diff --git a/roles/fedimg/files/cron/kill_ec2_nodes.py b/roles/fedimg/files/cron/kill_ec2_nodes.py
index 7e654f7b04..4bfb96c5b8 100644
--- a/roles/fedimg/files/cron/kill_ec2_nodes.py
+++ b/roles/fedimg/files/cron/kill_ec2_nodes.py
@@ -4,12 +4,15 @@
 # NOTE this is taken from the github repo
 # https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedimg/blob/develop/bin/kill_ec2_nodes.py
 
+import logging
+logging.basicConfig()
 
 from libcloud.compute.types import Provider
 from libcloud.compute.providers import get_driver
 import datetime
 import fedimg
 
+
 EC2_ACCESS_ID = fedimg.AWS_ACCESS_ID
 EC2_SECRET_KEY = fedimg.AWS_SECRET_KEY