diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/recipes/default.rb b/cookbooks/colab/recipes/default.rb
index eaf748b..c4577ef 100644
--- a/cookbooks/colab/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/colab/recipes/default.rb
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ directory '/etc/colab' do
   mode   0755
 end
 
+directory '/var/log/colab' do
+  owner  'colab'
+  group  'colab'
+  mode   0755
+end
+
 execute 'secret-key' do
   f = '/etc/colab/secret.key'
   command "openssl rand -hex 32 -out #{f} && chown root:colab #{f} && chmod 0640 #{f}"
@@ -41,6 +47,13 @@ template '/etc/colab/settings.d/01-apps.yaml' do
   notifies :restart, 'service[colab]'
 end
 
+template '/etc/colab/settings.d/02-logging.yaml' do
+  owner  'root'
+  group  'colab'
+  mode   0640
+  notifies :restart, 'service[colab]'
+end
+
 directory '/var/lib/colab-assets/spb/' do
   owner  'root'
   group  'root'
diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/templates/02-logging.yaml.erb b/cookbooks/colab/templates/02-logging.yaml.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f6fe2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cookbooks/colab/templates/02-logging.yaml.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+LOGGING:
+  version: 1
+  disable_existing_loggers: True
+
+  formatters:
+    verbose:
+      format: '%(asctime)s (%(name)s) %(levelname)s: %(message)s'
+
+  handlers:
+    file:
+      level: DEBUG
+      class: logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler
+      filename: /var/log/colab/colab.log
+      interval: 24  # 24 hours
+      backupCount: 7  # keep last 7 backups
+      encoding: UTF-8
+      formatter: verbose
+
+  loggers:
+    django:
+      handlers:
+        - file
+      level: DEBUG
+
+    revproxy:
+      handlers:
+        - file
+      level: ERROR
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