diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fe80d43..2b8f45e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -239,12 +239,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap-verbosity-flag"
-version = "2.2.3"
+version = "3.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "34c77f67047557f62582784fd7482884697731b2932c7d37ced54bce2312e1e2"
+checksum = "42dcf89bb9d98abb02e9a4a8ef1cce429e547a803460a8245c399860985d5281"
 dependencies = [
  "clap",
- "log",
+ "tracing-core",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3e60cac..d977c4e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,16 +14,13 @@ axum-auth = { version = "0.7", default-features = false, features = [
 axum-client-ip = "0.6"
 base64 = "0.22"
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive", "env"] }
-clap-verbosity-flag = "2"
+clap-verbosity-flag = { version = "3", default-features = false, features = [
+  "tracing",
+] }
 http = "1"
 miette = { version = "7", features = ["fancy"] }
 ring = { version = "0.17", features = ["std"] }
-tokio = { version = "1", features = [
-  "macros",
-  "rt",
-  "process",
-  "io-util",
-] }
+tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "rt", "process", "io-util"] }
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 7e2ffae..e216b58 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use clap_verbosity_flag::Verbosity;
 use http::StatusCode;
 use miette::{bail, ensure, Context, IntoDiagnostic, Result};
 use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;
-use tracing::{debug, error, info, level_filters::LevelFilter, trace, warn};
+use tracing::{debug, error, info, trace, warn};
 use tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter;
 
 mod password;
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const DEFAULT_SALT: &str = "UpdateMyDNS";
 #[derive(Debug, Parser)]
 struct Opts {
     #[command(flatten)]
-    verbosity: Verbosity,
+    verbosity: Verbosity<clap_verbosity_flag::WarnLevel>,
 
     /// Ip address of the server
     #[arg(long, default_value = "127.0.0.1")]
@@ -151,28 +151,13 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
 
     // parse cli arguments
     let mut args = Opts::parse();
-    debug!("{args:?}");
 
     // configure logger
     let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::FmtSubscriber::builder()
         .without_time()
         .with_env_filter(
             EnvFilter::builder()
-                .with_default_directive(
-                    if args.verbosity.is_present() {
-                        match args.verbosity.log_level_filter() {
-                            clap_verbosity_flag::LevelFilter::Off => LevelFilter::OFF,
-                            clap_verbosity_flag::LevelFilter::Error => LevelFilter::ERROR,
-                            clap_verbosity_flag::LevelFilter::Warn => LevelFilter::WARN,
-                            clap_verbosity_flag::LevelFilter::Info => LevelFilter::INFO,
-                            clap_verbosity_flag::LevelFilter::Debug => LevelFilter::DEBUG,
-                            clap_verbosity_flag::LevelFilter::Trace => LevelFilter::TRACE,
-                        }
-                    } else {
-                        LevelFilter::WARN
-                    }
-                    .into(),
-                )
+                .with_default_directive(args.verbosity.tracing_level_filter().into())
                 .from_env_lossy(),
         )
         .finish();
@@ -180,6 +165,8 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
         .into_diagnostic()
         .wrap_err("setting global tracing subscriber")?;
 
+    debug!("{args:?}");
+
     // process subcommand
     if let Some(cmd) = args.subcommand.take() {
         return cmd.process(&args);