diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e427151c3..d35548a04 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 ### Fixed
  - Renamed the sequence number struct tag to if_seq_no to fix optimistic concurrency control ([#166](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-go/pull/166))
  - Fix `RetryOnConflict` on bulk indexer ([#215](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-go/pull/215))
+ - Correct curl logging to emit the correct URL destination ([#101](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-go/pull/101))
 
 ### Security
 
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-go/compare/2.1...HEAD
\ No newline at end of file
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-go/compare/2.1...HEAD
diff --git a/opensearchtransport/logger.go b/opensearchtransport/logger.go
index 223b0165d..f089e9e63 100644
--- a/opensearchtransport/logger.go
+++ b/opensearchtransport/logger.go
@@ -248,8 +248,12 @@ func (l *CurlLogger) LogRoundTrip(req *http.Request, res *http.Response, err err
 		}
 	}
 
-	b.WriteString(" 'http://localhost:9200")
-	b.WriteString(req.URL.Path)
+	// If by some oddity we end up with a nil req.URL, we handle it gracefully.
+	if req.URL == nil {
+		b.WriteString(" '")
+	} else {
+		b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(" '%s://%s%s", req.URL.Scheme, req.URL.Host, req.URL.Path))
+	}
 	b.WriteString("?pretty")
 	if query != "" {
 		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "&%s", query)
diff --git a/opensearchtransport/logger_internal_test.go b/opensearchtransport/logger_internal_test.go
index c5d7e7b67..27beae7b7 100644
--- a/opensearchtransport/logger_internal_test.go
+++ b/opensearchtransport/logger_internal_test.go
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ func TestTransportLogger(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatalf("Expected 9 lines, got %d", len(lines))
 		}
 
-		if !strings.Contains(lines[0], "curl -X GET 'http://localhost:9200/abc?pretty&q=a%2Cb'") {
+		if !strings.Contains(lines[0], "curl -X GET 'http://foo/abc?pretty&q=a%2Cb'") {
 			t.Errorf("Unexpected output: %s", lines[0])
 		}
 	})