diff --git a/open_api_framework/conf/base.py b/open_api_framework/conf/base.py
index 2191732..f733f09 100644
--- a/open_api_framework/conf/base.py
+++ b/open_api_framework/conf/base.py
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
 # LOGGING
 #
 LOG_STDOUT = config(
-    "LOG_STDOUT", default=False, help_text="whether to log to stdout or not"
+    "LOG_STDOUT", default=True, help_text="whether to log to stdout or not"
 )
 LOG_LEVEL = config(
     "LOG_LEVEL",
@@ -377,6 +377,13 @@
         RuntimeWarning,
     )
 
+CELERY_LOGLEVEL = config(
+    "CELERY_LOGLEVEL",
+    default="INFO",
+    help_text="control the verbosity of logging output for celery, independent of ``LOG_LEVEL``."
+    " Available values are ``CRITICAL``, ``ERROR``, ``WARNING``, ``INFO`` and ``DEBUG``",
+)
+
 LOGGING_DIR = Path(BASE_DIR) / "log"
 
 logging_root_handlers = ["console"] if LOG_STDOUT else ["project"]
@@ -415,6 +422,19 @@
             "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
             "formatter": "db",
         },
+        "celery_console": {
+            "level": CELERY_LOGLEVEL,
+            "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
+            "formatter": "timestamped",
+        },
+        "celery_file": {
+            "level": CELERY_LOGLEVEL,
+            "class": "logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler",
+            "filename": Path(LOGGING_DIR) / "celery.log",
+            "formatter": "verbose",
+            "maxBytes": 1024 * 1024 * 10,  # 10 MB
+            "backupCount": 10,
+        },
         "django": {
             "level": LOG_LEVEL,
             "class": "logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler",
@@ -507,6 +527,11 @@
             "level": "DEBUG",
             "propagate": True,
         },
+        "celery": {
+            "handlers": ["celery_console"] if LOG_STDOUT else ["celery_file"],
+            "level": CELERY_LOGLEVEL,
+            "propagate": True,
+        },
     },
 }