diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Logging/Logger.cs b/src/Umbraco.Core/Logging/Logger.cs
index 94059d4df3..84ebf7f529 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Logging/Logger.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/Logging/Logger.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ using Umbraco.Core.Configuration;
 using Umbraco.Core.Diagnostics;
 using Serilog;
 using Serilog.Events;
+using Serilog.Formatting.Compact;
 
 namespace Umbraco.Core.Logging
 {
@@ -37,11 +38,21 @@ namespace Umbraco.Core.Logging
                 .Enrich.WithThreadId()
                 .Enrich.WithProperty("AppDomainId", AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Id)
                 .Enrich.WithProperty("AppDomainAppId", HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppId.ReplaceNonAlphanumericChars(string.Empty))
-                .WriteTo.File(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"\App_Data\Logs\UmbracoTraceLog.txt", //Our main app Logfile
+
+                //Main .txt logfile - in similar format to older Log4Net output
+                .WriteTo.File(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"\App_Data\Logs\UmbracoTraceLog.txt",
                     rollingInterval: RollingInterval.Day,
                     restrictedToMinimumLevel: LogEventLevel.Debug,
                     retainedFileCountLimit: null, //Setting to null means we keep all files - default is 31 days
                     outputTemplate: "{Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,fff} [P{ProcessId}/D{AppDomainId}/T{ThreadId}] {Level:u4}  {Message:lj}{NewLine}{Exception}")
+
+                //.clef format (Compact log event format, that can be imported into local SEQ & will make searching/filtering logs easier)
+                .WriteTo.File(new CompactJsonFormatter(), AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"\App_Data\Logs\UmbracoTraceLog.json", 
+                    rollingInterval: RollingInterval.Day, //Create a new JSON file every day
+                    retainedFileCountLimit: null, //Setting to null means we keep all files - default is 31 days
+                    restrictedToMinimumLevel: LogEventLevel.Debug)
+
+                //Read any custom user configuration of logging from serilog config file
                 .ReadFrom.AppSettings(filePath: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"\config\serilog.config")
                 .CreateLogger();
 
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj b/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
index 898882c97e..fddf62bdb6 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Serilog.Enrichers.Thread">
       <Version>3.0.0</Version>
     </PackageReference>
+    <PackageReference Include="Serilog.Formatting.Compact">
+      <Version>1.0.0</Version>
+    </PackageReference>
     <PackageReference Include="Serilog.Settings.AppSettings">
       <Version>2.1.2</Version>
     </PackageReference>