diff --git a/awx/main/models/base.py b/awx/main/models/base.py
index 99511f6330..da76af7688 100644
--- a/awx/main/models/base.py
+++ b/awx/main/models/base.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import shlex
 import yaml
 
 # Django
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.db import models
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
@@ -58,14 +59,14 @@ PERMISSION_TYPE_CHOICES = [
 
 CLOUD_INVENTORY_SOURCES = ['ec2', 'rax', 'vmware', 'gce', 'azure', 'openstack', 'custom']
 
-VERBOSITY_CHOICES = [
+VERBOSITY_CHOICES = getattr(settings, 'VERBOSITY_CHOICES', [
     (0, '0 (Normal)'),
     (1, '1 (Verbose)'),
     (2, '2 (More Verbose)'),
     (3, '3 (Debug)'),
     (4, '4 (Connection Debug)'),
     (5, '5 (WinRM Debug)'),
-]
+])
 
 
 class VarsDictProperty(object):