diff --git a/.vale/styles/config/vocabularies/DependencyTrack/accept.txt b/.vale/styles/config/vocabularies/DependencyTrack/accept.txt
index ed9d2f7..b1b0ff4 100644
--- a/.vale/styles/config/vocabularies/DependencyTrack/accept.txt
+++ b/.vale/styles/config/vocabularies/DependencyTrack/accept.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Keycloak
 LDAP
 LDAPS
 Liquibase
+Logback
 Lucene
 MSSQL
 Mattermost
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ SSDs
 Sigstore
 Snyk
 Sonatype
+Splunk
 TTLs
 Timescale
 Tink
@@ -173,6 +175,7 @@ keytool
 npm
 px
 sAMAccountName
+stdout
 timestamptz
 truststore
 userinfo
diff --git a/docs/guides/administration/configuring-observability.md b/docs/guides/administration/configuring-observability.md
index a582006..0546bc7 100644
--- a/docs/guides/administration/configuring-observability.md
+++ b/docs/guides/administration/configuring-observability.md
@@ -108,7 +108,29 @@ dt.logging.level."ROOT"=ERROR
 Refer to the [environment variable mapping](../../reference/configuration/application.md#environment-variable-mapping) documentation
 for how to express these properties as environment variables.
 
+## Changing the logging configuration
+
+Dependency-Track uses [Logback] for logging. The default configuration writes logs to stdout in a
+human-readable text format.
+
+The container images also ship a JSON-formatted configuration at `logback-json.xml`, located in the
+app's working directory. JSON output is typically the better choice when shipping logs to a
+centralized log management system such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, or Loki. Activate it by pointing
+Logback at that file:
+
+```ini
+EXTRA_JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dlogback.configurationFile=logback-json.xml"
+```
+
+Set the flag via `EXTRA_JAVA_OPTIONS` so the container appends it to the JVM command line. See the
+[JVM options reference](../../reference/configuration/application.md#jvm-options) for details.
+
+To use a fully custom configuration, mount your own file into the container and reference it the same
+way, with either a relative path (resolved against the working directory) or an absolute path. The
+[Logback configuration manual][Logback] describes the file format.
+
+[Logback]: https://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html
 [MicroProfile Health]: https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-health-4.0.1/microprofile-health-spec-4.0.1.html
-[probe types]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/liveness-readiness-startup-probes/
 [Prometheus text exposition format]: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/#text-based-format
 [dashboards]: https://github.com/DependencyTrack/dependency-track/tree/main/dev/monitoring/grafana/dashboards
+[probe types]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/liveness-readiness-startup-probes/