diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 519839de001..b1fd9b513af 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ New Features
 
 * SOLR-9319: DELETEREPLICA can accept a 'count' and remove appropriate replicas (Nitin Sharma, noble)
 
+* SOLR-8186: Reduce logging to logs/solr-<port>-console.log when not running in foreground mode
+  Show timestamp also in foreground log. Also removes some logging noise. (janhoy)
+
 Bug Fixes
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/bin/solr b/solr/bin/solr
index e2a665d92cb..d3c6530722e 100755
--- a/solr/bin/solr
+++ b/solr/bin/solr
@@ -1547,7 +1547,7 @@ function launch_solr() {
     exec "$JAVA" "${SOLR_START_OPTS[@]}" $SOLR_ADDL_ARGS -jar start.jar "${SOLR_JETTY_CONFIG[@]}"
   else
     # run Solr in the background
-    nohup "$JAVA" "${SOLR_START_OPTS[@]}" $SOLR_ADDL_ARGS \
+    nohup "$JAVA" "${SOLR_START_OPTS[@]}" $SOLR_ADDL_ARGS -Dsolr.log.muteconsole \
 	"-XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=$SOLR_TIP/bin/oom_solr.sh $SOLR_PORT $SOLR_LOGS_DIR" \
         -jar start.jar "${SOLR_JETTY_CONFIG[@]}" \
 	1>"$SOLR_LOGS_DIR/solr-$SOLR_PORT-console.log" 2>&1 & echo $! > "$SOLR_PID_DIR/solr-$SOLR_PORT.pid"
diff --git a/solr/bin/solr.cmd b/solr/bin/solr.cmd
index e9c8f84c9e4..2e6e6a99747 100644
--- a/solr/bin/solr.cmd
+++ b/solr/bin/solr.cmd
@@ -968,15 +968,22 @@ IF "%FG%"=="1" (
   REM run solr in the foreground
   title "Solr-%SOLR_PORT%"
   echo %SOLR_PORT%>"%SOLR_TIP%"\bin\solr-%SOLR_PORT%.port
-  "%JAVA%" %SERVEROPT% %SOLR_JAVA_MEM% %START_OPTS% %GCLOG_OPT%:"!SOLR_LOGS_DIR!"/solr_gc.log -Dlog4j.configuration="%LOG4J_CONFIG%" -DSTOP.PORT=!STOP_PORT! -DSTOP.KEY=%STOP_KEY% ^
-    -Djetty.port=%SOLR_PORT% -Dsolr.solr.home="%SOLR_HOME%" -Dsolr.install.dir="%SOLR_TIP%" -Djetty.home="%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%" -Djava.io.tmpdir="%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%\tmp" -jar start.jar "%SOLR_JETTY_CONFIG%"
+  "%JAVA%" %SERVEROPT% %SOLR_JAVA_MEM% %START_OPTS% %GCLOG_OPT%:"!SOLR_LOGS_DIR!"/solr_gc.log ^
+    -Dlog4j.configuration="%LOG4J_CONFIG%" -DSTOP.PORT=!STOP_PORT! -DSTOP.KEY=%STOP_KEY% ^
+    -Djetty.port=%SOLR_PORT% -Dsolr.solr.home="%SOLR_HOME%" -Dsolr.install.dir="%SOLR_TIP%" ^
+    -Djetty.home="%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%" -Djava.io.tmpdir="%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%\tmp" -jar start.jar "%SOLR_JETTY_CONFIG%"
 ) ELSE (
-  START /B "Solr-%SOLR_PORT%" /D "%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%" "%JAVA%" %SERVEROPT% %SOLR_JAVA_MEM% %START_OPTS% %GCLOG_OPT%:"!SOLR_LOGS_DIR!"/solr_gc.log -Dlog4j.configuration="%LOG4J_CONFIG%" -DSTOP.PORT=!STOP_PORT! -DSTOP.KEY=%STOP_KEY% ^
-    -Djetty.port=%SOLR_PORT% -Dsolr.solr.home="%SOLR_HOME%" -Dsolr.install.dir="%SOLR_TIP%" -Djetty.home="%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%" -Djava.io.tmpdir="%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%\tmp" -jar start.jar "%SOLR_JETTY_CONFIG%" > "!SOLR_LOGS_DIR!\solr-%SOLR_PORT%-console.log"
+  START /B "Solr-%SOLR_PORT%" /D "%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%" "%JAVA%" %SERVEROPT% %SOLR_JAVA_MEM% %START_OPTS% ^
+    %GCLOG_OPT%:"!SOLR_LOGS_DIR!"/solr_gc.log -Dlog4j.configuration="%LOG4J_CONFIG%" -DSTOP.PORT=!STOP_PORT! ^
+    -Dsolr.log.muteconsole ^
+    -DSTOP.KEY=%STOP_KEY% -Djetty.port=%SOLR_PORT% -Dsolr.solr.home="%SOLR_HOME%" -Dsolr.install.dir="%SOLR_TIP%" ^
+    -Djetty.home="%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%" -Djava.io.tmpdir="%SOLR_SERVER_DIR%\tmp" -jar start.jar ^
+    "%SOLR_JETTY_CONFIG%" > "!SOLR_LOGS_DIR!\solr-%SOLR_PORT%-console.log"
   echo %SOLR_PORT%>"%SOLR_TIP%"\bin\solr-%SOLR_PORT%.port
 
   REM now wait to see Solr come online ...
-  "%JAVA%" %SOLR_SSL_OPTS% %SOLR_ZK_CREDS_AND_ACLS% -Dsolr.install.dir="%SOLR_TIP%" -Dlog4j.configuration="file:%DEFAULT_SERVER_DIR%\scripts\cloud-scripts\log4j.properties" ^
+  "%JAVA%" %SOLR_SSL_OPTS% %SOLR_ZK_CREDS_AND_ACLS% -Dsolr.install.dir="%SOLR_TIP%" ^
+    -Dlog4j.configuration="file:%DEFAULT_SERVER_DIR%\scripts\cloud-scripts\log4j.properties" ^
     -classpath "%DEFAULT_SERVER_DIR%\solr-webapp\webapp\WEB-INF\lib\*;%DEFAULT_SERVER_DIR%\lib\ext\*" ^
     org.apache.solr.util.SolrCLI status -maxWaitSecs 30 -solr !SOLR_URL_SCHEME!://%SOLR_TOOL_HOST%:%SOLR_PORT%/solr
 )
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/CoreContainer.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/CoreContainer.java
index 99742133faa..b9d361a94d8 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/CoreContainer.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/CoreContainer.java
@@ -419,7 +419,9 @@ public class CoreContainer {
         loader.addToClassLoader(SolrResourceLoader.getURLs(libPath));
         loader.reloadLuceneSPI();
       } catch (IOException e) {
-        log.warn("Couldn't add files from {} to classpath: {}", libPath, e.getMessage());
+        if (!libDir.equals("lib")) { // Don't complain if default "lib" dir does not exist
+          log.warn("Couldn't add files from {} to classpath: {}", libPath, e.getMessage());
+        }
       }
     }
 
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 1b8c386911c..53998facdfe 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/servlet/SolrDispatchFilter.java
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Enumeration;
+import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
@@ -46,6 +49,9 @@ 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.log4j.Appender;
+import org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender;
+import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException.ErrorCode;
 import org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient;
@@ -110,9 +116,22 @@ public class SolrDispatchFilter extends BaseSolrFilter {
 
   public static final String SOLRHOME_ATTRIBUTE = "solr.solr.home";
 
+  public static final String SOLR_LOG_MUTECONSOLE = "solr.log.muteconsole";
+
   @Override
   public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException
   {
+    String muteConsole = System.getProperty(SOLR_LOG_MUTECONSOLE);
+    if (muteConsole != null && !Arrays.asList("false","0","off","no").contains(muteConsole.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT))) {
+      Enumeration appenders = LogManager.getRootLogger().getAllAppenders();
+      while (appenders.hasMoreElements()) {
+        Appender appender = (Appender) appenders.nextElement();
+        if (appender instanceof ConsoleAppender) {
+          log.info("Property solr.log.muteconsole given. Muting ConsoleAppender named " + appender.getName());
+          LogManager.getRootLogger().removeAppender(appender);
+        }
+      }
+    }
     log.info("SolrDispatchFilter.init(): {}", this.getClass().getClassLoader());
 
     String exclude = config.getInitParameter("excludePatterns");
diff --git a/solr/server/resources/log4j.properties b/solr/server/resources/log4j.properties
index d5ebcd1f831..672af4cb7a3 100644
--- a/solr/server/resources/log4j.properties
+++ b/solr/server/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 solr.log=logs
 log4j.rootLogger=INFO, file, CONSOLE
 
+# Console appender will be programmatically disabled when Solr is started with option -Dsolr.log.muteconsole
 log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-
 log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout
-log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r %-5p (%t) [%X{collection} %X{shard} %X{replica} %X{core}] %c{1.} %m%n
+log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5p (%t) [%X{collection} %X{shard} %X{replica} %X{core}] %c{1.} %m%n
 
 #- size rotation with log cleanup.
 log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
diff --git a/solr/webapp/web/WEB-INF/web.xml b/solr/webapp/web/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 24a27ae451f..5278ae58c59 100644
--- a/solr/webapp/web/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/solr/webapp/web/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -164,4 +164,21 @@
     <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
   </welcome-file-list>
 
+  <!-- Get rid of error message -->
+  <security-constraint>
+    <web-resource-collection>
+      <web-resource-name>Disable TRACE</web-resource-name>
+      <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
+      <http-method>TRACE</http-method>
+    </web-resource-collection>
+    <auth-constraint/>
+  </security-constraint>
+  <security-constraint>
+    <web-resource-collection>
+      <web-resource-name>Enable everything but TRACE</web-resource-name>
+      <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
+      <http-method-omission>TRACE</http-method-omission>
+    </web-resource-collection>
+  </security-constraint>
+
 </web-app>