diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
index 986db938..e150ae95 100644
--- a/BUILD
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -69,8 +69,9 @@ java_binary(
     main_class = "grakn.console.GraknConsole",
     runtime_deps = [":console"],
     visibility = ["//:__pkg__"],
-    resource_strip_prefix = "conf/logback",
-    resources = ["//conf/logback:logback.xml"]
+    # If running the console binary directly, include the following logback to reduce noise
+#    resource_strip_prefix = "conf/logback",
+#    resources = ["//conf/logback:logback.xml"]
 )
 
 java_deps(
diff --git a/conf/logback/logback.xml b/conf/logback/logback.xml
index 7e54a3d9..19b5cde1 100644
--- a/conf/logback/logback.xml
+++ b/conf/logback/logback.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,4 @@
   -->
 <configuration debug="false">
     <root level="OFF"/>
-    <!-- suppress logback initialisation messages -->
-    <statusListener class="ch.qos.logback.core.status.NopStatusListener" />
 </configuration>