diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 91db17c7..2449508b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 This changelog documents the changes between release versions.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+- Enables logging events from the MongoDB driver by setting the `RUST_LOG` variable ([#67](https://github.com/hasura/ndc-mongodb/pull/67))
+  - To log all events set `RUST_LOG=mongodb::command=debug,mongodb::connection=debug,mongodb::server_selection=debug,mongodb::topology=debug`
 
 ## [0.0.5] - 2024-04-26
 - Fix incorrect order of results for query requests with more than 10 variable sets (#37)
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0b3f493d..95c13b92 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1610,6 +1610,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "hex",
  "hmac",
  "lazy_static",
+ "log",
  "md-5",
  "pbkdf2",
  "percent-encoding",
@@ -1630,6 +1631,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls 0.24.1",
  "tokio-util",
+ "tracing",
  "trust-dns-proto",
  "trust-dns-resolver",
  "typed-builder 0.10.0",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c39c809d..b0c277fd 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ ndc-sdk = { git = "https://github.com/hasura/ndc-sdk-rs.git" }
 ndc-models = { git = "http://github.com/hasura/ndc-spec.git", tag = "v0.1.2" }
 
 itertools = "^0.12.1"
+mongodb = { version = "2.8", features = ["tracing-unstable"] }
 
 # Connecting to MongoDB Atlas database with time series collections fails in the
 # latest released version of the MongoDB Rust driver. A fix has been merged, but
diff --git a/crates/cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/cli/Cargo.toml
index 80f3268f..bba31456 100644
--- a/crates/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ version.workspace = true
 [dependencies]
 configuration = { path = "../configuration" }
 mongodb-agent-common = { path = "../mongodb-agent-common" }
-mongodb = "2.8"
+mongodb = { workspace = true }
 mongodb-support = { path = "../mongodb-support" }
 
 anyhow = "1.0.80"
diff --git a/crates/configuration/Cargo.toml b/crates/configuration/Cargo.toml
index a4dcc197..0bb952f2 100644
--- a/crates/configuration/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/configuration/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 anyhow = "1"
 futures = "^0.3"
 itertools = { workspace = true }
-mongodb = "2.8"
+mongodb = { workspace = true }
 mongodb-support = { path = "../mongodb-support" }
 ndc-models = { workspace = true }
 schemars = "^0.8.12"
diff --git a/crates/dc-api-types/Cargo.toml b/crates/dc-api-types/Cargo.toml
index 61cfa52f..a2b61b0e 100644
--- a/crates/dc-api-types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/dc-api-types/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ serde_with = "3"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 anyhow = "1"
-mongodb = "2"
+mongodb = { workspace = true }
 pretty_assertions = "1"
diff --git a/crates/mongodb-agent-common/Cargo.toml b/crates/mongodb-agent-common/Cargo.toml
index e6a9ab7e..80871a40 100644
--- a/crates/mongodb-agent-common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/mongodb-agent-common/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ http = "^0.2"
 indexmap = { version = "1", features = ["serde"] } # must match the version that ndc-client uses
 indent = "^0.1"
 itertools = { workspace = true }
-mongodb = "2.8"
+mongodb = { workspace = true }
 once_cell = "1"
 regex = "1"
 schemars = { version = "^0.8.12", features = ["smol_str"] }
diff --git a/crates/mongodb-connector/Cargo.toml b/crates/mongodb-connector/Cargo.toml
index 1c39372f..a8b8fcf5 100644
--- a/crates/mongodb-connector/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/mongodb-connector/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ http = "^0.2"
 indexmap = { version = "2.1.0", features = ["serde"] }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
 lazy_static = "^1.4.0"
-mongodb = "2.8"
+mongodb = { workspace = true }
 mongodb-agent-common = { path = "../mongodb-agent-common" }
 mongodb-support = { path = "../mongodb-support" }
 ndc-sdk = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/mongodb-support/Cargo.toml b/crates/mongodb-support/Cargo.toml
index aecfc7f8..a9a42a92 100644
--- a/crates/mongodb-support/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/mongodb-support/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 dc-api-types = { path = "../dc-api-types" }
 enum-iterator = "^2.0.0"
 indexmap = { version = "1", features = ["serde"] } # must match the version that ndc-client uses
-mongodb = "2.8"
+mongodb = { workspace = true }
 schemars = "^0.8.12"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
diff --git a/crates/test-helpers/Cargo.toml b/crates/test-helpers/Cargo.toml
index fc113da3..27c4ad6d 100644
--- a/crates/test-helpers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/test-helpers/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ configuration = { path = "../configuration" }
 mongodb-support = { path = "../mongodb-support" }
 
 enum-iterator = "^2.0.0"
-mongodb = "2.8"
+mongodb = { workspace = true }
 proptest = "1"