diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 14a2e1de0..784cd8630 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
    + For enabling this, the `admin-server-port` config must be set explictly
    + A `<host>:<admin_server_port>/live` endpoint is available for checking if postgrest is running on its port/socket. 200 OK = alive, 503 = dead.
    + A `<host>:<admin_server_port>/ready` endpoint is available for checking a correct internal state(the database connection plus the schema cache). 200 OK = ready, 503 = not ready.
+ - #1988, Add the current user to the request log on stdout - @DavidLindbom, @wolfgangwalther
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/src/PostgREST/Logger.hs b/src/PostgREST/Logger.hs
index ba2645d3a..b5bac1cda 100644
--- a/src/PostgREST/Logger.hs
+++ b/src/PostgREST/Logger.hs
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ import qualified Network.Wai.Middleware.RequestLogger as Wai
 import Network.HTTP.Types.Status (status400, status500)
 import System.IO.Unsafe          (unsafePerformIO)
 
-import PostgREST.Config (LogLevel (..))
+import qualified PostgREST.Auth   as Auth
+import           PostgREST.Config (LogLevel (..))
 
 import Protolude
 
@@ -25,4 +26,5 @@ middleware logLevel = case logLevel of
       { Wai.outputFormat = Wai.ApacheWithSettings $
           Wai.defaultApacheSettings
             & Wai.setApacheRequestFilter (\_ res -> filterStatus $ Wai.responseStatus res)
+            & Wai.setApacheUserGetter (fmap encodeUtf8 . Auth.getRole)
       }
diff --git a/test/io/test_io.py b/test/io/test_io.py
index e580d9935..0c7c66e64 100644
--- a/test/io/test_io.py
+++ b/test/io/test_io.py
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ def test_log_level(level, has_output, defaultenv):
         assert response.status_code == 200
         if has_output[0]:
             assert re.match(
-                r'unknownSocket - - \[.+\] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - "" "python-requests/.+"',
+                r'unknownSocket - postgrest_test_anonymous \[.+\] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - "" "python-requests/.+"',
                 postgrest.process.stdout.readline().decode(),
             )
 
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ def test_log_level(level, has_output, defaultenv):
         assert response.status_code == 404
         if has_output[1]:
             assert re.match(
-                r'unknownSocket - - \[.+\] "GET /unknown HTTP/1.1" 404 - "" "python-requests/.+"',
+                r'unknownSocket - postgrest_test_anonymous \[.+\] "GET /unknown HTTP/1.1" 404 - "" "python-requests/.+"',
                 postgrest.process.stdout.readline().decode(),
             )