diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 2e955d778d..cd139e4bf3 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -406,6 +406,9 @@ If you need to run any new migrations:
 make migrate_test
 ```
 
+This passes `--verbose` to the `migrate` command, which logs the name of each
+migration as it is applied.
+
 ## Testing
 
 Currently, we don't use a separate test database, so the same database created when installing Auth to run locally is used.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 995d5a93e9..8fadefd83d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ migrate_dev: ## Run database migrations for development.
 	hack/migrate.sh postgres
 
 migrate_test: ## Run database migrations for test.
-	hack/migrate.sh postgres
+	hack/migrate.sh postgres --verbose
 
 test: auth ## Run tests.
 	go test -failfast $(CHECK_FILES) -coverprofile=coverage.out -coverpkg ./... -p 1 -race -v -count=1
diff --git a/cmd/migrate_cmd.go b/cmd/migrate_cmd.go
index 511f53b27d..2790cef84f 100644
--- a/cmd/migrate_cmd.go
+++ b/cmd/migrate_cmd.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package cmd
 
 import (
 	"embed"
+	"fmt"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
 
@@ -14,12 +15,26 @@ import (
 
 var EmbeddedMigrations embed.FS
 
+var migrateVerbose bool
+
 var migrateCmd = cobra.Command{
 	Use:  "migrate",
 	Long: "Migrate database strucutures. This will create new tables and add missing columns and indexes.",
 	Run:  migrate,
 }
 
+func popProgressLogger(lvl logging.Level, s string, args ...interface{}) {
+	if lvl == logging.SQL || lvl == logging.Debug {
+		return
+	}
+	if len(args) > 0 {
+		s = fmt.Sprintf(s, args...)
+	}
+	fmt.Println(s)
+}
+
+func popNoopLogger(logging.Level, string, ...interface{}) {}
+
 func migrate(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 	globalConfig := loadGlobalConfig(cmd.Context())
 	u, err := url.Parse(globalConfig.DB.URL)
@@ -40,16 +55,15 @@ func migrate(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 			log.Fatalf("Failed to parse log level: %+v", err)
 		}
 		log.SetLevel(level)
-		if level == logrus.DebugLevel {
-			// Set to true to display query info
-			pop.Debug = true
-		}
-		if level != logrus.DebugLevel {
-			var noopLogger = func(lvl logging.Level, s string, args ...interface{}) {
-			}
-			// Hide pop migration logging
-			pop.SetLogger(noopLogger)
-		}
+	}
+
+	switch {
+	case log.Level == logrus.DebugLevel:
+		pop.Debug = true
+	case migrateVerbose:
+		pop.SetLogger(popProgressLogger)
+	case globalConfig.Logging.Level != "":
+		pop.SetLogger(popNoopLogger)
 	}
 
 	q := u.Query()
diff --git a/cmd/root_cmd.go b/cmd/root_cmd.go
index 1b8607328e..66128086ef 100644
--- a/cmd/root_cmd.go
+++ b/cmd/root_cmd.go
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ func RootCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	rootCmd.AddCommand(&serveCmd, &migrateCmd, &versionCmd, adminCmd())
 	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&configFile, "config", "c", "", "base configuration file to load")
 	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&watchDir, "config-dir", "d", "", "directory containing a sorted list of config files to watch for changes")
+	migrateCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&migrateVerbose, "verbose", "v", false, "print the name of each migration as it is applied")
 	return &rootCmd
 }
 
diff --git a/hack/migrate.sh b/hack/migrate.sh
index 2d1f0e5e84..42ca171d5e 100755
--- a/hack/migrate.sh
+++ b/hack/migrate.sh
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@
 DB_ENV=$1
 
 DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
-DATABASE="$DIR/database.yml"
 
 export GOTRUE_DB_DRIVER="postgres"
 export GOTRUE_DB_DATABASE_URL="postgres://supabase_auth_admin:root@localhost:5432/$DB_ENV"
 export GOTRUE_DB_MIGRATIONS_PATH=$DIR/../migrations
 
-go run main.go migrate -c $DIR/test.env
+go run main.go migrate -c "$DIR/test.env" "${@:2}"