diff --git a/internal/middleware/middleware.go b/internal/middleware/middleware.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc0c9e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/middleware/middleware.go
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+package middleware
+
+// Copied from chi middleware
+
+// Ported from Goji's middleware, source:
+// https://github.com/zenazn/goji/tree/master/web/middleware
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"encoding/base64"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"sync/atomic"
+)
+
+// Key to use when setting the request ID.
+type ctxKeyRequestID int
+
+// RequestIDKey is the key that holds the unique request ID in a request context.
+const RequestIDKey ctxKeyRequestID = 0
+
+// RequestIDHeader is the name of the HTTP Header which contains the request id.
+// Exported so that it can be changed by developers
+var RequestIDHeader = "X-Request-Id"
+
+var prefix string
+var reqid uint64
+
+// A quick note on the statistics here: we're trying to calculate the chance that
+// two randomly generated base62 prefixes will collide. We use the formula from
+// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
+//
+// P[m, n] \approx 1 - e^{-m^2/2n}
+//
+// We ballpark an upper bound for $m$ by imagining (for whatever reason) a server
+// that restarts every second over 10 years, for $m = 86400 * 365 * 10 = 315360000$
+//
+// For a $k$ character base-62 identifier, we have $n(k) = 62^k$
+//
+// Plugging this in, we find $P[m, n(10)] \approx 5.75%$, which is good enough for
+// our purposes, and is surely more than anyone would ever need in practice -- a
+// process that is rebooted a handful of times a day for a hundred years has less
+// than a millionth of a percent chance of generating two colliding IDs.
+
+func init() {
+	hostname, err := os.Hostname()
+	if hostname == "" || err != nil {
+		hostname = "localhost"
+	}
+	var buf [12]byte
+	var b64 string
+	for len(b64) < 10 {
+		rand.Read(buf[:])
+		b64 = base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(buf[:])
+		b64 = strings.NewReplacer("+", "", "/", "").Replace(b64)
+	}
+
+	prefix = fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s", hostname, b64[0:10])
+}
+
+// RequestID is a middleware that injects a request ID into the context of each
+// request. A request ID is a string of the form "host.example.com/random-0001",
+// where "random" is a base62 random string that uniquely identifies this go
+// process, and where the last number is an atomically incremented request
+// counter.
+func RequestID(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
+	fn := func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		ctx := r.Context()
+		requestID := r.Header.Get(RequestIDHeader)
+		if requestID == "" {
+			myid := atomic.AddUint64(&reqid, 1)
+			requestID = fmt.Sprintf("%s-%06d", prefix, myid)
+		}
+		ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, RequestIDKey, requestID)
+		next.ServeHTTP(w, r.WithContext(ctx))
+	}
+	return http.HandlerFunc(fn)
+}
+
+// GetReqID returns a request ID from the given context if one is present.
+// Returns the empty string if a request ID cannot be found.
+func GetReqID(ctx context.Context) string {
+	if ctx == nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	if reqID, ok := ctx.Value(RequestIDKey).(string); ok {
+		return reqID
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// NextRequestID generates the next request ID in the sequence.
+func NextRequestID() uint64 {
+	return atomic.AddUint64(&reqid, 1)
+}
diff --git a/lmw.go b/lmw.go
index a2dbfb6..5843236 100644
--- a/lmw.go
+++ b/lmw.go
@@ -7,9 +7,34 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/interline-io/log/internal/middleware"
 )
 
-// log request and duration
+// Copy of chi request id middleware
+func RequestIDMiddleware(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
+	return middleware.RequestID(next)
+}
+
+// Glue between chi RequestID and Zerolog
+func RequestIDLoggingMiddleware(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
+	fn := func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		ctx := r.Context()
+		rlog := For(ctx).
+			With().
+			Str("request_id", middleware.GetReqID(ctx)).Logger()
+		next.ServeHTTP(w, r.WithContext(WithLogger(ctx, rlog)))
+	}
+	return http.HandlerFunc(fn)
+}
+
+// Log request and duration
+// Renamed from LoggingMiddleware
+func DurationLoggingMiddleware(longQueryDuration int, getUserName func(context.Context) string) func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
+	return LoggingMiddleware(longQueryDuration, getUserName)
+}
+
+// Log request and duration
 func LoggingMiddleware(longQueryDuration int, getUserName func(context.Context) string) func(http.Handler) http.Handler {
 	return func(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
 		return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {