A feature request: in the interest of controlling the proliferation of configuration files and reducing classpath problems, I'd like to see the logback-access.xml configuration file get rolled into the main logback.xml. It should be fairly simple to implement. To configure a request log, just add a section like this to logback.xml: <logger name="ch.qos.logback.access.jetty.RequestLogImpl"> <appender> // config appender here <encoder><pattern>clf</pattern></encoder> </appender> </logger> This keeps configuration nice and clean.