diff --git a/slider-assembly/src/conf-hdp/log4j-server.properties b/slider-assembly/src/conf-hdp/log4j-server.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90b5b1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slider-assembly/src/conf-hdp/log4j-server.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+# 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.
+#
+
+# This is a log4j config for Slider appmaster
+
+log4j.rootLogger=INFO,stderr
+log4j.threshhold=ALL
+log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+
+# log layout skips stack-trace creation operations by avoiding line numbers and method
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%t] %-5p %c{2} - %m%n
+
+# debug edition is much more expensive
+#log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%t] %-5p %c{2} (%F:%M(%L)) - %m%n
+
+# configure stderr
+# set the conversion pattern of stdout
+# Print the date in ISO 8601 format
+log4j.appender.stderr=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.stderr.Target=System.err
+log4j.appender.stderr.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.stderr.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%t] %-5p %c{2} - %m%n
+
+
+log4j.appender.subprocess=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.subprocess.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.subprocess.layout.ConversionPattern=[%c{1}]: %m%n
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.slider.yarn.appmaster.SliderAppMasterer.master=INFO,subprocess
+
+# for debugging Slider
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.slider=DEBUG
+
+# uncomment to debug service lifecycle issues
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.launcher=DEBUG
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service=DEBUG
+
+# uncomment for YARN operations
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client=DEBUG
+
+# uncomment this to debug security problems
+#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security=DEBUG
+
+#crank back on some noise
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hdfs=WARN
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.shortcircuit=ERROR
+
+
+
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.containermanager.monitor=WARN
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.NodeStatusUpdaterImpl=WARN
+log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=WARN
+log4j.logger.org.apache.curator.framework.state=ERROR
+log4j.logger.org.apache.curator.framework.imps=WARN
diff --git a/slider-assembly/src/conf-hdp/log4j.properties b/slider-assembly/src/conf-hdp/log4j.properties
index 823ffa3..fc5cc29 100644
--- a/slider-assembly/src/conf-hdp/log4j.properties
+++ b/slider-assembly/src/conf-hdp/log4j.properties
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #  limitations under the License.
 #
 
-# log4j configuration used during build and unit tests
+# log4j configuration used by Slider client (and during build and unit tests)
 
 log4j.rootLogger=INFO,stderr
 log4j.threshhold=ALL