diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index f040c27df97..064aa9fc359 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ Upgrading from Solr 6.x
 * HttpSolrClient#setDefaultMaxConnectionsPerHost and
   HttpSolrClient#setMaxTotalConnections have been removed. These now default very
   high and can only be changed via param when creating an HttpClient instance.
-  
-* Query time join with scoring {!join score=none} (even none) doesn't handle single value numeric fields. 
-  Users are advised to convert these fields into string and reindex.  
+
+* Query time join with scoring {!join score=none} (even none) doesn't handle single value numeric fields.
+  Users are advised to convert these fields into string and reindex.
 
 Bug Fixes
 ----------------------
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-9542: Kerberos delegation tokens requires Jackson library (Ishan Chattopadhyaya via noble)
 
-* SOLR-9330: Fix AlreadyClosedException on admin/mbeans?stats=true (Mikhail Khludnev) 
+* SOLR-9330: Fix AlreadyClosedException on admin/mbeans?stats=true (Mikhail Khludnev)
 
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ Other Changes
 * SOLR-9500: Add a LogLevel annotation to set log levels on specific tests (Alan
   Woodward)
 
+* SOLR-9548: The beginning of solr.log now starts with a more informative welcome message (janhoy)
+
 ==================  6.2.1 ==================
 
 Bug Fixes
diff --git a/solr/bin/solr b/solr/bin/solr
index bd8118b8669..2ef480a50a3 100755
--- a/solr/bin/solr
+++ b/solr/bin/solr
@@ -1562,7 +1562,6 @@ function launch_solr() {
   mkdir -p "$SOLR_LOGS_DIR"
 
   if [ "$run_in_foreground" == "true" ]; then
-    echo -e "\nStarting Solr$IN_CLOUD_MODE on port $SOLR_PORT from $SOLR_SERVER_DIR\n"
     exec "$JAVA" "${SOLR_START_OPTS[@]}" $SOLR_ADDL_ARGS -jar start.jar "${SOLR_JETTY_CONFIG[@]}"
   else
     # run Solr in the background
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java
index 83de0c302c3..711f0e6a03f 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Locale;
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ import org.apache.commons.io.input.CloseShieldInputStream;
 import org.apache.commons.io.output.CloseShieldOutputStream;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.Version;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException.ErrorCode;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient;
@@ -120,6 +122,8 @@ public class SolrDispatchFilter extends BaseSolrFilter {
   public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException
   {
     log.trace("SolrDispatchFilter.init(): {}", this.getClass().getClassLoader());
+
+    logWelcomeBanner();
     String muteConsole = System.getProperty(SOLR_LOG_MUTECONSOLE);
     if (muteConsole != null && !Arrays.asList("false","0","off","no").contains(muteConsole.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT))) {
       StartupLoggingUtils.muteConsole();
@@ -162,6 +166,23 @@ public class SolrDispatchFilter extends BaseSolrFilter {
     log.trace("SolrDispatchFilter.init() done");
   }
 
+  private void logWelcomeBanner() {
+    log.info(" ___      _       Welcome to Apache Solr™ version {}", Version.LATEST);
+    log.info("/ __| ___| |_ _   Starting in {} mode on port {}", isCloudMode() ? "cloud" : "standalone", getSolrPort());
+    log.info("\\__ \\/ _ \\ | '_|  Install dir: {}", System.getProperty("solr.install.dir"));
+    log.info("|___/\\___/_|_|    Start time: {}", Instant.now().toString());
+  }
+
+  private String getSolrPort() {
+    return System.getProperty("jetty.port");
+  }
+
+  /* We are in cloud mode if Java option zkRun exists OR zkHost exists and is non-empty */
+  private boolean isCloudMode() {
+    return ((System.getProperty("zkHost") != null && !StringUtils.isEmpty(System.getProperty("zkHost")))
+    || System.getProperty("zkRun") != null);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Override this to change CoreContainer initialization
    * @return a CoreContainer to hold this server's cores