diff --git a/components/ws-proxy/pkg/proxy/routes.go b/components/ws-proxy/pkg/proxy/routes.go
index 93f7b379b0112d..83082983da341a 100644
--- a/components/ws-proxy/pkg/proxy/routes.go
+++ b/components/ws-proxy/pkg/proxy/routes.go
@@ -95,10 +95,14 @@ func installWorkspaceRoutes(r *mux.Router, config *RouteHandlerConfig, ip Worksp
 			sshHostKeyRouter.Use(logRouteHandlerHandler("HandleSSHHostKeyRoute"))
 			sshHostKeyRouter.Use(config.CorsHandler)
 			sshHostKeyRouter.NewRoute().HandlerFunc(func(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+				log.Info("hit host key router")
 				rw.Header().Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
 				rw.Write(byt)
 			})
+			log.Info("install host key router")
 		}
+	} else {
+		log.Info("host key empty")
 	}
 
 	// The favicon warants special handling, because we pull that from the supervisor frontend