diff --git a/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_payload.go b/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_payload.go
index df8ffc04cc..34685e8bbe 100644
--- a/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_payload.go
+++ b/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_payload.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/tinylib/msgp/msgp"
 	"gopkg.in/DataDog/dd-trace-go.v1/internal/globalconfig"
+	"gopkg.in/DataDog/dd-trace-go.v1/internal/log"
 	"gopkg.in/DataDog/dd-trace-go.v1/internal/version"
 )
 
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ func (p *ciVisibilityPayload) push(event *ciVisibilityEvent) error {
 //
 //	A pointer to a newly initialized civisibilitypayload instance.
 func newCiVisibilityPayload() *ciVisibilityPayload {
+	log.Debug("ciVisibilityPayload: creating payload instance")
 	return &ciVisibilityPayload{newPayload()}
 }
 
@@ -61,6 +63,7 @@ func newCiVisibilityPayload() *ciVisibilityPayload {
 //	A pointer to a bytes.Buffer containing the encoded CI Visibility payload.
 //	An error if reading from the buffer or encoding the payload fails.
 func (p *ciVisibilityPayload) getBuffer(config *config) (*bytes.Buffer, error) {
+	log.Debug("ciVisibilityPayload: .getBuffer (count: %v)", p.itemCount())
 
 	/*
 			The Payload format in the CI Visibility protocol is like this:
diff --git a/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_transport.go b/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_transport.go
index db64b5d73d..0731332022 100644
--- a/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_transport.go
+++ b/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_transport.go
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ func newCiVisibilityTransport(config *config) *ciVisibilityTransport {
 		testCycleURL = fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s/%s", config.agentURL.String(), EvpProxyPath, TestCyclePath)
 	}
 
+	log.Debug("ciVisibilityTransport: creating transport instance [agentless: %v, testcycleurl: %v]", agentlessEnabled, testCycleURL)
+
 	return &ciVisibilityTransport{
 		config:           config,
 		testCycleURLPath: testCycleURL,
@@ -157,6 +159,7 @@ func (t *ciVisibilityTransport) send(p *payload) (body io.ReadCloser, err error)
 		req.Header.Set("Content-Encoding", "gzip")
 	}
 
+	log.Debug("ciVisibilityTransport: sending transport request: %v bytes", buffer.Len())
 	response, err := t.config.httpClient.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
diff --git a/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_writer.go b/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_writer.go
index 1582b200a8..969b5edea6 100644
--- a/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_writer.go
+++ b/ddtrace/tracer/civisibility_writer.go
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ type ciVisibilityTraceWriter struct {
 //
 //	A pointer to an initialized ciVisibilityTraceWriter.
 func newCiVisibilityTraceWriter(c *config) *ciVisibilityTraceWriter {
+	log.Debug("ciVisibilityTraceWriter: creating trace writer instance")
 	return &ciVisibilityTraceWriter{
 		config:  c,
 		payload: newCiVisibilityPayload(),
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ func (w *ciVisibilityTraceWriter) add(trace []*span) {
 	for _, s := range trace {
 		cvEvent := getCiVisibilityEvent(s)
 		if err := w.payload.push(cvEvent); err != nil {
-			log.Error("Error encoding msgpack: %v", err)
+			log.Error("ciVisibilityTraceWriter: Error encoding msgpack: %v", err)
 		}
 		if w.payload.size() > agentlessPayloadSizeLimit {
 			w.flush()
@@ -104,16 +105,16 @@ func (w *ciVisibilityTraceWriter) flush() {
 		var err error
 		for attempt := 0; attempt <= w.config.sendRetries; attempt++ {
 			size, count = p.size(), p.itemCount()
-			log.Debug("Sending payload: size: %d events: %d\n", size, count)
+			log.Debug("ciVisibilityTraceWriter: sending payload: size: %d events: %d\n", size, count)
 			_, err = w.config.transport.send(p.payload)
 			if err == nil {
-				log.Debug("sent events after %d attempts", attempt+1)
+				log.Debug("ciVisibilityTraceWriter: sent events after %d attempts", attempt+1)
 				return
 			}
-			log.Error("failure sending events (attempt %d), will retry: %v", attempt+1, err)
+			log.Error("ciVisibilityTraceWriter: failure sending events (attempt %d), will retry: %v", attempt+1, err)
 			p.reset()
 			time.Sleep(time.Millisecond)
 		}
-		log.Error("lost %d events: %v", count, err)
+		log.Error("ciVisibilityTraceWriter: lost %d events: %v", count, err)
 	}(oldp)
 }