diff --git a/docs/maintenance-and-troubleshooting.md b/docs/maintenance-and-troubleshooting.md
index ff1f9e49..18bfdd83 100644
--- a/docs/maintenance-and-troubleshooting.md
+++ b/docs/maintenance-and-troubleshooting.md
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ sudo journalctl -fu matrix-synapse
 
 Because the [Synapse](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse) Matrix server is originally very chatty when it comes to logging, we intentionally reduce its [logging level](https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html#logging-levels) from `INFO` to `WARNING`.
 
-If you'd like to debug an issue or [report a Synapse bug](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/new/choose) to the developers, it'd be better if you temporarily increasing the logging level to `INFO` or even `DEBUG`.
+If you'd like to debug an issue or [report a Synapse bug](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/new/choose) to the developers, it'd be better if you temporarily increasing the logging level to `INFO`.
 
 Example configuration (`inventory/host_vars/matrix.DOMAIN/vars.yml`):
 
 ```yaml
-matrix_synapse_log_level: "DEBUG"
-matrix_synapse_storage_sql_log_level: "DEBUG"
-matrix_synapse_root_log_level: "DEBUG"
+matrix_synapse_log_level: "INFO"
+matrix_synapse_storage_sql_log_level: "INFO"
+matrix_synapse_root_log_level: "INFO"
 ```
 
 Re-run the playbook after making these configuration changes.