diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7a2e8dd9..6c862f08 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
-.buildlog
-.DS_Store
-.idea
+.dart_tool
+.packages
 .pub/
-.settings/
-build/
-packages
 pubspec.lock
-.packages
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a66fe377..20413ab4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 0.4.4
+
+* Improve output logging when memcache connections fail.
+
 ## 0.4.3+1
 
 * When logging requests, the `appengine.googleapis.com/trace_id` label
diff --git a/lib/src/appengine_internal.dart b/lib/src/appengine_internal.dart
index 47477672..63948c59 100644
--- a/lib/src/appengine_internal.dart
+++ b/lib/src/appengine_internal.dart
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 library appengine.internal;
 
 import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:convert';
 import 'dart:io';
 
 import 'package:gcloud/datastore.dart' as datastore;
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
 import 'package:memcache/memcache.dart' as memcache;
 import 'package:memcache/memcache_raw.dart' as memcache_raw;
 import 'package:path/path.dart' as p;
+import 'package:stack_trace/stack_trace.dart';
 
 import 'errors.dart' as errors;
 import 'logging.dart' as logging;
@@ -296,8 +298,13 @@ Future<memcache.Memcache> _tryMemcacheInstance(
       return memcacheService;
     }
   } catch (e, stack) {
+    var stackIndented = LineSplitter
+        .split(Trace.format(stack, terse: true))
+        .map((l) => '  $l')
+        .join('\n');
+
     logging.warning('Could not connect to memcache instance at $host:$port\n'
-        '$e\n$stack');
+        '$e\n$stackIndented');
   }
 
   // We were unable to connect to a memcached server running on localhost, so
diff --git a/pubspec.yaml b/pubspec.yaml
index 2329babd..d5d15c55 100644
--- a/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pubspec.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: appengine
-version: 0.4.3+1
+version: 0.4.4-dev
 author: Dart Team <misc@dartlang.org>
 description: Support for using Dart as a custom runtime on Google App Engine Flexible Environment
 homepage: https://github.com/dart-lang/appengine
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@ dependencies:
   memcache: '^0.2.1+1'
   path: '^1.2.0'
   protobuf: '^0.5.0'
+  stack_trace: '^1.9.0'
 dev_dependencies:
   test: '^0.12.18+1'