diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4ae1ab2070e..73d3529b221 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4452,6 +4452,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "smallvec 1.6.1",
  "tempfile",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
+ "tracing-tree",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/src/librustdoc/Cargo.toml b/src/librustdoc/Cargo.toml
index 1b9a35e6491..44c2c3b1786 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/librustdoc/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ tempfile = "3"
 itertools = "0.9"
 regex = "1"
 rustdoc-json-types = { path = "../rustdoc-json-types" }
+tracing = "0.1"
+tracing-tree = "0.1.6"
+
+[dependencies.tracing-subscriber]
+version = "0.2.13"
+default-features = false
+features = ["fmt", "env-filter", "smallvec", "parking_lot", "ansi"]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 expect-test = "1.0"
diff --git a/src/librustdoc/lib.rs b/src/librustdoc/lib.rs
index d7978c4a022..2c43489e989 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/lib.rs
+++ b/src/librustdoc/lib.rs
@@ -95,7 +95,19 @@ mod visit_lib;
 pub fn main() {
     rustc_driver::set_sigpipe_handler();
     rustc_driver::install_ice_hook();
+
+    // When using CI artifacts (with `download_stage1 = true`), tracing is unconditionally built
+    // with `--features=static_max_level_info`, which disables almost all rustdoc logging. To avoid
+    // this, compile our own version of `tracing` that logs all levels.
+    // NOTE: this compiles both versions of tracing unconditionally, because
+    // - The compile time hit is not that bad, especially compared to rustdoc's incremental times, and
+    // - Otherwise, there's no warning that logging is being ignored when `download_stage1 = true`.
+    // NOTE: The reason this doesn't show double logging when `download_stage1 = false` and
+    // `debug_logging = true` is because all rustc logging goes to its version of tracing (the one
+    // in the sysroot), and all of rustdoc's logging goes to its version (the one in Cargo.toml).
+    init_logging();
     rustc_driver::init_env_logger("RUSTDOC_LOG");
+
     let exit_code = rustc_driver::catch_with_exit_code(|| match get_args() {
         Some(args) => main_args(&args),
         _ => Err(ErrorReported),
@@ -103,6 +115,68 @@ pub fn main() {
     process::exit(exit_code);
 }
 
+fn init_logging() {
+    use std::io;
+
+    // FIXME remove these and use winapi 0.3 instead
+    // Duplicates: bootstrap/compile.rs, librustc_errors/emitter.rs, rustc_driver/lib.rs
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    fn stdout_isatty() -> bool {
+        extern crate libc;
+        unsafe { libc::isatty(libc::STDOUT_FILENO) != 0 }
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(windows)]
+    fn stdout_isatty() -> bool {
+        extern crate winapi;
+        use winapi::um::consoleapi::GetConsoleMode;
+        use winapi::um::processenv::GetStdHandle;
+        use winapi::um::winbase::STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE;
+
+        unsafe {
+            let handle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
+            let mut out = 0;
+            GetConsoleMode(handle, &mut out) != 0
+        }
+    }
+
+    let color_logs = match std::env::var("RUSTDOC_LOG_COLOR") {
+        Ok(value) => match value.as_ref() {
+            "always" => true,
+            "never" => false,
+            "auto" => stdout_isatty(),
+            _ => early_error(
+                ErrorOutputType::default(),
+                &format!(
+                    "invalid log color value '{}': expected one of always, never, or auto",
+                    value
+                ),
+            ),
+        },
+        Err(std::env::VarError::NotPresent) => stdout_isatty(),
+        Err(std::env::VarError::NotUnicode(_value)) => early_error(
+            ErrorOutputType::default(),
+            "non-Unicode log color value: expected one of always, never, or auto",
+        ),
+    };
+    let filter = tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::from_env("RUSTDOC_LOG");
+    let layer = tracing_tree::HierarchicalLayer::default()
+        .with_writer(io::stderr)
+        .with_indent_lines(true)
+        .with_ansi(color_logs)
+        .with_targets(true)
+        .with_wraparound(10)
+        .with_verbose_exit(true)
+        .with_verbose_entry(true)
+        .with_indent_amount(2);
+    #[cfg(parallel_compiler)]
+    let layer = layer.with_thread_ids(true).with_thread_names(true);
+
+    use tracing_subscriber::layer::SubscriberExt;
+    let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::Registry::default().with(filter).with(layer);
+    tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber).unwrap();
+}
+
 fn get_args() -> Option<Vec<String>> {
     env::args_os()
         .enumerate()