diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7602c1ab1..b0e3d1ee4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
  - #3607, Log to stderr when the JWT secret is less than 32 characters long - @laurenceisla
  - #2858, Performance improvements when calling RPCs via GET using indexes in more cases - @wolfgangwalther
  - #3560, Log resolved host in "Listening on ..." messages - @develop7
+ - #3727, Log maximum pool size - @steve-chavez
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/docs/references/observability.rst b/docs/references/observability.rst
index a37d4e292..04a261ba4 100644
--- a/docs/references/observability.rst
+++ b/docs/references/observability.rst
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ For diagnostic information about the server itself, PostgREST logs to ``stderr``
 .. code::
 
    06/May/2024:08:16:11 -0500: Starting PostgREST 12.1...
-   06/May/2024:08:16:11 -0500: Attempting to connect to the database...
    06/May/2024:08:16:11 -0500: Successfully connected to PostgreSQL 14.10 (Ubuntu 14.10-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0, 64-bit
+   06/May/2024:08:16:11 -0500: Connection Pool initialized with a maximum size of 10 connections
    06/May/2024:08:16:11 -0500: API server listening on port 3000
    06/May/2024:08:16:11 -0500: Listening for database notifications on the "pgrst" channel
    06/May/2024:08:16:11 -0500: Config reloaded
diff --git a/docs/tutorials/tut0.rst b/docs/tutorials/tut0.rst
index 64e0292ca..f70cf709d 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/tut0.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorials/tut0.rst
@@ -213,12 +213,8 @@ You should see something similar to:
 .. code-block:: text
 
   Starting PostgREST 12.0.2...
-  Attempting to connect to the database...
-  Connection successful
-  Listening on port 3000
-  Config reloaded
-  Listening for notifications on the pgrst channel
-  Schema cache loaded
+  Successfully connected to PostgreSQL 14.10 (Ubuntu 14.10-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0, 64-bit
+  API server listening on port 3000
 
 It's now ready to serve web requests. There are many nice graphical API exploration tools you can use, but for this tutorial we'll use :code:`curl` because it's likely to be installed on your system already. Open a new terminal (leaving the one open that PostgREST is running inside). Try doing an HTTP request for the todos.
 
diff --git a/src/PostgREST/App.hs b/src/PostgREST/App.hs
index f99d8683f..99febebac 100644
--- a/src/PostgREST/App.hs
+++ b/src/PostgREST/App.hs
@@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ run appState = do
   let observer = AppState.getObserver appState
   conf@AppConfig{..} <- AppState.getConfig appState
 
-  observer $ AppStartObs prettyVersion
-
   AppState.schemaCacheLoader appState -- Loads the initial SchemaCache
   Unix.installSignalHandlers (AppState.getMainThreadId appState) (AppState.schemaCacheLoader appState) (AppState.readInDbConfig False appState)
 
diff --git a/src/PostgREST/AppState.hs b/src/PostgREST/AppState.hs
index 45dd2669a..c52c63d2a 100644
--- a/src/PostgREST/AppState.hs
+++ b/src/PostgREST/AppState.hs
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ init conf@AppConfig{configLogLevel, configDbPoolSize} = do
   metricsState <- Metrics.init configDbPoolSize
   let observer = liftA2 (>>) (Logger.observationLogger loggerState configLogLevel) (Metrics.observationMetrics metricsState)
 
+  observer $ AppStartObs prettyVersion
+
   pool <- initPool conf observer
   (sock, adminSock) <- initSockets conf
   state' <- initWithPool (sock, adminSock) pool conf loggerState metricsState observer
@@ -206,7 +208,7 @@ initSockets AppConfig{..} = do
   pure (sock, adminSock)
 
 initPool :: AppConfig -> ObservationHandler -> IO SQL.Pool
-initPool AppConfig{..} observer =
+initPool AppConfig{..} observer = do
   SQL.acquire $ SQL.settings
     [ SQL.size configDbPoolSize
     , SQL.acquisitionTimeout $ fromIntegral configDbPoolAcquisitionTimeout
@@ -391,6 +393,7 @@ retryingSchemaCacheLoad appState@AppState{stateObserver=observer, stateMainThrea
             observer $ ExitUnsupportedPgVersion actualPgVersion minimumPgVersion
             killThread mainThreadId
           observer $ DBConnectedObs $ pgvFullName actualPgVersion
+          observer $ PoolInit configDbPoolSize
           putPgVersion appState actualPgVersion
           return $ Just actualPgVersion
 
diff --git a/src/PostgREST/Observation.hs b/src/PostgREST/Observation.hs
index 44c5c4d12..9e9866180 100644
--- a/src/PostgREST/Observation.hs
+++ b/src/PostgREST/Observation.hs
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ data Observation
   | QueryRoleSettingsErrorObs SQL.UsageError
   | QueryErrorCodeHighObs SQL.UsageError
   | QueryPgVersionError SQL.UsageError
+  | PoolInit Int
   | PoolAcqTimeoutObs SQL.UsageError
   | HasqlPoolObs SQL.Observation
   | PoolRequest
@@ -118,6 +119,8 @@ observationMessage = \case
     "Failed reloading config: " <> err
   ConfigSucceededObs ->
      "Config reloaded"
+  PoolInit poolSize ->
+     "Connection Pool initialized with a maximum size of " <> show poolSize <> " connections"
   PoolAcqTimeoutObs usageErr ->
     jsonMessage usageErr
   HasqlPoolObs (SQL.ConnectionObservation uuid status) ->