diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/Umbraco.Web.UI.csproj b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/Umbraco.Web.UI.csproj
index 1b4c11c0ee..2ec51f36d4 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/Umbraco.Web.UI.csproj
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/Umbraco.Web.UI.csproj
@@ -372,6 +372,11 @@
     <!-- Create ClientDependency.config file from Template if it doesn't exist -->
     <Message Text="Copy ClientDependency.$(Configuration).config to ClientDependency.config" Importance="high" Condition="!Exists('$(ProjectDir)Config\ClientDependency.config')" />
     <Copy SourceFiles="$(ProjectDir)Config\ClientDependency.Release.config" DestinationFiles="$(ProjectDir)Config\ClientDependency.config" OverwriteReadOnlyFiles="true" SkipUnchangedFiles="false" Condition="!Exists('$(ProjectDir)Config\ClientDependency.config')" />
+    <!-- Create Serilog.config & serilog.user.config file from Templates if it doesn't exist -->
+    <Message Text="Copy serilog.$(Configuration).config to serilog.config" Importance="high" Condition="!Exists('$(ProjectDir)Config\serilog.config')" />
+    <Copy SourceFiles="$(ProjectDir)Config\serilog.Release.config" DestinationFiles="$(ProjectDir)Config\serilog.config" OverwriteReadOnlyFiles="true" SkipUnchangedFiles="false" Condition="!Exists('$(ProjectDir)Config\serilog.config')" />
+    <Message Text="Copy serilog.user.$(Configuration).config to serilog.user.config" Importance="high" Condition="!Exists('$(ProjectDir)Config\serilog.user.config')" />
+    <Copy SourceFiles="$(ProjectDir)Config\serilog.user.Release.config" DestinationFiles="$(ProjectDir)Config\serilog.user.config" OverwriteReadOnlyFiles="true" SkipUnchangedFiles="false" Condition="!Exists('$(ProjectDir)Config\serilog.user.config')" />
     <!-- Build Belle, if building is Visual Studio and the build folder does not exist yet -->
     <Message Text="Skip Belle because UmbracoBuild is '$(UmbracoBuild)' (this is not Visual Studio)." Importance="High" Condition="'$(UmbracoBuild)' != ''" />
     <Message Text="Skip Belle because $(ProjectDir)Umbraco\lib exists." Importance="High" Condition="Exists('$(ProjectDir)Umbraco\lib')" />
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.config b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.config
deleted file mode 100644
index 208e2a5909..0000000000
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<configuration>
-    <appSettings>
-
-        <!-- Used to toggle the log levels for the main Umbraco log files -->
-        <!-- Found at /app_data/logs/ -->
-        <!-- NOTE: Changing this will also flow down into serilog.user.config -->
-        <!-- VALID Values: Verbose, Debug, Information, Warning, Error, Fatal -->
-        <add key="serilog:minimum-level" value="Information" />
-
-        <!-- NOTE: Only one logger below can be enabled, you cannot log JSON & TXT files at the same time -->
-
-        <!-- Default JSON log file -->
-        <!-- This is used by the defualt log viewer in the Umbraco backoffice -->
-        <add key="serilog:using:File" value="Serilog.Sinks.File" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.formatter" value="Serilog.Formatting.Compact.CompactJsonFormatter, Serilog.Formatting.Compact" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.path" value="%BASEDIR%\App_Data\Logs\UmbracoTraceLog.%MACHINENAME%..json" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.shared" value="true" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.restrictedToMinimumLevel" value="Debug" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.retainedFileCountLimit" value="" /> <!-- Number of log files to keep (or remove value to keep all files) -->
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.rollingInterval" value="Day" /> <!-- Create a new log file every Minute/Hour/Day/Month/Year/infinite -->
-
-        <!-- Optional TXT log file -->
-        <!--<add key="serilog:using:File" value="Serilog.Sinks.File" /> -->
-        <!--<add key="serilog:write-to:File.path" value="%BASEDIR%\App_Data\Logs\UmbracoTraceLog.%MACHINENAME%..txt" /> -->
-        <!--<add key="serilog:write-to:File.shared" value="true" /> -->
-        <!--<add key="serilog:write-to:File.restrictedToMinimumLevel" value="Debug" /> -->
-        <!--<add key="serilog:write-to:File.retainedFileCountLimit" value="" /> --> <!-- Number of log files to keep (or remove value to keep all files) -->
-        <!--<add key="serilog:write-to:File.rollingInterval" value="Day" /> --> <!-- Create a new log file every Minute/Hour/Day/Month/Year/infinite -->
-        <!--<add key="serilog:write-to:File.outputTemplate" value="{Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,fff} [P{ProcessId}/D{AppDomainId}/T{ThreadId}] {Log4NetLevel}  {SourceContext} - {Message:lj}{NewLine}{Exception}" /> -->
-
-        <!-- To write to new log locations (aka Sinks) such as your own .txt files with filtering, ELMAH.io, Elastic, SEQ -->
-        <!-- Please use the serilog.user.config file to configure your own logging needs -->
-
-    </appSettings>
-</configuration>
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.user.config b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.user.config
deleted file mode 100644
index 24e5e4e4be..0000000000
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.user.config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<configuration>
-    <appSettings>
-        
-        <!-- Controls log levels for all user-defined child sub-logger sinks configured here (Set this higher than child sinks defined here) -->
-        <!-- VALID Values: Verbose, Debug, Information, Warning, Error, Fatal -->
-        <add key="serilog:minimum-level" value="Information" />
-
-        <!-- For Different Namespaces - Set different logging levels -->
-        <!--
-        <add key="serilog:minimum-level:override:Microsoft" value="Warning" />
-        <add key="serilog:minimum-level:override:Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc" value="Error" />
-        <add key="serilog:minimum-level:override:YourNameSpace" value="Information" />
-        -->
-
-        <!-- All logs defined via user.config will contain this property (won't be in main Umbraco logs) -->
-        <!--
-        <add key="serilog:enrich:with-property:websiteName" value="My Awesome Website - Development" />
-        -->
-
-        <!-- Write to a user log file -->
-        <!--
-        <add key="serilog:using:File" value="Serilog.Sinks.File" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.path" value="%BASEDIR%\logs\my-custom-logfile.txt" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.shared" value="true" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.restrictedToMinimumLevel" value="Debug" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.retainedFileCountLimit" value="32" />--> <!-- Number of log files to keep (or remove value to keep all files) -->
-        <!--<add key="serilog:write-to:File.rollingInterval" value="Day" />--> <!-- Create a new log file every Minute/Hour/Day/Month/Year/infinite -->
-
-        <!-- Filters all above sink's to use this expression -->
-        <!-- Common use case is to include SourceType starting with your own namespace -->
-        <!--
-        <add key="serilog:using:FilterExpressions" value="Serilog.Filters.Expressions" />
-        <add key="serilog:filter:ByIncluding.expression" value="StartsWith(SourceContext, 'Umbraco.Core')" />
-        -->
-
-    </appSettings>
-</configuration>