diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eeb1c2624..85cb4bc55 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 .project
 .cache
 target
-obp-api/src/main/resources/
 obp-api/src/test/resources/**
 !obp-api/src/test/resources/frozen_type_meta_data
 *.iml
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5beb3d69e..683684bc1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -190,9 +190,9 @@ Note: Your Java environment may need to be setup correctly to use SSL
 
 Restart OBP-API, if you get an error, check your Java environment can connect to the host over SSL.
 
-Note you can change the log level in:
- - /obp-api/src/main/resources/default.logback.xml (try TRACE or DEBUG)
- - /obp-api/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml (try TRACE or DEBUG)
+Note you can copy the following example files to prepare your own configurations:
+ - /obp-api/src/main/resources/logback.xml.example -> /obp-api/src/main/resources/logback.xml (try TRACE or DEBUG)
+ - /obp-api/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml.example -> /obp-api/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml (try TRACE or DEBUG)
 
 There is a gist / tool which is useful for this. Search the web for SSLPoke. Note this is an external repository.
 
diff --git a/obp-api/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml b/obp-api/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 871aea062..000000000
--- a/obp-api/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-<configuration>
-
-  <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
-    <encoder>
-      <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %t %c{0} [%p] %m%n</pattern>
-    </encoder>
-  </appender>
-
-  <root level="DEBUG">
-    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
-  </root>
-</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/obp-api/src/main/resources/test.logback.xml b/obp-api/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml.example
similarity index 100%
rename from obp-api/src/main/resources/test.logback.xml
rename to obp-api/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml.example
diff --git a/obp-api/src/main/resources/default.logback.xml b/obp-api/src/main/resources/logback.xml.example
similarity index 100%
rename from obp-api/src/main/resources/default.logback.xml
rename to obp-api/src/main/resources/logback.xml.example