diff --git a/config-templates/config.php b/config-templates/config.php
index aa1cede4be8a64c1447248803e5c4d7ddeb82b84..6d9c71b8c9f9610a8b6addc5dae0502865eb4f8e 100644
--- a/config-templates/config.php
+++ b/config-templates/config.php
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ $config = [
      *
      * Choose logging handler.
      *
-     * Options: [syslog,file,errorlog]
+     * Options: [syslog,file,errorlog,stderr]
      *
      */
     'logging.level' => SimpleSAML\Logger::NOTICE,
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ $config = [
      * \SimpleSAML\XHTML\TemplateControllerInterface interface to use it.
      */
     //'theme.controller' => '',
-    
+
     /*
      * Templating options
      *
diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Logger.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Logger.php
index c18276ec04a58f081e16054c4b23ceca44090c1e..f0befad0da2bceb81334ea9d07a71523f3bbb398 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Logger.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Logger.php
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ class Logger
             'syslog'   => 'SimpleSAML\Logger\SyslogLoggingHandler',
             'file'     => 'SimpleSAML\Logger\FileLoggingHandler',
             'errorlog' => 'SimpleSAML\Logger\ErrorLogLoggingHandler',
+            'stderr' => 'SimpleSAML\Logger\StandardErrorLoggingHandler',
         ];
 
         // get the configuration