diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 61c3a3fd03..de8b7aa8bc 100644
--- a/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
   tags:
   - config
 
+- name: enable and start redis  # TODO: .service in copr-backend should depend on redis
+  service: name=redis enabled=yes state=started
+
 - name: copy apache files to conf.d
   copy: src="httpd/{{ item }}" dest="/etc/httpd/conf.d/{{ item }}"
   with_items:
diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend/templates/copr.conf b/roles/copr/frontend/templates/copr.conf
index 3792039c3a..c9f0e1e742 100644
--- a/roles/copr/frontend/templates/copr.conf
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend/templates/copr.conf
@@ -36,3 +36,6 @@ SEND_EMAILS = True
 PUBLIC_COPR_HOSTNAME = "{{ copr_frontend_public_hostname }}"
 
 LOG_FILENAME = "/var/log/copr/frontend.log"
+
+# to accept stat events from logstash
+INTRANET_IPS = ["127.0.0.1", "172.16.5.0/24"]