diff --git a/.env.sample b/.env.sample
index dae16cb..3d8f5d2 100644
--- a/.env.sample
+++ b/.env.sample
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ LETS_ENCRYPT_ENV=production
 ## All config: https://docs.mealie.io/documentation/getting-started/installation/backend-config/
 ALLOW_SIGNUP=false
 LOG_LEVEL=warn
+# We use a custom log config to prevent logging to the filesystem and only log to stdout/stderr
+LOG_CONFIG_OVERRIDE=/app/logconf-override.json
 # TOKEN_TIME=8765
 # TZ=UTC
 
diff --git a/compose.yml b/compose.yml
index 9c0a5c6..8badb3b 100644
--- a/compose.yml
+++ b/compose.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ services:
       - DB_ENGINE=sqlite
       # Upstream mistakenly adds the user to 1000 instead of 911
       - PGID=1000
+    configs:
+      - source: log_config
+        target: /app/logconf-override.json
+
+configs:
+  log_config:
+    name: ${STACK_NAME}_log_config_${LOG_CONFIG_VERSION}
+    file: logconf-override.json
 
 networks:
   proxy:
diff --git a/logconf-override.json b/logconf-override.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e5baea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/logconf-override.json
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+{
+  "version": 1,
+  "disable_existing_loggers": false,
+  "formatters": {
+    "simple": {
+      "format": "%(levelname)-8s %(asctime)s - %(message)s",
+      "datefmt": "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"
+    },
+    "detailed": {
+      "format": "[%(levelname)s|%(module)s|L%(lineno)d] %(asctime)s: %(message)s",
+      "datefmt": "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"
+    },
+    "access": {
+      "()": "uvicorn.logging.AccessFormatter",
+      "fmt": "%(levelname)-8s %(asctime)s - [%(client_addr)s] %(status_code)s \"%(request_line)s\"",
+      "datefmt": "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"
+    }
+  },
+  "handlers": {
+    "stderr": {
+      "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
+      "level": "WARNING",
+      "formatter": "simple",
+      "stream": "ext://sys.stderr"
+    },
+    "stdout": {
+      "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
+      "level": "${LOG_LEVEL}",
+      "formatter": "simple",
+      "stream": "ext://sys.stdout"
+    },
+    "access": {
+      "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
+      "level": "${LOG_LEVEL}",
+      "formatter": "access",
+      "stream": "ext://sys.stdout"
+    }
+  },
+  "loggers": {
+    "root": {
+      "level": "${LOG_LEVEL}",
+      "handlers": [
+        "stderr",
+        "stdout"
+      ]
+    },
+    "uvicorn.error": {
+      "handlers": [
+        "stderr",
+        "stdout"
+      ],
+      "level": "${LOG_LEVEL}",
+      "propagate": false
+    },
+    "uvicorn.access": {
+      "handlers": [
+        "access"
+      ],
+      "level": "${LOG_LEVEL}",
+      "propagate": false
+    }
+  }
+}