diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 061e964..83ef29d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -915,6 +915,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
  "thiserror 2.0.12",
  "tokio",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/cloud-checksum/Cargo.toml b/cloud-checksum/Cargo.toml
index cb9a551..df2c07a 100644
--- a/cloud-checksum/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cloud-checksum/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ authors.workspace = true
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive", "env", "cargo"] }
 thiserror = "2"
 rand = "0.9"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = [ "std", "env-filter" ] }
 
 # Async
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "sync", "test-util", "io-util", "io-std", "fs"] }
diff --git a/cloud-checksum/src/main.rs b/cloud-checksum/src/main.rs
index 7bb6135..0ef85a2 100644
--- a/cloud-checksum/src/main.rs
+++ b/cloud-checksum/src/main.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
 use cloud_checksum::cli::Command;
 use cloud_checksum::error::Result;
+use tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter;
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    // install global collector configured based on RUST_LOG env var.
+    let _ = tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+        .with_env_filter(EnvFilter::from_default_env())
+        .with_writer(std::io::stderr)
+        .try_init();
+
     let args = Command::parse_args()?;
 
     args.execute().await?;