diff --git a/fineract-provider/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml b/fineract-provider/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99e6e8ce2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fineract-provider/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+    or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+    distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+    to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+    "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+    with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+    software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+    "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+    KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+    specific language governing permissions and limitations
+    under the License.
+
+-->
+<configuration>
+    <!-- see https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/spring-boot-features.html#boot-features-custom-log-configuration
+         and https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/master/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/resources/org/springframework/boot/logging/logback -->
+    <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/defaults.xml" />
+
+    <appender name="CONSOLE" target="System.out" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>${CONSOLE_LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
+    <!-- See https://github.com/apache/fineract/#logging-guidelines for why by default we log only to INFO, only (WARN and) ERROR
+         but it's still possible to override this using java -Dlogging.level.root=info -jar fineract-provider.jar, as per https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/spring-boot-features.html#boot-features-custom-log-levels -->
+    <root level="warn">
+        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
+    </root>
+
+    <!-- But these two INFO are still handy ;-) just to see when it's up and running -->
+    <logger name="org.springframework.boot.web.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer" level="info" />
+    <logger name="org.apache.fineract.ServerApplication" level="info" />
+</configuration>
diff --git a/integration-tests/build.gradle b/integration-tests/build.gradle
index da6adbaa9..73c974b49 100644
--- a/integration-tests/build.gradle
+++ b/integration-tests/build.gradle
@@ -63,4 +63,8 @@ cargoStartLocal.mustRunAfter 'testClasses'
 test {
     dependsOn cargoStartLocal
     finalizedBy cargoStopLocal
+
+    beforeTest { descriptor ->
+        logger.lifecycle("Now running $descriptor.className#$descriptor.displayName...")
+    }
 }