diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7d556efc..a05b7650 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,12 +3,9 @@ __pycache__
 build/**
 resources/payloads/*.lua
 venv
-logs.txt
 .DS_Store
 .vscode/settings.json
 dist/**
-a.py
-resources/tools/a.miz
 # User-specific stuff
 .idea/
 .env
@@ -19,7 +16,6 @@ env/
 /state.json
 
 /logs/
-
-qt_ui/logs/liberation.log
+/resources/logging.yaml
 
 *.psd
diff --git a/game/server/server.py b/game/server/server.py
index 34fcfe02..fdbb2151 100644
--- a/game/server/server.py
+++ b/game/server/server.py
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ class Server(uvicorn.Server):
                 app=app,
                 host=ServerSettings.get().server_bind_address,
                 port=ServerSettings.get().server_port,
-                log_level="info",
+                # Configured explicitly with default_logging.yaml or logging.yaml.
+                log_config=None,
             )
         )
 
diff --git a/qt_ui/logging_config.py b/qt_ui/logging_config.py
index 8d7a26af..2272e5b0 100644
--- a/qt_ui/logging_config.py
+++ b/qt_ui/logging_config.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 """Logging APIs."""
 import logging
+import logging.config
 import os
-from logging.handlers import RotatingFileHandler
+from pathlib import Path
 
-from qt_ui.logging_handler import HookableInMemoryHandler
+import yaml
 
 
 def init_logging(version: str) -> None:
@@ -11,23 +12,11 @@ def init_logging(version: str) -> None:
     if not os.path.isdir("./logs"):
         os.mkdir("logs")
 
-    fmt = "%(asctime)s :: %(levelname)s :: %(message)s"
-    formatter = logging.Formatter(fmt)
+    resources = Path("resources")
+    log_config = resources / "default_logging.yaml"
+    if (custom_log_config := resources / "logging.yaml").exists():
+        log_config = custom_log_config
+    with log_config.open() as log_file:
+        logging.config.dictConfig(yaml.safe_load(log_file))
 
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format=fmt)
-    logger = logging.getLogger()
-
-    rotating_file_handler = RotatingFileHandler(
-        "./logs/liberation.log", "a", 5000000, 1
-    )
-    rotating_file_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
-    rotating_file_handler.setFormatter(formatter)
-
-    hookable_in_memory_handler = HookableInMemoryHandler()
-    hookable_in_memory_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
-    hookable_in_memory_handler.setFormatter(formatter)
-
-    logger.addHandler(rotating_file_handler)
-    logger.addHandler(hookable_in_memory_handler)
-
-    logger.info(f"DCS Liberation {version}")
+    logging.info(f"DCS Liberation {version}")
diff --git a/resources/default_logging.yaml b/resources/default_logging.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9e2fe9d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/default_logging.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# To override default logging behavior, copy this file to resources/logging.yaml
+# and make changes. logging.yaml will take precedence over the default config if
+# it exists, but is not tracked by git.
+#
+# See https://gist.github.com/kingspp/9451566a5555fb022215ca2b7b802f19 and
+# https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html for examples.
+version: 1
+formatters:
+  default:
+    format: "%(asctime)s :: %(name)s :: %(levelname)s :: %(message)s"
+handlers:
+  console:
+    class: logging.StreamHandler
+    level: DEBUG
+    formatter: default
+    stream: ext://sys.stderr
+  file:
+    class: logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler
+    level: DEBUG
+    formatter: default
+    filename: logs/liberation.log
+    maxBytes: 5242880
+    backupCount: 1
+    encoding: utf8
+  in_memory:
+    class: qt_ui.logging_handler.HookableInMemoryHandler
+    level: DEBUG
+    formatter: default
+root:
+  level: DEBUG
+  handlers: [console, file, in_memory]
+loggers:
+  uvicorn.access:
+    # uvicorn.access logs every HTTP request and its result. It's useful while
+    # debugging that interface, but otherwise is very noisy, so by default is
+    # only logged to the file. To include this in the console, add console to
+    # the list of handlers, or set propagate to true, which will also log to the
+    # UI's log window.
+    handlers: [file]
+    propagate: false