diff --git a/backend/onyx/background/celery/apps/app_base.py b/backend/onyx/background/celery/apps/app_base.py
index 7827fd054b3..07286745337 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/background/celery/apps/app_base.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/background/celery/apps/app_base.py
@@ -414,11 +414,21 @@ def on_setup_logging(
     task_logger.setLevel(loglevel)
     task_logger.propagate = False
 
-    # Hide celery task received and succeeded/failed messages
+    # hide celery task received spam
+    # e.g. "Task check_for_pruning[a1e96171-0ba8-4e00-887b-9fbf7442eab3] received"
     strategy.logger.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+
+    # uncomment this to hide celery task succeeded/failed spam
+    # e.g. "Task check_for_pruning[a1e96171-0ba8-4e00-887b-9fbf7442eab3] succeeded in 0.03137450001668185s: None"
     trace.logger.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
 
 
+def set_task_finished_log_level(logLevel: int) -> None:
+    """call this to override the setLevel in on_setup_logging. We are interested
+    in the task timings in the cloud but it can be spammy for self hosted."""
+    trace.logger.setLevel(logLevel)
+
+
 class TenantContextFilter(logging.Filter):
 
     """Logging filter to inject tenant ID into the logger's name."""
diff --git a/backend/onyx/background/celery/apps/primary.py b/backend/onyx/background/celery/apps/primary.py
index 5a3b61552f9..267d51ade7c 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/background/celery/apps/primary.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/background/celery/apps/primary.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import logging
 import multiprocessing
 from typing import Any
 from typing import cast
@@ -194,6 +195,10 @@ def on_setup_logging(
 ) -> None:
     app_base.on_setup_logging(loglevel, logfile, format, colorize, **kwargs)
 
+    # this can be spammy, so just enable it in the cloud for now
+    if MULTI_TENANT:
+        app_base.set_task_finished_log_level(logging.INFO)
+
 
 class HubPeriodicTask(bootsteps.StartStopStep):
     """Regularly reacquires the primary worker lock outside of the task queue.