diff --git a/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getBaseConfigFactory.js b/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getBaseConfigFactory.js
index 3d689e1b78..534dcffb7f 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getBaseConfigFactory.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getBaseConfigFactory.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const { version } = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(PACKAGE_ROOT_DIR, 'pack
  * @param {HomeDir} homeDir
  * @returns {getBaseConfig}
  */
-export default function getBaseConfigFactory(homeDir) {
+export default function getBaseConfigFactory() {
   const prereleaseTag = semver.prerelease(version) === null ? '' : `-${semver.prerelease(version)[0]}`;
   const dockerImageVersion = `${semver.major(version)}${prereleaseTag}`;
 
@@ -134,12 +134,17 @@ export default function getBaseConfigFactory(homeDir) {
           },
         },
         log: {
-          file: {
-            categories: [],
-            path: homeDir.joinPath('logs', 'base', 'core.log'),
+          filePath: null,
+          debug: {
+            enabled: false,
+            ips: false,
+            sourceLocations: false,
+            threadNames: false,
+            timeMicros: false,
+            includeOnly: [],
+            exclude: [],
           },
         },
-        logIps: 0,
         indexes: [],
       },
       platform: {
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getMainnetConfigFactory.js b/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getMainnetConfigFactory.js
index f4ed9aa785..0f83c4a7a1 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getMainnetConfigFactory.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getMainnetConfigFactory.js
@@ -26,13 +26,6 @@ export default function getMainnetConfigFactory(homeDir, getBaseConfig) {
           subnet: '172.26.24.0/24',
         },
       },
-      core: {
-        log: {
-          file: {
-            path: homeDir.joinPath('logs', 'mainnet', 'core.log'),
-          },
-        },
-      },
       network: NETWORK_MAINNET,
       platform: {
         enable: false,
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getTestnetConfigFactory.js b/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getTestnetConfigFactory.js
index a818991202..a8aec0152b 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getTestnetConfigFactory.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/configs/defaults/getTestnetConfigFactory.js
@@ -30,11 +30,6 @@ export default function getTestnetConfigFactory(homeDir, getBaseConfig) {
         rpc: {
           port: 19998,
         },
-        log: {
-          file: {
-            path: homeDir.joinPath('logs', 'testnet', 'core.log'),
-          },
-        },
         spork: {
           address: 'yjPtiKh2uwk3bDutTEA2q9mCtXyiZRWn55',
         },
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/configs/getConfigFileMigrationsFactory.js b/packages/dashmate/configs/getConfigFileMigrationsFactory.js
index a3bcf67897..6953fbfa07 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/configs/getConfigFileMigrationsFactory.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/configs/getConfigFileMigrationsFactory.js
@@ -853,11 +853,36 @@ export default function getConfigFileMigrationsFactory(homeDir, defaultConfigs)
           });
         return configFile;
       },
-      '1.3.0-dev.2': (configFile) => {
+      '1.3.0-dev.3': (configFile) => {
         Object.entries(configFile.configs)
           .forEach(([, options]) => {
             options.platform.drive.abci.docker.image = 'dashpay/drive:1-dev';
             options.platform.dapi.api.docker.image = 'dashpay/dapi:1-dev';
+
+            // Update core log settings
+            options.core.log.filePath = null;
+            options.core.log.debug = {
+              enabled: false,
+              ips: !!options.core.logIps,
+              sourceLocations: false,
+              threadNames: false,
+              timeMicros: false,
+              includeOnly: [],
+              exclude: [],
+            };
+
+            // If debug log was enabled
+            if (options.core.log.file.categories.length > 0) {
+              options.core.log.filePath = options.core.log.file.path;
+              options.core.log.debug.enabled = true;
+
+              if (!options.core.log.file.categories.includes('all')) {
+                options.core.log.debug.includeOnly = options.core.log.file.categories;
+              }
+            }
+
+            delete options.core.log.file;
+            delete options.core.logIps;
           });
         return configFile;
       },
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/docker-compose.yml b/packages/dashmate/docker-compose.yml
index b267658716..3b2dfdbd94 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/packages/dashmate/docker-compose.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ services:
     volumes:
       - core_data:/home/dash
       - ${DASHMATE_HOME_DIR:?err}/${CONFIG_NAME:?err}/core/dash.conf:/home/dash/.dashcore/dash.conf:ro
-      - ${CORE_LOG_DIRECTORY_PATH:?err}:/var/log/dash
     command:
       - dashd
     stop_grace_period: 30s
@@ -112,7 +111,6 @@ services:
     volumes:
       - drive_tenderdash:/tenderdash
       - ${DASHMATE_HOME_DIR:?err}/${CONFIG_NAME:?err}/platform/drive/tenderdash:/tenderdash/config:ro
-      - ${PLATFORM_DRIVE_TENDERDASH_LOG_DIRECTORY_PATH:?err}:/var/log/tenderdash
     stop_grace_period: 10s
     profiles:
       - platform
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/src/config/configJsonSchema.js b/packages/dashmate/src/config/configJsonSchema.js
index 0e9dc266d1..8da6b4ce48 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/src/config/configJsonSchema.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/src/config/configJsonSchema.js
@@ -401,36 +401,59 @@ export default {
         log: {
           type: 'object',
           properties: {
-            file: {
+            filePath: {
+              type: ['null', 'string'],
+              minLength: 1,
+            },
+            debug: {
               type: 'object',
               properties: {
-                categories: {
+                enabled: {
+                  type: 'boolean',
+                },
+                ips: {
+                  type: 'boolean',
+                },
+                sourceLocations: {
+                  type: 'boolean',
+                },
+                threadNames: {
+                  type: 'boolean',
+                },
+                timeMicros: {
+                  type: 'boolean',
+                },
+                includeOnly: {
                   type: 'array',
                   uniqueItems: true,
                   items: {
                     type: 'string',
-                    enum: ['all', 'net', 'tor', 'mempool', 'http', 'bench', 'zmq', 'walletdb', 'rpc', 'estimatefee',
+                    enum: ['net', 'tor', 'mempool', 'http', 'bench', 'zmq', 'walletdb', 'rpc', 'estimatefee',
                       'addrman', 'selectcoins', 'reindex', 'cmpctblock', 'rand', 'prune', 'proxy', 'mempoolrej',
                       'libevent', 'coindb', 'qt', 'leveldb', 'chainlocks', 'gobject', 'instantsend', 'llmq',
                       'llmq-dkg', 'llmq-sigs', 'mnpayments', 'mnsync', 'coinjoin', 'spork', 'netconn',
                     ],
                   },
                 },
-                path: {
-                  type: 'string',
-                  minLength: 1,
+                exclude: {
+                  type: 'array',
+                  uniqueItems: true,
+                  items: {
+                    type: 'string',
+                    enum: ['net', 'tor', 'mempool', 'http', 'bench', 'zmq', 'walletdb', 'rpc', 'estimatefee',
+                      'addrman', 'selectcoins', 'reindex', 'cmpctblock', 'rand', 'prune', 'proxy', 'mempoolrej',
+                      'libevent', 'coindb', 'qt', 'leveldb', 'chainlocks', 'gobject', 'instantsend', 'llmq',
+                      'llmq-dkg', 'llmq-sigs', 'mnpayments', 'mnsync', 'coinjoin', 'spork', 'netconn',
+                    ],
+                  },
                 },
               },
               additionalProperties: false,
-              required: ['categories', 'path'],
+              required: ['enabled', 'ips', 'sourceLocations', 'threadNames', 'timeMicros', 'includeOnly', 'exclude'],
             },
           },
           additionalProperties: false,
-          required: ['file'],
-        },
-        logIps: {
-          type: 'integer',
-          enum: [0, 1],
+          required: ['filePath', 'debug'],
         },
         indexes: {
           type: ['array'],
@@ -444,7 +467,7 @@ export default {
         },
       },
       required: ['docker', 'p2p', 'rpc', 'spork', 'masternode', 'miner', 'devnet', 'log',
-        'logIps', 'indexes', 'insight'],
+        'indexes', 'insight'],
       additionalProperties: false,
     },
     platform: {
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/src/config/generateEnvsFactory.js b/packages/dashmate/src/config/generateEnvsFactory.js
index fcb0491ecf..781ef7bdaa 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/src/config/generateEnvsFactory.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/src/config/generateEnvsFactory.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import path from 'path';
 import os from 'os';
 import convertObjectToEnvs from './convertObjectToEnvs.js';
 import { DASHMATE_HELPER_DOCKER_IMAGE } from '../constants.js';
@@ -20,7 +19,6 @@ export default function generateEnvsFactory(configFile, homeDir, getConfigProfil
    * COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME: string,
    * COMPOSE_FILE: string,
    * COMPOSE_PATH_SEPARATOR: string,
-   * CORE_LOG_DIRECTORY_PATH: string
    * }}
    */
   function generateEnvs(config) {
@@ -69,13 +67,6 @@ export default function generateEnvsFactory(configFile, homeDir, getConfigProfil
 
     const { uid, gid } = os.userInfo();
 
-    // Determine logs directory to mount into tenderdash container
-    let tenderdashLogDirectoryPath = homeDir.joinPath('logs', config.get('network'));
-    const tenderdashLogFilePath = config.get('platform.drive.tenderdash.log.path');
-    if (tenderdashLogFilePath !== null) {
-      tenderdashLogDirectoryPath = path.dirname(tenderdashLogFilePath);
-    }
-
     let driveAbciMetricsUrl = '';
     if (config.get('platform.drive.abci.metrics.enabled')) {
       driveAbciMetricsUrl = 'http://0.0.0.0:29090';
@@ -92,11 +83,7 @@ export default function generateEnvsFactory(configFile, homeDir, getConfigProfil
       COMPOSE_PATH_SEPARATOR: ':',
       DOCKER_BUILDKIT: 1,
       COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD: 1,
-      CORE_LOG_DIRECTORY_PATH: path.dirname(
-        config.get('core.log.file.path'),
-      ),
       DASHMATE_HELPER_DOCKER_IMAGE,
-      PLATFORM_DRIVE_TENDERDASH_LOG_DIRECTORY_PATH: tenderdashLogDirectoryPath,
       PLATFORM_GATEWAY_RATE_LIMITER_METRICS_DISABLED: !config.get('platform.gateway.rateLimiter.metrics.enabled'),
       PLATFORM_DRIVE_ABCI_METRICS_URL: driveAbciMetricsUrl,
       ...convertObjectToEnvs(config.getOptions()),
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/src/core/startCoreFactory.js b/packages/dashmate/src/core/startCoreFactory.js
index 86401ee6df..3da7e54b8d 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/src/core/startCoreFactory.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/src/core/startCoreFactory.js
@@ -59,8 +59,10 @@ export default function startCoreFactory(
       coreCommand.push('--disablewallet=1');
     }
 
-    const logFilePath = config.get('core.log.file.path');
-    ensureFileMountExists(logFilePath, 0o666);
+    const logFilePath = config.get('core.log.filePath');
+    if (logFilePath !== null) {
+      ensureFileMountExists(logFilePath, 0o666);
+    }
 
     const coreContainer = await dockerCompose.runService(
       config,
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/src/listr/tasks/setup/setupLocalPresetTaskFactory.js b/packages/dashmate/src/listr/tasks/setup/setupLocalPresetTaskFactory.js
index 5338eb4178..242f65582a 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/src/listr/tasks/setup/setupLocalPresetTaskFactory.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/src/listr/tasks/setup/setupLocalPresetTaskFactory.js
@@ -139,11 +139,8 @@ export default function setupLocalPresetTaskFactory(
                 config.set('docker.network.subnet', subnet.join('.'));
 
                 // Setup Core debug logs
-                const coreLogFilePath = homeDir.joinPath('logs', config.getName(), 'core.log');
-                config.set('core.log.file.path', coreLogFilePath);
-
                 if (ctx.debugLogs) {
-                  config.set('core.log.file.categories', ['all']);
+                  config.set('core.log.debug.enabled', true);
                 }
 
                 // Although not all nodes are miners, all nodes should be aware of
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/src/listr/tasks/startNodeTaskFactory.js b/packages/dashmate/src/listr/tasks/startNodeTaskFactory.js
index b364bcf224..06bff9e7ed 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/src/listr/tasks/startNodeTaskFactory.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/src/listr/tasks/startNodeTaskFactory.js
@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ export default function startNodeTaskFactory(
       throw new Error(`'core.miner.enable' option only works with local network. Your network is ${config.get('network')}.`);
     }
 
-    const coreLogFilePath = config.get('core.log.file.path');
-    ensureFileMountExists(coreLogFilePath, 0o666);
+    const coreLogFilePath = config.get('core.log.filePath');
+    if (coreLogFilePath !== null) {
+      ensureFileMountExists(coreLogFilePath, 0o666);
+    }
 
     // Check Drive log files are created
     if (config.get('platform.enable')) {
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/src/test/mock/getConfigMock.js b/packages/dashmate/src/test/mock/getConfigMock.js
index 1961c48f28..641a1b8720 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/src/test/mock/getConfigMock.js
+++ b/packages/dashmate/src/test/mock/getConfigMock.js
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ export default function getConfigMock(sinon) {
   configMock.get.withArgs('platform.drive.tenderdash.rpc.host').returns('127.0.0.1');
   configMock.get.withArgs('platform.drive.tenderdash.rpc.port').returns('8103');
   configMock.get.withArgs('platform.enable').returns(true);
-  configMock.get.withArgs('core.log.file.path').returns('/Users/user/.dashmate/logs/base/core.log');
 
   return configMock;
 }
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/templates/core/dash.conf.dot b/packages/dashmate/templates/core/dash.conf.dot
index 807431f984..790575a9fb 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/templates/core/dash.conf.dot
+++ b/packages/dashmate/templates/core/dash.conf.dot
@@ -3,14 +3,30 @@ daemon=0  # leave this set to 0 for Docker
 logtimestamps=1
 maxconnections=256
 reindex={{?it.reindex}}1{{??}}0{{?}}
-{{~it.core.log.file.categories :category}}
-{{? category === 'all'}}
+
+{{? it.core.log.debug.enabled }}
+logips={{? it.core.log.debug.ips }}1{{??}}0{{?}}
+logsourcelocations={{? it.core.log.debug.sourceLocations }}1{{??}}0{{?}}
+logthreadnames={{? it.core.log.debug.threadNames }}1{{??}}0{{?}}
+logtimemicros={{? it.core.log.debug.timeMicros }}1{{??}}0{{?}}
+
+  {{? it.core.log.debug.includeOnly.length === 0 }}
 debug=1
+  {{??}}
+    {{~it.core.log.debug.includeOnly :category}}
+debug={{= category }}
+    {{~}}
+  {{?}}
+  {{~it.core.log.debug.exclude :category}}
+debugexclude={{= category}}
+  {{~}}
+{{?}}
+
+{{? it.core.log.filePath === null }}
+nodebuglogfile=1
 {{??}}
-debug={{=category}}{{?}}{{~}}
-debuglogfile=/var/log/dash/{{= it.core.log.file.path.split('/').pop() }}
-logips={{=it.core.logIps }}
-fallbackfee=0.00001
+debuglogfile=/var/log/dash/debug.log }}
+{{?}}
 
 # JSON RPC
 server=1
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/templates/dynamic-compose.yml.dot b/packages/dashmate/templates/dynamic-compose.yml.dot
index fbe122735e..6ed120930f 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/templates/dynamic-compose.yml.dot
+++ b/packages/dashmate/templates/dynamic-compose.yml.dot
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ services:
       {{~ it.core.docker.commandArgs :arg }}
       - {{=arg}}
       {{~}}
+    {{? it.core.log.filePath !== null }}
+    volumes:
+      - {{=it.core.log.filePath}}:/var/log/dash/debug.log
+    {{?}}
 
   {{ driveLogs = Object.entries(it.platform.drive.abci.logs).filter(([, settings]) => settings.destination !== 'stderr' && settings.destination !== 'stdout'); }}
   {{? driveLogs.length > 0 }}
@@ -18,6 +22,12 @@ services:
       {{~}}
   {{?}}
 
+  {{? it.platform.drive.tenderdash.log.path !== null }}
+  drive_tenderdash:
+    volumes:
+      - {{=it.platform.drive.tenderdash.log.path}}:/var/log/tenderdash/tenderdash.log
+  {{?}}
+
   {{ gatewayLogs = it.platform.gateway.log.accessLogs.filter((l) => l.type === 'file'); }}
   {{? gatewayLogs.length > 0 }}
   gateway:
diff --git a/packages/dashmate/templates/platform/drive/tenderdash/config.toml.dot b/packages/dashmate/templates/platform/drive/tenderdash/config.toml.dot
index 9caf3e128b..a818a35640 100644
--- a/packages/dashmate/templates/platform/drive/tenderdash/config.toml.dot
+++ b/packages/dashmate/templates/platform/drive/tenderdash/config.toml.dot
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ db-dir = "data"
 log-level = "{{=it.platform.drive.tenderdash.log.level}}"
 
 # Path to the log file. This parameter is an additional option to the existing stderr output
-{{? it.platform.drive.tenderdash.log.path }}log-file-path = "/var/log/tenderdash/{{= it.platform.drive.tenderdash.log.path.split('/').pop() }}"{{?}}
+{{? it.platform.drive.tenderdash.log.path }}log-file-path = "/var/log/tenderdash/tenderdash.log"{{?}}
 
 # Output format: 'plain' (colored text) or 'json'
 log-format = "{{=it.platform.drive.tenderdash.log.format}}"