diff --git a/ckan/ckan/tasks/ckan-plugins.yml b/ckan/ckan/tasks/ckan-plugins.yml
index 27b46000..b73e6563 100644
--- a/ckan/ckan/tasks/ckan-plugins.yml
+++ b/ckan/ckan/tasks/ckan-plugins.yml
@@ -192,6 +192,12 @@
       notify: Restart CKAN
       tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_profiler', 'ckan_plugins' ]
 
+    - name: Create the profiler plugin log directory
+      become: False
+      file: dest=/var/log/ckan-profiler owner=www-data group=www-data state=directory
+      when: ckan_profiler
+      tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_profiler', 'ckan_plugins' ]
+
   become: True
   become_user: '{{ ckan_shell_user }}'
   tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_plugins' ]