diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml
index 4083e5d476..286a2a325b 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml
@@ -65,3 +65,19 @@
   tags:
   - mm2_frontend
   - config
+
+- name: install crawler log sync
+  template: src=sync-crawler-logs.sh dest=/usr/local/bin/sync-crawler-logs.sh mode=0755
+  - mm2_frontend
+
+- name: create /var/log/mirrormanager/crawler
+  file: path=/var/log/mirrormanager/crawler state=directory owner=mirrormanager group=mirrormanager mode=0755
+  tags:
+  - mm2_frontend
+  - config
+
+- name: install the cron job
+  template: src=frontend.cron dest=/etc/cron.d/mm2_frontend.cron
+  tags:
+  - config
+  - mm2_frontend
diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/frontend.cron b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/frontend.cron
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6725774b2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/frontend.cron
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+MAILTO=root
+
+# sync crawler logs every hour
+55 * * * * mirrormanager /usr/local/bin/sync-crawler-logs.sh
diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/sync-crawler-logs.sh b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/sync-crawler-logs.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..06ac15dea2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/templates/sync-crawler-logs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+CRAWLERS="{% for host in groups['mm-crawler'] %} {{ host }} {% endfor %}"
+
+for i in ${CRAWLERS}; do
+	rsync -aq ${i}::crawler/ /var/log/mirrormanager/crawler/
+done