diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9e5d5de..89ce394 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -150,10 +150,10 @@ Copying data to data1 ━━━━━━╸━━━━━━━━━━━━
  └─another.mp4        ━╸━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━   4% 1.4 MB/s
 ```
 
-## Debug
-For debugging progress related functionality, set the DEBUG flag to true: 
+## Set the log level
+The log level can be set using: 
 ```python
-rclone.DEBUG = True
+rclone.set_log_level(logging.DEBUG)
 ```
 This will make the wrapper print the raw rclone progress. 
 
diff --git a/rclone_python/__init__.py b/rclone_python/__init__.py
index 775065b..c635a98 100644
--- a/rclone_python/__init__.py
+++ b/rclone_python/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-VERSION = "0.1.19"
+VERSION = "0.1.20"
diff --git a/rclone_python/logs.py b/rclone_python/logs.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6e112b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rclone_python/logs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import logging
+from rich.logging import RichHandler
+
+
+FORMAT = "%(message)s"
+logging.basicConfig(format=FORMAT, datefmt="[%X]", handlers=[RichHandler()])
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
diff --git a/rclone_python/rclone.py b/rclone_python/rclone.py
index 43a9538..8fe1689 100644
--- a/rclone_python/rclone.py
+++ b/rclone_python/rclone.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import json
 import re
-import logging
 from functools import wraps
 from shutil import which
 from typing import Optional, Tuple, Union, List, Dict, Callable
@@ -8,10 +7,7 @@
 from rclone_python import utils
 from rclone_python.hash_types import HashTypes
 from rclone_python.remote_types import RemoteTypes
-
-
-# debug flag enables/disables raw output of rclone progresses in the terminal
-DEBUG = False
+from rclone_python.logs import logger
 
 
 def __check_installed(func):
@@ -27,6 +23,15 @@ def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
     return wrapper
 
 
+def set_log_level(level: int):
+    """Change the log level of this wrapper.
+
+    Args:
+        level (int): The log level to use.
+    """
+    logger.setLevel(level)
+
+
 def is_installed() -> bool:
     """
     :return: True if rclone is correctly installed on the system.
@@ -92,12 +97,12 @@ def create_remote(
         command = f'config create "{remote_name}" "{remote_type}"'
 
         if client_id and client_secret:
-            logging.info("Using the provided client id and client secret.")
+            logger.info("Using the provided client id and client secret.")
 
             kwargs["client_id"] = client_id
             kwargs["client_secret"] = client_secret
         else:
-            logging.warning(
+            logger.warning(
                 "The drive client id and the client secret have not been set. Using defaults."
             )
 
@@ -614,7 +619,7 @@ def version(
         beta = beta[0] if beta else None
 
         if not latest or not beta:
-            logging.warning(
+            logger.warning(
                 f"Failed to get latest rclone versions. The following error was output by rclone:\n{stderr}"
             )
 
@@ -671,12 +676,11 @@ def _rclone_transfer_operation(
         prog_title,
         listener=listener,
         show_progress=show_progress,
-        debug=DEBUG,
         pbar=pbar,
     )
 
     if process.wait() == 0:
-        logging.info("Cloud upload completed.")
+        logger.info("Cloud upload completed.")
     else:
         raise utils.RcloneException(
             description=f"{command_descr} from {in_path} to {out_path} failed",
diff --git a/rclone_python/utils.py b/rclone_python/utils.py
index 6e5447c..782b28f 100644
--- a/rclone_python/utils.py
+++ b/rclone_python/utils.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 from rich.progress import Progress, TaskID, Task
 from pathlib import Path
+from rclone_python.logs import logger
 
 from rich.progress import (
     Progress,
@@ -92,7 +93,6 @@ def rclone_progress(
     pbar_title: str,
     show_progress=True,
     listener: Callable[[Dict], None] = None,
-    debug=False,
     pbar: Optional[Progress] = None,
 ) -> Tuple[subprocess.Popen, List[str]]:
     total_progress_id = None
@@ -123,17 +123,14 @@ def rclone_progress(
             if listener:
                 listener(update_dict)
 
-            if debug:
-                if show_progress:
-                    pbar.log(line)
-                else:
-                    print(line)
+            logger.debug(line)
 
         else:
             if update_dict is not None:
                 obj = update_dict.get("object", "")
                 msg = update_dict.get("msg", "<Error message missing>")
                 errors.append((obj + ": " if obj else "") + msg)
+                logger.warning(f"Rclone omitted an error: {update_dict}")
 
     if show_progress:
         if process.wait() == 0: