diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c14c183c5..d9cf8a9fc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 __pycache__
 venv
 tags
+agora.log
diff --git a/app/agora.py b/app/agora.py
index 818920d6f..5b6b1a620 100644
--- a/app/agora.py
+++ b/app/agora.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 import datetime
+import logging
 import jsons
 from flask import Blueprint, url_for, render_template, current_app, Response, redirect, request, jsonify
 from markupsafe import escape
@@ -26,6 +27,12 @@ from . import util
 bp = Blueprint('agora', __name__)
 G = db.G
 
+logging.basicConfig(
+        filename='agora.log', 
+        level=logging.DEBUG,
+        format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(name)s %(threadName)s : %(message)s'
+        )
+
 # Special
 @bp.route('/index')
 @bp.route('/')
diff --git a/app/db.py b/app/db.py
index cfbaeeeff..9b9729f88 100644
--- a/app/db.py
+++ b/app/db.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import glob
 import itertools
 import re
 import os
+from flask import current_app
 from . import config
 from . import feed
 from . import render
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ class Graph:
 
     @cachetools.func.ttl_cache(maxsize=2, ttl=20)
     def nodes(self, include_journals=True):
+        current_app.logger.debug('Loading graph.')
         # returns a list of all nodes
 
         # first we fetch all subnodes, put them in a dict {wikilink -> [subnode]}.
@@ -101,6 +103,7 @@ class Graph:
         if not include_journals:
             nodes = [node for node in nodes if not util.is_journal(node.wikilink)]
 
+        current_app.logger.debug('Graph loaded.')
         # TODO: experiment with other ranking.
         # return sorted(nodes, key=lambda x: -x.size())
         return sorted(nodes, key=lambda x: x.wikilink.lower())