diff --git a/src/bees-roots.cc b/src/bees-roots.cc
index 9a10e1a..fe322a0 100644
--- a/src/bees-roots.cc
+++ b/src/bees-roots.cc
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ size_t
 BeesRoots::crawl_batch(shared_ptr<BeesCrawl> this_crawl)
 {
 	BEESNOTE("Crawling batch " << this_crawl->get_state_begin());
+	BEESTRACE("Crawling batch " << this_crawl->get_state_begin());
 	auto ctx_copy = m_ctx;
 	size_t batch_count = 0;
 	auto subvol = this_crawl->get_state_begin().m_root;
@@ -709,6 +710,7 @@ BeesRoots::open_root(uint64_t rootid)
 bool
 BeesRoots::is_root_ro_nocache(uint64_t root)
 {
+	BEESTRACE("checking subvol flags on root " << root);
 	Fd root_fd = open_root(root);
 	BEESTRACE("checking subvol flags on root " << root << " path " << name_fd(root_fd));
 
diff --git a/src/bees.cc b/src/bees.cc
index c61eec3..98ce192 100644
--- a/src/bees.cc
+++ b/src/bees.cc
@@ -734,6 +734,7 @@ bees_main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	// Create a context so we can apply configuration to it
 	shared_ptr<BeesContext> bc = make_shared<BeesContext>();
+	BEESLOGDEBUG("context constructed");
 
 	string cwd(readlink_or_die("/proc/self/cwd"));
 
@@ -789,6 +790,8 @@ bees_main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			break;
 		}
 
+		BEESLOGDEBUG("Parsing option '" << static_cast<char>(c) << "'");
+
 		switch (c) {
 
 			case 'C':