diff --git a/packages/core/src/lib/collect-and-persist.ts b/packages/core/src/lib/collect-and-persist.ts
index 21c379695..f7aaeda49 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/lib/collect-and-persist.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/lib/collect-and-persist.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ export async function collectAndPersistReports(
 
   const report = await collect(options);
   const sortedScoredReport = sortReport(scoreReport(report));
+
   const persistResults = await persistReport(
     report,
     sortedScoredReport,
diff --git a/packages/plugin-eslint/src/lib/runner/index.ts b/packages/plugin-eslint/src/lib/runner/index.ts
index e740549ea..b18967e53 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-eslint/src/lib/runner/index.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin-eslint/src/lib/runner/index.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import {
   filePathToCliArg,
   objectToCliArgs,
   readJsonFile,
+  ui,
 } from '@code-pushup/utils';
 import type { ESLintPluginRunnerConfig, ESLintTarget } from '../config.js';
 import { lint } from './lint.js';
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ export async function executeRunner({
   const { slugs, targets } =
     await readJsonFile<ESLintPluginRunnerConfig>(runnerConfigPath);
 
+  ui().logger.log(`ESLint plugin executing ${targets.length} lint targets`);
+
   const linterOutputs = await targets.reduce(
     async (acc, target) => [...(await acc), await lint(target)],
     Promise.resolve<LinterOutput[]>([]),
diff --git a/packages/utils/src/lib/execute-process.ts b/packages/utils/src/lib/execute-process.ts
index e561a18a0..0359c7519 100644
--- a/packages/utils/src/lib/execute-process.ts
+++ b/packages/utils/src/lib/execute-process.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { gray } from 'ansis';
 import {
   type ChildProcess,
   type ChildProcessByStdio,
@@ -6,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   spawn,
 } from 'node:child_process';
 import type { Readable, Writable } from 'node:stream';
+import { ui } from './logging.js';
 import { calcDuration } from './reports/utils.js';
 
 /**
@@ -148,6 +150,9 @@ export function executeProcess(cfg: ProcessConfig): Promise<ProcessResult> {
   const date = new Date().toISOString();
   const start = performance.now();
 
+  const logCommand = [command, ...(args || [])].join(' ');
+  ui().logger.log(gray(`Executing command:\n${logCommand}`));
+
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     // shell:true tells Windows to use shell command for spawning a child process
     const spawnedProcess = spawn(command, args ?? [], {