diff --git a/docs/logging.md b/docs/logging.md
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--- a/docs/logging.md
+++ b/docs/logging.md
@@ -68,21 +68,22 @@ since the main server log can be very verbose, but the main server log
 can be extremely valuable for investigating performance problems.
 
 ```
-2016-05-20 14:50:22,056 INFO     127.0.0.1       GET     302 528ms (db: 1ms/1q) (+start: 123ms) / (unauth via ?)
+2016-05-20 14:50:22.056 INFO [zr] 127.0.0.1       GET     302 528ms (db: 1ms/1q) (+start: 123ms) / (unauth via ?)
 [20/May/2016 14:50:22]"GET / HTTP/1.0" 302 0
-2016-05-20 14:50:22,272 INFO     127.0.0.1       GET     200 124ms (db: 3ms/2q) /login/ (unauth via ?)
-2016-05-20 14:50:26,333 INFO     127.0.0.1       POST    302  37ms (db: 6ms/7q) /accounts/login/local/ (unauth via ?)
+2016-05-20 14:50:22.272 INFO [zr] 127.0.0.1       GET     200 124ms (db: 3ms/2q) /login/ (unauth via ?)
+2016-05-20 14:50:26.333 INFO [zr] 127.0.0.1       POST    302  37ms (db: 6ms/7q) /accounts/login/local/ (unauth via ?)
 [20/May/2016 14:50:26]"POST /accounts/login/local/ HTTP/1.0" 302 0
-2016-05-20 14:50:26,538 INFO     127.0.0.1       GET     200  12ms (db: 1ms/2q) (+start: 53ms) /api/v1/events [1463769771:0/0] (cordelia@zulip.com via internal)
-2016-05-20 14:50:26,657 INFO     127.0.0.1       GET     200  10ms (+start: 8ms) /api/v1/events [1463769771:0/0] (cordelia@zulip.com via internal)
-2016-05-20 14:50:26,959 INFO     127.0.0.1       GET     200 588ms (db: 26ms/21q) / [1463769771:0] (cordelia@zulip.com via website)
+2016-05-20 14:50:26.538 INFO [zr] 127.0.0.1       GET     200  12ms (db: 1ms/2q) (+start: 53ms) /api/v1/events [1463769771:0/0] (cordelia@zulip.com via internal)
+2016-05-20 14:50:26.657 INFO [zr] 127.0.0.1       GET     200  10ms (+start: 8ms) /api/v1/events [1463769771:0/0] (cordelia@zulip.com via internal)
+2016-05-20 14:50:26.959 INFO [zr] 127.0.0.1       GET     200 588ms (db: 26ms/21q) / [1463769771:0] (cordelia@zulip.com via website)
 ```
 
 The format of this output is:
 * Timestamp
 * Log level
+* Logger name, abbreviated as "zr" for these Zulip request logs
 * IP address
-* HTTP Method
+* HTTP method
 * HTTP status code
 * Time to process
 * (Optional perf data details, e.g. database time/queries, memcached