diff --git a/scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py b/scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py
index 61cb170ec..8ea1983fe 100644
--- a/scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py
+++ b/scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
     JsonToJsonlConverter,
     StdoutWriter,
 )
+from axolotl.logging_config import configure_logging
+
+configure_logging()
 
 # add src to the pythonpath so we don't need to pip install this
 project_root = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
diff --git a/scripts/finetune.py b/scripts/finetune.py
index a1c5b13b9..8696d3c9a 100644
--- a/scripts/finetune.py
+++ b/scripts/finetune.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 from optimum.bettertransformer import BetterTransformer
 from transformers import GenerationConfig, TextStreamer
 
+from axolotl.logging_config import configure_logging
 from axolotl.utils.data import load_prepare_datasets, load_pretraining_dataset
 from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
 from axolotl.utils.models import load_model, load_tokenizer
@@ -29,8 +30,10 @@
 src_dir = os.path.join(project_root, "src")
 sys.path.insert(0, src_dir)
 
+configure_logging()
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.scripts")
+
 
-logging.basicConfig(level=os.getenv("LOG_LEVEL", "INFO"))
 DEFAULT_DATASET_PREPARED_PATH = "last_run_prepared"
 
 
@@ -212,7 +215,7 @@ def train(
 
     # load the tokenizer first
     tokenizer_config = cfg.tokenizer_config or cfg.base_model_config
-    logging.info(f"loading tokenizer... {tokenizer_config}")
+    LOG.info(f"loading tokenizer... {tokenizer_config}")
     tokenizer = load_tokenizer(tokenizer_config, cfg.tokenizer_type, cfg)
 
     if (
@@ -234,7 +237,7 @@ def train(
             eval_dataset = None
 
     if cfg.debug or "debug" in kwargs:
-        logging.info("check_dataset_labels...")
+        LOG.info("check_dataset_labels...")
         check_dataset_labels(
             train_dataset.select(
                 [random.randrange(0, len(train_dataset) - 1) for _ in range(5)]  # nosec
@@ -243,11 +246,11 @@ def train(
         )
 
     if prepare_ds_only:
-        logging.info("Finished preparing dataset. Exiting...")
+        LOG.info("Finished preparing dataset. Exiting...")
         return
 
     # Load the model and tokenizer
-    logging.info("loading model and peft_config...")
+    LOG.info("loading model and peft_config...")
     model, peft_config = load_model(
         cfg.base_model,
         cfg.base_model_config,
@@ -258,17 +261,17 @@ def train(
     )
 
     if "merge_lora" in kwargs and cfg.adapter is not None:
-        logging.info("running merge of LoRA with base model")
+        LOG.info("running merge of LoRA with base model")
         model = model.merge_and_unload()
         model.to(dtype=torch.float16)
 
         if cfg.local_rank == 0:
-            logging.info("saving merged model")
+            LOG.info("saving merged model")
             model.save_pretrained(str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / "merged"))
         return
 
     if cfg.inference:
-        logging.info("calling do_inference function")
+        LOG.info("calling do_inference function")
         prompter: Optional[str] = "AlpacaPrompter"
         if "prompter" in kwargs:
             if kwargs["prompter"] == "None":
@@ -287,12 +290,12 @@ def train(
     model.config.use_cache = False
 
     if torch.__version__ >= "2" and sys.platform != "win32":
-        logging.info("Compiling torch model")
+        LOG.info("Compiling torch model")
         model = torch.compile(model)
 
     # go ahead and presave, so we have the adapter config available to inspect
     if peft_config:
-        logging.info(f"Pre-saving adapter config to {cfg.output_dir}")
+        LOG.info(f"Pre-saving adapter config to {cfg.output_dir}")
         peft_config.save_pretrained(cfg.output_dir)
 
     # In case we want to stop early with ctrl+c, this is a nice to have to save the pretrained model
@@ -308,9 +311,9 @@ def terminate_handler(_, __, model):
             signal.SIGINT, lambda signum, frame: terminate_handler(signum, frame, model)
         )
 
-    logging.info("Starting trainer...")
+    LOG.info("Starting trainer...")
     if cfg.group_by_length:
-        logging.info("hang tight... sorting dataset for group_by_length")
+        LOG.info("hang tight... sorting dataset for group_by_length")
     resume_from_checkpoint = cfg.resume_from_checkpoint
     if cfg.resume_from_checkpoint is None and cfg.auto_resume_from_checkpoints:
         possible_checkpoints = [
@@ -322,7 +325,7 @@ def terminate_handler(_, __, model):
                 key=lambda path: int(path.split("-")[-1]),
             )
             resume_from_checkpoint = sorted_paths[-1]
-            logging.info(
+            LOG.info(
                 f"Using Auto-resume functionality to start with checkpoint at {resume_from_checkpoint}"
             )
 
@@ -336,7 +339,7 @@ def terminate_handler(_, __, model):
     else:
         trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=resume_from_checkpoint)
 
-    logging.info(f"Training Completed!!! Saving pre-trained model to {cfg.output_dir}")
+    LOG.info(f"Training Completed!!! Saving pre-trained model to {cfg.output_dir}")
 
     # TODO do we need this fix? https://huggingface.co/docs/accelerate/usage_guides/fsdp#saving-and-loading
     # only save on rank 0, otherwise it corrupts output on multi-GPU when multiple processes attempt to write the same file
diff --git a/src/axolotl/datasets.py b/src/axolotl/datasets.py
index 5593a8dd3..911df8f50 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/datasets.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/datasets.py
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 # let's check to ensure we don't truncate an item in the middle, we'll use
 # the collators later on to pad the datasets
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
+
 
 class TokenizedPromptDataset(IterableDataset):
     """
@@ -115,7 +117,7 @@ def __iter__(self):
                                 "attention_mask": attention_mask,
                             }
                         else:
-                            logging.warning(
+                            LOG.warning(
                                 f"dropping batch due to tensor size mismatch input_ids: {input_ids.size()}, labels: {labels.size()}, attention_mask: {attention_mask.size()}"
                             )
                     buffer = {
diff --git a/src/axolotl/logging_config.py b/src/axolotl/logging_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1df272d5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/logging_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+"""Logging configuration settings"""
+
+import os
+import sys
+from logging.config import dictConfig
+from typing import Any, Dict
+
+DEFAULT_LOGGING_CONFIG: Dict[str, Any] = {
+    "version": 1,
+    "formatters": {
+        "simple": {
+            "format": "[%(asctime)s] [%(levelname)s] [%(name)s.%(funcName)s:%(lineno)d] [PID:%(process)d] %(message)s",
+        },
+    },
+    "filters": {},
+    "handlers": {
+        "console": {
+            "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
+            "formatter": "simple",
+            "filters": [],
+            "stream": sys.stdout,
+        },
+    },
+    "root": {"handlers": ["console"], "level": os.getenv("LOG_LEVEL", "INFO")},
+}
+
+
+def configure_logging():
+    """Configure with default logging"""
+    dictConfig(DEFAULT_LOGGING_CONFIG)
diff --git a/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/llama_landmark_attn.py b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/llama_landmark_attn.py
index 2a4cdbc36..24a98305f 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/llama_landmark_attn.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/llama_landmark_attn.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
     replace_return_docstrings,
 )
 
-logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
 
 _CONFIG_FOR_DOC = "LlamaConfig"
 
@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ def forward(
 
         if self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training:
             if use_cache:
-                logger.warning_once(
+                LOG.warning_once(
                     "`use_cache=True` is incompatible with gradient checkpointing. Setting `use_cache=False`..."
                 )
                 use_cache = False
diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/pygmalion.py b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/pygmalion.py
index d38bc2beb..88208f6ec 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/pygmalion.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/pygmalion.py
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
     tokenize_prompt_default,
 )
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
+
 IGNORE_TOKEN_ID = -100
 
 
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ def tokenize_prompt(self, prompt):
                     *copy.deepcopy(res["input_ids"])
                 ][len(self.bot_prefix_token_ids) :]
             else:
-                logging.warning(f"unknown role in conversation: {role}")
+                LOG.warning(f"unknown role in conversation: {role}")
                 res = defaultdict(lambda: [])
 
             # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompt_tokenizers.py b/src/axolotl/prompt_tokenizers.py
index 8216d73dd..fb6f39b0d 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/prompt_tokenizers.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompt_tokenizers.py
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 
 from axolotl.prompters import IGNORE_TOKEN_ID
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
+
 IGNORE_INDEX = -100
 LLAMA_DEFAULT_PAD_TOKEN = "[PAD]"  # nosec
 LLAMA_DEFAULT_EOS_TOKEN = "</s>"  # nosec
@@ -384,7 +386,7 @@ def tokenize_prompt(self, prompt):
                         # everything from this is masked out from the labels
                         labels = [IGNORE_TOKEN_ID] * len(res["input_ids"])
                     else:
-                        logging.warning(f"unhandled role: {part[0]}")
+                        LOG.warning(f"unhandled role: {part[0]}")
 
                 # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
                 result, current_len = parse_tokenized_to_result(
diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompters.py b/src/axolotl/prompters.py
index 715a227c8..a304bd137 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/prompters.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompters.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from enum import Enum, auto
 from typing import Generator, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
 IGNORE_TOKEN_ID = -100
 
 
@@ -241,7 +242,7 @@ def get_prompt(self) -> Generator[Tuple[str, str], None, None]:
             if message:
                 yield (role + ":", " " + message)
             else:
-                logging.warning(f"role with empty message: {role}")
+                LOG.warning(f"role with empty message: {role}")
                 yield (role + ":", "")
 
     def copy(self):
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/data.py b/src/axolotl/utils/data.py
index 8df1e4d38..ef732a8ad 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/data.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/data.py
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
     SummarizeTLDRPrompter,
 )
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
+
 
 def load_tokenized_prepared_datasets(
     tokenizer, cfg, default_dataset_prepared_path
@@ -73,17 +75,17 @@ def load_tokenized_prepared_datasets(
     if dataset:
         ...
     elif any(prepared_ds_path.glob("*")):
-        logging.info(f"Loading prepared dataset from disk at {prepared_ds_path}...")
+        LOG.info(f"Loading prepared dataset from disk at {prepared_ds_path}...")
         dataset = load_from_disk(str(prepared_ds_path))
-        logging.info("Prepared dataset loaded from disk...")
+        LOG.info("Prepared dataset loaded from disk...")
     else:
-        logging.info(f"Unable to find prepared dataset in {prepared_ds_path}")
-        logging.info("Loading raw datasets...")
+        LOG.info(f"Unable to find prepared dataset in {prepared_ds_path}")
+        LOG.info("Loading raw datasets...")
 
         if cfg.seed:
             seed = cfg.seed
         else:
-            logging.info("No seed provided, using default seed of 42")
+            LOG.info("No seed provided, using default seed of 42")
             seed = 42
 
         datasets = []
@@ -255,25 +257,21 @@ def load_tokenized_prepared_datasets(
                 suffix = ""
                 if ":load_" in d.type:
                     suffix = f" Did you mean {d.type.replace(':load_', '.load_')}?"
-                logging.error(
-                    f"unhandled prompt tokenization strategy: {d.type}. {suffix}"
-                )
+                LOG.error(f"unhandled prompt tokenization strategy: {d.type}. {suffix}")
                 raise ValueError(
                     f"unhandled prompt tokenization strategy: {d.type} {suffix}"
                 )
-        logging.info("tokenizing, merging, and shuffling master dataset")
+        LOG.info("tokenizing, merging, and shuffling master dataset")
 
         samples: List[int] = []
         for d in datasets:
             samples = samples + list(d)
         dataset = Dataset.from_list(samples).shuffle(seed=seed)
         if cfg.local_rank == 0:
-            logging.info(
-                f"Saving merged prepared dataset to disk... {prepared_ds_path}"
-            )
+            LOG.info(f"Saving merged prepared dataset to disk... {prepared_ds_path}")
             dataset.save_to_disk(prepared_ds_path)
             if cfg.push_dataset_to_hub:
-                logging.info(
+                LOG.info(
                     f"Saving merged prepared dataset with push_to_hub... {cfg.push_dataset_to_hub}/{ds_hash}"
                 )
                 dataset.push_to_hub(
@@ -324,7 +322,7 @@ def load_prepare_datasets(
         use_auth_token = cfg.hf_use_auth_token
         try:
             if cfg.push_dataset_to_hub:
-                logging.info(
+                LOG.info(
                     f"Checking for packed prepared dataset from hub... {cfg.push_dataset_to_hub}/{ds_hash}"
                 )
                 dataset = load_dataset(
@@ -338,13 +336,13 @@ def load_prepare_datasets(
         if dataset:
             ...
         elif any(prepared_ds_path.glob("*")):
-            logging.info(
+            LOG.info(
                 f"Loading prepared packed dataset from disk at {prepared_ds_path}..."
             )
             dataset = load_from_disk(str(prepared_ds_path))
-            logging.info("Prepared packed dataset loaded from disk...")
+            LOG.info("Prepared packed dataset loaded from disk...")
             if cfg.push_dataset_to_hub:
-                logging.info(
+                LOG.info(
                     f"Saving packed prepared dataset with push_to_hub... {cfg.push_dataset_to_hub}/{ds_hash}"
                 )
                 dataset.push_to_hub(
@@ -363,9 +361,7 @@ def load_prepare_datasets(
                 [dataset],
                 seq_length=max_packed_sequence_len,
             )
-            logging.info(
-                f"packing master dataset to len: {cfg.max_packed_sequence_len}"
-            )
+            LOG.info(f"packing master dataset to len: {cfg.max_packed_sequence_len}")
             dataset = Dataset.from_list(list(constant_len_dataset))
 
             # filter out bad data
@@ -381,12 +377,12 @@ def load_prepare_datasets(
             )
 
             if cfg.local_rank == 0:
-                logging.info(
+                LOG.info(
                     f"Saving packed prepared dataset to disk... {prepared_ds_path}"
                 )
                 dataset.save_to_disk(prepared_ds_path)
                 if cfg.push_dataset_to_hub:
-                    logging.info(
+                    LOG.info(
                         f"Saving packed prepared dataset with push_to_hub... {cfg.push_dataset_to_hub}/{ds_hash}"
                     )
                     dataset.push_to_hub(
@@ -399,7 +395,7 @@ def load_prepare_datasets(
         )
 
     if cfg.dataset_shard_num and cfg.dataset_shard_idx is not None:
-        logging.info(
+        LOG.info(
             f"Using index #{cfg.dataset_shard_idx} of {cfg.dataset_shard_num} shards"
         )
         dataset = dataset.shard(
@@ -520,7 +516,7 @@ def encode_pretraining(tokenizer, max_tokens, examples):
         "attention_mask": [seq.tolist() for seq in new_attention_mask],
     }
 
-    logging.debug(len(ret["input_ids"]))
+    LOG.debug(len(ret["input_ids"]))
     return ret
 
 
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
index 6849551bc..a88a3807e 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 
 from axolotl.prompt_tokenizers import LLAMA_DEFAULT_PAD_TOKEN
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
+
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from peft import PeftConfig  # noqa: F401
 
@@ -50,10 +52,10 @@ def load_tokenizer(
             use_fast=use_fast,
         )
 
-    logging.debug(f"EOS: {tokenizer.eos_token_id} / {tokenizer.eos_token}")
-    logging.debug(f"BOS: {tokenizer.bos_token_id} / {tokenizer.bos_token}")
-    logging.debug(f"PAD: {tokenizer.pad_token_id} / {tokenizer.pad_token}")
-    logging.debug(f"UNK: {tokenizer.unk_token_id} / {tokenizer.unk_token}")
+    LOG.debug(f"EOS: {tokenizer.eos_token_id} / {tokenizer.eos_token}")
+    LOG.debug(f"BOS: {tokenizer.bos_token_id} / {tokenizer.bos_token}")
+    LOG.debug(f"PAD: {tokenizer.pad_token_id} / {tokenizer.pad_token}")
+    LOG.debug(f"UNK: {tokenizer.unk_token_id} / {tokenizer.unk_token}")
 
     if tokenizer.__class__.__name__ in [
         "LlamaTokenizer",
@@ -92,21 +94,21 @@ def load_model(
         if cfg.device not in ["mps", "cpu"] and not cfg.inference:
             from axolotl.flash_attn import replace_llama_attn_with_flash_attn
 
-            logging.info("patching with flash attention")
+            LOG.info("patching with flash attention")
             replace_llama_attn_with_flash_attn()
     elif cfg.is_llama_derived_model and cfg.xformers_attention:
         from axolotl.monkeypatch.llama_attn_hijack_xformers import (
             hijack_llama_attention,
         )
 
-        logging.info("patching with xformers attention")
+        LOG.info("patching with xformers attention")
         hijack_llama_attention()
     elif cfg.is_llama_derived_model and cfg.sdp_attention:
         from axolotl.monkeypatch.llama_attn_hijack_xformers import (
             hijack_llama_sdp_attention,
         )
 
-        logging.info("patching with sdp attention")
+        LOG.info("patching with sdp attention")
         hijack_llama_sdp_attention()
     elif cfg.is_llama_derived_model and cfg.landmark_attention:
         from axolotl.monkeypatch.llama_landmark_attn import (
@@ -114,7 +116,7 @@ def load_model(
             patch_llama_with_landmark_attn,
         )
 
-        logging.info("patching with landmark attention")
+        LOG.info("patching with landmark attention")
         patch_llama_with_landmark_attn()
 
         # Note: This might overwrite previous additional_special_tokens
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ def load_model(
             replace_llama_rope_with_xpos_rope,
         )
 
-        logging.info("patching with xpos rope")
+        LOG.info("patching with xpos rope")
         replace_llama_rope_with_xpos_rope()
 
     if cfg.bf16 or cfg.bfloat16:
@@ -142,7 +144,7 @@ def load_model(
 
             replace_peft_model_with_int4_lora_model()
     except Exception as err:
-        logging.exception(err)
+        LOG.exception(err)
         raise err
 
     try:
@@ -187,7 +189,7 @@ def load_model(
                 if len(files) > 0:
                     model_path = str(files[0])
                 else:
-                    logging.warning(
+                    LOG.warning(
                         "unable to find a cached model file, this will likely fail..."
                     )
                     model_path = str(cache_model_path)
@@ -266,14 +268,14 @@ def load_model(
                 and cfg.sequence_len > config.max_seq_len
             ):
                 config.max_seq_len = cfg.sequence_len
-                logging.warning(f"increasing context length to {cfg.sequence_len}")
+                LOG.warning(f"increasing context length to {cfg.sequence_len}")
             elif (
                 hasattr(config, "max_sequence_length")
                 and config.max_sequence_length
                 and cfg.sequence_len > config.max_sequence_length
             ):
                 config.max_sequence_length = cfg.sequence_len
-                logging.warning(f"increasing context length to {cfg.sequence_len}")
+                LOG.warning(f"increasing context length to {cfg.sequence_len}")
             model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
                 base_model,
                 config=config,
@@ -285,10 +287,10 @@ def load_model(
                 **model_kwargs,
             )
     except Exception as err:  # pylint: disable=broad-exception-caught
-        logging.error(
+        LOG.error(
             "Exception raised attempting to load model, retrying with AutoModelForCausalLM"
         )
-        logging.exception(err)
+        LOG.exception(err)
         model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
             base_model,
             load_in_8bit=cfg.load_in_8bit and cfg.adapter is not None,
@@ -307,7 +309,7 @@ def load_model(
         and model.config.max_position_embeddings
         and cfg.sequence_len >= model.config.max_position_embeddings
     ):
-        logging.warning(
+        LOG.warning(
             f"increasing model.config.max_position_embeddings to {cfg.sequence_len}"
         )
         model.config.max_position_embeddings = cfg.sequence_len
@@ -316,7 +318,7 @@ def load_model(
         (cfg.adapter == "lora" and load_in_8bit)
         or (cfg.adapter == "qlora" and cfg.load_in_4bit)
     ):
-        logging.info("converting PEFT model w/ prepare_model_for_kbit_training")
+        LOG.info("converting PEFT model w/ prepare_model_for_kbit_training")
         model = prepare_model_for_kbit_training(
             model, use_gradient_checkpointing=cfg.gradient_checkpointing
         )
@@ -328,7 +330,7 @@ def load_model(
 
     if cfg.gptq:
         # Scales to half
-        logging.info("Fitting 4bit scales and zeros to half")
+        LOG.info("Fitting 4bit scales and zeros to half")
         for _, module in model.named_modules():
             if "Autograd4bitQuantLinear" in str(type(module)) or "Linear4bitLt" in str(
                 type(module)
@@ -354,7 +356,7 @@ def load_model(
         if param.requires_grad:
             requires_grad.append(f"{name}: {param.requires_grad}")
     if len(requires_grad) == 0:
-        logging.warning("there are no parameters that require gradient updates")
+        LOG.warning("there are no parameters that require gradient updates")
     model.config.use_cache = False
 
     if cfg.flash_optimum:
@@ -388,7 +390,7 @@ def load_llama_adapter(model, cfg):
     )
 
     if cfg.lora_model_dir:
-        logging.info("Loading pretained LORA")
+        LOG.info("Loading pretained LORA")
         model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(
             model,
             cfg.lora_model_dir,
@@ -435,7 +437,7 @@ def load_lora(model, cfg):
             bits = 8
 
         linear_names = find_all_linear_names(bits, model)
-        logging.info(f"found linear modules: {repr(linear_names)}")
+        LOG.info(f"found linear modules: {repr(linear_names)}")
         lora_target_modules = list(set(lora_target_modules + linear_names))
 
     lora_config = LoraConfig(
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/tokenization.py b/src/axolotl/utils/tokenization.py
index 7d0d1dd83..b2d1df400 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/tokenization.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/tokenization.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 from termcolor import colored
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
+
 
 def check_dataset_labels(dataset, tokenizer):
     # the dataset is already shuffled, so let's just check the first 5 elements
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ def check_example_labels(example, tokenizer):
         )
         colored_tokens.append(colored_token)
 
-    logging.info(" ".join(colored_tokens))
-    logging.info("\n\n\n")
+    LOG.info(" ".join(colored_tokens))
+    LOG.info("\n\n\n")
 
     return " ".join(colored_tokens)
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py b/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
index 3dcebeb8a..bdd760526 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
     get_cosine_schedule_with_quadratic_warmup,
 )
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
+
 
 class AxolotlTrainingArguments(TrainingArguments):
     """
@@ -324,7 +326,7 @@ def setup_trainer(cfg, train_dataset, eval_dataset, model, tokenizer):
 
         set_model_mem_id(model, tokenizer)
 
-        logging.info("Adding landmark attention tokens to dataset")
+        LOG.info("Adding landmark attention tokens to dataset")
 
         for dataset in [train_dataset, eval_dataset]:
             dataset = dataset.map(
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/validation.py b/src/axolotl/utils/validation.py
index 40dfb84a9..06669cba2 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/validation.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/validation.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 import torch
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
+
 
 def validate_config(cfg):
     if cfg.gradient_accumulation_steps and cfg.batch_size:
@@ -11,7 +13,7 @@ def validate_config(cfg):
             "please set only one of gradient_accumulation_steps or batch_size"
         )
     if cfg.batch_size:
-        logging.warning(
+        LOG.warning(
             "%s\n%s",
             "batch_size is not recommended. Please use gradient_accumulation_steps instead.",
             "To calculate the equivalent gradient_accumulation_steps, divide batch_size / micro_batch_size / number of gpus.",
@@ -44,10 +46,10 @@ def validate_config(cfg):
                 raise ValueError("Require cfg.load_in_4bit to be True for qlora")
 
     if not cfg.load_in_8bit and cfg.adapter == "lora":
-        logging.warning("We recommend setting `load_in_8bit: true` for LORA finetuning")
+        LOG.warning("We recommend setting `load_in_8bit: true` for LORA finetuning")
 
     if cfg.trust_remote_code:
-        logging.warning(
+        LOG.warning(
             "`trust_remote_code` is set to true. Please make sure that you reviewed the remote code/model."
         )
 
@@ -66,31 +68,29 @@ def validate_config(cfg):
 
     if cfg.flash_optimum is True:
         if cfg.adapter:
-            logging.warning(
-                "BetterTransformers probably doesn't work with PEFT adapters"
-            )
+            LOG.warning("BetterTransformers probably doesn't work with PEFT adapters")
         if cfg.fp16 or cfg.bf16:
             raise ValueError("AMP is not supported with BetterTransformer")
         if cfg.float16 is not True and cfg.bloat16 is not True:
-            logging.warning(
+            LOG.warning(
                 "You should probably set bfloat16 or float16 to true to "
                 "load the model in float16 for BetterTransformers"
             )
         if int(torch.__version__.split(".")[0]) < 2:
-            logging.warning("torch>=2.0.0 required")
+            LOG.warning("torch>=2.0.0 required")
             raise ValueError(
                 f"flash_optimum for BetterTransformers may not be used with {torch.__version__}"
             )
 
     if cfg.pretraining_dataset and cfg.group_by_length:
-        logging.warning(
+        LOG.warning(
             "You probably want to disable group_by_length as it will force a streamed dataset to download completely."
         )
 
     if any([cfg.adam_beta1, cfg.adam_beta2, cfg.adam_epsilon]) and (
         not cfg.optimizer or "adamw" not in cfg.optimizer
     ):
-        logging.warning("adamw hyperparameters found, but no adamw optimizer set")
+        LOG.warning("adamw hyperparameters found, but no adamw optimizer set")
 
     if cfg.push_to_hub_model_id:
         raise ValueError(
diff --git a/tests/test_prompt_tokenizers.py b/tests/test_prompt_tokenizers.py
index 3ddbe77bf..a3e4cdbdf 100644
--- a/tests/test_prompt_tokenizers.py
+++ b/tests/test_prompt_tokenizers.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 )
 from axolotl.prompters import AlpacaPrompter, PromptStyle, ShareGPTPrompter
 
-logging.basicConfig(level="INFO")
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl")
 
 
 class TestPromptTokenizationStrategies(unittest.TestCase):