diff --git a/docs/sanic/deploying.md b/docs/sanic/deploying.md
index d3652d0d..b6f84001 100644
--- a/docs/sanic/deploying.md
+++ b/docs/sanic/deploying.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ keyword arguments:
 - `protocol` *(default `HttpProtocol`)*: Subclass
   of
   [asyncio.protocol](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-protocol.html#protocol-classes).
+- `access_log` *(default `True`)*: Enables log on handling requests (significantly slows server).
 
 ## Workers
 
@@ -63,6 +64,20 @@ of the memory leak.
 
 See the [Gunicorn Docs](http://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/settings.html#max-requests) for more information.
 
+## Disable debug logging
+
+To improve the performance add `debug=False` and `access_log=False` in the `run` arguments.
+
+```python
+app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=1337, workers=4, debug=False, access_log=False)
+```
+
+Running via Gunicorn you can set `--log-level` higher than `info` to not get any access logs anymore.
+
+```
+gunicorn myapp:app --bind 0.0.0.0:1337 --worker-class sanic.worker.GunicornWorker --log-level warning
+```
+
 ## Asynchronous support
 This is suitable if you *need* to share the sanic process with other applications, in particular the `loop`.
 However be advised that this method does not support using multiple processes, and is not the preferred way
diff --git a/sanic/worker.py b/sanic/worker.py
index e6b4f315..474ed0a3 100644
--- a/sanic/worker.py
+++ b/sanic/worker.py
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ class GunicornWorker(base.Worker):
             if self.app.callable.websocket_enabled
             else self.http_protocol
         )
+
+        # set ACCESS_LOG on base of logging level
+        self.app.callable.config.ACCESS_LOG = self.log.loglevel <= logging.INFO
+
         self._server_settings = self.app.callable._helper(
             loop=self.loop,
             debug=is_debug,
diff --git a/tests/test_worker.py b/tests/test_worker.py
index 1fad4f28..04596d77 100644
--- a/tests/test_worker.py
+++ b/tests/test_worker.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import shlex
 import subprocess
 import urllib.request
 from unittest import mock
+from urllib.error import HTTPError
 from sanic.worker import GunicornWorker
 from sanic.app import Sanic
 import asyncio
@@ -24,12 +25,89 @@ def gunicorn_worker():
     worker.kill()
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(scope='module')
+def gunicorn_worker_log_level_info():
+    command = (
+        'gunicorn '
+        '--bind 127.0.0.1:1338 '
+        '--worker-class sanic.worker.GunicornWorker '
+        '--log-level info '
+        'examples.simple_server:app'
+    )
+    worker = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(command), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    time.sleep(2)
+    return worker
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope='module')
+def gunicorn_worker_log_level_warning():
+    command = (
+        'gunicorn '
+        '--bind 127.0.0.1:1339 '
+        '--worker-class sanic.worker.GunicornWorker '
+        '--log-level warning '
+        'examples.simple_server:app'
+    )
+    worker = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(command), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    time.sleep(2)
+    return worker
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope='module')
+def gunicorn_worker_log_level_warning2():
+    command = (
+        'gunicorn '
+        '--bind 127.0.0.1:1340 '
+        '--worker-class sanic.worker.GunicornWorker '
+        '--log-level warning '
+        'examples.exception_monitoring:app'
+    )
+    worker = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(command), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    time.sleep(2)
+    return worker
+
+
 def test_gunicorn_worker(gunicorn_worker):
     with urllib.request.urlopen("http://localhost:1337/") as f:
         res = json.loads(f.read(100).decode())
     assert res["test"]
 
 
+def test_gunicorn_worker_logs_info(gunicorn_worker_log_level_info):
+    """
+    on base of our log-level we get an access message
+    """
+    with urllib.request.urlopen('http://localhost:1338/') as _:
+        gunicorn_worker_log_level_info.kill()
+        assert b"(sanic.access)[INFO][127.0.0.1" in gunicorn_worker_log_level_info.stdout.read()
+
+
+def test_gunicorn_worker_logs_warning(gunicorn_worker_log_level_warning):
+    """
+    with log-level warning we are not getting an access messages anymore
+    """
+    with urllib.request.urlopen('http://localhost:1339/') as _:
+        gunicorn_worker_log_level_warning.kill()
+        assert not gunicorn_worker_log_level_warning.stdout.read()
+
+
+def test_gunicorn_worker_logs_warning_on_error(gunicorn_worker_log_level_warning2):
+    """
+    with log-level warning we get an error log but don't get an access log
+    """
+    try:
+        url = urllib.request.urlopen('http://localhost:1340/')
+    except HTTPError:
+        pass
+    else:
+        url.close()
+
+    gunicorn_worker_log_level_warning2.kill()
+    log_message = gunicorn_worker_log_level_warning2.stdout.read()
+    assert b"(sanic.access)[INFO][127.0.0.1" not in log_message
+    assert b"[ERROR] Exception occurred while handling uri" in log_message
+
+
 class GunicornTestWorker(GunicornWorker):
     def __init__(self):
         self.app = mock.Mock()