diff --git a/server/handlers/result_handlers.py b/server/handlers/result_handlers.py
index db5d09b4..4b56cc6e 100644
--- a/server/handlers/result_handlers.py
+++ b/server/handlers/result_handlers.py
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ def prepare_errors_payload(self, error_batch):
 
     def __call__(self, result_batch: list[Dict]):
         logger.debug(f"\n\nHandler received batch: {result_batch}\n\n")
+        logger.info("LSEHandler received batch")
 
         # coerce dicts to LSEBatchItems for validation
         norm_result_batch = [
@@ -207,6 +208,7 @@ def __call__(self, result_batch: list[Dict]):
         # coerce back to dicts for sending
         result_batch = [record.dict() for record in result_batch]
         if result_batch:
+            logger.info(f"LSEHandler sending {len(result_batch)} predictions to LSE")
             self.client.make_request(
                 "POST",
                 "/api/model-run/batch-predictions",
@@ -217,6 +219,7 @@ def __call__(self, result_batch: list[Dict]):
                     }
                 ),
             )
+            logger.info(f"LSEHandler sent {len(result_batch)} predictions to LSE")
         else:
             logger.error(
                 f"No valid results to send to LSE for modelrun_id {self.modelrun_id}"
@@ -225,6 +228,7 @@ def __call__(self, result_batch: list[Dict]):
         # Send failed predictions back to LSE
         if error_batch:
             error_batch = self.prepare_errors_payload(error_batch)
+            logger.info(f"LSEHandler sending {len(error_batch)} failed predictions to LSE")
             self.client.make_request(
                 "POST",
                 "/api/model-run/batch-failed-predictions",
@@ -235,6 +239,7 @@ def __call__(self, result_batch: list[Dict]):
                     }
                 ),
             )
+            logger.info(f"LSEHandler sent {len(error_batch)} failed predictions to LSE")
         else:
             logger.debug(f"No errors to send to LSE for modelrun_id {self.modelrun_id}")
 
diff --git a/server/tasks/stream_inference.py b/server/tasks/stream_inference.py
index 9d7af896..c8bb6a62 100644
--- a/server/tasks/stream_inference.py
+++ b/server/tasks/stream_inference.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ async def run_streaming(
     task_time_limit=settings.task_time_limit_sec,
 )
 def streaming_parent_task(
-    self, agent: Agent, result_handler: ResultHandler, batch_size: int = 50
+    self, agent: Agent, result_handler: ResultHandler, batch_size: int = 10
 ):
     """
     This task is used to launch the two tasks that are doing the real work, so that
@@ -162,16 +162,17 @@ async def async_process_streaming_output(
             for topic_partition, messages in data.items():
                 topic = topic_partition.topic
                 if messages:
-                    logger.debug(f"Handling {messages=} in {topic=}")
+                    logger.info(f"Processing messages in output job {topic=} number of messages: {len(messages)}")
                     data = [msg.value for msg in messages]
                     result_handler(data)
-                    logger.debug(f"Handled {len(messages)} messages in {topic=}")
+                    logger.info(f"Processed messages in output job {topic=} number of messages: {len(messages)}")
                 else:
-                    logger.debug(f"No messages in topic {topic=}")
+                    logger.info(f"Consumer pulled data, but no messages in {topic=}")
 
             if not data:
-                logger.info("No messages in any topic")
+                logger.info(f"Consumer pulled no data from {output_topic_name=}")
 
     # cleans up after any exceptions raised here as well as asyncio.CancelledError resulting from failure in async_process_streaming_input
     finally:
+        logger.info("No more data in output job and input job is done, stopping output job")
         await consumer.stop()