diff --git a/src/mvt/common/utils.py b/src/mvt/common/utils.py
index ad3b394..b71c4ab 100644
--- a/src/mvt/common/utils.py
+++ b/src/mvt/common/utils.py
@@ -256,12 +256,18 @@ def init_logging(verbose: bool = False):
 
 
 def set_verbose_logging(verbose: bool = False):
+    """Raise or lower the verbosity of MVT's console output.
+
+    Only MVT's own console handler is adjusted, wherever it sits in the list.
+    The file handler a command attaches to its output folder keeps recording
+    everything, so the command.log of a run does not depend on how the run was
+    invoked, and a handler attached to the "mvt" logger by anything else is
+    left alone.
+    """
     log = logging.getLogger("mvt")
-    handler = log.handlers[0]
-    if verbose:
-        handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
-    else:
-        handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+    for handler in log.handlers:
+        if isinstance(handler, MVTLogHandler):
+            handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if verbose else logging.INFO)
 
 
 def exec_or_profile(module, globals, locals):
diff --git a/tests/common/test_utils.py b/tests/common/test_utils.py
index b8791e1..6bef147 100644
--- a/tests/common/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/common/test_utils.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from mvt.common.utils import (
     generate_hashes_from_path,
     get_sha256_from_file_path,
     init_logging,
+    set_verbose_logging,
 )
 
 from ..utils import get_artifact_folder
@@ -122,3 +123,29 @@ class TestInitLogging:
             sum(isinstance(handler, MVTLogHandler) for handler in log.handlers)
             == handler_count
         )
+
+    def test_verbose_logging_finds_the_console_handler_among_others(self):
+        # Something else may have attached a handler to the "mvt" logger
+        # before MVT did, so the console handler is not always the first.
+        log = logging.getLogger("mvt")
+        init_logging()
+        foreign_handler = logging.NullHandler()
+        foreign_handler.setLevel(logging.CRITICAL)
+        log.handlers.insert(0, foreign_handler)
+
+        try:
+            set_verbose_logging(True)
+            console_handlers = [
+                handler
+                for handler in log.handlers
+                if isinstance(handler, MVTLogHandler)
+            ]
+            assert console_handlers
+            assert all(handler.level == logging.DEBUG for handler in console_handlers)
+            assert foreign_handler.level == logging.CRITICAL
+
+            set_verbose_logging(False)
+            assert all(handler.level == logging.INFO for handler in console_handlers)
+            assert foreign_handler.level == logging.CRITICAL
+        finally:
+            log.handlers.remove(foreign_handler)