diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e888b51..e4763ba 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ EXPOSE 22 4040 7077 8020 8030 8031 8032 8042 8088 9000 10020 19888 50010 50020 5
 
 RUN mkdir -p /var/run/sshd ${HADOOP_HOME}/hdfs ${HADOOP_HOME}/hdfs/data ${HADOOP_HOME}/hdfs/data/dfs ${HADOOP_HOME}/hdfs/data/dfs/namenode ${HADOOP_HOME}/logs
 
+COPY spark/base/confs/log4j.properties /spark/conf/log4j.properties
+COPY spark/base/confs/log4j2.properties /spark/conf/log4j2.properties
+
 COPY . /gen3spark
 WORKDIR /gen3spark
 
diff --git a/spark/base/confs/log4j.properties b/spark/base/confs/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f526d88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spark/base/confs/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, console
+log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
+log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
+log4j.logger.org.apache.spark.executor.CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend=DEBUG
+log4j.logger.org.apache.spark.scheduler.TaskSetManager=DEBUG
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.fs=DEBUG
+log4j.logger.org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler=DEBUG
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diff --git a/spark/base/confs/log4j2.properties b/spark/base/confs/log4j2.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a256c30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spark/base/confs/log4j2.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+#
+# 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.
+#
+
+# Set everything to be logged to the console
+rootLogger.level = debug
+rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+# In the pattern layout configuration below, we specify an explicit `%ex` conversion
+# pattern for logging Throwables. If this was omitted, then (by default) Log4J would
+# implicitly add an `%xEx` conversion pattern which logs stacktraces with additional
+# class packaging information. That extra information can sometimes add a substantial
+# performance overhead, so we disable it in our default logging config.
+# For more information, see SPARK-39361.
+appender.console.type = Console
+appender.console.name = console
+appender.console.target = SYSTEM_ERR
+appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
+appender.console.layout.pattern = %d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{1}: %m%n%ex
+
+# Set the default spark-shell/spark-sql log level to WARN. When running the
+# spark-shell/spark-sql, the log level for these classes is used to overwrite
+# the root logger's log level, so that the user can have different defaults
+# for the shell and regular Spark apps.
+logger.repl.name = org.apache.spark.repl.Main
+logger.repl.level = warn
+
+logger.thriftserver.name = org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver.SparkSQLCLIDriver
+logger.thriftserver.level = warn
+
+# Settings to quiet third party logs that are too verbose
+logger.jetty1.name = org.sparkproject.jetty
+logger.jetty1.level = debug
+logger.jetty1.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+logger.jetty2.name = org.sparkproject.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle
+logger.jetty2.level = info
+logger.jetty2.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+logger.replexprTyper.name = org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$exprTyper
+logger.replexprTyper.level = info
+logger.replexprTyper.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+logger.replSparkILoopInterpreter.name = org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$SparkILoopInterpreter
+logger.replSparkILoopInterpreter.level = info
+logger.replSparkILoopInterpreter.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+logger.parquet1.name = org.apache.parquet
+logger.parquet1.level = info
+logger.parquet1.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+logger.parquet2.name = parquet
+logger.parquet2.level = info
+logger.parquet2.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+# SPARK-9183: Settings to avoid annoying messages when looking up nonexistent UDFs in SparkSQL with Hive support
+logger.RetryingHMSHandler.name = org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler
+logger.RetryingHMSHandler.level = fatal
+logger.FunctionRegistry.name = org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FunctionRegistry
+logger.FunctionRegistry.level = info
+
+# For deploying Spark ThriftServer
+# SPARK-34128: Suppress undesirable TTransportException warnings involved in THRIFT-4805
+appender.console.filter.1.type = RegexFilter
+appender.console.filter.1.regex = .*Thrift error occurred during processing of message.*
+appender.console.filter.1.onMatch = deny
+appender.console.filter.1.onMismatch = neutral
+
+logger.org.name=org.apache
+logger.org.level=debug
+logger.org.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+# Logger configuration for org.apache.spark package
+logger.spark.name = org.apache.spark
+logger.spark.level = debug
+logger.spark.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+# Logger configuration for org.apache.spark.sql package
+logger.sql.name = org.apache.spark.sql
+logger.sql.level = info
+logger.sql.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
+
+# Logger configuration for py4j package
+logger.py4j.name = py4j
+logger.py4j.level = debug
+logger.py4j.appenderRef.stdout.ref = console
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