diff --git a/test/conf/logback-test.xml b/test/conf/logback-test.xml
index abedc32901..21c7142941 100644
--- a/test/conf/logback-test.xml
+++ b/test/conf/logback-test.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
       <appender-ref ref="TEE"/>
   </appender>
 
-  <root level="INFO">
+  <root level="DEBUG">
     <appender-ref ref="ASYNC" />
   </root>
 </configuration>
diff --git a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/cql3/CQLTester.java b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/cql3/CQLTester.java
index c9c46314ee..7f5eb025e2 100644
--- a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/cql3/CQLTester.java
+++ b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/cql3/CQLTester.java
@@ -707,8 +707,8 @@ public abstract class CQLTester
         UntypedResultSet rs;
         if (usePrepared)
         {
-            if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
-                logger.debug("Executing: {} with values {}", query, formatAllValues(values));
+            if (logger.isTraceEnabled())
+                logger.trace("Executing: {} with values {}", query, formatAllValues(values));
             if (reusePrepared)
             {
                 rs = QueryProcessor.executeInternal(query, transformValues(values));
@@ -728,14 +728,14 @@ public abstract class CQLTester
         else
         {
             query = replaceValues(query, values);
-            if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
-                logger.debug("Executing: {}", query);
+            if (logger.isTraceEnabled())
+                logger.trace("Executing: {}", query);
             rs = QueryProcessor.executeOnceInternal(query);
         }
         if (rs != null)
         {
-            if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
-                logger.debug("Got {} rows", rs.size());
+            if (logger.isTraceEnabled())
+                logger.trace("Got {} rows", rs.size());
         }
         return rs;
     }