diff --git a/deepspeed/comm/comm.py b/deepspeed/comm/comm.py
index 61b001ad0662..0339dd5a4c75 100644
--- a/deepspeed/comm/comm.py
+++ b/deepspeed/comm/comm.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ class ReduceOp(Enum):
 
 
 def _configure_using_config_file(config):
-    if config.comms_logger_enabled:
+    if config.enabled:
         comms_logger.configure(config)
 
 
diff --git a/deepspeed/comm/config.py b/deepspeed/comm/config.py
index 138badebe5a9..96a5c9472346 100644
--- a/deepspeed/comm/config.py
+++ b/deepspeed/comm/config.py
@@ -3,31 +3,25 @@
 
 # DeepSpeed Team
 
-from pydantic import BaseModel
-from .constants import *
+from deepspeed.runtime.config_utils import DeepSpeedConfigModel
 
 
-class CommsConfig(BaseModel):
+def get_comms_config(param_dict):
+    return DeepSpeedCommsConfig(**param_dict.get("comms_logger", {}))
 
-    class Config:
-        validate_all = True
-        validate_assignment = True
-        use_enum_values = True
-        extra = 'forbid'
 
+class DeepSpeedCommsConfig(DeepSpeedConfigModel):
+    enabled: bool = False
+    """ Whether communication logging is enabled. """
 
-class CommsLoggerConfig(CommsConfig):
-    enabled: bool = COMMS_LOGGER_ENABLED_DEFAULT
-    prof_all: bool = COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_ALL_DEFAULT
-    prof_ops: list = COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_OPS_DEFAULT
-    verbose: bool = COMMS_LOGGER_VERBOSE_DEFAULT
-    debug: bool = COMMS_LOGGER_DEBUG_DEFAULT
+    prof_all: bool = True
+    """ Whether to profile all operations. """
 
+    prof_ops: list = []
+    """ A list of communication operations to log (only the specified ops will be profiled). """
 
-class DeepSpeedCommsConfig:
+    verbose: bool = False
+    """ Whether to immediately print every communication operation. """
 
-    def __init__(self, ds_config):
-        self.comms_logger_enabled = 'comms_logger' in ds_config
-
-        if self.comms_logger_enabled:
-            self.comms_logger = CommsLoggerConfig(**ds_config['comms_logger'])
+    debug: bool = False
+    """ Appends the caller function to each communication operation's `log_name`. """
diff --git a/deepspeed/comm/constants.py b/deepspeed/comm/constants.py
index ab309247befe..3466565cf145 100644
--- a/deepspeed/comm/constants.py
+++ b/deepspeed/comm/constants.py
@@ -10,40 +10,3 @@
 
 DEFAULT_AML_MASTER_PORT = "54965"
 DEFAULT_AML_NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME = "^docker0,lo"
-
-#########################################
-# Comms Logger
-#########################################
-# Comms Logger. By default, this feature is not enabled.
-# Users can configure in ds_config.json as below example:
-COMMS_LOGGER_FORMAT = '''
-The Comms Logger can be specified as:
-"comms_logger": {
-  "enabled": true,
-  "verbose": false,
-  "prof_all": true,
-  "debug": false,
-  "prof_ops": ["all_reduce", "custom_all_reduce_name"]
-}
-'''
-COMMS_LOGGER = "comms_logger"
-
-# Comms logger enable signal
-COMMS_LOGGER_ENABLED = "enabled"
-COMMS_LOGGER_ENABLED_DEFAULT = False
-
-# Comms logger verbose signal
-COMMS_LOGGER_VERBOSE = "verbose"
-COMMS_LOGGER_VERBOSE_DEFAULT = False
-
-# comms logger profile all ops signal
-COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_ALL = "prof_all"
-COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_ALL_DEFAULT = True
-
-# comms logger show all ops signal
-COMMS_LOGGER_DEBUG = "debug"
-COMMS_LOGGER_DEBUG_DEFAULT = False
-
-# comms logger profile specific ops in list
-COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_OPS = "prof_ops"
-COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_OPS_DEFAULT = []
diff --git a/deepspeed/runtime/config.py b/deepspeed/runtime/config.py
index 3c202a9acd07..1a3c14e72854 100755
--- a/deepspeed/runtime/config.py
+++ b/deepspeed/runtime/config.py
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 )
 from .zero.config import get_zero_config, ZeroStageEnum
 from .activation_checkpointing.config import DeepSpeedActivationCheckpointingConfig
-from ..comm.config import DeepSpeedCommsConfig
-from ..monitor.config import get_monitor_config
+from ..comm.config import get_comms_config
+from ..monitor.config import DeepSpeedMonitorConfig
 
 from deepspeed import comm as dist
 from deepspeed.runtime.config_utils import DeepSpeedConfigModel
@@ -784,8 +784,8 @@ def _initialize_params(self, param_dict):
 
         self.activation_checkpointing_config = DeepSpeedActivationCheckpointingConfig(param_dict)
 
-        self.comms_config = DeepSpeedCommsConfig(param_dict)
-        self.monitor_config = get_monitor_config(param_dict)
+        self.comms_config = get_comms_config(param_dict)
+        self.monitor_config = DeepSpeedMonitorConfig(param_dict)
 
         self.gradient_clipping = get_gradient_clipping(param_dict)
         self.fp16_enabled = get_fp16_enabled(param_dict)
diff --git a/deepspeed/utils/comms_logging.py b/deepspeed/utils/comms_logging.py
index 2400fa55b20e..a4b4193b8f33 100644
--- a/deepspeed/utils/comms_logging.py
+++ b/deepspeed/utils/comms_logging.py
@@ -61,21 +61,16 @@ def calc_bw_log(comm_op, size, duration):
 class CommsLogger:
 
     def __init__(self):
-        from deepspeed.comm.constants import COMMS_LOGGER_VERBOSE_DEFAULT, COMMS_LOGGER_DEBUG_DEFAULT, COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_OPS_DEFAULT, COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_ALL_DEFAULT, COMMS_LOGGER_ENABLED_DEFAULT
+        self.enabled = False
         self.comms_dict = {}
-        self.verbose = COMMS_LOGGER_VERBOSE_DEFAULT
-        self.debug = COMMS_LOGGER_DEBUG_DEFAULT
-        self.prof_ops = COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_OPS_DEFAULT
-        self.prof_all = COMMS_LOGGER_PROF_ALL_DEFAULT
-        self.enabled = COMMS_LOGGER_ENABLED_DEFAULT
 
     def configure(self, comms_config):
-        self.enabled = comms_config.comms_logger_enabled
+        self.enabled = comms_config.enabled
         if self.enabled:
-            self.verbose = comms_config.comms_logger.verbose
-            self.debug = comms_config.comms_logger.debug
-            self.prof_ops = comms_config.comms_logger.prof_ops
-            self.prof_all = comms_config.comms_logger.prof_all
+            self.verbose = comms_config.verbose
+            self.debug = comms_config.debug
+            self.prof_ops = comms_config.prof_ops
+            self.prof_all = comms_config.prof_all
 
     # There are three settings for the op profiler:
     # - Global profiling (profile all comms)
diff --git a/docs/code-docs/source/comms-logging.rst b/docs/code-docs/source/comms-logging.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..85271de6f1ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/code-docs/source/comms-logging.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Communication Logging
+=====================
+
+DeepSpeed provides a flexible communication logging tool which can
+automatically detect and record communication operations launched via
+`deepspeed.comm`. NOTE: All logging communication calls are synchronized in
+order to provide accurate timing information. This may hamper performance if
+your model heavily uses asynchronous communication operations.
+
+Once the logs are populated, they can be summarized with
+`deepspeed.comm.log_summary()`. For more detail and example usage, see the
+[tutorial](https://www.deepspeed.ai/tutorials/comms-logging/).
+
+The behavior of communication logging can be controlled with values in the
+`comms_logger` dictionary of the main DeepSpeed config:
+
+.. _DeepSpeedCommsConfig:
+.. autopydantic_model:: deepspeed.comm.config.DeepSpeedCommsConfig
diff --git a/docs/code-docs/source/index.rst b/docs/code-docs/source/index.rst
index 67d5aa5fe9fb..490ec0a28815 100644
--- a/docs/code-docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/code-docs/source/index.rst
@@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ Memory Usage
 
    memory
 
+Comms Logging
+-------------
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   comms-logging
+
 Monitoring
 ----------
 .. toctree::
diff --git a/tests/unit/comm/test_comms_logger.py b/tests/unit/comm/test_comms_logger.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bfb8866b88dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/comm/test_comms_logger.py
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+import torch
+import deepspeed.comm as dist
+import deepspeed
+
+from unit.common import DistributedTest
+from unit.simple_model import SimpleModel
+
+import time, logging, os
+
+
+def within_range(val, target, tolerance):
+    print(f'prof_on: {val}, prof_off: {target}')
+    return val - target / target < tolerance
+
+
+# This tolerance seems tight enough to catch comm logging overhead while loose enough to allow for comm instability.
+# Can increase if github runner comm instability leads to many false negatives.
+TOLERANCE = 0.05
+
+
+class TestCommsLoggingOverhead(DistributedTest):
+    world_size = [2, 4]
+
+    def test(self):
+        # Need comm warmups, or else whoever communicates first loses
+        NUM_WARMUPS = 5
+        config_dict = {
+            "train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu": 1,
+            "comms_logger": {
+                "enabled": False,
+                "verbose": True,
+                "prof_all": True,
+                "debug": False
+            }
+        }
+
+        # dummy model
+        model = SimpleModel(4)
+        model, _, _, _ = deepspeed.initialize(config=config_dict,
+                                            model=model,
+                                            model_parameters=model.parameters())
+        x = torch.ones(4, 2**15).cuda() * (dist.get_rank() + 1)
+
+        for i in range(NUM_WARMUPS):
+            dist.all_reduce(x)
+
+        # Time allreduce without logging
+        start = time.time()
+        dist.all_reduce(x, prof=False)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        time_prof_off = time.time() - start
+        dist.all_reduce(torch.Tensor([time_prof_off]).cuda(),
+                        prof=False,
+                        op=dist.ReduceOp.AVG)
+
+        # Time allreduce with logging
+        start = time.time()
+        dist.all_reduce(x, prof=True)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        time_prof_on = time.time() - start
+        dist.all_reduce(torch.Tensor([time_prof_on]).cuda(),
+                        prof=False,
+                        op=dist.ReduceOp.AVG)
+
+        # Ensure logging doesn't add significant overhead
+        assert within_range(time_prof_on, time_prof_off, tolerance=TOLERANCE)
+
+
+class TestNumLoggingCalls(DistributedTest):
+    world_size = [2, 4]
+
+    def test(self, class_tmpdir):
+        num_all_reduce_calls = 4
+        num_broadcast_calls = 2
+
+        # Have the DeepSpeed logger output to both stdout and file so that we can verify log output
+        file_path = os.path.join(class_tmpdir,
+                                 f"comm_output_{int(os.environ['WORLD_SIZE'])}.log")
+        DSLogger = logging.getLogger('DeepSpeed')
+        fileHandler = logging.FileHandler(file_path)
+        DSLogger.addHandler(fileHandler)
+
+        config_dict = {
+            "train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu": 1,
+            "comms_logger": {
+                "enabled": True,
+                "verbose": True,
+                "prof_all": True,
+                "debug": False
+            }
+        }
+
+        # dummy model so that config options are picked up
+        model = SimpleModel(4)
+        model, _, _, _ = deepspeed.initialize(config=config_dict,
+                                            model=model,
+                                            model_parameters=model.parameters())
+
+        x = torch.ones(1, 3).cuda() * (dist.get_rank() + 1)
+
+        # Make comm calls
+        for i in range(num_all_reduce_calls):
+            dist.all_reduce(x, log_name="all_reduce_test")
+        for i in range(num_broadcast_calls):
+            dist.broadcast(x, 0, log_name="broadcast_test")
+
+        # Count the number of logs
+        with open(file_path, 'r') as f:
+            log_output = f.read()
+        num_all_reduce_logs = log_output.count('all_reduce_test')
+        num_broadcast_logs = log_output.count('broadcast_test')
+
+        # Ensure all comm calls are logged
+        assert num_all_reduce_logs == num_all_reduce_calls
+        assert num_broadcast_logs == num_broadcast_calls