diff --git a/modules/api/api.py b/modules/api/api.py
index 9c670f00..53135470 100644
--- a/modules/api/api.py
+++ b/modules/api/api.py
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import base64
 import io
 import time
+import datetime
 import uvicorn
 from threading import Lock
 from io import BytesIO
 from gradio.processing_utils import decode_base64_to_file
-from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, FastAPI, HTTPException
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, FastAPI, HTTPException, Request, Response
 from fastapi.security import HTTPBasic, HTTPBasicCredentials
 from secrets import compare_digest
 
@@ -67,6 +68,26 @@ def encode_pil_to_base64(image):
         bytes_data = output_bytes.getvalue()
     return base64.b64encode(bytes_data)
 
+def init_api_middleware(app: FastAPI):
+    @app.middleware("http")
+    async def log_and_time(req: Request, call_next):
+        ts = time.time()
+        res: Response = await call_next(req)
+        duration = str(round(time.time() - ts, 4))
+        res.headers["X-Process-Time"] = duration
+        if shared.cmd_opts.api_log:
+            print('API {t} {code} {prot}/{ver} {method} {p} {cli} {duration}'.format(
+                t = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f"),
+                code = res.status_code,
+                ver = req.scope.get('http_version', '0.0'),
+                cli = req.scope.get('client', ('0:0.0.0', 0))[0],
+                prot = req.scope.get('scheme', 'err'),
+                method = req.scope.get('method', 'err'),
+                p = req.scope.get('path', 'err'),
+                duration = duration,
+            ))
+        return res
+
 
 class Api:
     def __init__(self, app: FastAPI, queue_lock: Lock):
@@ -78,6 +99,7 @@ class Api:
 
         self.router = APIRouter()
         self.app = app
+        init_api_middleware(self.app)
         self.queue_lock = queue_lock
         self.add_api_route("/sdapi/v1/txt2img", self.text2imgapi, methods=["POST"], response_model=TextToImageResponse)
         self.add_api_route("/sdapi/v1/img2img", self.img2imgapi, methods=["POST"], response_model=ImageToImageResponse)
diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index 23657a93..2a03d716 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--vae-path', type=str, help='Path to Variational Autoencode
 parser.add_argument("--disable-safe-unpickle", action='store_true', help="disable checking pytorch models for malicious code", default=False)
 parser.add_argument("--api", action='store_true', help="use api=True to launch the API together with the webui (use --nowebui instead for only the API)")
 parser.add_argument("--api-auth", type=str, help='Set authentication for API like "username:password"; or comma-delimit multiple like "u1:p1,u2:p2,u3:p3"', default=None)
+parser.add_argument("--api-log", action='store_true', help="use api-log=True to enable logging of all API requests")
 parser.add_argument("--nowebui", action='store_true', help="use api=True to launch the API instead of the webui")
 parser.add_argument("--ui-debug-mode", action='store_true', help="Don't load model to quickly launch UI")
 parser.add_argument("--device-id", type=str, help="Select the default CUDA device to use (export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,etc might be needed before)", default=None)