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
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index 8c5a5738f..000000000
--- a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-log4j.rootLogger=INFO,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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diff --git a/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de2e26b75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-service-v1/persistence-service-server-v1/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="INFO">
+    <Appenders>
+        <Console name="JsonConsole" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+            <JSONLayout compact="true" eventEol="true" properties="true" stacktraceAsString="true"
+                        includeTimeMillis="true">
+                <!--  Project properties -->
+                <KeyValuePair key="appName" value="${project.name}"/>
+                <KeyValuePair key="version" value="${project.version}"/>
+            </JSONLayout>
+        </Console>
+    </Appenders>
+    <Loggers>
+        <Root level="info">
+            <AppenderRef ref="JsonConsole"/>
+        </Root>
+    </Loggers>
+</Configuration>
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