diff --git a/jenkins/jobs/wheel-mirror.yaml b/jenkins/jobs/wheel-mirror.yaml
index 0d70e585cc..683d833a40 100644
--- a/jenkins/jobs/wheel-mirror.yaml
+++ b/jenkins/jobs/wheel-mirror.yaml
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
           python: "{python}"
 
     publishers:
+      - devstack-logs
       - console-log
 
 - job-template:
diff --git a/jenkins/scripts/wheel-build.sh b/jenkins/scripts/wheel-build.sh
index e3789399c8..d684822b1e 100755
--- a/jenkins/scripts/wheel-build.sh
+++ b/jenkins/scripts/wheel-build.sh
@@ -5,16 +5,65 @@ WHEELHOUSE_DIR=$1
 PROJECT=openstack/requirements
 WORKING_DIR=`pwd`/$PROJECT
 PYTHON_VERSION=$2
+LOGS=$WORKSPACE/logs
+
+FAIL_LOG=${LOGS}/failed.txt
+
+# preclean logs
+mkdir -p ${LOGS}
+rm -rf ${LOGS}/*
 
 # Extract and iterate over all the branch names.
 BRANCHES=`git --git-dir=$WORKING_DIR/.git branch -r | grep '^  origin/[^H]'`
 for BRANCH in $BRANCHES; do
     git --git-dir=$WORKING_DIR/.git show $BRANCH:upper-constraints.txt \
         2>/dev/null > /tmp/upper-constraints.txt  || true
+
+    # setup the building virtualenv.  We want to freshen this for each
+    # branch.
     rm -rf build_env
     virtualenv -p $PYTHON_VERSION build_env
-    for pkg in $(cat /tmp/upper-constraints.txt); do
-        build_env/bin/pip --log $WORKSPACE/pip.log wheel -w $WHEELHOUSE_DIR "${pkg}" || \
-            echo "*** WHEEL BUILD FAILURE: ${pkg}"
-    done
+
+    # SHORT_BRANCH is just "master","newton","kilo" etc. because this
+    # keeps the output log hierarchy much simpler.
+    SHORT_BRANCH=${BRANCH##origin/}
+    SHORT_BRANCH=${SHORT_BRANCH##stable/}
+
+    # Failed parallel jobs don't fail the whole job, we just report
+    # the issues for investigation.
+    set +e
+
+    # This runs all the jobs under "parallel".  The stdout, stderr and
+    # exit status for each pip invocation will be captured into files
+    # kept in ${LOGS}/build/${SHORT_BRANCH}/1/[package].  The --joblog
+    # file keeps an overview of all run jobs, which we can probe to
+    # find failed jobs.
+    cat /tmp/upper-constraints.txt | \
+        parallel --files --progress --joblog ${LOGS}/$SHORT_BRANCH-job.log \
+                --results ${LOGS}/build/$SHORT_BRANCH \
+                build_env/bin/pip --verbose wheel -w $WHEELHOUSE_DIR {}
+    set -e
+
+    # Column $7 is the exit status of the job, $14 is the last
+    # argument to pip, which is our package.
+    FAILED=$(awk -e '$7!=0 {print $14}' ${LOGS}/$SHORT_BRANCH-job.log)
+    if [ -n "${FAILED}" ]; then
+        echo "*** FAILED BUILDS FOR BRANCH ${BRANCH}" >> ${FAIL_LOG}
+        echo "${FAILED}" >> ${FAIL_LOG}
+        echo -e "***\n\n" >> ${FAIL_LOG}
+    fi
 done
+
+if [ -f ${FAIL_LOG} ]; then
+    cat ${FAIL_LOG}
+fi
+
+# XXX This does make a lot of log files; about 80mb after compression.
+# In theory we could correlate just the failed logs and keep those
+# from the failure logs above.  This is currently (2017-01) left as an
+# exercise for when the job is stable :) bz2 gave about 20%
+# improvement over gzip in testing.
+pushd ${LOGS}
+tar cvjf build-logs.tar.bz2 ./build
+rm -rf ./build
+popd