diff --git a/awx/settings/development.py b/awx/settings/development.py
index d181ca10fc..1df7a8b1bb 100644
--- a/awx/settings/development.py
+++ b/awx/settings/development.py
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ LOGGING['loggers']['awx.isolated.manager.playbooks']['propagate'] = True  # noqa
 
 # celery is annoyingly loud when docker containers start
 LOGGING['loggers'].pop('celery', None)  # noqa
+# avoid awx.main.dispatch WARNING-level scaling worker up/down messages
+LOGGING['loggers']['awx.main.dispatch']['level'] = 'ERROR'  # noqa
+# suppress the spamminess of the awx.main.scheduler and .tasks loggers
+LOGGING['loggers']['awx']['level'] = 'INFO'  # noqa
 
 ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
 
diff --git a/docs/debugging.md b/docs/debugging.md
index b6f2652962..a82d8b7d41 100644
--- a/docs/debugging.md
+++ b/docs/debugging.md
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ Django Debug Toolbar (DDT)
 ----------------
 This is a useful tool for examining SQL queries, performance, headers, requests, signals, cache, logging, and more.  
 
-To enable DDT, you need to set your `INTERNAL_IPS` to the IP address of your load balancer.  This can be overriden in `local_settings`.  
+To enable DDT, you need to set your `INTERNAL_IPS` to the IP address of your load balancer.  This can be overridden by creating a new settings file beginning with `local_` in `awx/settings/` (e.g. `local_overrides.py`).
 This IP address can be found by making a GET to any page on the browsable API and looking for a like this in the standard output:
 ```
 awx_1        | 14:42:08 uwsgi.1     | 172.18.0.1 GET /api/v2/tokens/ - HTTP/1.1 200
 ```
 
-Allow this IP address by adding it to the `INTERNAL_IPS` variable in `local_settings`, then navigate to the API and you should see DDT on the
+Allow this IP address by adding it to the `INTERNAL_IPS` variable in your new override local settings file, then navigate to the API and you should see DDT on the
 right side.  If you don't see it, make sure to set `DEBUG=True`.  
 > Note that enabling DDT is detrimental to the performance of AWX and adds overhead to every API request.  It is
 recommended to keep this turned off when you are not using it.  
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-1-receptor.conf b/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-1-receptor.conf
index dcaca8263f..8ade3b027f 100644
--- a/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-1-receptor.conf
+++ b/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-1-receptor.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-- log-level: debug
+- log-level: info
 
 - control-service:
     service: control
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-2-receptor.conf b/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-2-receptor.conf
index bf9d4889a0..639e8c8057 100644
--- a/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-2-receptor.conf
+++ b/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-2-receptor.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-- log-level: debug
+- log-level: info
 
 - control-service:
     service: control
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-3-receptor.conf b/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-3-receptor.conf
index ac5db0d284..cab92d6def 100644
--- a/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-3-receptor.conf
+++ b/tools/docker-compose-cluster/awx-3-receptor.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-- log-level: debug
+- log-level: info
 
 - control-service:
     service: control
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose/receptor.conf b/tools/docker-compose/receptor.conf
index d5ac25cf2d..7192be28dc 100644
--- a/tools/docker-compose/receptor.conf
+++ b/tools/docker-compose/receptor.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-- log-level: debug
+- log-level: info
 
 - control-service:
     service: control