diff --git a/app/log/standard_notes_formatter.rb b/app/log/standard_notes_formatter.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..780491dc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/log/standard_notes_formatter.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+class StandardNotesFormatter < ActiveSupport::Logger::SimpleFormatter
+  def call(severity, timestamp, _progname, message)
+    {
+      level: severity,
+      time: timestamp,
+      message: message,
+      ddsource: ['ruby'],
+    }.to_json + "\n"
+  end
+end
diff --git a/config/environments/development.rb b/config/environments/development.rb
index e5a65500d..1ba55ca84 100644
--- a/config/environments/development.rb
+++ b/config/environments/development.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Rails.application.configure do
     config.logger = ActiveSupport::Logger.new(STDOUT)
   end
 
+  config.colorize_logging = false
+  config.logger.formatter = StandardNotesFormatter.new
+
   # Show full error reports and disable caching.
   config.consider_all_requests_local       = true
   config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
diff --git a/config/environments/production.rb b/config/environments/production.rb
index ea73ceced..152c1d03b 100644
--- a/config/environments/production.rb
+++ b/config/environments/production.rb
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Rails.application.configure do
     config.logger = ActiveSupport::Logger.new(STDOUT)
   end
 
+  config.colorize_logging = false
+  config.logger.formatter = StandardNotesFormatter.new
+
   # Eager load code on boot. This eager loads most of Rails and
   # your application in memory, allowing both threaded web servers
   # and those relying on copy on write to perform better.