diff --git a/devstack/etc/rsyslog/10-octavia-log-offloading.conf b/devstack/etc/rsyslog/10-octavia-log-offloading.conf
index d1940288ee..45a8e7c657 100644
--- a/devstack/etc/rsyslog/10-octavia-log-offloading.conf
+++ b/devstack/etc/rsyslog/10-octavia-log-offloading.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Work around CentOS/RHEL umask override of file permissions
+# Note: This is a global rsyslog setting, you probably do not want to set
+#       this outside of testing!
+$umask 0000
+
 # provides UDP syslog reception
 module(load="imudp")
 input(type="imudp" port=["%ADMIN_PORT%", "%TENANT_PORT%"])