diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index b0d1031d..394b866d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Bugfixes & Improvements
 - Fix total comments count calculation (`#997`_, pkvach)
 - Fix newline character handling in data-isso-* i18n strings (`#992`_, pkvach)
 - Add link logging for management of new comments in Stdout (`#1016`_, pkvach)
+- Change logging to include datetime and loglevel (`#1023`_, ix5)
 
 .. _#951: https://github.com/posativ/isso/pull/951
 .. _#967: https://github.com/posativ/isso/pull/967
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ Bugfixes & Improvements
 .. _#997: https://github.com/isso-comments/isso/pull/997
 .. _#992: https://github.com/isso-comments/isso/pull/992
 .. _#1016: https://github.com/isso-comments/isso/pull/1016
+.. _#1023: https://github.com/isso-comments/isso/pull/1023
 
 0.13.1.dev0 (2023-02-05)
 ------------------------
diff --git a/isso/__init__.py b/isso/__init__.py
index 53d34c09..d92247e3 100644
--- a/isso/__init__.py
+++ b/isso/__init__.py
@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@
 
 from isso.ext.notifications import Stdout, SMTP
 
+LOG_FORMAT = "%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s: %(message)s"
 logging.getLogger('werkzeug').setLevel(logging.WARN)
 logging.basicConfig(
     level=logging.INFO,
-    format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s")
+    format=LOG_FORMAT)
 
 logger = logging.getLogger("isso")
 
@@ -280,6 +281,7 @@ def main():
 
     if conf.get("general", "log-file"):
         handler = logging.FileHandler(conf.get("general", "log-file"))
+        handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(LOG_FORMAT))
 
         logger.addHandler(handler)
         logging.getLogger("werkzeug").addHandler(handler)