diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 69d748e2b4..20543eb06f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ version = "0.1.3"
 members = ["examples/*"]
 
 [features]
-default = []
+default = ["tower-log"]
 ws = ["tokio-tungstenite", "sha-1", "base64"]
 multipart = ["multer", "mime"]
+tower-log = ["tower/log"]
 
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = "0.1"
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 serde_urlencoded = "0.7"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["time"] }
 tokio-util = "0.6"
-tower = { version = "0.4", features = ["util", "buffer", "make"] }
+tower = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["util", "buffer", "make"] }
 tower-http = { version = "0.1", features = ["add-extension", "map-response-body"] }
 sync_wrapper = "0.1.1"