diff --git a/pkg/config/app.go b/pkg/config/app.go
index ab35de39..28f43830 100644
--- a/pkg/config/app.go
+++ b/pkg/config/app.go
@@ -490,7 +490,9 @@ func SetChaosLabel(compose *composetypes.Config, stackName string, chaos bool) {
 	}
 }
 
-// add env ENABLE_AUTO_UPDATE as label to enable/disable the auto update process for this app
+// SetUpdateLabel adds env ENABLE_AUTO_UPDATE as label to enable/disable the
+// auto update process for this app. The default if this variable is not set is to disable
+// the auto update process.
 func SetUpdateLabel(compose *composetypes.Config, stackName string, appEnv AppEnv) {
 	for _, service := range compose.Services {
 		if service.Name == "app" {
@@ -498,7 +500,7 @@ func SetUpdateLabel(compose *composetypes.Config, stackName string, appEnv AppEn
 			if !exists {
 				enable_auto_update = "false"
 			}
-			logrus.Debugf("set auto update label to %s", enable_auto_update)
+			logrus.Debugf("set label 'coop-cloud.%s.autoupdate' to %s for %s", stackName, enable_auto_update, stackName)
 			labelKey := fmt.Sprintf("coop-cloud.%s.autoupdate", stackName)
 			service.Deploy.Labels[labelKey] = enable_auto_update
 		}