Some log fine tuning.

app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ declare(strict_types = 1);
 namespace FireflyIII\Providers;
 
 use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
-
+use Log;
+use Config;
 /**
  * Class AppServiceProvider
  *
@@ -29,6 +30,10 @@ class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
      */
     public function register()
     {
-        //
+        // make sure the logger doesn't log everything when it doesn't need to.
+        $monolog = Log::getMonolog();
+        foreach ($monolog->getHandlers() as $handler) {
+            $handler->setLevel(Config::get('app.log-level'));
+        }
     }
 }