diff --git a/examples/rust/Cargo.lock b/examples/rust/Cargo.lock
index 04d32196..09fee1a7 100644
--- a/examples/rust/Cargo.lock
+++ b/examples/rust/Cargo.lock
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "lru",
  "rustc-demangle",
+ "tracing",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -458,6 +459,12 @@ version = "0.3.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ef53942eb7bf7ff43a617b3e2c1c4a5ecf5944a7c1bc12d7ee39bbb15e5c1519"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "log"
+version = "0.4.19"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b06a4cde4c0f271a446782e3eff8de789548ce57dbc8eca9292c27f4a42004b4"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "lru"
 version = "0.10.1"
@@ -467,6 +474,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "hashbrown 0.13.2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "matchers"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8263075bb86c5a1b1427b5ae862e8889656f126e9f77c484496e8b47cf5c5558"
+dependencies = [
+ "regex-automata",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
 version = "2.5.0"
@@ -524,6 +540,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nu-ansi-term"
+version = "0.46.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "77a8165726e8236064dbb45459242600304b42a5ea24ee2948e18e023bf7ba84"
+dependencies = [
+ "overload",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num_enum"
 version = "0.5.7"
@@ -567,6 +593,18 @@ version = "6.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9ff7415e9ae3fff1225851df9e0d9e4e5479f947619774677a63572e55e80eff"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "overload"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b15813163c1d831bf4a13c3610c05c0d03b39feb07f7e09fa234dac9b15aaf39"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pin-project-lite"
+version = "0.2.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "12cc1b0bf1727a77a54b6654e7b5f1af8604923edc8b81885f8ec92f9e3f0a05"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pkg-config"
 version = "0.3.25"
@@ -633,6 +671,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "libbpf-rs",
  "libc",
  "nix 0.24.2",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -664,6 +704,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex-syntax",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "regex-automata"
+version = "0.1.10"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6c230d73fb8d8c1b9c0b3135c5142a8acee3a0558fb8db5cf1cb65f8d7862132"
+dependencies = [
+ "regex-syntax",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "regex-syntax"
 version = "0.6.27"
@@ -768,6 +817,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sharded-slab"
+version = "0.1.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "900fba806f70c630b0a382d0d825e17a0f19fcd059a2ade1ff237bcddf446b31"
+dependencies = [
+ "lazy_static",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "smallvec"
+version = "1.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "62bb4feee49fdd9f707ef802e22365a35de4b7b299de4763d44bfea899442ff9"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "stable_deref_trait"
 version = "1.2.0"
@@ -892,6 +956,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "thread_local"
+version = "1.1.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3fdd6f064ccff2d6567adcb3873ca630700f00b5ad3f060c25b5dcfd9a4ce152"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "once_cell",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.5.9"
@@ -915,6 +989,68 @@ dependencies = [
  "structopt",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing"
+version = "0.1.37"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8ce8c33a8d48bd45d624a6e523445fd21ec13d3653cd51f681abf67418f54eb8"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tracing-attributes",
+ "tracing-core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-attributes"
+version = "0.1.23"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4017f8f45139870ca7e672686113917c71c7a6e02d4924eda67186083c03081a"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-core"
+version = "0.1.31"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0955b8137a1df6f1a2e9a37d8a6656291ff0297c1a97c24e0d8425fe2312f79a"
+dependencies = [
+ "once_cell",
+ "valuable",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-log"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "78ddad33d2d10b1ed7eb9d1f518a5674713876e97e5bb9b7345a7984fbb4f922"
+dependencies = [
+ "lazy_static",
+ "log",
+ "tracing-core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-subscriber"
+version = "0.3.17"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "30a651bc37f915e81f087d86e62a18eec5f79550c7faff886f7090b4ea757c77"
+dependencies = [
+ "matchers",
+ "nu-ansi-term",
+ "once_cell",
+ "regex",
+ "sharded-slab",
+ "smallvec",
+ "thread_local",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-core",
+ "tracing-log",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-ident"
 version = "1.0.3"
@@ -933,6 +1069,12 @@ version = "0.1.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3ed742d4ea2bd1176e236172c8429aaf54486e7ac098db29ffe6529e0ce50973"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "valuable"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "830b7e5d4d90034032940e4ace0d9a9a057e7a45cd94e6c007832e39edb82f6d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "vec_map"
 version = "0.8.2"
diff --git a/examples/rust/profile/Cargo.toml b/examples/rust/profile/Cargo.toml
index b897af4a..9899e44c 100644
--- a/examples/rust/profile/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/rust/profile/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ license = "GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
-blazesym = { path = "../../../blazesym" }
+blazesym = { path = "../../../blazesym", features = ["tracing"] }
 clap = { version = "4.0", features = ["derive"] }
 libbpf-rs = "0.19"
 libc = "*"
 nix = "0.24.1"
+tracing = "0.1"
+tracing-subscriber = {version = "0.3", features = ["ansi", "env-filter", "fmt"]}
 
 [build-dependencies]
 libbpf-cargo = "0.13"
diff --git a/examples/rust/profile/src/main.rs b/examples/rust/profile/src/main.rs
index b34e9edc..1007de86 100644
--- a/examples/rust/profile/src/main.rs
+++ b/examples/rust/profile/src/main.rs
@@ -5,10 +5,17 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 
 use blazesym::symbolize;
 
+use clap::ArgAction;
 use clap::Parser;
 
 use nix::unistd::close;
 
+use tracing::subscriber::set_global_default as set_global_subscriber;
+use tracing_subscriber::filter::LevelFilter;
+use tracing_subscriber::fmt::format::FmtSpan;
+use tracing_subscriber::fmt::time::SystemTime;
+use tracing_subscriber::FmtSubscriber;
+
 #[path = "bpf/.output/profile.skel.rs"]
 mod profile;
 mod syscall;
@@ -181,10 +188,27 @@ struct Args {
     /// Sampling frequency
     #[arg(short, default_value_t = 1)]
     freq: u64,
+    /// Increase verbosity (can be supplied multiple times).
+    #[arg(short = 'v', long = "verbose", global = true, action = ArgAction::Count)]
+    verbosity: u8,
 }
 
 fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
     let args = Args::parse();
+    let level = match args.verbosity {
+        0 => LevelFilter::WARN,
+        1 => LevelFilter::INFO,
+        2 => LevelFilter::DEBUG,
+        _ => LevelFilter::TRACE,
+    };
+
+    let subscriber = FmtSubscriber::builder()
+        .with_max_level(level)
+        .with_span_events(FmtSpan::FULL)
+        .with_timer(SystemTime)
+        .finish();
+    let () = set_global_subscriber(subscriber).expect("failed to set tracing subscriber");
+
     let freq = if args.freq < 1 { 1 } else { args.freq };
 
     let symbolizer = symbolize::Symbolizer::new();