diff --git a/thresh/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml b/thresh/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c096e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thresh/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<configuration monitorInterval="60" shutdownHook="disable">
+  <properties>
+    <property name="pattern">%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</property>
+  </properties>
+
+  <appenders>
+    <Console name="console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+      <PatternLayout>
+        <pattern>${pattern}</pattern>
+      </PatternLayout>
+    </Console>
+
+    <File name="FILE" fileName="${LOGDIR:-/tmp}/monasca-thresh.log">
+      <PatternLayout>
+        <pattern>${pattern}</pattern>
+      </PatternLayout>
+    </File>
+  </appenders>
+
+  <loggers>
+    <root level="info">
+      <appender-ref ref="console"/>
+      <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
+    </root>
+  </loggers>
+</configuration>
diff --git a/thresh/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/thresh/src/main/resources/logback.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 509be9a..0000000
--- a/thresh/src/main/resources/logback.xml
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@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<configuration scan="true" scanPeriod="30 seconds">
-
-    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
-        <!-- encoders are assigned the type
-             ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder by default -->
-        <encoder>
-            <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</pattern>
-        </encoder>
-    </appender>
-
-    <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">
-        <file>${LOGDIR:-/tmp}/monasca-thresh.log</file>
-
-        <encoder>
-            <pattern>%date %level [%thread] %logger{10} [%file:%line] %msg%n</pattern>
-        </encoder>
-    </appender>
-
-
-    <logger name="monasca" level = "info"/>
-
-    <root level="info">
-        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
-        <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
-    </root>
-</configuration>