diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 07cdb85..269b726 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -123,6 +123,11 @@
             <version>${jackson-databind.version}</version>
         </dependency>
 
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${log4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/tomtom/http/RequestBuilder.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/tomtom/http/RequestBuilder.groovy
index 14fdddc..f4dfa25 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/com/tomtom/http/RequestBuilder.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/tomtom/http/RequestBuilder.groovy
@@ -25,12 +25,15 @@ import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ClassicHttpRequest
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpEntity
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.StringEntity
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.message.BasicHeader
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger
 
 import java.util.function.Function
 
 @PackageScope
 class RequestBuilder {
 
+    private static Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(HttpClient)
     private ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper()
     private String baseUrl
     private Map defaultHeaders
@@ -43,18 +46,21 @@ class RequestBuilder {
         if (query) url = addQuery url, query
 
         def request = requestFor method, url
+        logger.info("${request.method} ${url}")
 
         if (defaultHeaders) addHeaders request, defaultHeaders
-
         def headers = properties['headers'] as Map
         if (headers) addHeaders request, headers
+        if (request.headers) logger.info("    headers: ${request.headers}")
 
         def body = properties['body']
         if (body)
-            if (body instanceof File)
+            if (body instanceof File) {
+                logger.info("    body: <${body} file content omitted>")
                 addFile request, body
-            else {
+            } else {
                 def serialized = serialize body
+                logger.info("    body: ${serialized}")
                 addBody request, serialized
             }
 
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/tomtom/http/ResponseParser.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/tomtom/http/ResponseParser.groovy
index 2293089..463ce9f 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/com/tomtom/http/ResponseParser.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/tomtom/http/ResponseParser.groovy
@@ -24,13 +24,17 @@ import groovy.transform.PackageScope
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpEntity
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpResponse
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.EntityUtils
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger
 
 @PackageScope
 class ResponseParser {
 
+    private static Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(HttpClient)
     private mapper = new ObjectMapper()
 
     Response parse(HttpResponse response, Class type, Class subtype) {
+        logger.info "=> response: ${response.code}"
         new Response(
                 statusCode: response.code,
                 headers: headersOf(response) as Map<String, List<String>>,
@@ -44,13 +48,14 @@ class ResponseParser {
 
     private readEntity(HttpEntity entity, Class rawType, Class subtype) {
         def content = EntityUtils.toString entity
+        if (content) logger.info "    body: ${content}"
         if (rawType) {
             def type = subtype ?
                     typeOf(rawType, subtype) : typeOf(rawType)
             try {
                 return mapper.readValue(content, type)
             } catch (Exception e) {
-                println "Failed to deserialize $content to $rawType due to $e.message, defaulting to string"
+                logger.warn "Failed to deserialize $content to $rawType due to $e.message, defaulting to string"
             }
         }
         content
@@ -73,9 +78,12 @@ class ResponseParser {
 
     private static headersOf(HttpResponse response) {
         def headers = response.headers
-        headers ? headers
-                .groupBy { it.name }
-                .collectEntries { [(it.key): it.value.value] } : [:]
+        if (headers) {
+            logger.info "    headers: ${response.headers}"
+            headers
+                    .groupBy { it.name }
+                    .collectEntries { [(it.key): it.value.value] }
+        } else [:]
     }
 
 }