diff --git a/app/notifications/rest.py b/app/notifications/rest.py
index 55d3c101a..34c70417e 100644
--- a/app/notifications/rest.py
+++ b/app/notifications/rest.py
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ def get_notification_by_id(notification_id):
 
 @notifications.route("/notifications", methods=["GET"])
 def get_all_notifications():
+    current_app.logger.debug(f"enter get_all_notifications()")
     data = notifications_filter_schema.load(request.args)
+    current_app.logger.debug(f"get_all_notifications() data {data} request.args {request.args}")
 
     include_jobs = data.get("include_jobs", False)
     page = data.get("page", 1)
@@ -96,8 +98,7 @@ def get_all_notifications():
             notification.to = recipient
             notification.normalised_to = recipient
 
-    return (
-        jsonify(
+    result = jsonify(
             notifications=notification_with_personalisation_schema.dump(
                 pagination.items, many=True
             ),
@@ -106,9 +107,10 @@ def get_all_notifications():
             links=pagination_links(
                 pagination, ".get_all_notifications", **request.args.to_dict()
             ),
-        ),
-        200,
-    )
+        )
+    current_app.logger.debug(f"result={result}")
+    return result,200
+
 
 
 @notifications.route("/notifications/<string:notification_type>", methods=["POST"])
diff --git a/app/service/rest.py b/app/service/rest.py
index ce5083073..9a6aa7f3d 100644
--- a/app/service/rest.py
+++ b/app/service/rest.py
@@ -389,12 +389,15 @@ def get_service_history(service_id):
 
 @service_blueprint.route("/<uuid:service_id>/notifications", methods=["GET", "POST"])
 def get_all_notifications_for_service(service_id):
+    current_app.logger.debug(f"enter get_all_notifications_for_service")
     if request.method == "GET":
         data = notifications_filter_schema.load(request.args)
+        current_app.logger.debug(f"use GET, request.args {request.args} and data {data}")
     elif request.method == "POST":
         # Must transform request.get_json() to MultiDict as NotificationsFilterSchema expects a MultiDict.
         # Unlike request.args, request.get_json() does not return a MultiDict but instead just a dict.
         data = notifications_filter_schema.load(MultiDict(request.get_json()))
+        current_app.logger.debug(f"use POST, request {request.get_json()} data {data}")
 
     if data.get("to"):
         notification_type = (
@@ -421,6 +424,8 @@ def get_all_notifications_for_service(service_id):
     # for whether to show pagination links
     count_pages = data.get("count_pages", True)
 
+    current_app.logger.debug(f"get pagination with {service_id} service_id filters {data} \
+                             limit_days {limit_days} include_jobs {include_jobs} include_one_off {include_one_off}")
     pagination = notifications_dao.get_notifications_for_service(
         service_id,
         filter_dict=data,
@@ -462,6 +467,8 @@ def get_all_notifications_for_service(service_id):
         notifications = notification_with_template_schema.dump(
             pagination.items, many=True
         )
+    current_app.logger.debug(f"number of notifications are {len(notifications)}")
+    current_app.logger.debug(f"first notification is {notifications[0]}")
     # We try and get the next page of results to work out if we need provide a pagination link to the next page
     # in our response if it exists. Note, this could be done instead by changing `count_pages` in the previous
     # call to be True which will enable us to use Flask-Sqlalchemy to tell if there is a next page of results but