diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6a88584c..13a6affc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ tokio-openssl = "0.6.1"
 tokio-stream = "0.1.0"
 tower-service = "0.3.0"
 tracing = "0.1"
-tracing-journald = "0.3.0"
+tracing-journald = "0.3.1"
 tracing-log = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
 tracing-subscriber = "0.3.16"
 url = "2.2"
diff --git a/proxmox-log/debian/control b/proxmox-log/debian/control
index 4ad3f0f7..7e27b922 100644
--- a/proxmox-log/debian/control
+++ b/proxmox-log/debian/control
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Build-Depends-Arch: cargo:native <!nocheck>,
  librust-tokio-1+default-dev (>= 1.6-~~) <!nocheck>,
  librust-tokio-1+rt-multi-thread-dev (>= 1.6-~~) <!nocheck>,
  librust-tracing-0.1+default-dev <!nocheck>,
- librust-tracing-journald-0.3+default-dev <!nocheck>,
+ librust-tracing-journald-0.3+default-dev (>= 0.3.1-~~) <!nocheck>,
  librust-tracing-log-0.2+std-dev <!nocheck>,
  librust-tracing-subscriber-0.3+default-dev (>= 0.3.16-~~) <!nocheck>
 Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Depends:
  librust-tokio-1+default-dev (>= 1.6-~~),
  librust-tokio-1+rt-multi-thread-dev (>= 1.6-~~),
  librust-tracing-0.1+default-dev,
- librust-tracing-journald-0.3+default-dev,
+ librust-tracing-journald-0.3+default-dev (>= 0.3.1-~~),
  librust-tracing-log-0.2+std-dev,
  librust-tracing-subscriber-0.3+default-dev (>= 0.3.16-~~)
 Provides:
diff --git a/proxmox-log/src/lib.rs b/proxmox-log/src/lib.rs
index 7f041927..3a529cca 100644
--- a/proxmox-log/src/lib.rs
+++ b/proxmox-log/src/lib.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use std::future::Future;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 
 use tokio::task::futures::TaskLocalFuture;
+use tracing_journald::{Priority, PriorityMappings};
 use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
 
 mod file_logger;
@@ -115,7 +116,15 @@ where
     S: for<'a> tracing_subscriber::registry::LookupSpan<'a>,
 {
     match tracing_journald::layer() {
-        Ok(layer) => layer.boxed(),
+        Ok(layer) => layer
+            .with_priority_mappings(PriorityMappings {
+                error: Priority::Error,
+                warn: Priority::Warning,
+                info: Priority::Informational,
+                debug: Priority::Debug,
+                trace: Priority::Debug,
+            })
+            .boxed(),
         Err(err) => {
             eprintln!("Unable to open syslog: {err:?}");
             plain_stderr_layer().boxed()