diff --git a/mixnode/src/node/listener.rs b/mixnode/src/node/listener.rs
index 0409a1754d..24b541f2d9 100644
--- a/mixnode/src/node/listener.rs
+++ b/mixnode/src/node/listener.rs
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ async fn process_socket_connection(
             }
             Ok(n) => {
                 if n != sphinx::PACKET_SIZE {
-                    warn!("read data of different length than expected sphinx packet size - {} (expected {})", n, sphinx::PACKET_SIZE);
+                    error!("read data of different length than expected sphinx packet size - {} (expected {})", n, sphinx::PACKET_SIZE);
                     continue;
                 }
-
+                warn!("About to process packet. If you see this, we made it past the Sphinx size error");
                 // we must be able to handle multiple packets from same connection independently
                 tokio::spawn(process_received_packet(
                     buf,
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ async fn process_socket_connection(
                 ))
             }
             Err(e) => {
-                warn!(
+                error!(
                     "failed to read from socket. Closing the connection; err = {:?}",
                     e
                 );
diff --git a/mixnode/src/node/packet_processing.rs b/mixnode/src/node/packet_processing.rs
index ec6187e9aa..4a2099c55f 100644
--- a/mixnode/src/node/packet_processing.rs
+++ b/mixnode/src/node/packet_processing.rs
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ impl PacketProcessor {
 
         match packet.process(self.secret_key.deref().inner()) {
             Ok(ProcessedPacket::ProcessedPacketForwardHop(packet, address, delay)) => {
+                warn!("Returning a process packet. We're good.");
                 self.process_forward_hop(packet, address, delay).await
             }
             Ok(ProcessedPacket::ProcessedPacketFinalHop(_, _, _)) => {
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ impl PacketProcessor {
                 Err(MixProcessingError::ReceivedFinalHopError)
             }
             Err(e) => {
-                warn!("Failed to unwrap Sphinx packet: {:?}", e);
+                error!("Failed to unwrap Sphinx packet: {:?}", e);
                 Err(MixProcessingError::SphinxProcessingError)
             }
         }
diff --git a/sfw-provider/src/provider/mix_handling/packet_processing.rs b/sfw-provider/src/provider/mix_handling/packet_processing.rs
index 12d50c322c..99518f56ad 100644
--- a/sfw-provider/src/provider/mix_handling/packet_processing.rs
+++ b/sfw-provider/src/provider/mix_handling/packet_processing.rs
@@ -88,11 +88,12 @@ impl PacketProcessor {
                 Err(MixProcessingError::ReceivedForwardHopError)
             }
             Ok(ProcessedPacket::ProcessedPacketFinalHop(client_address, surb_id, payload)) => {
+                warn!("About to process final hop. If you see this we made it past the Failed to unwrap error");
                 self.process_final_hop(client_address, surb_id, payload)
                     .await
             }
             Err(e) => {
-                warn!("Failed to unwrap Sphinx packet: {:?}", e);
+                error!("Failed to unwrap Sphinx packet: {:?}", e);
                 Err(MixProcessingError::SphinxProcessingError)
             }
         }