diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index cec7b5f0371..0ee4fdf1016 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1135,6 +1135,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "itertools",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "crossbeam-channel"
+version = "0.5.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a33c2bf77f2df06183c3aa30d1e96c0695a313d4f9c453cc3762a6db39f99200"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "crossbeam-deque"
 version = "0.8.3"
@@ -2494,6 +2504,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-util",
  "toml",
  "tower",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-appender",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2736,6 +2749,16 @@ version = "0.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "61807f77802ff30975e01f4f071c8ba10c022052f98b3294119f3e615d13e5be"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nu-ansi-term"
+version = "0.46.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "77a8165726e8236064dbb45459242600304b42a5ea24ee2948e18e023bf7ba84"
+dependencies = [
+ "overload",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-bigint"
 version = "0.4.3"
@@ -2808,6 +2831,12 @@ version = "11.1.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0ab1bc2a289d34bd04a330323ac98a1b4bc82c9d9fcb1e66b63caa84da26b575"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "overload"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b15813163c1d831bf4a13c3610c05c0d03b39feb07f7e09fa234dac9b15aaf39"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "owo-colors"
 version = "3.5.0"
@@ -4407,22 +4436,33 @@ checksum = "b6bc1c9ce2b5135ac7f93c72918fc37feb872bdc6a5533a8b85eb4b86bfdae52"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing"
-version = "0.1.37"
+version = "0.1.40"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8ce8c33a8d48bd45d624a6e523445fd21ec13d3653cd51f681abf67418f54eb8"
+checksum = "c3523ab5a71916ccf420eebdf5521fcef02141234bbc0b8a49f2fdc4544364ef"
 dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
  "log",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "tracing-attributes",
  "tracing-core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-appender"
+version = "0.2.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3566e8ce28cc0a3fe42519fc80e6b4c943cc4c8cef275620eb8dac2d3d4e06cf"
+dependencies = [
+ "crossbeam-channel",
+ "thiserror",
+ "time",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-attributes"
-version = "0.1.26"
+version = "0.1.27"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5f4f31f56159e98206da9efd823404b79b6ef3143b4a7ab76e67b1751b25a4ab"
+checksum = "34704c8d6ebcbc939824180af020566b01a7c01f80641264eba0999f6c2b6be7"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -4431,9 +4471,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-core"
-version = "0.1.31"
+version = "0.1.32"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0955b8137a1df6f1a2e9a37d8a6656291ff0297c1a97c24e0d8425fe2312f79a"
+checksum = "c06d3da6113f116aaee68e4d601191614c9053067f9ab7f6edbcb161237daa54"
 dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "valuable",
@@ -4449,15 +4489,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-log"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ee855f1f400bd0e5c02d150ae5de3840039a3f54b025156404e34c23c03f47c3"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "once_cell",
+ "tracing-core",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-subscriber"
-version = "0.3.17"
+version = "0.3.18"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "30a651bc37f915e81f087d86e62a18eec5f79550c7faff886f7090b4ea757c77"
+checksum = "ad0f048c97dbd9faa9b7df56362b8ebcaa52adb06b498c050d2f4e32f90a7a8b"
 dependencies = [
+ "nu-ansi-term",
  "sharded-slab",
+ "smallvec",
  "thread_local",
  "tracing-core",
+ "tracing-log",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c42eeb9c002..7cd00ee0a60 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ num-traits = "0.2"
 similar-asserts = "1.5.0"
 log = "0.4.17"
 
+tracing = "0.1.40"
+
 [profile.dev]
 # This is required to be able to run `cargo test` in acvm_js due to the `locals exceeds maximum` error.
 # See https://ritik-mishra.medium.com/resolving-the-wasm-pack-error-locals-exceed-maximum-ec3a9d96685b
diff --git a/cspell.json b/cspell.json
index 4d3af064654..e02e68871bb 100644
--- a/cspell.json
+++ b/cspell.json
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
         "acir",
         "acvm",
         "aeiou",
+        "appender",
         "arithmetization",
         "arity",
         "arkworks",
diff --git a/tooling/nargo_cli/Cargo.toml b/tooling/nargo_cli/Cargo.toml
index 7d6be099d46..008b1233cd8 100644
--- a/tooling/nargo_cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tooling/nargo_cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["io-std"] }
 backend-interface = { path = "../backend_interface" }
 bb_abstraction_leaks.workspace = true
 
+# Logs
+tracing.workspace = true
+tracing-subscriber = "0.3.18"
+tracing-appender = "0.2.3"
+
 [target.'cfg(not(unix))'.dependencies]
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7.8", features = ["compat"] }
 
diff --git a/tooling/nargo_cli/src/main.rs b/tooling/nargo_cli/src/main.rs
index aefff697707..7eeca2ab2b0 100644
--- a/tooling/nargo_cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/tooling/nargo_cli/src/main.rs
@@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ mod backends;
 mod cli;
 mod errors;
 
+use std::env;
+
 use color_eyre::config::HookBuilder;
 use env_logger::{Builder, Env};
+use tracing_appender::rolling;
 
 const PANIC_MESSAGE: &str = "This is a bug. We may have already fixed this in newer versions of Nargo so try searching for similar issues at https://github.com/noir-lang/noir/issues/.\nIf there isn't an open issue for this bug, consider opening one at https://github.com/noir-lang/noir/issues/new?labels=bug&template=bug_report.yml";
 
@@ -20,6 +23,16 @@ fn main() {
     let env = Env::default().filter_or("NOIR_LOG", "error"); // Default to 'error' if NOIR_LOG is not set
     Builder::from_env(env).init();
 
+    // Setup tracing
+    if let Ok(log_dir) = env::var("NARGO_LOG_DIR") {
+        let debug_file = rolling::daily(log_dir, "nargo-log");
+        tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+            .with_writer(debug_file)
+            .with_ansi(false)
+            .with_max_level(tracing::Level::TRACE)
+            .init();
+    }
+
     // Register a panic hook to display more readable panic messages to end-users
     let (panic_hook, _) =
         HookBuilder::default().display_env_section(false).panic_section(PANIC_MESSAGE).into_hooks();