diff --git a/contrib/electrs.service b/contrib/electrs.service
index 697aa10bf..a41062097 100644
--- a/contrib/electrs.service
+++ b/contrib/electrs.service
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Description=Electrum Rust Server
 
 [Service]
 Type=simple
-ExecStart=/path/to/electrs/target/release/electrs -vv --db-dir /path/to/electrs/db/
+ExecStart=/path/to/electrs/target/release/electrs --log-filters INFO --db-dir /path/to/electrs/db/
 Restart=on-failure
 RestartSec=60
 Environment="RUST_BACKTRACE=1"
diff --git a/doc/config.md b/doc/config.md
index 532e5f64a..cc9599f01 100644
--- a/doc/config.md
+++ b/doc/config.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ For each command line argument an **environment variable** of the same name with
 
 Similarly, for each such argument an option in config file exists with underscores instead of hypens (e.g. `electrum_rpc_addr`).
 
-You need to use a number in config file if you want to increase verbosity (e.g. `verbose = 3` is equivalent to `-vvv`) and `true` value in case of flags (e.g. `timestamp = true`)
+You need to use `true` value in case of flags (e.g. `timestamp = true`).
 
 **Authentication**
 
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ After=bitcoind.service
 
 [Service]
 WorkingDirectory=/home/bitcoin/electrs
-ExecStart=/home/bitcoin/electrs/target/release/electrs -vv --db-dir ./db --electrum-rpc-addr="127.0.0.1:50001"
+ExecStart=/home/bitcoin/electrs/target/release/electrs --log-filters INFO --db-dir ./db --electrum-rpc-addr="127.0.0.1:50001"
 User=bitcoin
 Group=bitcoin
 Type=simple
diff --git a/doc/config_example.toml b/doc/config_example.toml
index 55aa7a17c..1272ddbb9 100644
--- a/doc/config_example.toml
+++ b/doc/config_example.toml
@@ -28,5 +28,4 @@ network = "bitcoin"
 electrum_rpc_addr = "127.0.0.1:50001"
 
 # How much information about internal workings should electrs print. Increase before reporting a bug.
-verbose = 2
-
+log_filters = "INFO"
diff --git a/doc/upgrading.md b/doc/upgrading.md
index e7b6a91a5..dd572d54a 100644
--- a/doc/upgrading.md
+++ b/doc/upgrading.md
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 
 * If you use `verbose` (or `-v` argument), switch to `log_filters` (or `RUST_LOG` environment variable).
   Please note that it allows to set per-module filters, but module naming is considered unstable.
+  If you have used `-vv` (the value suggested in the documentation), switch to `--log-filters INFO`:
+
+
+|Log filter|Old `verbose` value|Description                                                           |
+|----------|-------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
+|ERROR     |                  0|Only fatal errors                                                     |
+|WARN      |                  1|Things that could indicate serious problems                           |
+|INFO      |                  2|Various significant events and suggestions                            |
+|DEBUG     |                  3|Details that could be useful when debugging - only use when debugging!|
+|TRACE     |                  4|**Very** detailed information - only use when debugging!              |  
 
 
 ### Important changes from versions older than 0.9.0
diff --git a/doc/usage.md b/doc/usage.md
index 00ff896dc..55b5d566f 100644
--- a/doc/usage.md
+++ b/doc/usage.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ First index sync should take ~4 hours for ~336GB @ August 2021 (on a dual core I
 $ du -ch ~/.bitcoin/blocks/blk*.dat | tail -n1
 336G  total
 
-$ ./target/release/electrs -vv --timestamp --db-dir ./db --electrum-rpc-addr="127.0.0.1:50001"
+$ ./target/release/electrs --log-filters INFO --timestamp --db-dir ./db --electrum-rpc-addr="127.0.0.1:50001"
 Config { network: Bitcoin, db_path: "./db/bitcoin", daemon_dir: "/home/user/.bitcoin", daemon_auth: CookieFile("/home/user/.bitcoin/.cookie"), daemon_rpc_addr: V4(127.0.0.1:8332), daemon_p2p_addr: V4(127.0.0.1:8333), electrum_rpc_addr: V4(127.0.0.1:50001), monitoring_addr: V4(127.0.0.1:4224), wait_duration: 10s, index_batch_size: 10, index_lookup_limit: 100, ignore_mempool: false, server_banner: "Welcome to electrs 0.9.0 (Electrum Rust Server)!", args: [] }
 [2021-08-17T18:48:40.054Z INFO  electrs::metrics::metrics_impl] serving Prometheus metrics on 127.0.0.1:4224
 [2021-08-17T18:48:40.944Z INFO  electrs::db] "./db/bitcoin": 0 SST files, 0 GB, 0 Grows