diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c8d034e..a73f304 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
  "tracing",
+ "tracing-journald",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
@@ -454,18 +455,18 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
-version = "1.0.138"
+version = "1.0.139"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1578c6245786b9d168c5447eeacfb96856573ca56c9d68fdcf394be134882a47"
+checksum = "0171ebb889e45aa68b44aee0859b3eede84c6f5f5c228e6f140c0b2a0a46cad6"
 dependencies = [
  "serde_derive",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_derive"
-version = "1.0.138"
+version = "1.0.139"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "023e9b1467aef8a10fb88f25611870ada9800ef7e22afce356bb0d2387b6f27c"
+checksum = "dc1d3230c1de7932af58ad8ffbe1d784bd55efd5a9d84ac24f69c72d83543dfb"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -630,6 +631,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-journald"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ba316a74e8fc3c3896a850dba2375928a9fa171b085ecddfc7c054d39970f3fd"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "tracing-core",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-log"
 version = "0.1.3"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cc06395..39fcad8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,4 +19,5 @@ serde_json = "1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
 tokio-util = "0.7"
 tracing = "0.1"
+tracing-journald = "0.3.0"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index b5733fd..40a93a3 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
 	color_eyre::install().wrap_err("failed to install color_eyre error handler")?;
 
 	tracing_subscriber::registry()
+		.with(tracing_journald::layer().wrap_err("failed to connect to journald")?)
 		.with(fmt::layer())
 		.with(
 			EnvFilter::builder()