diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e664b7f2..8cba6ae6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ The **patch** part changes incrementally at each release.
 ### Added
 * elasticsearch: tmpdir configuration compatible with 5.x also
 * elasticsearch: add http.publish_host variable
+* kibana: log messages go to /var/log/kibana/kibana.log
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/kibana/tasks/main.yml b/kibana/tasks/main.yml
index 7ee07b5f..b1e7cb42 100644
--- a/kibana/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/kibana/tasks/main.yml
@@ -50,6 +50,22 @@
     insertafter: '^#server.basePath:'
   notify: restart kibana
 
+- name: kibana log destination is present
+  file:
+    dest: /var/log/kibana
+    owner: kibana
+    group: kibana
+    mode: "0750"
+    state: directory
+
+- name: kibana log messages go to custom file
+  lineinfile:
+    dest: /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
+    line: "logging.dest: \"/var/log/kibana/kibana.log\""
+    regexp: '^logging.dest:'
+    insertafter: '^#logging.dest:'
+  notify: restart kibana
+
 - name: Kibana service is enabled and started
   systemd:
     name: kibana