diff --git a/admin/config/logger.ts b/admin/config/logger.ts
index 981e167..3ce310e 100644
--- a/admin/config/logger.ts
+++ b/admin/config/logger.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,14 @@ const loggerConfig = defineConfig({
         targets:
           targets()
             .pushIf(!app.inProduction, targets.pretty())
+            // Production: write JSON to both the persisted log file (for Debug
+            // Info bundle export) AND stdout (so `docker logs nomad_admin` and
+            // any external log aggregator can see runtime telemetry — RAG
+            // retrieval scores, query rewrites, etc.). Writing to fd 1 via
+            // pino/file is the standard way to do this; without it, prod
+            // installs are effectively running blind from a debugger's POV.
             .pushIf(app.inProduction, targets.file({ destination: "/app/storage/logs/admin.log", mkdir: true }))
+            .pushIf(app.inProduction, targets.file({ destination: 1 }))
             .toArray(),
       },
     },