diff --git a/homeassistant/components/logger.py b/homeassistant/components/logger.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..019102fa6f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/homeassistant/components/logger.py
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+"""
+homeassistant.components.logger
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Component that will help guide the user taking its first steps.
+
+For more details about this component, please refer to the documentation at
+https://home-assistant.io/components/logger.html
+
+Sample configuration
+
+logger:
+  default: critical
+  logs:
+    homeassistant.components: debug
+    homeassistant.components.device_tracker: critical
+    homeassistant.components.camera: critical
+
+"""
+import logging
+from collections import OrderedDict
+
+DOMAIN = 'logger'
+DEPENDENCIES = []
+
+LOGSEVERITY = {
+    'CRITICAL': 50,
+    'FATAL': 50,
+    'ERROR': 40,
+    'WARNING': 30,
+    'WARN': 30,
+    'INFO': 20,
+    'DEBUG': 10,
+    'NOTSET': 0
+}
+
+LOGGER_DEFAULT = 'default'
+LOGGER_LOGS = 'logs'
+
+
+class HomeAssistantLogFilter(logging.Filter):
+    """A Home Assistant log filter"""
+    # pylint: disable=no-init,too-few-public-methods
+
+    def __init__(self, logfilter):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.logfilter = logfilter
+
+    def filter(self, record):
+
+        # Log with filterd severity
+        if LOGGER_LOGS in self.logfilter:
+            for filtername in self.logfilter[LOGGER_LOGS]:
+                logseverity = self.logfilter[LOGGER_LOGS][filtername]
+                if record.name.startswith(filtername):
+                    return record.levelno >= logseverity
+
+        # Log with default severity
+        default = self.logfilter[LOGGER_DEFAULT]
+        return record.levelno >= default
+
+
+def setup(hass, config=None):
+    """ Setup the logger component. """
+
+    logfilter = dict()
+
+    # Set default log severity
+    logfilter[LOGGER_DEFAULT] = LOGSEVERITY['DEBUG']
+    if LOGGER_DEFAULT in config.get(DOMAIN):
+        logfilter[LOGGER_DEFAULT] = LOGSEVERITY[
+            config.get(DOMAIN)[LOGGER_DEFAULT].upper()
+        ]
+
+    # Compute logseverity for components
+    if LOGGER_LOGS in config.get(DOMAIN):
+        for key, value in config.get(DOMAIN)[LOGGER_LOGS].items():
+            config.get(DOMAIN)[LOGGER_LOGS][key] = LOGSEVERITY[value.upper()]
+
+        logs = OrderedDict(
+            sorted(
+                config.get(DOMAIN)[LOGGER_LOGS].items(),
+                key=lambda t: len(t[0]),
+                reverse=True
+            )
+        )
+
+        logfilter[LOGGER_LOGS] = logs
+
+    # Set log filter for all log handler
+    for handler in logging.root.handlers:
+        handler.addFilter(HomeAssistantLogFilter(logfilter))
+
+    return True
diff --git a/homeassistant/loader.py b/homeassistant/loader.py
index 7b755214252..b05083b4abd 100644
--- a/homeassistant/loader.py
+++ b/homeassistant/loader.py
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def load_order_components(components):
         load_order.update(comp_load_order)
 
     # Push some to first place in load order
-    for comp in ('recorder', 'introduction'):
+    for comp in ('logger', 'recorder', 'introduction'):
         if comp in load_order:
             load_order.promote(comp)