diff --git a/gui/common_qt_functions.py b/gui/common_qt_functions.py
index 7e95e5828..1622c890f 100644
--- a/gui/common_qt_functions.py
+++ b/gui/common_qt_functions.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ def setComponentSettings(self, allMountSettings):
 
         allMountSettings['logging'] = {
             'type' : 'base',
-            'level' : 'log_err',
+            'level' : 'log_warning',
             'file-path' : '$HOME/.cloudfuse/cloudfuse.log',
             'max-file-size-mb' : 512,
             'file-count' : 10 ,