diff --git a/doc/pipewire-daemon.dox b/doc/pipewire-daemon.dox
index 0c0aa03a6..665fe53b5 100644
--- a/doc/pipewire-daemon.dox
+++ b/doc/pipewire-daemon.dox
@@ -149,5 +149,6 @@ The behavior of the logging can be further controlled with the following
 environment variables:
 - `PIPEWIRE_LOG_SYSTEMD=false`: disable logging to the systemd journal
 - `PIPEWIRE_LOG=<filename>`: redirect the log to the given filename
+- `PIPEWIRE_LOG_LINE=false`: don't log filename, function, and source code line
 
 */
diff --git a/src/pipewire/pipewire.c b/src/pipewire/pipewire.c
index 436a7f5f6..6c3479c49 100644
--- a/src/pipewire/pipewire.c
+++ b/src/pipewire/pipewire.c
@@ -567,7 +567,8 @@ void pw_init(int *argc, char **argv[])
 		if (!support->no_color)
 			items[n_items++] = SPA_DICT_ITEM_INIT(SPA_KEY_LOG_COLORS, "true");
 		items[n_items++] = SPA_DICT_ITEM_INIT(SPA_KEY_LOG_TIMESTAMP, "true");
-		items[n_items++] = SPA_DICT_ITEM_INIT(SPA_KEY_LOG_LINE, "true");
+		if ((str = getenv("PIPEWIRE_LOG_LINE")) == NULL || spa_atob(str))
+			items[n_items++] = SPA_DICT_ITEM_INIT(SPA_KEY_LOG_LINE, "true");
 		snprintf(level, sizeof(level), "%d", pw_log_level);
 		items[n_items++] = SPA_DICT_ITEM_INIT(SPA_KEY_LOG_LEVEL, level);
 		if ((str = getenv("PIPEWIRE_LOG")) != NULL)