diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1c1889c..7dedaf3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@
             <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
             <version>1.11.0</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <!-- Stanford CoreNLP -->
         <dependency>
@@ -81,6 +87,12 @@
             <groupId>com.mashape.unirest</groupId>
             <artifactId>unirest-java</artifactId>
             <version>1.4.9</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <!-- JAXB Runtime for Java 17+ (required by Stanford CoreNLP/jollyday) -->
         <dependency>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml b/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a69c58b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+    <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/defaults.xml" />
+
+    <appender name="CONSOLE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>${CONSOLE_LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
+            <charset>UTF-8</charset>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
+    <logger name="ca.gc.tbs" level="INFO" />
+    <logger name="com.sybit.airtable" level="ERROR" />
+    <logger name="org.apache.http" level="ERROR" />
+    <logger name="org.mongodb.driver" level="INFO" />
+
+    <root level="INFO">
+        <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
+    </root>
+</configuration>
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