diff --git a/sea-orm-cli/Cargo.toml b/sea-orm-cli/Cargo.toml
index 0c8a066059..6dca13bb35 100644
--- a/sea-orm-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sea-orm-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ sea-schema = { version = "0.3.0", default-features = false, features = [
     "writer",
 ] }
 sqlx = { version = "^0.5", default-features = false, features = [ "mysql", "postgres" ] }
-env_logger = { version = "^0.9" }
-log = { version = "^0.4" }
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
+tracing = { version = "0.1" }
 url = "^2.2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/sea-orm-cli/src/main.rs b/sea-orm-cli/src/main.rs
index 2c7848ce98..2a3fda0d22 100644
--- a/sea-orm-cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/sea-orm-cli/src/main.rs
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ async fn run_generate_command(matches: &ArgMatches<'_>) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Er
             let expanded_format = args.is_present("EXPANDED_FORMAT");
             let with_serde = args.value_of("WITH_SERDE").unwrap();
             if args.is_present("VERBOSE") {
-                let _ = ::env_logger::builder()
-                    .filter_level(LevelFilter::Debug)
-                    .is_test(true)
+                let _ = tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+                    .with_max_level(tracing::Level::DEBUG)
+                    .with_test_writer()
                     .try_init();
             }