diff --git a/tangostationcontrol/tangostationcontrol/common/lofar_logging.py b/tangostationcontrol/tangostationcontrol/common/lofar_logging.py
index 673af8f959edbdc748545bdcf6f08388c3fa944b..f6c6457d2d002276b91e6115026f892b6cb22fdf 100644
--- a/tangostationcontrol/tangostationcontrol/common/lofar_logging.py
+++ b/tangostationcontrol/tangostationcontrol/common/lofar_logging.py
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ def configure_logger(logger: logging.Logger=None, log_extra=None, debug=False):
     # don't spam errors for git, as we use it in our log handler, which would result in an infinite loop
     logging.getLogger("git").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
 
+    # don't spam debug messages when fetching URLs
+    logging.getLogger("urllib3").setLevel(logging.INFO)
+
     # for now, also log to stderr
     # Set up logging in a way that it can be understood by a human reader, be
     # easily grep'ed, be parsed with a couple of shell commands and