diff --git a/layer-api/src/main/resources/console-appender.xml b/layer-api/src/main/resources/console-appender.xml
index c5d93c72..f22ddee8 100644
--- a/layer-api/src/main/resources/console-appender.xml
+++ b/layer-api/src/main/resources/console-appender.xml
@@ -7,9 +7,15 @@
     </appender>
 
     <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
+        <file>./log/layer-api.log</file>
+
         <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
-            <fileNamePattern>${application.home:-.}/log/layer-api.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log
+            <fileNamePattern>${application.home:-.}/log/layer-api.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.log
             </fileNamePattern>
+            <timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy
+                    class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedFNATP">
+                <maxFileSize>50MB</maxFileSize>
+            </timeBasedFileNamingAndTriggeringPolicy>
             <maxHistory>10</maxHistory>
         </rollingPolicy>