diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 11d847c36a7500a3d19e508416b9d3904ba2f574..dea35fafcfb53bad8e7975ca97b1561fdd4c84f1 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ deploy_prod:
     - docker ps -a -q | xargs -I{} docker rm  {} || echo "No containers to remove"
     - docker images -q | xargs -I{} docker rmi {} || echo "No images to remove"
     - docker pull l1ll1/strudel2_backend:$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH
-    - docker run --mount type=bind,source=/messages,target=/messages --mount type=bind,source=/var/log/strudel2,target=/var/log/strudel2 --restart=always  -d -p 8080:8080 -p 8090:8090 --name strudel2_backend l1ll1/strudel2_backend:$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH || echo "Unable to start image ... possibly the old wsgi process is still running?"
+    - docker run --mount type=bind,source=/messages,target=/messages --mount type=bind,source=/var/log/strudel2,target=/var/log/strudel2 --restart=always  -d -p 8080:8080 -p 8090:8090 --log-driver json-file --log-opt max-size=10m --log-opt max-file=3 --name strudel2_backend l1ll1/strudel2_backend:$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH || echo "Unable to start image ... possibly the old wsgi process is still running?"
   dependencies:
     - build