diff --git a/striker-ui-api/src/lib/accessModule.ts b/striker-ui-api/src/lib/accessModule.ts
index ab2a4d28..ee45ff6e 100644
--- a/striker-ui-api/src/lib/accessModule.ts
+++ b/striker-ui-api/src/lib/accessModule.ts
@@ -3,14 +3,16 @@ import EventEmitter from 'events';
 import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
 
 import {
-  SERVER_PATHS,
+  DEFAULT_JOB_PROGRESS,
+  DEBUG_ACCESS,
   PGID,
   PUID,
-  DEFAULT_JOB_PROGRESS,
   REP_UUID,
+  SERVER_PATHS,
 } from './consts';
 
 import { formatSql } from './formatSql';
+import { repeat } from './repeat';
 import {
   date,
   stderr as sherr,
@@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ class Access extends EventEmitter {
   }
 
   private start({
-    args = ['--emit-events'],
+    args = ['--emit-events', repeat('v', DEBUG_ACCESS, { prefix: '-' })],
     gid = PGID,
     restartInterval = 10000,
     stdio = 'pipe',
diff --git a/striker-ui-api/src/lib/consts/ENV.ts b/striker-ui-api/src/lib/consts/ENV.ts
index dd7fa2dd..8985870a 100644
--- a/striker-ui-api/src/lib/consts/ENV.ts
+++ b/striker-ui-api/src/lib/consts/ENV.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ export const COOKIE_PREFIX = process.env.COOKIE_PREFIX ?? 'suiapi';
 export const COOKIE_ORIGINAL_MAX_AGE: number =
   Number(process.env.COOKIE_ORIGINAL_MAX_AGE) || 28800000;
 
+/**
+ * The debug level to pass to anvil-access-module; 1 is '-v', 2 is '-vv', ...
+ *
+ * @default 0
+ */
+export const DEBUG_ACCESS = Number(process.env.DEBUG_ACCESS) || 0;
+
 /**
  * The fallback job progress value when queuing jobs.
  *