diff --git a/installer/roles/image_build/files/rsyslog.repo b/installer/roles/image_build/files/rsyslog.repo
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4cc2a35a42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/installer/roles/image_build/files/rsyslog.repo
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[rsyslog_v8]
+name=Adiscon CentOS-$releasever - local packages for $basearch
+baseurl=http://rpms.adiscon.com/v8-stable/epel-$releasever/$basearch
+enabled=1
+gpgcheck=0
+gpgkey=http://rpms.adiscon.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-Adiscon
+protect=1
diff --git a/installer/roles/image_build/tasks/main.yml b/installer/roles/image_build/tasks/main.yml
index 4694dcd15f..51e9b239ab 100644
--- a/installer/roles/image_build/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/installer/roles/image_build/tasks/main.yml
@@ -137,6 +137,13 @@
     mode: '0700'
   delegate_to: localhost
 
+- name: Stage rsyslog.repo
+  copy:
+    src: rsyslog.repo
+    dest: "{{ docker_base_path }}/rsyslog.repo"
+    mode: '0700'
+  delegate_to: localhost
+
 - name: Stage supervisor.conf
   copy:
     src: supervisor.conf
diff --git a/installer/roles/image_build/templates/Dockerfile.j2 b/installer/roles/image_build/templates/Dockerfile.j2
index fa1e3cc1d7..44668ec6b8 100644
--- a/installer/roles/image_build/templates/Dockerfile.j2
+++ b/installer/roles/image_build/templates/Dockerfile.j2
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ RUN cd /usr/local/bin && \
     curl -L https://github.com/openshift/origin/releases/download/v3.11.0/openshift-origin-client-tools-v3.11.0-0cbc58b-linux-64bit.tar.gz | \
     tar -xz --strip-components=1 --wildcards --no-anchored 'oc'
 
+ADD rsyslog.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
+RUN yum install -y rsyslog-omhttp
+RUN echo '$IncludeConfig /var/lib/awx/rsyslog.conf' >> /etc/rsyslog.conf
+
 # Pre-create things that we need to write to
 RUN for dir in /home/awx /var/log/tower /var/log/nginx /var/lib/nginx; \
     do mkdir -p $dir; chmod -R g+rwx $dir; chgrp -R root $dir; done && \
diff --git a/requirements/README.md b/requirements/README.md
index 3afa92434e..4ce399a7e9 100644
--- a/requirements/README.md
+++ b/requirements/README.md
@@ -145,7 +145,3 @@ in the top-level Makefile.
 Version 4.8 makes us a little bit nervous with changes to `searchwindowsize` https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect/pull/579/files
 Pin to `pexpect==4.7.x` until we have more time to move to `4.8` and test.
 
-### requests-futures
-
-This can be removed when a solution for the external log queuing is ready.
-https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/5092