diff --git a/pkg/apiserver/watch.go b/pkg/apiserver/watch.go
index 771682087d..38b3ace500 100644
--- a/pkg/apiserver/watch.go
+++ b/pkg/apiserver/watch.go
@@ -133,18 +133,18 @@ func (self *WatchServer) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 	cn, ok := w.(http.CloseNotifier)
 	if !ok {
 		loggedW.Addf("unable to get CloseNotifier")
-		http.NotFound(loggedW, req)
+		http.NotFound(w, req)
 		return
 	}
 	flusher, ok := w.(http.Flusher)
 	if !ok {
 		loggedW.Addf("unable to get Flusher")
-		http.NotFound(loggedW, req)
+		http.NotFound(w, req)
 		return
 	}
 
-	loggedW.Header().Set("Transfer-Encoding", "chunked")
-	loggedW.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+	w.Header().Set("Transfer-Encoding", "chunked")
+	w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
 	flusher.Flush()
 
 	encoder := json.NewEncoder(w)
diff --git a/pkg/httplog/log.go b/pkg/httplog/log.go
index 912625b7eb..c964e3864c 100644
--- a/pkg/httplog/log.go
+++ b/pkg/httplog/log.go
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ func Handler(delegate http.Handler, pred StacktracePred) http.Handler {
 // StacktracePred returns true if a stacktrace should be logged for this status.
 type StacktracePred func(httpStatus int) (logStacktrace bool)
 
+type logger interface {
+	Addf(format string, data ...interface{})
+}
+
 // Add a layer on top of ResponseWriter, so we can track latency and error
 // message sources.
 type respLogger struct {
@@ -54,6 +58,14 @@ type respLogger struct {
 	logStacktracePred StacktracePred
 }
 
+// Simple logger that logs immediately when Addf is called
+type passthroughLogger struct{}
+
+// Addf logs info immediately.
+func (passthroughLogger) Addf(format string, data ...interface{}) {
+	glog.Infof(format, data...)
+}
+
 // DefaultStacktracePred is the default implementation of StacktracePred.
 func DefaultStacktracePred(status int) bool {
 	return status < http.StatusOK || status >= http.StatusBadRequest
@@ -87,11 +99,12 @@ func NewLogged(req *http.Request, w *http.ResponseWriter) *respLogger {
 }
 
 // LogOf returns the logger hiding in w. If there is not an existing logger
-// then one will be created because NewLogged() must have been previously
-// called for the log to work.
-func LogOf(req *http.Request, w http.ResponseWriter) *respLogger {
+// then a passthroughLogger will be created which will log to stdout immediately
+// when Addf is called.
+func LogOf(req *http.Request, w http.ResponseWriter) logger {
 	if _, exists := w.(*respLogger); !exists {
-		NewLogged(req, &w)
+		pl := &passthroughLogger{}
+		return pl
 	}
 	if rl, ok := w.(*respLogger); ok {
 		return rl
diff --git a/pkg/httplog/log_test.go b/pkg/httplog/log_test.go
index 0ae8f53cde..aea79ab545 100644
--- a/pkg/httplog/log_test.go
+++ b/pkg/httplog/log_test.go
@@ -91,12 +91,16 @@ func TestLogOf(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("Unexpected error: %v", err)
 		}
 		handler := func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+			var want string
 			if makeLogger {
 				NewLogged(req, &w)
+				want = "*httplog.respLogger"
+			} else {
+				want = "*httplog.passthroughLogger"
 			}
-			got := reflect.TypeOf(*LogOf(r, w)).String()
-			if got != "httplog.respLogger" {
-				t.Errorf("Expected %v, got %v", "httplog.respLogger", got)
+			got := reflect.TypeOf(LogOf(r, w)).String()
+			if want != got {
+				t.Errorf("Expected %v, got %v", want, got)
 			}
 		}
 		w := httptest.NewRecorder()