diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 08d86209..82c29c73 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ created.
 
 ### Added
 
+- ([#678](https://github.com/microsoft/InnerEye-DeepLearning/pull/678)) Add function to get log level name and use it for logging.
 - ([#666](https://github.com/microsoft/InnerEye-DeepLearning/pull/666)) Replace RadIO with TorchIO for patch-based inference.
 - ([#643](https://github.com/microsoft/InnerEye-DeepLearning/pull/643)) Test for recovery of SSL job. Tracks learning rate and train
 loss.
diff --git a/InnerEye/Common/common_util.py b/InnerEye/Common/common_util.py
index 0433da5a..aaf49e72 100644
--- a/InnerEye/Common/common_util.py
+++ b/InnerEye/Common/common_util.py
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ def logging_to_stdout(log_level: Union[int, str] = logging.INFO) -> None:
         logging_stdout_handler = logging.StreamHandler(stream=sys.stdout)
         _add_formatter(logging_stdout_handler)
         logger.addHandler(logging_stdout_handler)
-    print(f"Setting logging level to {log_level}")
+    print(f"Setting logging level to {log_level} ({get_log_level_string(log_level)})")
     logging_stdout_handler.setLevel(log_level)
     logger.setLevel(log_level)
 
@@ -170,6 +170,17 @@ def standardize_log_level(log_level: Union[int, str]) -> int:
     return log_level
 
 
+def get_log_level_string(log_level: int) -> str:
+    """
+    :param log_level: integer version of a log level, e.g. 20.
+    :return: string version of the level; throws an error if the level is not registered.
+    """
+    valid_levels = list(logging._levelToName.keys())
+    if log_level not in valid_levels:
+        raise ValueError(f"Log level {log_level} is not valid. Possible values are: {valid_levels}")
+    return logging._levelToName[log_level]
+
+
 def logging_to_file(file_path: Path) -> None:
     """
     Instructs the Python logging libraries to start writing logs to the given file.