diff --git a/crates/storage/Cargo.toml b/crates/storage/Cargo.toml
index 12992e4..b0c0c4e 100644
--- a/crates/storage/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/storage/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,8 +21,14 @@ tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt", "sync", "macros"] }
 # Serialisation (DailyCompletionCount exposed to frontend via Tauri commands)
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 
-# Logging
-log = "0.4"
+# Structured logging via `tracing` so storage events bridge into the
+# subscriber installed by src-tauri/src/lib.rs::install_subscriber and
+# land in both stderr and the rolling lumotia.log forensic stream. The
+# storage crate was on the `log` crate up to Phase B.8; without a
+# log→tracing bridge (e.g. tracing-log::LogTracer) those events
+# vanished even though the EnvFilter directive `lumotia_storage=info`
+# advertised them as visible.
+tracing = "0.1"
 
 # Structured error derivation for lumotia_storage::Error.
 thiserror = "1"
diff --git a/crates/storage/src/database.rs b/crates/storage/src/database.rs
index 5ac0c4b..9fc417c 100644
--- a/crates/storage/src/database.rs
+++ b/crates/storage/src/database.rs
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ pub async fn delete_transcript(pool: &SqlitePool, id: &str) -> Result<()> {
         if let Some(path) = audio_path.as_deref() {
             if let Err(err) = tokio::fs::remove_file(path).await {
                 if err.kind() != std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
-                    log::warn!(
+                    tracing::warn!(
                         target: "lumotia_storage",
                         "delete_transcript: failed to remove audio file at {path}: {err}"
                     );
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ pub async fn purge_deleted_transcripts(pool: &SqlitePool, older_than_days: i64)
     for path in &audio_paths {
         if let Err(err) = tokio::fs::remove_file(path).await {
             if err.kind() != std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
-                log::warn!(
+                tracing::warn!(
                     target: "lumotia_storage",
                     "purge_deleted_transcripts: failed to remove audio file at {path}: {err}"
                 );
diff --git a/crates/storage/src/migrations.rs b/crates/storage/src/migrations.rs
index 34c9d68..c2fe9f5 100644
--- a/crates/storage/src/migrations.rs
+++ b/crates/storage/src/migrations.rs
@@ -600,7 +600,12 @@ async fn run_migrations_slice(pool: &SqlitePool, migrations: &[(i64, &str, &str)
 
     for (version, description, sql) in migrations {
         if *version > current {
-            log::info!("Running migration {}: {}", version, description);
+            tracing::info!(
+                target: "lumotia_storage",
+                version,
+                description,
+                "running migration",
+            );
 
             let mut tx = pool.begin().await.map_err(|source| Error::Migration {
                 version: Some(*version),
@@ -636,7 +641,11 @@ async fn run_migrations_slice(pool: &SqlitePool, migrations: &[(i64, &str, &str)
                 source,
             })?;
 
-            log::info!("Migration {} complete", version);
+            tracing::info!(
+                target: "lumotia_storage",
+                version,
+                "migration complete",
+            );
         }
     }