diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index dfa1820f..a6747aeb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ collections/
 node_modules/
 crawls/
 test-crawls/
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/crawler.js b/crawler.js
index 83933fdf..d3a2aa43 100644
--- a/crawler.js
+++ b/crawler.js
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ export class Crawler {
 
     const debugLogging = this.params.logging.includes("debug");
     logger.setDebugLogging(debugLogging);
+    logger.setLogLevel(this.params.logLevel);
+    logger.setContext(this.params.context);
 
     logger.debug("Writing log to: " + this.logFilename, {}, "init");
 
diff --git a/tests/log_filtering.test.js b/tests/log_filtering.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fbc8bf41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/log_filtering.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import child_process from "child_process";
+import fs from "fs";
+import path from "path";
+
+
+function jsonLinesToArray(string) {
+  return string.split("\n")
+    .filter((line) => {
+      try {
+        JSON.parse(line);
+        return true;
+      } catch (error) {
+        return false;
+      }
+    })
+    .map(line => JSON.parse(line));
+}
+
+
+test("ensure crawl run with log options passes", async () => {
+  child_process.execSync("docker run -v $PWD/test-crawls:/crawls webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler crawl --url http://specs.webrecorder.net --generateWACZ --collection wr-specs-logs --logging debug,stats --logLevel debug,warn --context general");
+});
+
+
+test("check that log files exist and were filtered according to options", () => {
+  const logDir = "test-crawls/collections/wr-specs-logs/logs/";
+  const logFiles = [];
+  fs.readdirSync(logDir).forEach(file => {
+    if (file.startsWith("crawl-") && file.endsWith(".log")) {
+      logFiles.push(path.join(logDir, file));
+    }
+  });
+
+  expect(logFiles.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+  for (let i=0; i < logFiles.length; i++) {
+    const logFile = logFiles[i];
+    const parsedJSONLines = jsonLinesToArray(fs.readFileSync(logFile, "utf8"));
+
+    expect(parsedJSONLines.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    parsedJSONLines.forEach((jsonLine) => {
+      expect(jsonLine.logLevel === "debug" || jsonLine.logLevel === "warn").toBe(true);
+      expect(jsonLine.context).toBe("general");
+    });
+  }
+});
diff --git a/util/argParser.js b/util/argParser.js
index 4bc6c1e2..4f41dfc3 100644
--- a/util/argParser.js
+++ b/util/argParser.js
@@ -176,6 +176,18 @@ class ArgParser {
         default: "stats",
       },
 
+      "logLevel": {
+        describe: "Comma-separated list of log levels to include in logs",
+        type: "string",
+        default: "",
+      },
+
+      "context": {
+        describe: "Comma-separated list of contexts to include in logs",
+        type: "string",
+        default: "",
+      },
+
       "text": {
         describe: "If set, extract text to the pages.jsonl file",
         type: "boolean",
@@ -389,6 +401,8 @@ class ArgParser {
 
     // log options
     argv.logging = argv.logging.split(",");
+    argv.logLevel = argv.logLevel ? argv.logLevel.split(",") : [];
+    argv.context = argv.context ? argv.context.split(",") : [];
 
     // background behaviors to apply
     const behaviorOpts = {};
diff --git a/util/logger.js b/util/logger.js
index b3cdc1b1..170130fa 100644
--- a/util/logger.js
+++ b/util/logger.js
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ class Logger
   constructor() {
     this.logStream = null;
     this.debugLogging = null;
+    this.logLevels = [];
+    this.contexts = [];
   }
 
   setExternalLogStream(logFH) {
@@ -25,12 +27,33 @@ class Logger
     this.debugLogging = debugLog;
   }
 
+  setLogLevel(logLevels) {
+    this.logLevels = logLevels;
+  }
+
+  setContext(contexts) {
+    this.contexts = contexts;
+  }
+
   logAsJSON(message, data, context, logLevel="info") {
     if (data instanceof Error) {
       data = errJSON(data);
     } else if (typeof data !== "object") {
       data = {"message": data.toString()};
     }
+
+    if (this.logLevels.length) {
+      if (this.logLevels.indexOf(logLevel) < 0) {
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (this.contexts.length) {
+      if (this.contexts.indexOf(context) < 0) {
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+
     let dataToLog = {
       "logLevel": logLevel,
       "timestamp": new Date().toISOString(),