diff --git a/lib/datasource/npm.js b/lib/datasource/npm.js
index 067e2d95365f8914f55abded604eb463632c2861..f3fc6324a5206d6918eaefacd4d5c5018d72c8c2 100644
--- a/lib/datasource/npm.js
+++ b/lib/datasource/npm.js
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ function envReplace(value, env = process.env) {
 async function getDependency(name, retries = 5) {
   logger.trace(`getDependency(${name})`);
   if (memcache[name]) {
-    logger.debug('Returning cached result');
+    logger.trace('Returning cached result');
     return memcache[name];
   }
   const scope = name.split('/')[0];
diff --git a/lib/workers/dep-type/index.js b/lib/workers/dep-type/index.js
index a31e279d1316bccc02e5fb3c52037c911c63b3ba..008109cf8f1d45e8bb728c8bbe743de92f794f46 100644
--- a/lib/workers/dep-type/index.js
+++ b/lib/workers/dep-type/index.js
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ function getDepConfig(depTypeConfig, dep) {
   let depConfig = configParser.mergeChildConfig(depTypeConfig, dep);
   // Apply any matching package rules
   if (depConfig.packageRules) {
-    logger.debug(
+    logger.trace(
       { dependency, packageRules: depConfig.packageRules },
       `Checking against ${depConfig.packageRules.length} packageRules`
     );
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ function getDepConfig(depTypeConfig, dep) {
               ? '.*'
               : packagePattern
           );
-          logger.debug(
+          logger.trace(
             { dependency, packagePattern },
             'Checking against packagePattern'
           );