diff --git a/IPython/utils/log.py b/IPython/utils/log.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3eb9bda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/IPython/utils/log.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+from warnings import warn
+
+warn("IPython.utils.log has moved to traitlets.log")
+
+from traitlets.log import *