diff --git a/crawler.js b/crawler.js
index 03c0fa451..da3f7ca49 100644
--- a/crawler.js
+++ b/crawler.js
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ export class Crawler {
       }
 
     } finally {
-      logger.info(`Crawl status: ${status}`);
+      logger.info(`Final crawl status: ${status}`);
 
       if (this.crawlState) {
         await this.crawlState.setStatus(status);
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ self.__bx_behaviors.selectMainBehavior();
       }
     }
 
-    await this.closeLog();
+    logger.info("Crawling done");
 
     if (this.params.generateWACZ && (!this.interrupted || this.finalExit || this.uploadAndDeleteLocal)) {
       const uploaded = await this.generateWACZ();
@@ -855,16 +855,6 @@ self.__bx_behaviors.selectMainBehavior();
     }
   }
 
-  async closeLog() {
-    // close file-based log
-    logger.setExternalLogStream(null);
-    try {
-      await new Promise(resolve => this.logFH.close(() => resolve()));
-    } catch (e) {
-      // ignore
-    }
-  }
-
   async generateWACZ() {
     logger.info("Generating WACZ");
     await this.crawlState.setStatus("generate-wacz");
@@ -890,6 +880,8 @@ self.__bx_behaviors.selectMainBehavior();
       logger.fatal("No WARC Files, assuming crawl failed");
     }
 
+    logger.debug("End of log file, storing logs in WACZ");
+
     // Build the argument list to pass to the wacz create command
     const waczFilename = this.params.collection.concat(".wacz");
     const waczPath = path.join(this.collDir, waczFilename);