diff --git a/cmd/webhook/app/options/BUILD.bazel b/cmd/webhook/app/options/BUILD.bazel
index 114d757f1..34b828dd3 100644
--- a/cmd/webhook/app/options/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/cmd/webhook/app/options/BUILD.bazel
@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@ load("@io_bazel_rules_go//go:def.bzl", "go_library")
 
 go_library(
     name = "go_default_library",
-    srcs = ["options.go"],
+    srcs = [
+        "globalflags.go",
+        "options.go",
+    ],
     importpath = "github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/cmd/webhook/app/options",
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
     deps = [
         "//internal/apis/config:go_default_library",
         "//internal/apis/config/scheme:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/apis/config/v1alpha1:go_default_library",
+        "//pkg/logs:go_default_library",
         "@com_github_spf13_pflag//:go_default_library",
         "@io_k8s_component_base//cli/flag:go_default_library",
     ],
diff --git a/cmd/webhook/app/options/globalflags.go b/cmd/webhook/app/options/globalflags.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d442f267c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/webhook/app/options/globalflags.go
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2021 The cert-manager Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package options
+
+import (
+	"flag"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
+
+	"github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/pkg/logs"
+)
+
+func AddGlobalFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
+	addKlogFlags(fs)
+}
+
+func addKlogFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
+	local := flag.NewFlagSet(os.Args[0], flag.ExitOnError)
+	logs.InitLogs(local)
+	fs.AddGoFlagSet(local)
+}
diff --git a/cmd/webhook/app/webhook.go b/cmd/webhook/app/webhook.go
index 0f1a61fc3..f6fbdf62f 100644
--- a/cmd/webhook/app/webhook.go
+++ b/cmd/webhook/app/webhook.go
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ func NewServerCommand(stopCh <-chan struct{}) *cobra.Command {
 	}
 
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   componentWebhook,
-		Short: fmt.Sprintf("Webhook component providing API validation, mutation and conversion functionality for cert-manager (%s) (%s)", util.AppVersion, util.AppGitCommit),
+		Use:  componentWebhook,
+		Long: fmt.Sprintf("Webhook component providing API validation, mutation and conversion functionality for cert-manager (%s) (%s)", util.AppVersion, util.AppGitCommit),
 		// The webhook has special flag parsing requirements to handle precedence of providing
 		// configuration via versioned configuration files and flag values.
 		// Setting DisableFlagParsing=true prevents Cobra from interfering with flag parsing
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ func NewServerCommand(stopCh <-chan struct{}) *cobra.Command {
 
 	webhookFlags.AddFlags(cleanFlagSet)
 	options.AddConfigFlags(cleanFlagSet, webhookConfig)
+	options.AddGlobalFlags(cleanFlagSet)
 
 	cleanFlagSet.BoolP("help", "h", false, fmt.Sprintf("help for %s", cmd.Name()))