diff --git a/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/startup/server/logger.js b/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/startup/server/logger.js
index 99b89030f788c81a5805fcf99d03ca8cae24dcd9..98e3d2f12e9ccc447c402275ff46874556232f25 100644
--- a/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/startup/server/logger.js
+++ b/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/startup/server/logger.js
@@ -18,46 +18,17 @@ Logger.configure({
 
 Meteor.startup(() => {
   const LOG_CONFIG = Meteor.settings.private.log || {};
-  let { filename } = LOG_CONFIG;
   const { level } = LOG_CONFIG;
 
   // console logging
-  if (Meteor.isDevelopment) {
-    Logger.add(Winston.transports.Console, {
-      prettyPrint: false,
-      humanReadableUnhandledException: true,
-      colorize: true,
-      handleExceptions: true,
-      level,
-    });
-  }
+  Logger.add(Winston.transports.Console, {
+    prettyPrint: false,
+    humanReadableUnhandledException: true,
+    colorize: true,
+    handleExceptions: true,
+    level,
+  });
 
-  // file logging
-  if (filename) {
-    // no file rotation
-    if (Meteor.isDevelopment) {
-      const path = Npm.require('path');
-      filename = path.join(process.env.PWD, filename);
-
-      Logger.add(Winston.transports.File, {
-        filename,
-        prettyPrint: true,
-        level,
-        prepend: true,
-      });
-    }
-
-    // daily file rotation
-    if (Meteor.isProduction) {
-      Winston.transports.DailyRotateFile = Npm.require('winston-daily-rotate-file');
-      Logger.add(Winston.transports.DailyRotateFile, {
-        filename,
-        datePattern: '.yyyy-MM-dd',
-        prepend: false,
-        level,
-      });
-    }
-  }
 });
 
 export default Logger;
diff --git a/bigbluebutton-html5/log/.gitkeep b/bigbluebutton-html5/log/.gitkeep
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
diff --git a/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/settings-development.json b/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/settings-development.json
index 756e857cfd831d51eb3ae3c581ad8db4d3683261..5a4ee8d4dcf7d8a758e7f65c9f7d521705b03382 100644
--- a/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/settings-development.json
+++ b/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/settings-development.json
@@ -346,7 +346,6 @@
 
 
     "log": {
-      "filename": "/log/development.log",
       "level": "info"
     }
   }
diff --git a/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/settings-production.json b/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/settings-production.json
index 6c89744003ad91d55a971244495c7fe70275b69b..44816c1096aa84e6d7e4b0a5c4cbb79114626a93 100644
--- a/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/settings-production.json
+++ b/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/settings-production.json
@@ -345,8 +345,7 @@
     },
 
     "log": {
-      "filename": "/var/log/bigbluebutton/html5/html5client.log",
       "level": "warn"
     }
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}