diff --git a/src/dbus/qdbusxmlparser.cpp b/src/dbus/qdbusxmlparser.cpp
index fa362bc579..3618c76a1d 100644
--- a/src/dbus/qdbusxmlparser.cpp
+++ b/src/dbus/qdbusxmlparser.cpp
@@ -48,15 +48,12 @@
 
 #ifndef QT_NO_DBUS
 
-//#define QDBUS_PARSER_DEBUG
-#ifdef QDBUS_PARSER_DEBUG
-# define qDBusParserError qDebug
-#else
-# define qDBusParserError if (true) {} else qDebug
-#endif
-
 QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
 
+Q_LOGGING_CATEGORY(dbusParser, "dbus.parser", QtWarningMsg)
+
+#define qDBusParserError(...) qCDebug(dbusParser, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+
 static bool parseArg(const QXmlStreamAttributes &attributes, QDBusIntrospection::Argument &argData,
         QDBusIntrospection::Interface *ifaceData)
 {
diff --git a/src/dbus/qdbusxmlparser_p.h b/src/dbus/qdbusxmlparser_p.h
index 7db2d12df4..d089bae163 100644
--- a/src/dbus/qdbusxmlparser_p.h
+++ b/src/dbus/qdbusxmlparser_p.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 //
 
 #include <QtDBus/private/qtdbusglobal_p.h>
+#include <QtCore/qloggingcategory.h>
 #include <QtCore/qmap.h>
 #include "qdbusintrospection_p.h"
 
@@ -59,6 +60,8 @@
 
 QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
 
+Q_DECLARE_LOGGING_CATEGORY(dbusParser)
+
 /*!
     \internal
 */
diff --git a/src/tools/qdbusxml2cpp/qdbusxml2cpp.cpp b/src/tools/qdbusxml2cpp/qdbusxml2cpp.cpp
index e58f194b72..8dbb1bf350 100644
--- a/src/tools/qdbusxml2cpp/qdbusxml2cpp.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/qdbusxml2cpp/qdbusxml2cpp.cpp
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <qdebug.h>
 #include <qfile.h>
 #include <qfileinfo.h>
+#include <qloggingcategory.h>
 #include <qstring.h>
 #include <qstringlist.h>
 #include <qtextstream.h>
@@ -1092,6 +1093,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         }
     }
 
+    if (verbose)
+        QLoggingCategory::setFilterRules(QStringLiteral("dbus.parser.debug=true"));
+
     QDBusIntrospection::Interfaces interfaces = readInput();
     cleanInterfaces(interfaces);