diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index edd01f00..e225bb3e 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -18,28 +18,36 @@ ENV STATIC_ROOT /srv/static
 # while in Docker. Maybe the buffer is larger?
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED True
 
+COPY requirements.txt /app/
+COPY requirements-prod.txt /app/
+COPY deploy/escape_json.c /app/deploy/escape_json.c
+
 # less & netcat-openbsd are there for in-container manual debugging
 # kerrokantasi needs gdal
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y postgresql-client less netcat-openbsd gettext locales gdal-bin python3-gdal
-
-# we need the Finnish locale built
-RUN sed -i 's/^# *\(fi_FI.UTF-8\)/\1/' /etc/locale.gen
-RUN locale-gen
-
-RUN pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel && \
-    pip install --no-cache-dir uwsgi
+RUN apt-get update  \
+    && apt-get install -y  \
+    build-essential  \
+    postgresql-client  \
+    less  \
+    netcat-openbsd  \
+    gettext  \
+    locales  \
+    gdal-bin  \
+    python3-gdal  \
+    # Build finnish locale
+    && sed -i 's/^# *\(fi_FI.UTF-8\)/\1/' /etc/locale.gen \
+    && locale-gen \
+    && pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel \
+    && pip install --no-cache-dir -r /app/requirements.txt \
+    && pip install --no-cache-dir -r /app/requirements-prod.txt \
+    && uwsgi --build-plugin /app/deploy/escape_json.c \
+    && mv /app/escape_json_plugin.so /app/deploy/escape_json_plugin.so \
+    && apt-get remove -y build-essential
 
 # Sentry CLI for sending events from non-Python processes to Sentry
 # eg. https://docs.sentry.io/cli/send-event/#bash-hook
 RUN curl -sL https://sentry.io/get-cli/ | bash
 
-# Copy requirements files to image for preloading dependencies
-# in their own layer
-COPY requirements.txt ./
-
-# deploy/requirements.txt must reference the base requirements
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
-
 COPY . .
 
 # Statics are kept inside container image for serving using whitenoise
diff --git a/deploy/escape_json.c b/deploy/escape_json.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f9943c7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/escape_json.c
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*
+  https://github.com/velebit-ai/uwsgi-json-logging-plugin/blob/4edb5cc59013b18f32658195b328afb2ac21b2d2/escape_json.c
+  uWSGI plugin that creates custom json-escaped logging variables.
+  build plugin with `uwsgi --build-plugin <filename.c>`
+  and use it with `uwsgi --plugin <filename_plugin.so> ...`
+*/
+#include <uwsgi.h>
+
+
+static ssize_t uwsgi_lf_json_uri(struct wsgi_request *wsgi_req, char **buf) {
+    long pos = offsetof(struct wsgi_request, uri);
+    long pos_len = offsetof(struct wsgi_request, uri_len);
+    char **var = (char **) (((char *) wsgi_req) + pos);
+    uint16_t *varlen = (uint16_t *) (((char *) wsgi_req) + pos_len);
+
+    char *e_json = uwsgi_malloc((*varlen * 2) + 1);
+    escape_json(*var, *varlen, e_json);
+    *buf = e_json;
+    return strlen(*buf);
+}
+
+static ssize_t uwsgi_lf_json_host(struct wsgi_request *wsgi_req, char **buf) {
+    long pos = offsetof(struct wsgi_request, host);
+    long pos_len = offsetof(struct wsgi_request, host_len);
+    char **var = (char **) (((char *) wsgi_req) + pos);
+    uint16_t *varlen = (uint16_t *) (((char *) wsgi_req) + pos_len);
+
+    char *e_json = uwsgi_malloc((*varlen * 2) + 1);
+    escape_json(*var, *varlen, e_json);
+    *buf = e_json;
+    return strlen(*buf);
+}
+
+static void register_logchunks() {
+        uwsgi_register_logchunk("json_uri", uwsgi_lf_json_uri, 1);
+        uwsgi_register_logchunk("json_host", uwsgi_lf_json_host, 1);
+}
+
+struct uwsgi_plugin escape_json_plugin = {
+        .name = "escape_json",
+        .on_load = register_logchunks,
+};
diff --git a/deploy/uwsgi.yml b/deploy/uwsgi.yml
index e825878b..43520a65 100644
--- a/deploy/uwsgi.yml
+++ b/deploy/uwsgi.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 uwsgi:
+  plugin: /app/deploy/escape_json_plugin.so
   # Needed plugins if running against Debian uwsgi-package
   # python docker image cannot use that due to linker mishaps
   # plugins: python3,http
@@ -20,3 +21,8 @@ uwsgi:
   ignore-sigpipe: true
   ignore-write-errors: true
   disable-write-exception: true
+
+  logger-req: stdio
+  remote_addr: "%(addr)", "x_forwarded_for":"%(var.HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR)", "request_id":"%(var.HTTP_X_REQUEST_ID)", "remote_user":"%(user)", "bytes_sent":%(size), "request_time":%(secs), "status":%(status), "host":"%(json_host)", "request_proto":"%(proto)", "path":"%(json_uri)", "request_length":%(cl), "http_referer":"%(referer)", "http_user_agent":"%(uagent)"
+  log-req-encoder: format {"time":"${strftime:%%Y:%%m:%%d %%H:%%M:%%S}", "source":"uwsgi-req", ${msg}}
+  log-req-encoder: nl