diff --git a/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml b/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
index 257a2b11..e8316e0b 100644
--- a/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
+++ b/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@
 - name: Get the real smartgears version from the exploded distribution filename
   shell: /bin/ls -1 {{ smartgears_downloads_dir }} | grep smartgears-distribution | grep -v tar.gz | sed -e 's/smartgears-distribution-//g'
   register: smartgears_real_version
-  tags: [ 'smartgears', 'smartgears_distribution', 'tomcat' ]
+  tags: [ 'smartgears', 'smartgears_distribution', 'tomcat', 'smartgears_conf' ]
 
 - name: Set the real smartgears distribution version
   set_fact: smartgears_real_distribution_version="{{ smartgears_real_version.stdout }}"
-  tags: [ 'smartgears', 'smartgears_distribution', 'tomcat' ]
+  tags: [ 'smartgears', 'smartgears_distribution', 'tomcat', 'smartgears_conf' ]
 
 - name: Create the directory where we put the smartgears configuration snippets
   become: True
diff --git a/smartgears/smartgears/templates/logback.xml.j2 b/smartgears/smartgears/templates/logback.xml.j2
index f6c0a545..48b171f4 100644
--- a/smartgears/smartgears/templates/logback.xml.j2
+++ b/smartgears/smartgears/templates/logback.xml.j2
@@ -90,6 +90,28 @@
   </logger>
 {% endif %}
 
+{% if smartgears_appender_list is defined %}
+{% for obj in smartgears_appender_list %}
+ <appender name="{{ obj.appender_name }}" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
+    <file>/home/gcube/tomcat/logs/{{ obj.appender_file_name }}.log</file>
+    <append>true</append>
+    <encoder>
+      <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{0}: %msg%n</pattern>
+    </encoder>
+    <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy">
+      <fileNamePattern>/home/gcube/tomcat/logs/{{ obj.appender_file_name | default('custom') }}.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.log</fileNamePattern>
+      <maxHistory>{{ obj.appender_maxHistory | default('30') }}</maxHistory>
+      <maxFileSize>{{ obj.appender_maxFileSize | default('10MB') }}</maxFileSize>
+      <totalSizeCap>{{ obj.appender_totalSizeCap | default('2GB') }}</totalSizeCap>
+    </rollingPolicy>
+  </appender>
+  <logger name="{{ obj.appender_package }}" level="{{ obj.appender_level | default('WARN') }}">
+    <appender-ref ref="{{ obj.appender_name | default('SERVICE')  }}" />
+  </logger>
+{% endfor %}
+{% endif %}
+
+
   <logger name="org.gcube.data.publishing" level="FATAL">
     <appender-ref ref="ACCOUNT_FILE" />
   </logger>