diff --git a/.codecov.yml b/.codecov.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f307895e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.codecov.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+coverage:
+  status:
+    project:
+      default:
+        target: 88%
+        threshold: null
+    patch: false
+    changes: false
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1ae4899c..77abeaf4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 All notable changes to charset-normalizer will be documented in this file. This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
+## [2.0.9](https://github.com/Ousret/charset_normalizer/compare/2.0.8...2.0.9) (2021-12-03)
+
+### Changed
+- Moderating the logging impact (since 2.0.8) for specific environments (PR #147)
+
+### Fixed
+- Wrong logging level applied when setting kwarg `explain` to True (PR #146)
+
 ## [2.0.8](https://github.com/Ousret/charset_normalizer/compare/2.0.7...2.0.8) (2021-11-24)
 ### Changed
 - Improvement over Vietnamese detection (PR #126)
diff --git a/charset_normalizer/api.py b/charset_normalizer/api.py
index 80e608b4..d9e5866a 100644
--- a/charset_normalizer/api.py
+++ b/charset_normalizer/api.py
@@ -68,20 +68,21 @@ def from_bytes(
         )
 
     if explain:
+        previous_logger_level = logger.level  # type: int
         logger.addHandler(explain_handler)
+        logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
 
     length = len(sequences)  # type: int
 
     if length == 0:
-        logger.warning(
-            "Given content is empty, stopping the process very early, returning empty utf_8 str match"
-        )
+        logger.warning("Encoding detection on empty bytes, assuming utf_8 intention.")
         if explain:
             logger.removeHandler(explain_handler)
+            logger.setLevel(previous_logger_level or logging.WARNING)
         return CharsetMatches([CharsetMatch(sequences, "utf_8", 0.0, False, [], "")])
 
     if cp_isolation is not None:
-        logger.warning(
+        logger.debug(
             "cp_isolation is set. use this flag for debugging purpose. "
             "limited list of encoding allowed : %s.",
             ", ".join(cp_isolation),
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ def from_bytes(
         cp_isolation = []
 
     if cp_exclusion is not None:
-        logger.warning(
+        logger.debug(
             "cp_exclusion is set. use this flag for debugging purpose. "
             "limited list of encoding excluded : %s.",
             ", ".join(cp_exclusion),
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ def from_bytes(
         cp_exclusion = []
 
     if length <= (chunk_size * steps):
-        logger.warning(
+        logger.debug(
             "override steps (%i) and chunk_size (%i) as content does not fit (%i byte(s) given) parameters.",
             steps,
             chunk_size,
@@ -187,7 +188,7 @@ def from_bytes(
         )  # type: bool
 
         if encoding_iana in {"utf_16", "utf_32"} and not bom_or_sig_available:
-            logger.info(
+            logger.debug(
                 "Encoding %s wont be tested as-is because it require a BOM. Will try some sub-encoder LE/BE.",
                 encoding_iana,
             )
@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ def from_bytes(
                 )
         except (UnicodeDecodeError, LookupError) as e:
             if not isinstance(e, LookupError):
-                logger.warning(
+                logger.debug(
                     "Code page %s does not fit given bytes sequence at ALL. %s",
                     encoding_iana,
                     str(e),
@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ def from_bytes(
                 break
 
         if similar_soft_failure_test:
-            logger.warning(
+            logger.info(
                 "%s is deemed too similar to code page %s and was consider unsuited already. Continuing!",
                 encoding_iana,
                 encoding_soft_failed,
@@ -329,7 +330,7 @@ def from_bytes(
         )  # type: float
         if mean_mess_ratio >= threshold or early_stop_count >= max_chunk_gave_up:
             tested_but_soft_failure.append(encoding_iana)
-            logger.warning(
+            logger.info(
                 "%s was excluded because of initial chaos probing. Gave up %i time(s). "
                 "Computed mean chaos is %f %%.",
                 encoding_iana,
@@ -419,6 +420,7 @@ def from_bytes(
             )
             if explain:
                 logger.removeHandler(explain_handler)
+                logger.setLevel(previous_logger_level)
             return CharsetMatches([results[encoding_iana]])
 
         if encoding_iana == sig_encoding:
@@ -428,6 +430,7 @@ def from_bytes(
             )
             if explain:
                 logger.removeHandler(explain_handler)
+                logger.setLevel(previous_logger_level)
             return CharsetMatches([results[encoding_iana]])
 
     if len(results) == 0:
@@ -458,6 +461,7 @@ def from_bytes(
 
     if explain:
         logger.removeHandler(explain_handler)
+        logger.setLevel(previous_logger_level)
 
     return results
 
diff --git a/charset_normalizer/version.py b/charset_normalizer/version.py
index d48da8ab..a1dc4708 100644
--- a/charset_normalizer/version.py
+++ b/charset_normalizer/version.py
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 Expose version
 """
 
-__version__ = "2.0.8"
+__version__ = "2.0.9"
 VERSION = __version__.split(".")
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 5091c05a..6fde29c2 100755
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '2.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.0.8'
+release = '2.0.9'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/tests/test_logging.py b/tests/test_logging.py
index c7ff069c..80d32112 100644
--- a/tests/test_logging.py
+++ b/tests/test_logging.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ def setup(self):
         self.logger = logging.getLogger("charset_normalizer")
         self.logger.handlers.clear()
         self.logger.addHandler(logging.NullHandler())
-        self.logger.level = None
+        self.logger.level = logging.WARNING
 
     def test_explain_true_behavior(self, caplog):
         test_sequence = b'This is a test sequence of bytes that should be sufficient'