diff --git a/src/crawlee/crawlers/_basic/_basic_crawler.py b/src/crawlee/crawlers/_basic/_basic_crawler.py
index be3da6dd27..a77ae77294 100644
--- a/src/crawlee/crawlers/_basic/_basic_crawler.py
+++ b/src/crawlee/crawlers/_basic/_basic_crawler.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 from crawlee import Glob, RequestTransformAction, service_locator
 from crawlee._autoscaling import AutoscaledPool, Snapshotter, SystemStatus
-from crawlee._log_config import configure_logger, get_configured_log_level, string_to_log_level
+from crawlee._log_config import configure_logger, string_to_log_level
 from crawlee._request import Request, RequestOptions, RequestState
 from crawlee._service_locator import ServiceLocator
 from crawlee._types import (
@@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ class _BasicCrawlerOptions(TypedDict):
     """If True, the crawler stops immediately when any request handler error occurs."""
 
     configure_logging: NotRequired[bool]
-    """If True, the crawler will set up logging infrastructure automatically."""
+    """If True, the crawler will set up logging infrastructure automatically, unless the root logger already has
+    handlers configured by the host application."""
 
     statistics_log_format: NotRequired[Literal['table', 'inline']]
     """If 'table', displays crawler statistics as formatted tables in logs. If 'inline', outputs statistics as plain
@@ -349,7 +350,8 @@ def __init__(
             abort_on_error: If True, the crawler stops immediately when any request handler error occurs.
             keep_alive: If True, it will keep crawler alive even if there are no requests in queue.
                 Use `crawler.stop()` to exit the crawler.
-            configure_logging: If True, the crawler will set up logging infrastructure automatically.
+            configure_logging: If True, the crawler will set up logging infrastructure automatically, unless the root
+                logger already has handlers configured by the host application.
             statistics_log_format: If 'table', displays crawler statistics as formatted tables in logs. If 'inline',
                 outputs statistics as plain text log messages.
             respect_robots_txt_file: If set to `True`, the crawler will automatically try to fetch the robots.txt file
@@ -451,9 +453,10 @@ def __init__(
         # Logging setup
         if configure_logging:
             root_logger = logging.getLogger()
-            configure_logger(root_logger, remove_old_handlers=True)
-            httpx_logger = logging.getLogger('httpx')  # Silence HTTPX logger
-            httpx_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if get_configured_log_level() <= logging.DEBUG else logging.WARNING)
+            # Leave the loggers untouched if the host application has already configured the root logger,
+            # mirroring `logging.basicConfig` semantics.
+            if not root_logger.handlers:
+                configure_logger(root_logger)
         self._logger = _logger or logging.getLogger(__name__)
         if implicit_event_manager_with_explicit_config:
             self._logger.warning(
diff --git a/src/crawlee/http_clients/_httpx.py b/src/crawlee/http_clients/_httpx.py
index f2c2565125..2b4c6f2e52 100644
--- a/src/crawlee/http_clients/_httpx.py
+++ b/src/crawlee/http_clients/_httpx.py
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
 
 import asyncio
 from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
-from logging import getLogger
+from logging import DEBUG, WARNING, getLogger
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, cast
 
 import httpx
 from typing_extensions import override
 
+from crawlee._log_config import get_configured_log_level
 from crawlee._types import HttpHeaders
 from crawlee._utils.blocked import ROTATE_PROXY_ERRORS
 from crawlee._utils.docs import docs_group
@@ -128,6 +129,12 @@ def __init__(
         super().__init__(
             persist_cookies_per_session=persist_cookies_per_session,
         )
+
+        # `httpx` logs one INFO line per request, which is too noisy for the default log level. Silence it down to
+        # WARNING unless the user has explicitly opted into DEBUG.
+        httpx_logger = getLogger('httpx')
+        httpx_logger.setLevel(DEBUG if get_configured_log_level() <= DEBUG else WARNING)
+
         self._http1 = http1
         self._http2 = http2
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/crawlers/_basic/test_basic_crawler.py b/tests/unit/crawlers/_basic/test_basic_crawler.py
index 0391d65843..526a24b980 100644
--- a/tests/unit/crawlers/_basic/test_basic_crawler.py
+++ b/tests/unit/crawlers/_basic/test_basic_crawler.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 from crawlee import ConcurrencySettings, Glob, service_locator
+from crawlee._log_config import CrawleeLogFormatter
 from crawlee._request import Request, RequestState
 from crawlee._types import BasicCrawlingContext, EnqueueLinksKwargs, HttpMethod
 from crawlee._utils.robots import RobotsTxtFile
@@ -1053,6 +1054,40 @@ def test_crawler_log() -> None:
     crawler.log.info('Test log message')
 
 
+def test_configure_logging_preserves_host_app_root_handlers() -> None:
+    """Constructing a crawler must not remove handlers installed on the root logger by the host application."""
+    root_logger = logging.getLogger()
+    host_handler = logging.NullHandler()
+    root_logger.addHandler(host_handler)
+
+    try:
+        BasicCrawler()
+        assert host_handler in root_logger.handlers
+        # The host-configured root logger must not gain Crawlee's own handler either.
+        assert not any(isinstance(handler.formatter, CrawleeLogFormatter) for handler in root_logger.handlers)
+    finally:
+        root_logger.removeHandler(host_handler)
+
+
+def test_configure_logging_sets_up_unconfigured_root_logger() -> None:
+    """Constructing a crawler installs Crawlee's log handler when the root logger has no handlers yet."""
+    root_logger = logging.getLogger()
+    saved_handlers = root_logger.handlers[:]
+    saved_level = root_logger.level
+    for handler in saved_handlers:
+        root_logger.removeHandler(handler)
+
+    try:
+        BasicCrawler()
+        assert any(isinstance(handler.formatter, CrawleeLogFormatter) for handler in root_logger.handlers)
+    finally:
+        for handler in root_logger.handlers[:]:
+            root_logger.removeHandler(handler)
+        for handler in saved_handlers:
+            root_logger.addHandler(handler)
+        root_logger.setLevel(saved_level)
+
+
 async def test_consecutive_runs_purge_request_queue() -> None:
     crawler = BasicCrawler()
     visit = Mock()
diff --git a/tests/unit/http_clients/test_httpx.py b/tests/unit/http_clients/test_httpx.py
index a200d28f77..c98ca4bbf7 100644
--- a/tests/unit/http_clients/test_httpx.py
+++ b/tests/unit/http_clients/test_httpx.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import json
+import logging
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 import pytest
@@ -23,6 +24,16 @@ async def http_client() -> AsyncGenerator[HttpClient]:
         yield client
 
 
+def test_silences_httpx_request_logging() -> None:
+    """Instantiating the client lowers the noisy per-request `httpx` INFO logs to WARNING by default."""
+    httpx_logger = logging.getLogger('httpx')
+    httpx_logger.setLevel(logging.NOTSET)
+
+    HttpxHttpClient()
+
+    assert httpx_logger.level == logging.WARNING
+
+
 async def test_common_headers_and_user_agent(server_url: URL, header_network: dict) -> None:
     """Test that the relevant headers use header values from header generator instead of default Httpx headers.