diff --git a/roles/taskotron/buildmaster-configure/templates/taskotron.master.cfg.j2 b/roles/taskotron/buildmaster-configure/templates/taskotron.master.cfg.j2
index efa02df958..6aa7ba36fb 100644
--- a/roles/taskotron/buildmaster-configure/templates/taskotron.master.cfg.j2
+++ b/roles/taskotron/buildmaster-configure/templates/taskotron.master.cfg.j2
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ factory.addStep(ShellCommand(command=["runtask", '-i',
                                         Interpolate('%(prop:taskname)s.yml')],
                              descriptionDone=[Interpolate('%(prop:taskname)s on %(prop:item)s')],
                              name='runtask',
-                             logfiles={'taskotron.log': '/var/log/taskotron/taskotron.log', }))
+                             logfiles={'taskotron.log': {'filename': '/var/log/taskotron/taskotron.log',
+                                                            'follow': True, }}))
 
 # capture the taskotron log
 factory.addStep(ShellCommand(command=["cat", "/var/log/taskotron/taskotron.log"], name="cat_log",