diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/app/remote/KobaltServer.kt b/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/app/remote/KobaltServer.kt
index af5eeb26..45019dcf 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/app/remote/KobaltServer.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/app/remote/KobaltServer.kt
@@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ import javax.annotation.Nullable
  * The callbacks are used to initialize and clean up the state before and after each command, so that Kobalt's state
  * can be properly reset, making the server reentrant.
  *
- * To enable websocket debugging, launch with:
- *   -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel=debug
- * More logging documentation: https://www.slf4j.org/apidocs/org/slf4j/impl/SimpleLogger.html
+ * To enable websocket debugging, uncomment the "debug" <root> tag in logback.xml.
  */
 class KobaltServer @Inject constructor(@Assisted val force: Boolean, @Assisted @Nullable val givenPort: Int?,
         @Assisted val initCallback: (String) -> List<Project>,
diff --git a/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/src/main/resources/logback.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e7bcf3ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/logback.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<configuration debug="false">
+
+  <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+    <!-- encoders are assigned the type
+         ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder by default -->
+    <encoder>
+      <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</pattern>
+    </encoder>
+  </appender>
+
+<!--
+  <root level="debug">
+    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+  </root>
+-->
+</configuration>
+