diff --git a/atlasdb-config/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/factory/TransactionManagers.java b/atlasdb-config/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/factory/TransactionManagers.java
index 9df0b53032a..5baabcdeb2c 100644
--- a/atlasdb-config/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/factory/TransactionManagers.java
+++ b/atlasdb-config/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/factory/TransactionManagers.java
@@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ private static TargetedSweeper uninitializedTargetedSweeper(
         CoordinationAwareKnownAbandonedTransactionsStore abandonedTxnStore =
                 new CoordinationAwareKnownAbandonedTransactionsStore(
                         coordinationService, new AbandonedTimestampStoreImpl(kvs));
+        log.info("[PDS-586351] Creating an uninitialized targeted sweeper...");
         return TargetedSweeper.createUninitialized(
                 metricsManager,
                 runtime,
diff --git a/atlasdb-config/src/test/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/config/AtlasDbConfigDeserializationTest.java b/atlasdb-config/src/test/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/config/AtlasDbConfigDeserializationTest.java
index d144fa326af..bbf035fe940 100644
--- a/atlasdb-config/src/test/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/config/AtlasDbConfigDeserializationTest.java
+++ b/atlasdb-config/src/test/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/config/AtlasDbConfigDeserializationTest.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 
 import com.palantir.atlasdb.memory.InMemoryAtlasDbConfig;
+import com.palantir.atlasdb.sweep.queue.config.TargetedSweepInstallConfig.SweepIndexResetProgressStage;
 import com.palantir.conjure.java.api.config.ssl.SslConfiguration;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -42,6 +43,9 @@ public void canDeserializeAtlasDbConfig() throws IOException {
         assertTimeLockConfigDeserializedCorrectly(config.timelock().get());
 
         assertThat(config.leader()).isNotPresent();
+
+        assertThat(config.targetedSweep().sweepIndexResetProgressStage())
+                .isEqualTo(SweepIndexResetProgressStage.WRITE_IMMEDIATE_FORMAT_AND_SKIP_UNKNOWNS);
     }
 
     @Test
diff --git a/atlasdb-config/src/test/resources/test-config.yml b/atlasdb-config/src/test/resources/test-config.yml
index 8c0fc9c2cc8..a202629e828 100644
--- a/atlasdb-config/src/test/resources/test-config.yml
+++ b/atlasdb-config/src/test/resources/test-config.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 atlasdb:
   namespace: brian
+  targetedSweep:
+    sweepIndexResetProgressStage: WRITE_IMMEDIATE_FORMAT_AND_SKIP_UNKNOWNS
 
   keyValueService:
     type: memory
diff --git a/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/sweep/queue/SweepQueue.java b/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/sweep/queue/SweepQueue.java
index d13ac1a0eab..dac1c42b3ec 100644
--- a/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/sweep/queue/SweepQueue.java
+++ b/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/sweep/queue/SweepQueue.java
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ static SweepQueueFactory create(
                 Function<TableReference, Optional<LogSafety>> tablesToTrackDeletions,
                 SweepIndexResetProgressStage resetProgressStage) {
             Schemas.createTablesAndIndexes(TargetedSweepSchema.INSTANCE.getLatestSchema(), kvs);
+            log.info("[PDS-586351] Creating a sweep queue factory...");
             if (resetProgressStage.shouldInvalidateOldMappings()) {
                 log.info("Invalidating old sweep mappings... now truncating sweep identifier tables.");
 
@@ -329,7 +330,13 @@ static SweepQueueFactory create(
                             e);
                     throw e;
                 }
+            } else {
+                log.info(
+                        "Not invalidating old sweep mappings, because we don't believe we've been configured to do"
+                                + " this.",
+                        SafeArg.of("resetProgressStage", resetProgressStage));
             }
+
             ShardProgress shardProgress = new ShardProgress(kvs);
             Supplier<Integer> shards =
                     createProgressUpdatingSupplier(shardsConfig, shardProgress, SweepQueueUtils.REFRESH_TIME);
diff --git a/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/sweep/queue/TargetedSweeper.java b/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/sweep/queue/TargetedSweeper.java
index 4d105dd0623..ba87674a9d8 100644
--- a/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/sweep/queue/TargetedSweeper.java
+++ b/atlasdb-impl-shared/src/main/java/com/palantir/atlasdb/sweep/queue/TargetedSweeper.java
@@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ public static TargetedSweeper createUninitializedForTest(KeyValueService kvs, Su
 
     @Override
     public void initialize(TransactionManager txManager) {
+        log.info("[PDS-586351] Initializing targeted sweep...");
         initializeWithoutRunning(txManager);
+        log.info("[PDS-586351] Initialized targeted sweep, now running in background...");
         runInBackground();
     }
 
@@ -171,8 +173,10 @@ public void initializeWithoutRunning(
             TransactionService transaction,
             TargetedSweepFollower follower) {
         if (isInitialized) {
+            log.info("[PDS-586351] Targeted sweep thinks it's already initialized...");
             return;
         }
+        log.info("[PDS-586351] Now initializing targeted sweep, given an initialized kvs...");
         Preconditions.checkState(
                 kvs.isInitialized(), "Attempted to initialize targeted sweeper with an uninitialized backing KVS.");
         metrics = TargetedSweepMetrics.create(
@@ -181,6 +185,7 @@ public void initializeWithoutRunning(
                 kvs,
                 metricsConfiguration,
                 runtime.get().shards());
+        log.info("[PDS-586351] Initializing a sweep queue...");
         queue = SweepQueue.create(
                 metrics,
                 kvs,