diff --git a/cookbooks/nomad/files/etc/rsyslog.d/30-nomad.conf b/cookbooks/nomad/files/etc/rsyslog.d/30-nomad.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c26961
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cookbooks/nomad/files/etc/rsyslog.d/30-nomad.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Log kernel generated promtail log messages to file
+:syslogtag,contains,"nomad" /var/log/nomad.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/nomad/setup.rb b/cookbooks/nomad/setup.rb
index a2a5bcd..2f2ddea 100644
--- a/cookbooks/nomad/setup.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/nomad/setup.rb
@@ -91,3 +91,15 @@ end
 service 'promtail-nomad' do
   action [ :enable, :restart ]
 end
+
+remote_file '/etc/rsyslog.d/30-nomad.conf' do
+  owner 'root'
+  group 'root'
+  mode '644'
+
+  notifies :restart, 'service[rsyslog]'
+end
+
+service 'rsyslog' do
+  action [ :nothing ]
+end