diff --git a/redis.conf b/redis.conf
index 59217120..8cea68aa 100644
--- a/redis.conf
+++ b/redis.conf
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ timeout 0
 # verbose (many rarely useful info, but not a mess like the debug level)
 # notice (moderately verbose, what you want in production probably)
 # warning (only very important / critical messages are logged)
-loglevel verbose
+loglevel notice
 
 # Specify the log file name. Also 'stdout' can be used to force
 # Redis to log on the standard output. Note that if you use standard
diff --git a/src/redis.c b/src/redis.c
index 75ec0d81..412acf18 100644
--- a/src/redis.c
+++ b/src/redis.c
@@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ void initServerConfig() {
     server.ipfd = -1;
     server.sofd = -1;
     server.dbnum = REDIS_DEFAULT_DBNUM;
-    server.verbosity = REDIS_VERBOSE;
+    server.verbosity = REDIS_NOTICE;
     server.maxidletime = REDIS_MAXIDLETIME;
     server.client_max_querybuf_len = REDIS_MAX_QUERYBUF_LEN;
     server.saveparams = NULL;