diff --git a/tools/docker-compose.yml b/tools/docker-compose.yml
index 6a39ed5f13..a96c835c02 100644
--- a/tools/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/tools/docker-compose.yml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ services:
       - "../awx/projects/:/var/lib/awx/projects/"
       - "./redis/redis_socket_standalone:/var/run/redis/"
       - "./memcached/:/var/run/memcached"
+      - "./rsyslog/:/var/lib/awx/rsyslog"
     privileged: true
     tty: true
   # A useful container that simply passes through log messages to the console
diff --git a/tools/rsyslog/.dir_placeholder b/tools/rsyslog/.dir_placeholder
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e9e20b6e0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/rsyslog/.dir_placeholder
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This dir must pre-exist and be owned by the user you are launching awx dev env as. If the dir does not exist before launching the awx dev environment then docker will create the dir and it will be owned by root. Since we start our awx dev environment with user: ${CURRENT_UID} the rsyslog process will be unable to create a config file in a directory owned by root.