diff --git a/app/im/config/homeserver.yaml b/app/im/config/homeserver.yaml
index 8204f14..0caacfe 100644
--- a/app/im/config/homeserver.yaml
+++ b/app/im/config/homeserver.yaml
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ database:
 # A yaml python logging config file as described by
 # https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/logging.config.html#configuration-dictionary-schema
 #
-log_config: "/data/matrix.home.adnab.me.log.config"
+log_config: "/etc/matrix-synapse/synapse.log.config.yaml"
 
 
 ## Ratelimiting ##
diff --git a/app/im/config/synapse.log.config.yaml b/app/im/config/synapse.log.config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b5622e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/im/config/synapse.log.config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+version: 1
+
+formatters:
+  precise:
+    format: '%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(lineno)d - %(levelname)s - %(request)s - %(message)s'
+
+
+handlers:
+  console:
+    class: logging.StreamHandler
+    formatter: precise
+
+loggers:
+    synapse.storage.SQL:
+        # beware: increasing this to DEBUG will make synapse log sensitive
+        # information such as access tokens.
+        level: INFO
+
+root:
+    level: INFO
+    handlers: [console]
+
+disable_existing_loggers: false
diff --git a/app/im/deploy/im.hcl b/app/im/deploy/im.hcl
index 3cf4e95..6378e82 100644
--- a/app/im/deploy/im.hcl
+++ b/app/im/deploy/im.hcl
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ job "im" {
         volumes = [
           "secrets:/etc/matrix-synapse",
           "../alloc/data:/ephemeral",
-          "/mnt/ssd/synapse:/data",
+          "/mnt/garage-staging/synapse-data:/data",
         ]
       }
 
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ job "im" {
         destination = "secrets/homeserver.yaml"
       }
 
+      template {
+        data = file("../config/synapse.log.config.yaml")
+        destination = "secrets/synapse.log.config.yaml"
+      }
+
       template {
         data = "{{ key \"secrets/synapse/signing_key\" }}"
         destination = "secrets/signing_key"