diff --git a/cookbooks/prometheus-exporters/files/etc/rsyslog.d/30-filestat_exporter.conf b/cookbooks/prometheus-exporters/files/etc/rsyslog.d/30-filestat_exporter.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0167fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cookbooks/prometheus-exporters/files/etc/rsyslog.d/30-filestat_exporter.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Log kernel generated digdag log messages to file
+:syslogtag,contains,"filestat_exporter" /var/log/filestat_exporter.log
+
+# Uncomment the following to stop logging anything that matches the last rule.
+# Doing this will stop logging kernel generated UFW log messages to the file
+# normally containing kern.* messages (eg, /var/log/kern.log)
+& stop
diff --git a/cookbooks/prometheus-exporters/filestat_exporter_setup.rb b/cookbooks/prometheus-exporters/filestat_exporter_setup.rb
index 2d4b6aa..5fa3580 100644
--- a/cookbooks/prometheus-exporters/filestat_exporter_setup.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/prometheus-exporters/filestat_exporter_setup.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,19 @@ service 'filestat_exporter' do
   action [:enable, :start]
 end
 
+# Deploy `rsyslog` config:
+remote_file '/etc/rsyslog.d/30-filestat_exporter.conf' do
+  owner 'root'
+  group 'root'
+  mode '644'
+
+  notifies :restart, 'service[rsyslog]'
+end
+
+service 'rsyslog' do
+  action :nothing
+end
+
 # Deploy `consul` config for `filestat_exporter`:
 remote_file '/etc/consul.d/service-filestat_exporter.json' do
   owner 'consul'