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<h1 id="logging-sample-configuration-file"><a class="header" href="#logging-sample-configuration-file">Logging Sample Configuration File</a></h1>
<p>Below is a sample logging configuration file. This file can be tweaked to control how your
homeserver will output logs. A restart of the server is generally required to apply any
-changes made to this file.</p>
-<p>Note that the contents below are <em>not</em> intended to be copied and used as the basis for
-a real homeserver.yaml. Instead, if you are starting from scratch, please generate
-a fresh config using Synapse by following the instructions in
-<a href="../../setup/installation.html">Installation</a>.</p>
+changes made to this file. The value of the <code>log_config</code> option in your homeserver
+config should be the path to this file.</p>
+<p>Note that a default logging configuration (shown below) is created automatically alongside
+the homeserver config when following the <a href="../../setup/installation.html">installation instructions</a>.
+It should be named <code><SERVERNAME>.log.config</code> by default.</p>
<pre><code class="language-yaml"># Log configuration for Synapse.
#
# This is a YAML file containing a standard Python logging configuration
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