diff --git a/src/documents/management/commands/document_consumer.py b/src/documents/management/commands/document_consumer.py
index 0eae5c80c..8116303b5 100644
--- a/src/documents/management/commands/document_consumer.py
+++ b/src/documents/management/commands/document_consumer.py
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 import datetime
+import logging
 import os
 import time
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
 
+from ...models import Log
 from ...consumer import Consumer, ConsumerError
 from ...mail import MailFetcher, MailFetcherError
 
@@ -44,6 +46,13 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
         except FileExistsError:
             pass
 
+        logging.getLogger(__name__).info(
+            "Starting document consumer at {}".format(
+                settings.CONSUMPTION_DIR
+            ),
+            extra={"component": Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER}
+        )
+
         try:
             while True:
                 self.loop()
diff --git a/src/documents/managers.py b/src/documents/managers.py
index d7e7225eb..e7b0751ca 100644
--- a/src/documents/managers.py
+++ b/src/documents/managers.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from django.db import models
 from django.db.models.aggregates import Max
 
 
-class Concat(models.Aggregate):
+class GroupConcat(models.Aggregate):
     """
     Theoretically, this should work in Sqlite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, but I've
     only ever tested it in Sqlite.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class LogQuerySet(models.query.QuerySet):
     def by_group(self):
         return self.values("group").annotate(
             time=Max("modified"),
-            messages=Concat("message"),
+            messages=GroupConcat("message"),
         ).order_by("-time")
 
 
diff --git a/src/documents/models.py b/src/documents/models.py
index b8baea7f8..0d79dba0a 100644
--- a/src/documents/models.py
+++ b/src/documents/models.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import logging
 import os
 import re
+import uuid
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
@@ -236,3 +237,16 @@ class Log(models.Model):
 
     def __str__(self):
         return self.message
+
+    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        To allow for the case where we don't want to group the message, we
+        shouldn't force the caller to specify a one-time group value.  However,
+        allowing group=None means that the manager can't differentiate the
+        different un-grouped messages, so instead we set a random one here.
+        """
+
+        if not self.group:
+            self.group = uuid.uuid4()
+
+        models.Model.save(self, *args, **kwargs)