diff --git a/smartgears/smartgears/defaults/main.yml b/smartgears/smartgears/defaults/main.yml
index b97b501c..81de04ac 100644
--- a/smartgears/smartgears/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/smartgears/smartgears/defaults/main.yml
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ smartgears_http_port: 9000
 smartgears_service_name: 'tomcat-instance-{{ smartgears_http_port }}'
 
 smartgears_log_use_timesize_appender: True
+smartgears_logback_conf_autoscan: 'true'
+smartgears_logback_conf_debug: 'false'
 smartgears_loglevel: WARN
+smartgears_accounting_log_level: ERROR  
 smartgears_dataanalysis_loglevel: DEBUG
 smartgears_dataanalysis_log_max_history: 90
 smartgears_log_max_history: 30
diff --git a/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml b/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
index 934d296b..9b4928ee 100644
--- a/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
+++ b/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@
   become_user: '{{ smartgears_user }}'
   template: src=logback.xml.j2 dest={{ smartgears_instance_path }}/lib/logback.xml
   when: smartgears_logback_template
-  notify: Restart smartgears
   tags: [ 'smartgears', 'smartgears_distribution', 'smartgears_conf', 'tomcat', 'logback_conf' ]
 
 - name: Remove some wrong symbolic links created by the install/upgrade script
diff --git a/smartgears/smartgears/templates/logback.xml.j2 b/smartgears/smartgears/templates/logback.xml.j2
index 7e479331..d4984faf 100644
--- a/smartgears/smartgears/templates/logback.xml.j2
+++ b/smartgears/smartgears/templates/logback.xml.j2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<configuration>
+<configuration scan="{{ smartgears_logback_conf_autoscan }}" debug="{{ smartgears_logback_conf_debug }}">
   <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
     <file>{{ smartgears_log_dir }}/ghn.log</file>
     <append>true</append>
@@ -114,24 +114,20 @@
 {% endfor %}
 {% endif %}
 
-
-  <logger name="org.gcube.data.publishing" level="FATAL">
+  <logger name="org.gcube.data.publishing" level="{{ smartgears_accounting_log_level }}">
     <appender-ref ref="ACCOUNT_FILE" />
   </logger>
-  <logger name="org.gcube.documentstore" level="FATAL">
+  <logger name="org.gcube.documentstore" level="{{ smartgears_accounting_log_level }}">
     <appender-ref ref="ACCOUNT_FILE" />
   </logger>
 
-  <logger name="org.gcube.smartgears.handlers.application.request"
-          level="INFO">
+  <logger name="org.gcube.smartgears.handlers.application.request" level="INFO">
     <appender-ref ref="ACCESS_FILE" />
   </logger>
 
   <logger name="org.gcube" level="{{ smartgears_loglevel }}" />
   <logger name="org.gcube.smartgears" level="{{ smartgears_loglevel }}" />
   <logger name="org.gcube.common.events" level="{{ smartgears_loglevel }}" />
-  <logger name="org.gcube.data.publishing" level="FATAL" />
-  <logger name="org.gcube.documentstore" level="FATAL" />
 
   <root level="{{ smartgears_loglevel }}">
     <appender-ref ref="FILE" />