diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c8f3b9b..688226b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,3 +27,4 @@ pubsub = { path = "../pubsub" }
 [features]
 no-thrash = []
 trace = []
+test = []
diff --git a/src/influx.rs b/src/influx.rs
index 8624db6..088492c 100644
--- a/src/influx.rs
+++ b/src/influx.rs
@@ -216,12 +216,12 @@ impl InfluxWriter {
         let (tx, rx) = channel();
         let logger = file_logger(log_path, Severity::Info);
         let thread = thread::spawn(move || {
-            info!(logger, "initializing url";
+            debug!(logger, "initializing url";
                   "DB_HOST" => host, 
                   "DB_NAME" => db);
             let url = Url::parse_with_params(&format!("http://{}:8086/write", host), &[("db", db), ("precision", "ns")]).expect("influx writer url should parse");
             let client = Client::new();
-            info!(logger, "initializing buffers");
+            debug!(logger, "initializing buffers");
             let mut meas_buf = String::with_capacity(32 * 32 * 32);
             let mut buf = String::with_capacity(32 * 32 * 32);
             let mut count = 0;
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ impl InfluxWriter {
                 }
             }
 
-            crit!(logger, "goodbye");
+            debug!(logger, "goodbye");
         });
 
         InfluxWriter {
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 1bf90b5..4149355 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ pub fn nanos(t: DateTime<Utc>) -> u64 {
     (t.timestamp() as u64) * 1_000_000_000_u64 + (t.timestamp_subsec_nanos() as u64)
 }
 
-#[cfg(not(test))]
+#[cfg(not(any(test, feature = "test")))]
 pub fn file_logger(path: &str, level: Severity) -> slog::Logger {
     let mut builder = FileLoggerBuilder::new(path);
     builder.level(level);
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ pub fn file_logger(path: &str, level: Severity) -> slog::Logger {
 }
 
 
-#[cfg(test)]
+#[cfg(any(test, feature = "test"))]
 pub fn file_logger(path: &str, level: Severity) -> slog::Logger {
     use slog::*;
     Logger::root(Discard, o!())