Folks- As of [1], devstack will include color escapes in the default log formats under systemd. Production deployments can emulate as they see fit. Note that journalctl will strip those color escapes by default, which is why we thought we lost log coloring with systemd. Turns out that you can get the escapes to come through by passing the -a flag to journalctl. The doc at [2] has been updated accordingly. If there are any other go-to documents that could benefit from similar content, please let me know (or propose the changes). Thanks, Eric (efried) [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/465147/ [2] https://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/systemd.html