+                        tracing::error!("{:?}", err);
                     }
                 });
             }
@@ -77,31 +112,37 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             stdin()
                 .read_to_string(&mut buf)
                 .wrap_err("Failed to read stdin")?;
-            let mut socket = {
-                let req: Request = toml::from_str(&buf).wrap_err("Failed to parse request")?;
-                let path = runtime_dir.join(req.session).with_extension("s");
 
-                UnixStream::connect(&path).wrap_err_with(|| {
-                    format!("Failed to connect to daemon socket {}", path.display())
-                })?
-            };
+            let req: Request = toml::from_str(&buf).wrap_err("Failed to parse request")?;
+
+            tracing::trace!("Received request: {:?}", req);
+
+            let path = runtime_dir.join(&req.session).with_extension("s");
+            tracing::debug!(path = %path.display());
+
+            let mut socket = UnixStream::connect(&path).wrap_err_with(|| {
+                format!("Failed to connect to daemon socket {}", path.display())
+            })?;
 
             socket
                 .write_all(buf.as_bytes())
                 .wrap_err("Failed to send response")?;
 
+            tracing::info!("Sent request to {}", path.display());
+
             Ok(())
         }
     }
 }
 
+#[tracing::instrument(skip_all)]
 fn handle_connection(mut read: impl Read) -> Result<()> {
     let mut buf = String::new();
     read.read_to_string(&mut buf)
         .wrap_err("Failed to read stdin")?;
     let req: Request = toml::from_str(&buf).wrap_err("Failed to parse request")?;
 
-    dbg!(req);
+    tracing::info!("Received request: {:?}", req);
 
     todo!();
 }