diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d389ea0c..425979f7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ ver. 0.10.5-dev-1 (20??/??/??) - development edition
   attempts (failure) for IP (resp. failure-ID), see gh-2351;
   Syntax:
   - `fail2ban-client set <jail> attempt <ip> [<failure-message1> ... <failure-messageN>]`
+* `action.d/badips.py`: option `loglevel` extended with level of summary message,
+  following example configuration logging summary with NOTICE and rest with DEBUG log-levels:
+  `action = badips.py[loglevel="debug, notice"]`
 
 
 ver. 0.10.4 (2018/10/04) - ten-four-on-due-date-ten-four
diff --git a/config/action.d/badips.py b/config/action.d/badips.py
index 1ad711f4..e5de7555 100644
--- a/config/action.d/badips.py
+++ b/config/action.d/badips.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ else: # pragma: 3.x no cover
 	from urllib import urlencode
 
 from fail2ban.server.actions import ActionBase
-from fail2ban.helpers import str2LogLevel
+from fail2ban.helpers import splitwords, str2LogLevel
 
 
 
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ class BadIPsAction(ActionBase): # pragma: no cover - may be unavailable
 	loglevel : int/str, optional
 		Log level of the message when an IP is (un)banned.
 		Default `DEBUG`.
+		Can be also supplied as two-value list (comma- or space separated) to
+		provide level of the summary message when a group of IPs is (un)banned.
+		Example `DEBUG,INFO`.
 	agent : str, optional
 		User agent transmitted to server.
 		Default `Fail2Ban/ver.`
@@ -91,8 +94,8 @@ class BadIPsAction(ActionBase): # pragma: no cover - may be unavailable
 		return Request(url, headers={'User-Agent': self.agent}, **argv)
 
 	def __init__(self, jail, name, category, score=3, age="24h", key=None,
-		banaction=None, bancategory=None, bankey=None, updateperiod=900, loglevel='DEBUG', agent="Fail2Ban", 
-		timeout=TIMEOUT):
+		banaction=None, bancategory=None, bankey=None, updateperiod=900, 
+		loglevel='DEBUG', agent="Fail2Ban", timeout=TIMEOUT):
 		super(BadIPsAction, self).__init__(jail, name)
 
 		self.timeout = timeout
@@ -104,7 +107,9 @@ class BadIPsAction(ActionBase): # pragma: no cover - may be unavailable
 		self.banaction = banaction
 		self.bancategory = bancategory or category
 		self.bankey = bankey
-		self.loglevel = str2LogLevel(loglevel)
+		loglevel = splitwords(loglevel)
+		self.sumloglevel = str2LogLevel(loglevel[-1])
+		self.loglevel = str2LogLevel(loglevel[0])
 		self.updateperiod = updateperiod
 
 		self._bannedips = set()
@@ -350,9 +355,13 @@ class BadIPsAction(ActionBase): # pragma: no cover - may be unavailable
 				s = ips - self._bannedips
 				p = len(s)
 				self._banIPs(s)
-				self._logSys.log(self.loglevel,
-					"Updated IPs for jail '%s' (-%d/+%d). Update again in %i seconds",
-					self._jail.name, m, p, self.updateperiod)
+				if m != 0 or p != 0:
+					self._logSys.log(self.sumloglevel,
+						"Updated IPs for jail '%s' (-%d/+%d)",
+						self._jail.name, m, p)
+				self._logSys.debug(
+					"Next update for jail '%' in %i seconds",
+					self._jail.name, self.updateperiod)
 			finally:
 				self._timer = threading.Timer(self.updateperiod, self.update)
 				self._timer.start()
diff --git a/fail2ban/tests/action_d/test_badips.py b/fail2ban/tests/action_d/test_badips.py
index 3ea1fc76..7f2222e1 100644
--- a/fail2ban/tests/action_d/test_badips.py
+++ b/fail2ban/tests/action_d/test_badips.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ if sys.version_info >= (2,7): # pragma: no cover - may be unavailable
 		pythonModule = None
 		modAction = None
 
+		@skip_if_not_available
 		def setUp(self):
 			"""Call before every test case."""
 			super(BadIPsActionTest, self).setUp()