diff --git a/lesson_26/README.md b/lesson_26/README.md
index c515729cf..3b9eae3df 100644
--- a/lesson_26/README.md
+++ b/lesson_26/README.md
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ We are continuing to build atop the foundation of our library app. For this assi
 
 #### Running the API
 
-You can run the server using the usual `./gradlew run` command from the `api/java` directory. If you want to test that the server is running correctly, you can use `curl` like so:
+You can run the server using the usual `./gradlew run --console=plain` command from the `api/java` directory. If you want to test that the server is running correctly, you can use `curl` like so:
 
 ```bash
 curl http://localhost:3001/items | json_pp
diff --git a/lesson_26/api/java/api_app/src/main/resources/application.yml b/lesson_26/api/java/api_app/src/main/resources/application.yml
index bc26497dc..5ab5f5b78 100644
--- a/lesson_26/api/java/api_app/src/main/resources/application.yml
+++ b/lesson_26/api/java/api_app/src/main/resources/application.yml
@@ -6,4 +6,8 @@ spring:
     generate-ddl: true
   datasource:
     url: jdbc:sqlite::resource:sqlite/data.db
-    driver-class-name: org.sqlite.JDBC
\ No newline at end of file
+    driver-class-name: org.sqlite.JDBC
+logging:
+  level:
+    root: WARN
+    org.springframework: WARN
\ No newline at end of file