diff --git a/components/monitoring/prometheus/staging/base/monitoringstack/kustomization.yaml b/components/monitoring/prometheus/staging/base/monitoringstack/kustomization.yaml
index 70ab2847665..99def4bfd99 100644
--- a/components/monitoring/prometheus/staging/base/monitoringstack/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/components/monitoring/prometheus/staging/base/monitoringstack/kustomization.yaml
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ patches:
     target:
       name: appstudio-federate-ms
       kind: MonitoringStack
+  - path: monitoringstack-log-level.yaml
+    target:
+      name: appstudio-federate-ms
+      kind: MonitoringStack
   - path: prometheusrule-uwm.yaml
     target:
       name: prometheus-recording-rules-uwm-namespace
diff --git a/components/monitoring/prometheus/staging/base/monitoringstack/monitoringstack-log-level.yaml b/components/monitoring/prometheus/staging/base/monitoringstack/monitoringstack-log-level.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bdb4f8c08bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/monitoring/prometheus/staging/base/monitoringstack/monitoringstack-log-level.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.rhobs/v1alpha1
+kind: MonitoringStack
+metadata:
+  name: appstudio-federate-ms
+  namespace: appstudio-monitoring
+spec:
+  logLevel: debug
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