diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/config.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/config.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8eb9007eb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/config.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright The OpenTelemetry 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
+ *
+ *      https://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.
+ */
+
+import { Logger } from '@opentelemetry/api';
+
+/**
+ * ResourceDetectionConfig provides an interface for configuring resource auto-detection.
+ */
+export interface ResourceDetectionConfig {
+  /** Optional Logger. */
+  logger?: Logger;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger provides an interface for interacting with
+ * {@link ResourceDetectionConfig} instances that must have a logger defined.
+ */
+export interface ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger
+  extends ResourceDetectionConfig {
+  /** Required Logger */
+  logger: Logger;
+}
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detect-resources.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detect-resources.ts
index d226ed4437..ca7add14b2 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detect-resources.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detect-resources.ts
@@ -17,25 +17,72 @@
 import { Resource } from '../../Resource';
 import { envDetector, awsEc2Detector, gcpDetector } from './detectors';
 import { Detector } from '../../types';
+import {
+  ResourceDetectionConfig,
+  ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger,
+} from '../../config';
+import { Logger } from '@opentelemetry/api';
+import * as util from 'util';
+import { NoopLogger } from '@opentelemetry/core';
 
 const DETECTORS: Array<Detector> = [envDetector, awsEc2Detector, gcpDetector];
 
 /**
  * Runs all resource detectors and returns the results merged into a single
  * Resource.
+ *
+ * @param config Configuration for resource detection
  */
-export const detectResources = async (): Promise<Resource> => {
+export const detectResources = async (
+  config: ResourceDetectionConfig = {}
+): Promise<Resource> => {
+  const internalConfig: ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger = Object.assign(
+    {
+      logger: new NoopLogger(),
+    },
+    config
+  );
+
   const resources: Array<Resource> = await Promise.all(
     DETECTORS.map(d => {
       try {
-        return d.detect();
+        return d.detect(internalConfig);
       } catch {
         return Resource.empty();
       }
     })
   );
+  // Log Resources only if there is a user-provided logger
+  if (config.logger) {
+    logResources(config.logger, resources);
+  }
   return resources.reduce(
     (acc, resource) => acc.merge(resource),
     Resource.createTelemetrySDKResource()
   );
 };
+
+/**
+ * Writes debug information about the detected resources to the logger defined in the resource detection config, if one is provided.
+ *
+ * @param logger The {@link Logger} to write the debug information to.
+ * @param resources The array of {@link Resource} that should be logged. Empty entried will be ignored.
+ */
+const logResources = (logger: Logger, resources: Array<Resource>) => {
+  resources.forEach((resource, index) => {
+    // Print only populated resources
+    if (Object.keys(resource.labels).length > 0) {
+      const resourceDebugString = util.inspect(resource.labels, {
+        depth: 2,
+        breakLength: Infinity,
+        sorted: true,
+        compact: false,
+      });
+      const detectorName = DETECTORS[index].constructor
+        ? DETECTORS[index].constructor.name
+        : 'Unknown detector';
+      logger.debug(`${detectorName} found resource.`);
+      logger.debug(resourceDebugString);
+    }
+  });
+};
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/AwsEc2Detector.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/AwsEc2Detector.ts
index e58c214db0..76fd11527a 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/AwsEc2Detector.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/AwsEc2Detector.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import * as http from 'http';
 import { Resource } from '../../../Resource';
 import { CLOUD_RESOURCE, HOST_RESOURCE } from '../../../constants';
 import { Detector } from '../../../types';
+import { ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger } from '../../../config';
 
 /**
  * The AwsEc2Detector can be used to detect if a process is running in AWS EC2
@@ -38,8 +39,10 @@ class AwsEc2Detector implements Detector {
    * populated with instance metadata as labels. Returns a promise containing an
    * empty {@link Resource} if the connection or parsing of the identity
    * document fails.
+   *
+   * @param config The resource detection config with a required logger
    */
-  async detect(): Promise<Resource> {
+  async detect(config: ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger): Promise<Resource> {
     try {
       const {
         accountId,
@@ -56,7 +59,8 @@ class AwsEc2Detector implements Detector {
         [HOST_RESOURCE.ID]: instanceId,
         [HOST_RESOURCE.TYPE]: instanceType,
       });
-    } catch {
+    } catch (e) {
+      config.logger.debug(`AwsEc2Detector failed: ${e.message}`);
       return Resource.empty();
     }
   }
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/EnvDetector.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/EnvDetector.ts
index 58ba567c36..718c566f12 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/EnvDetector.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/EnvDetector.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 import { Resource } from '../../../Resource';
 import { Detector, ResourceLabels } from '../../../types';
+import { ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger } from '../../../config';
 
 /**
  * EnvDetector can be used to detect the presence of and create a Resource
@@ -45,16 +46,24 @@ class EnvDetector implements Detector {
    * Returns a {@link Resource} populated with labels from the
    * OTEL_RESOURCE_LABELS environment variable. Note this is an async function
    * to conform to the Detector interface.
+   *
+   * @param config The resource detection config with a required logger
    */
-  async detect(): Promise<Resource> {
+  async detect(config: ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger): Promise<Resource> {
     try {
       const labelString = process.env.OTEL_RESOURCE_LABELS;
-      if (!labelString) return Resource.empty();
+      if (!labelString) {
+        config.logger.debug(
+          'EnvDetector failed: Environment variable "OTEL_RESOURCE_LABELS" is missing.'
+        );
+        return Resource.empty();
+      }
       const labels = this._parseResourceLabels(
         process.env.OTEL_RESOURCE_LABELS
       );
       return new Resource(labels);
-    } catch {
+    } catch (e) {
+      config.logger.debug(`EnvDetector failed: ${e.message}`);
       return Resource.empty();
     }
   }
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/GcpDetector.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/GcpDetector.ts
index 25518ed963..a93173d1a1 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/GcpDetector.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/platform/node/detectors/GcpDetector.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
   K8S_RESOURCE,
   CONTAINER_RESOURCE,
 } from '../../../constants';
+import { ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger } from '../../../config';
 
 /**
  * The GcpDetector can be used to detect if a process is running in the Google
@@ -31,8 +32,19 @@ import {
  * the instance. Returns an empty Resource if detection fails.
  */
 class GcpDetector implements Detector {
-  async detect(): Promise<Resource> {
-    if (!(await gcpMetadata.isAvailable())) return Resource.empty();
+  /**
+   * Attempts to connect and obtain instance configuration data from the GCP metadata service.
+   * If the connection is succesful it returns a promise containing a {@link Resource}
+   * populated with instance metadata as labels. Returns a promise containing an
+   * empty {@link Resource} if the connection or parsing of the metadata fails.
+   *
+   * @param config The resource detection config with a required logger
+   */
+  async detect(config: ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger): Promise<Resource> {
+    if (!(await gcpMetadata.isAvailable())) {
+      config.logger.debug('GcpDetector failed: GCP Metadata unavailable.');
+      return Resource.empty();
+    }
 
     const [projectId, instanceId, zoneId, clusterName] = await Promise.all([
       this._getProjectId(),
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/types.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/types.ts
index e1aa0d45b0..c33562312f 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/src/types.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  */
 
 import { Resource } from './Resource';
+import { ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger } from './config';
 
 /** Interface for Resource labels  */
 export interface ResourceLabels {
@@ -26,5 +27,5 @@ export interface ResourceLabels {
  * a detector returns a Promise containing a Resource.
  */
 export interface Detector {
-  detect(): Promise<Resource>;
+  detect(config: ResourceDetectionConfigWithLogger): Promise<Resource>;
 }
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detect-resources.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detect-resources.test.ts
index ca609fb3c4..b607efa0d6 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detect-resources.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detect-resources.test.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 import * as nock from 'nock';
 import * as sinon from 'sinon';
+import * as assert from 'assert';
 import { URL } from 'url';
 import { Resource, detectResources } from '../src';
 import { awsEc2Detector } from '../src/platform/node/detectors';
@@ -162,4 +163,113 @@ describe('detectResources', async () => {
       stub.restore();
     });
   });
+
+  describe('with a debug logger', () => {
+    // Local functions to test if a mocked method is ever called with a specific argument or regex matching for an argument.
+    // Needed because of race condition with parallel detectors.
+    const callArgsContains = (
+      mockedFunction: sinon.SinonSpy,
+      arg: any
+    ): boolean => {
+      return mockedFunction.getCalls().some(call => {
+        return call.args.some(callarg => arg === callarg);
+      });
+    };
+    const callArgsMatches = (
+      mockedFunction: sinon.SinonSpy,
+      regex: RegExp
+    ): boolean => {
+      return mockedFunction.getCalls().some(call => {
+        return regex.test(call.args.toString());
+      });
+    };
+
+    it('prints detected resources and debug messages to the logger', async () => {
+      // This test depends on the env detector to be functioning as intended
+      const mockedLoggerMethod = sinon.fake();
+      await detectResources({
+        logger: {
+          debug: mockedLoggerMethod,
+          info: sinon.fake(),
+          warn: sinon.fake(),
+          error: sinon.fake(),
+        },
+      });
+
+      // Test for AWS and GCP Detector failure
+      assert.ok(
+        callArgsContains(
+          mockedLoggerMethod,
+          'GcpDetector failed: GCP Metadata unavailable.'
+        )
+      );
+      assert.ok(
+        callArgsContains(
+          mockedLoggerMethod,
+          'AwsEc2Detector failed: Nock: Disallowed net connect for "169.254.169.254:80/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document"'
+        )
+      );
+      // Test that the Env Detector successfully found its resource and populated it with the right values.
+      assert.ok(
+        callArgsContains(mockedLoggerMethod, 'EnvDetector found resource.')
+      );
+      // Regex formatting accounts for whitespace variations in util.inspect output over different node versions
+      assert.ok(
+        callArgsMatches(
+          mockedLoggerMethod,
+          /{\s+'service\.instance\.id':\s+'627cc493',\s+'service\.name':\s+'my-service',\s+'service\.namespace':\s+'default',\s+'service\.version':\s+'0\.0\.1'\s+}\s*/
+        )
+      );
+    });
+
+    describe('with missing environemnt variable', () => {
+      beforeEach(() => {
+        delete process.env.OTEL_RESOURCE_LABELS;
+      });
+
+      it('prints correct error messages when EnvDetector has no env variable', async () => {
+        const mockedLoggerMethod = sinon.fake();
+        await detectResources({
+          logger: {
+            debug: mockedLoggerMethod,
+            info: sinon.fake(),
+            warn: sinon.fake(),
+            error: sinon.fake(),
+          },
+        });
+
+        assert.ok(
+          callArgsContains(
+            mockedLoggerMethod,
+            'EnvDetector failed: Environment variable "OTEL_RESOURCE_LABELS" is missing.'
+          )
+        );
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('with a faulty environment variable', () => {
+      beforeEach(() => {
+        process.env.OTEL_RESOURCE_LABELS = 'bad=~label';
+      });
+
+      it('prints correct error messages when EnvDetector has an invalid variable', async () => {
+        const mockedLoggerMethod = sinon.fake();
+        await detectResources({
+          logger: {
+            debug: mockedLoggerMethod,
+            info: sinon.fake(),
+            warn: sinon.fake(),
+            error: sinon.fake(),
+          },
+        });
+
+        assert.ok(
+          callArgsContains(
+            mockedLoggerMethod,
+            'EnvDetector failed: Label value should be a ASCII string with a length not exceed 255 characters.'
+          )
+        );
+      });
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/AwsEc2Detector.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/AwsEc2Detector.test.ts
index b60a6cc7f6..9b9e6eb035 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/AwsEc2Detector.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/AwsEc2Detector.test.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
   assertHostResource,
   assertEmptyResource,
 } from '../util/resource-assertions';
+import { NoopLogger } from '@opentelemetry/core';
 
 const { origin: AWS_HOST, pathname: AWS_PATH } = new URL(
   awsEc2Detector.AWS_INSTANCE_IDENTITY_DOCUMENT_URI
@@ -52,7 +53,9 @@ describe('awsEc2Detector', () => {
       const scope = nock(AWS_HOST)
         .get(AWS_PATH)
         .reply(200, () => mockedAwsResponse);
-      const resource: Resource = await awsEc2Detector.detect();
+      const resource: Resource = await awsEc2Detector.detect({
+        logger: new NoopLogger(),
+      });
       scope.done();
 
       assert.ok(resource);
@@ -74,7 +77,9 @@ describe('awsEc2Detector', () => {
       const scope = nock(AWS_HOST).get(AWS_PATH).replyWithError({
         code: 'ENOTFOUND',
       });
-      const resource: Resource = await awsEc2Detector.detect();
+      const resource: Resource = await awsEc2Detector.detect({
+        logger: new NoopLogger(),
+      });
       scope.done();
 
       assert.ok(resource);
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/EnvDetector.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/EnvDetector.test.ts
index 20a63e64d5..894de6e870 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/EnvDetector.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/EnvDetector.test.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {
   assertEmptyResource,
 } from '../util/resource-assertions';
 import { K8S_RESOURCE } from '../../src';
+import { NoopLogger } from '@opentelemetry/core';
 
 describe('envDetector()', () => {
   describe('with valid env', () => {
@@ -34,7 +35,9 @@ describe('envDetector()', () => {
     });
 
     it('should return resource information from environment variable', async () => {
-      const resource: Resource = await envDetector.detect();
+      const resource: Resource = await envDetector.detect({
+        logger: new NoopLogger(),
+      });
       assertK8sResource(resource, {
         [K8S_RESOURCE.POD_NAME]: 'pod-xyz-123',
         [K8S_RESOURCE.CLUSTER_NAME]: 'c1',
@@ -45,7 +48,9 @@ describe('envDetector()', () => {
 
   describe('with empty env', () => {
     it('should return empty resource', async () => {
-      const resource: Resource = await envDetector.detect();
+      const resource: Resource = await envDetector.detect({
+        logger: new NoopLogger(),
+      });
       assertEmptyResource(resource);
     });
   });
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/GcpDetector.test.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/GcpDetector.test.ts
index 75adb78980..c476feb5a7 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/GcpDetector.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-resources/test/detectors/GcpDetector.test.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import {
   assertContainerResource,
   assertEmptyResource,
 } from '../util/resource-assertions';
+import { NoopLogger } from '@opentelemetry/core';
 
 const HEADERS = {
   [HEADER_NAME.toLowerCase()]: HEADER_VALUE,
@@ -80,7 +81,9 @@ describe('gcpDetector', () => {
       const secondaryScope = nock(SECONDARY_HOST_ADDRESS)
         .get(INSTANCE_PATH)
         .reply(200, {}, HEADERS);
-      const resource: Resource = await gcpDetector.detect();
+      const resource: Resource = await gcpDetector.detect({
+        logger: new NoopLogger(),
+      });
       secondaryScope.done();
       scope.done();
 
@@ -111,7 +114,7 @@ describe('gcpDetector', () => {
       const secondaryScope = nock(SECONDARY_HOST_ADDRESS)
         .get(INSTANCE_PATH)
         .reply(200, {}, HEADERS);
-      const resource = await gcpDetector.detect();
+      const resource = await gcpDetector.detect({ logger: new NoopLogger() });
       secondaryScope.done();
       scope.done();
 
@@ -143,7 +146,7 @@ describe('gcpDetector', () => {
       const secondaryScope = nock(SECONDARY_HOST_ADDRESS)
         .get(INSTANCE_PATH)
         .reply(200, {}, HEADERS);
-      const resource = await gcpDetector.detect();
+      const resource = await gcpDetector.detect({ logger: new NoopLogger() });
       secondaryScope.done();
       scope.done();
 
@@ -155,7 +158,7 @@ describe('gcpDetector', () => {
     });
 
     it('returns empty resource if not detected', async () => {
-      const resource = await gcpDetector.detect();
+      const resource = await gcpDetector.detect({ logger: new NoopLogger() });
       assertEmptyResource(resource);
     });
   });