diff --git a/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/src/main/resources/logback.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5aa5cd9bfa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/logback.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration> 
+  <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+    <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
+      <Pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</Pattern>
+    </layout>
+  </appender>
+  <logger name="com.wordnik" level="ERROR"/>
+  <root level="error">
+    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+  </root>
+</configuration>