diff --git a/files/logging.yml b/files/logging.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f0cd602
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/logging.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# you can override this using by setting a system property, for example -Des.logger.level=DEBUG
+es.logger.level: INFO
+rootLogger: ${es.logger.level}, console, file
+logger:
+  # log action execution errors for easier debugging
+  action: DEBUG
+  # reduce the logging for aws, too much is logged under the default INFO
+  com.amazonaws: WARN
+  org.apache.http: INFO
+
+  # gateway
+  #gateway: DEBUG
+  #index.gateway: DEBUG
+
+  # peer shard recovery
+  #indices.recovery: DEBUG
+
+  # discovery
+  #discovery: TRACE
+
+  index.search.slowlog: TRACE, index_search_slow_log_file
+  index.indexing.slowlog: TRACE, index_indexing_slow_log_file
+
+additivity:
+  index.search.slowlog: false
+  index.indexing.slowlog: false
+
+appender:
+  console:
+    type: console
+    layout:
+      type: consolePattern
+      conversionPattern: "[%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c] %m%n"
+
+  file:
+    type: dailyRollingFile
+    file: ${path.logs}/${cluster.name}.log
+    datePattern: "'.'yyyy-MM-dd"
+    layout:
+      type: pattern
+      conversionPattern: "[%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c] %m%n"
+
+  # Use the following log4j-extras RollingFileAppender to enable gzip compression of log files. 
+  # For more information see https://logging.apache.org/log4j/extras/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/rolling/RollingFileAppender.html
+  #file:
+    #type: extrasRollingFile
+    #file: ${path.logs}/${cluster.name}.log
+    #rollingPolicy: timeBased
+    #rollingPolicy.FileNamePattern: ${path.logs}/${cluster.name}.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz
+    #layout:
+      #type: pattern
+      #conversionPattern: "[%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c] %m%n"
+
+  index_search_slow_log_file:
+    type: dailyRollingFile
+    file: ${path.logs}/${cluster.name}_index_search_slowlog.log
+    datePattern: "'.'yyyy-MM-dd"
+    layout:
+      type: pattern
+      conversionPattern: "[%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c] %m%n"
+
+  index_indexing_slow_log_file:
+    type: dailyRollingFile
+    file: ${path.logs}/${cluster.name}_index_indexing_slowlog.log
+    datePattern: "'.'yyyy-MM-dd"
+    layout:
+      type: pattern
+      conversionPattern: "[%d{ISO8601}][%-5p][%-25c] %m%n"
diff --git a/manifests/init.pp b/manifests/init.pp
index 35d1c6a..5722401 100644
--- a/manifests/init.pp
+++ b/manifests/init.pp
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ class elasticsearch (
       Package['openjdk-7-jre-headless'],
       File['/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml'],
       File['/etc/elasticsearch/default-mapping.json'],
+      File['/etc/elasticsearch/logging.yml'],
       File['/etc/default/elasticsearch'],
       Archive["/tmp/elasticsearch-${version}.deb"],
     ]
@@ -89,6 +90,15 @@ class elasticsearch (
     mode    => '0644',
   }
 
+  file { '/etc/elasticsearch/logging.yml':
+    ensure  => present,
+    source  => 'puppet:///modules/elasticsearch/logging.yml',
+    replace => true,
+    owner   => 'root',
+    group   => 'root',
+    mode    => '0644',
+  }
+
   file { '/etc/elasticsearch/templates':
     ensure => directory,
     owner  => 'root',