diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index bb0adf6..a6b686b 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ pub struct Config {
     /// The log format to use
     pub log_format: LogFormat,
 
+    /// Enable ANSI encoding for logs
+    pub log_with_ansi: bool,
+
     /// The statsd address to report metrics to.
     pub statsd_addr: SocketAddr,
 
@@ -100,6 +103,7 @@ impl Default for Config {
             traces_sample_rate: Some(0.0),
             log_level: LogLevel::Debug,
             log_format: LogFormat::Text,
+            log_with_ansi: true,
             grpc_addr: "0.0.0.0".to_owned(),
             grpc_port: 50051,
             statsd_addr: "127.0.0.1:8126".parse().unwrap(),
@@ -203,6 +207,7 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(config.sentry_env, None);
         assert_eq!(config.log_level, LogLevel::Debug);
         assert_eq!(config.log_format, LogFormat::Text);
+        assert!(config.log_with_ansi);
         assert_eq!(config.grpc_port, 50051);
         assert_eq!(config.kafka_topic, "task-worker");
         assert_eq!(config.db_path, "./taskbroker-inflight.sqlite");
@@ -219,6 +224,7 @@ mod tests {
                 sentry_env: prod
                 log_level: info
                 log_format: json
+                log_with_ansi: false
                 statsd_addr: 127.0.0.1:8126
                 kafka_cluster: 10.0.0.1:9092,10.0.0.2:9092
                 kafka_topic: error-tasks
@@ -242,6 +248,7 @@ mod tests {
             assert_eq!(config.sentry_env, Some(Cow::Borrowed("prod")));
             assert_eq!(config.log_level, LogLevel::Error);
             assert_eq!(config.log_format, LogFormat::Json);
+            assert!(!config.log_with_ansi);
             assert_eq!(
                 config.kafka_cluster,
                 "10.0.0.1:9092,10.0.0.2:9092".to_owned()
diff --git a/src/logging.rs b/src/logging.rs
index df902e4..e502cb4 100644
--- a/src/logging.rs
+++ b/src/logging.rs
@@ -64,14 +64,17 @@ pub struct LoggingConfig {
     /// The environment to report to sentry errors to.
     pub sentry_env: Option<Cow<'static, str>>,
 
-    /// The tracing sample rate
+    /// The tracing sample rate.
     pub traces_sample_rate: f32,
 
     /// The log level to filter logging to.
     pub log_level: LogLevel,
 
-    /// The log format to use
+    /// The log format to use.
     pub log_format: LogFormat,
+
+    /// Enable ANSI encoding for formatted events.
+    pub with_ansi: bool,
 }
 
 impl LoggingConfig {
@@ -82,6 +85,7 @@ impl LoggingConfig {
             traces_sample_rate: config.traces_sample_rate.unwrap_or(0.0),
             log_level: config.log_level,
             log_format: config.log_format,
+            with_ansi: config.log_with_ansi,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -114,8 +118,9 @@ pub fn init(log_config: LoggingConfig) {
             .with_span_list(true)
             .with_file(true)
             .with_line_number(true)
+            .with_ansi(log_config.with_ansi)
             .boxed(),
-        LogFormat::Text => subscriber.compact().boxed(),
+        LogFormat::Text => subscriber.compact().with_ansi(log_config.with_ansi).boxed(),
     };
 
     let logs_subscriber = tracing_subscriber::registry()