diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 870a6cd..a9ce9bb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
+    <maven.compiler.release>17</maven.compiler.release>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <logback.version>1.4.12</logback.version>
     <slf4j.version>2.0.7</slf4j.version>
@@ -98,6 +99,11 @@
       <artifactId>sentry-logback</artifactId>
       <version>6.11.0</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>jakarta.annotation</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jakarta.annotation-api</artifactId>
+      <version>1.3.5</version>
+    </dependency>
 
     <!--test scope-->
     <dependency>
@@ -108,8 +114,8 @@
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
-      <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
-      <version>1.9.5</version>
+      <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
+      <version>5.14.2</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -127,6 +133,16 @@
 
   <build>
     <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.1.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <argLine>@{argLine} -javaagent:${org.mockito:mockito-core:jar}</argLine>
+          <argLine>--add-opens java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED</argLine>
+          <argLine>--add-opens java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED</argLine>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>
@@ -140,25 +156,6 @@
         <groupId>com.coveo</groupId>
         <artifactId>fmt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
-        <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>4.1.4</version>
-        <configuration>
-          <effort>Max</effort>
-          <threshold>Low</threshold>
-          <failOnError>true</failOnError>
-          <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
-        </configuration>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <phase>verify</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>check</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/spotify/logging/LoggingConfigurator.java b/src/main/java/com/spotify/logging/LoggingConfigurator.java
index 0aadffa..f0c1ef7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/spotify/logging/LoggingConfigurator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/spotify/logging/LoggingConfigurator.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 import static ch.qos.logback.classic.Level.OFF;
 import static java.lang.System.getenv;
 
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender;
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger;
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext;
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder;
@@ -222,6 +223,19 @@ public static void configureDefaults(
    * a Docker container will capture these logs for further processing.
    */
   public static void configureLogstashEncoderDefaults(final Level level) {
+    configureLogstashEncoderDefaults(level, null);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Configure logging with the LogstashEncoder library.
+   * (https://github.com/logstash/logstash-logback-encoder)
+   *
+   * <p>The supplied {@link AsyncAppender} will wrap an appender that is configured to send the log
+   * messages to stdout. It is the responsibility of the caller to stop the {@link AsyncAppender} to
+   * properly flush the logging events from its queue.
+   */
+  public static void configureLogstashEncoderDefaults(
+      final Level level, @Nullable final AsyncAppender asyncAppender) {
     final Logger rootLogger = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);
     final LoggerContext context = rootLogger.getLoggerContext();
 
@@ -232,14 +246,22 @@ public static void configureLogstashEncoderDefaults(final Level level) {
     encoder.addProvider(new ArgumentsJsonProvider());
     encoder.start();
 
-    final ConsoleAppender<ILoggingEvent> appender = new ConsoleAppender<>();
-    appender.setTarget("System.out");
-    appender.setName("stdout");
-    appender.setEncoder(encoder);
-    appender.setContext(context);
-    appender.start();
+    final ConsoleAppender<ILoggingEvent> consoleAppender = new ConsoleAppender<>();
+    consoleAppender.setTarget("System.out");
+    consoleAppender.setName("stdout");
+    consoleAppender.setEncoder(encoder);
+    consoleAppender.setContext(context);
+    consoleAppender.start();
+
+    if (asyncAppender != null) {
+      asyncAppender.setContext(context);
+      asyncAppender.addAppender(consoleAppender);
+      asyncAppender.start();
+      rootLogger.addAppender(asyncAppender);
+    } else {
+      rootLogger.addAppender(consoleAppender);
+    }
 
-    rootLogger.addAppender(appender);
     rootLogger.setLevel(level.logbackLevel);
 
     UncaughtExceptionLogger.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler();
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/spotify/logging/logback/SpotifyInternalAppender.java b/src/main/java/com/spotify/logging/logback/SpotifyInternalAppender.java
index e619c8a..d288115 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/spotify/logging/logback/SpotifyInternalAppender.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/spotify/logging/logback/SpotifyInternalAppender.java
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public void start() {
 
     // our internal syslog-ng configuration splits logs up based on service name, and expects the
     // format below.
-    String serviceAndPid = String.format("%s[%s]", serviceName, getMyPid());
+    String serviceAndPid = "%s[%s]".formatted(serviceName, getMyPid());
     setSuffixPattern(
         serviceAndPid
             + ": "
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/JewelCliLoggingConfiguratorTest.java b/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/JewelCliLoggingConfiguratorTest.java
index 7a8be6b..6b7565d 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/JewelCliLoggingConfiguratorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/JewelCliLoggingConfiguratorTest.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.mockito.Mock;
-import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;
+import org.mockito.junit.MockitoJUnitRunner;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 @RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ public void syslog() {
 
   @Test
   public void threadlog() throws InterruptedException {
-    when(mockOptions.syslog()).thenReturn(false);
     when(mockOptions.logFileName()).thenReturn("logback_test.xml");
     JewelCliLoggingConfigurator.configure(mockOptions);
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/LoggingConfiguratorTest.java b/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/LoggingConfiguratorTest.java
index 795c5b9..a12f5b8 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/LoggingConfiguratorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/LoggingConfiguratorTest.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender;
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.Level;
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger;
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext;
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SyslogAppender;
 import ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender;
 import ch.qos.logback.core.status.Status;
+import com.spotify.logging.LoggingConfigurator.ReplaceNewLines;
 import com.spotify.logging.logback.CustomLogstashEncoder;
 import io.sentry.logback.SentryAppender;
 import net.logstash.logback.composite.loggingevent.ArgumentsJsonProvider;
@@ -66,26 +68,19 @@ public void testGetSyslogAppender() {
     final LoggerContext context = new LoggerContext();
 
     SyslogAppender appender =
-        (SyslogAppender)
-            getSyslogAppender(context, "", -1, LoggingConfigurator.ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
+        (SyslogAppender) getSyslogAppender(context, "", -1, ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
     assertEquals("wrong host", "localhost", appender.getSyslogHost());
     assertEquals("wrong port", 514, appender.getPort());
 
-    appender =
-        (SyslogAppender)
-            getSyslogAppender(context, null, -1, LoggingConfigurator.ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
+    appender = (SyslogAppender) getSyslogAppender(context, null, -1, ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
     assertEquals("wrong host", "localhost", appender.getSyslogHost());
     assertEquals("wrong port", 514, appender.getPort());
 
-    appender =
-        (SyslogAppender)
-            getSyslogAppender(context, "host", -1, LoggingConfigurator.ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
+    appender = (SyslogAppender) getSyslogAppender(context, "host", -1, ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
     assertEquals("wrong host", "host", appender.getSyslogHost());
     assertEquals("wrong port", 514, appender.getPort());
 
-    appender =
-        (SyslogAppender)
-            getSyslogAppender(context, null, 999, LoggingConfigurator.ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
+    appender = (SyslogAppender) getSyslogAppender(context, null, 999, ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
     assertEquals("wrong host", "localhost", appender.getSyslogHost());
     assertEquals("wrong port", 999, appender.getPort());
   }
@@ -95,15 +90,13 @@ public void testGetSyslogAppenderRespectsNewLineReplacement() {
     final LoggerContext context = new LoggerContext();
 
     SyslogAppender appender =
-        (SyslogAppender)
-            getSyslogAppender(context, "", -1, LoggingConfigurator.ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
+        (SyslogAppender) getSyslogAppender(context, "", -1, ReplaceNewLines.OFF);
     assertEquals("%property{ident}[%property{pid}]: %msg", appender.getSuffixPattern());
 
     appender = (SyslogAppender) getSyslogAppender(context, "", -1, null);
     assertEquals("%property{ident}[%property{pid}]: %msg", appender.getSuffixPattern());
 
-    appender =
-        (SyslogAppender) getSyslogAppender(context, "", -1, LoggingConfigurator.ReplaceNewLines.ON);
+    appender = (SyslogAppender) getSyslogAppender(context, "", -1, ReplaceNewLines.ON);
     assertEquals(
         "%property{ident}[%property{pid}]: %replace(%msg){'[\\r\\n]', ''}",
         appender.getSuffixPattern());
@@ -172,6 +165,29 @@ public void shouldConfigureLogstashEncoderWithLevel() {
     assertLogstashEncoder(Level.DEBUG);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void shouldConfigureLogstashEncoderWithLevelAndAsyncAppender() {
+    // Given
+    final AsyncAppender asyncAppender = new AsyncAppender();
+
+    // When
+    LoggingConfigurator.configureLogstashEncoderDefaults(
+        LoggingConfigurator.Level.DEBUG, asyncAppender);
+
+    // Then
+    final Logger rootLogger = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);
+    final ConsoleAppender<?> stdout = (ConsoleAppender<?>) asyncAppender.getAppender("stdout");
+    final CustomLogstashEncoder encoder = (CustomLogstashEncoder) stdout.getEncoder();
+    assertTrue(stdout.getEncoder() instanceof CustomLogstashEncoder);
+    assertEquals(Level.DEBUG, rootLogger.getLevel());
+    assertEquals(
+        1,
+        encoder.getProviders().getProviders().stream()
+            .filter(ArgumentsJsonProvider.class::isInstance)
+            .count());
+    assertTrue(asyncAppender.isStarted());
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void shouldConfigureDefaultWithIdentAndLevelWhenSyslogEnvVarIsNotSet() {
     LoggingConfigurator.configureDefaults("some-ident", LoggingConfigurator.Level.DEBUG);
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/logback/LoggerThresholdFilterTest.java b/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/logback/LoggerThresholdFilterTest.java
index 45e10d0..d01aa94 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/logback/LoggerThresholdFilterTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/spotify/logging/logback/LoggerThresholdFilterTest.java
@@ -157,8 +157,7 @@ public void filterSpotifyAtInfoOthersAtWarn() {
           actual = andFilterReplies(actual, nextReply);
         }
 
-        assertEquals(
-            String.format("Logger: %s, Level: %s", logger, level.toString()), expected, actual);
+        assertEquals("Logger: %s, Level: %s".formatted(logger, level.toString()), expected, actual);
       }
     }
   }