diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/pom.xml b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/pom.xml
index 230dc6684..f71697b2d 100644
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/pom.xml
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/pom.xml
@@ -110,8 +110,7 @@
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
-            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.iqser.red.commons</groupId>
diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/log4j.properties b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2b350b168
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+log4j.rootLogger=ERROR,stdout
+log4j.logger.com.endeca=INFO
+# Logger for crawl metrics
+log4j.logger.com.endeca.itl.web.metrics=INFO
+
+log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%p\t%d{ISO8601}\t%r\t%c\t[%t]\t%m%n
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