diff --git a/UPDATING.md b/UPDATING.md
index 1d2ffbf0ec995..7ecc1a298db8e 100644
--- a/UPDATING.md
+++ b/UPDATING.md
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ assists people when migrating to a new version.
   set `SLACK_API_TOKEN` to fetch and serve Slack avatar links
 - [28134](https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/28134/) The default logging level was changed
   from DEBUG to INFO - which is the normal/sane default logging level for most software.
+- [27777](https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/27777) Moves debug logging logic to config.py.
+  See `LOG_LEVEL` in `superset/config.py` for the recommended default.
 - [28205](https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/28205) The permission `all_database_access` now
   more clearly provides access to all databases, as specified in its name. Before it only allowed
   listing all databases in CRUD-view and dropdown and didn't provide access to data as it
diff --git a/superset/config.py b/superset/config.py
index 8256ca0dc0729..e4dc202537acc 100644
--- a/superset/config.py
+++ b/superset/config.py
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ class D3TimeFormat(TypedDict, total=False):
 # Console Log Settings
 
 LOG_FORMAT = "%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s:%(message)s"
-LOG_LEVEL = logging.INFO
+LOG_LEVEL = logging.DEBUG if DEBUG else logging.INFO
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------
 # Enable Time Rotate Log Handler
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ class D3TimeFormat(TypedDict, total=False):
 # LOG_LEVEL = DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL
 
 ENABLE_TIME_ROTATE = False
-TIME_ROTATE_LOG_LEVEL = logging.INFO
+TIME_ROTATE_LOG_LEVEL = logging.DEBUG if DEBUG else logging.INFO
 FILENAME = os.path.join(DATA_DIR, "superset.log")
 ROLLOVER = "midnight"
 INTERVAL = 1
diff --git a/superset/utils/logging_configurator.py b/superset/utils/logging_configurator.py
index ba4bf2117f728..2d53d535cda6e 100644
--- a/superset/utils/logging_configurator.py
+++ b/superset/utils/logging_configurator.py
@@ -41,17 +41,7 @@ def configure_logging(
         if app_config["SILENCE_FAB"]:
             logging.getLogger("flask_appbuilder").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
 
-        # configure superset app logger
-        superset_logger = logging.getLogger("superset")
-        if debug_mode:
-            superset_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
-        else:
-            # In production mode, add log handler to sys.stderr.
-            superset_logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
-            superset_logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
-
-        logging.getLogger("pyhive.presto").setLevel(logging.INFO)
-
+        # basicConfig() will set up a default StreamHandler on stderr
         logging.basicConfig(format=app_config["LOG_FORMAT"])
         logging.getLogger().setLevel(app_config["LOG_LEVEL"])