I'd like to use logging.config.dictConfig with a json config file. But I want to use a formatter from another class: pythonjsonlogger.jsonlogger.JsonFormatter What's wrong with this code/json: $ cat test.json { "version": 1, "disable_existing_loggers": "true", "formatters": { "json": { "class": "pythonjsonlogger.jsonlogger.JsonFormatter" # also tried "jsonlogger.JsonFormatter" (comment not in real file) } }, "handlers": { "console": { "class": "logging.StreamHandler", "level": "DEBUG", "formatter": "json", "stream": "ext://sys.stdout" } }, "loggers": { }, "root": { "handlers": ["console"], "level": "DEBUG" } } code: import sys sys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages') import json import logging import logging.config from pythonjsonlogger import jsonlogger fp = open('/test.json') logging.config.dictConfig(json.load(fp)) fp.close() logging.info('test log line') output: test log line Expected something like { "message": "test log line" } Continue reading...