diff --git a/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-resources/src/main/resources/conf/logback.xml b/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-resources/src/main/resources/conf/logback.xml
index 7d65bda..b32118a 100644
--- a/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-resources/src/main/resources/conf/logback.xml
+++ b/nifi-registry-core/nifi-registry-resources/src/main/resources/conf/logback.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     </contextListener>
     
     <appender name="APP_FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
-        <file>logs/nifi-registry-app.log</file>
+        <file>${org.apache.nifi.registry.bootstrap.config.log.dir}/nifi-registry-app.log</file>
         <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
             <!--
               For daily rollover, use 'app_%d.log'.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
               To GZIP rolled files, replace '.log' with '.log.gz'.
               To ZIP rolled files, replace '.log' with '.log.zip'.
             -->
-            <fileNamePattern>./logs/nifi-registry-app_%d{yyyy-MM-dd_HH}.%i.log</fileNamePattern>
+            <fileNamePattern>${org.apache.nifi.registry.bootstrap.config.log.dir}/nifi-registry-app_%d{yyyy-MM-dd_HH}.%i.log</fileNamePattern>
             <timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedFNATP">
                 <maxFileSize>100MB</maxFileSize>
             </timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy>