diff --git a/.changeset/search-konstiga-fika-reglar.md b/.changeset/search-konstiga-fika-reglar.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fb79a8ad6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/search-konstiga-fika-reglar.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-adr-backend': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-search-backend-module-elasticsearch': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-search-backend-node': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-stack-overflow-backend': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend': patch
+---
+
+In order to improve the debuggability of the search indexing process, messages logged during indexing are now tagged with a `documentType` whose value corresponds to the `type` being indexed.
diff --git a/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt b/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt
index ae94912f38..6175eb96b5 100644
--- a/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt
+++ b/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ dataflow
 dayjs
 debounce
 Debounce
+debuggability
 declaratively
 deduplicated
 deps
diff --git a/plugins/adr-backend/src/search/DefaultAdrCollatorFactory.ts b/plugins/adr-backend/src/search/DefaultAdrCollatorFactory.ts
index 21f0f1945f..78f6e0226e 100644
--- a/plugins/adr-backend/src/search/DefaultAdrCollatorFactory.ts
+++ b/plugins/adr-backend/src/search/DefaultAdrCollatorFactory.ts
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ export class DefaultAdrCollatorFactory implements DocumentCollatorFactory {
     this.catalogClient =
       options.catalogClient ??
       new CatalogClient({ discoveryApi: options.discovery });
-    this.logger = options.logger;
+    this.logger = options.logger.child({ documentType: this.type });
     this.parser = options.parser ?? createMadrParser();
     this.reader = options.reader;
     this.scmIntegrations = ScmIntegrations.fromConfig(options.config);
diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/src/engines/ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer.ts b/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/src/engines/ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer.ts
index c81950ea41..e32c49559d 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/src/engines/ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer.ts
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/src/engines/ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer.ts
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ export class ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer extends BatchSearchEngineIndexer {
 
   constructor(options: ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexerOptions) {
     super({ batchSize: options.batchSize });
-    this.logger = options.logger;
+    this.logger = options.logger.child({ documentType: options.type });
     this.startTimestamp = process.hrtime();
     this.type = options.type;
     this.indexPrefix = options.indexPrefix;
diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-node/src/IndexBuilder.ts b/plugins/search-backend-node/src/IndexBuilder.ts
index 0ba9ba0059..907519f289 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-node/src/IndexBuilder.ts
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-node/src/IndexBuilder.ts
@@ -112,13 +112,14 @@ export class IndexBuilder {
     });
 
     Object.keys(this.collators).forEach(type => {
+      const taskLogger = this.logger.child({ documentType: type });
       scheduler.addToSchedule({
         id: `search_index_${type.replace('-', '_').toLocaleLowerCase('en-US')}`,
         scheduledRunner: this.collators[type].schedule,
         task: async () => {
           // Instantiate the collator.
           const collator = await this.collators[type].factory.getCollator();
-          this.logger.info(
+          taskLogger.info(
             `Collating documents for ${type} via ${this.collators[type].factory.constructor.name}`,
           );
 
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ export class IndexBuilder {
               .concat(this.decorators[type] || [])
               .map(async factory => {
                 const decorator = await factory.getDecorator();
-                this.logger.info(
+                taskLogger.info(
                   `Attached decorator via ${factory.constructor.name} to ${type} index pipeline.`,
                 );
                 return decorator;
@@ -144,13 +145,13 @@ export class IndexBuilder {
               [collator, ...decorators, indexer],
               (error: NodeJS.ErrnoException | null) => {
                 if (error) {
-                  this.logger.error(
+                  taskLogger.error(
                     `Collating documents for ${type} failed: ${error}`,
                   );
                   reject(error);
                 } else {
                   // Signal index pipeline completion!
-                  this.logger.info(`Collating documents for ${type} succeeded`);
+                  taskLogger.info(`Collating documents for ${type} succeeded`);
                   resolve();
                 }
               },
diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-node/src/collators/NewlineDelimitedJsonCollatorFactory.ts b/plugins/search-backend-node/src/collators/NewlineDelimitedJsonCollatorFactory.ts
index fde6b9412a..9d922aace6 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-node/src/collators/NewlineDelimitedJsonCollatorFactory.ts
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-node/src/collators/NewlineDelimitedJsonCollatorFactory.ts
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ export class NewlineDelimitedJsonCollatorFactory
       options.type,
       options.searchPattern,
       options.reader,
-      options.logger,
+      options.logger.child({ documentType: options.type }),
       options.visibilityPermission,
     );
   }
diff --git a/plugins/stack-overflow-backend/src/search/StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory.ts b/plugins/stack-overflow-backend/src/search/StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory.ts
index 688f54f005..1aa0e5d300 100644
--- a/plugins/stack-overflow-backend/src/search/StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory.ts
+++ b/plugins/stack-overflow-backend/src/search/StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory.ts
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ export class StackOverflowQuestionsCollatorFactory
     this.apiKey = options.apiKey;
     this.maxPage = options.maxPage;
     this.requestParams = options.requestParams;
-    this.logger = options.logger;
+    this.logger = options.logger.child({ documentType: this.type });
   }
 
   static fromConfig(
diff --git a/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.ts b/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.ts
index d458eeaba0..aaddb4fa51 100644
--- a/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.ts
+++ b/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory.ts
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ export class DefaultTechDocsCollatorFactory implements DocumentCollatorFactory {
     this.discovery = options.discovery;
     this.locationTemplate =
       options.locationTemplate || '/docs/:namespace/:kind/:name/:path';
-    this.logger = options.logger;
+    this.logger = options.logger.child({ documentType: this.type });
     this.catalogClient =
       options.catalogClient ||
       new CatalogClient({ discoveryApi: options.discovery });