diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 9a202e1a..5c9aa505 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ galera_mariabackup_threads: 4
 
 # Galera slow/unindexed query logging
 galera_slow_query_logging: 0
+galera_slow_query_log_file: "/var/log/mysql/mariadb-slow.log"
 galera_unindexed_query_logging: 0
 
 ## Tunable overrides
diff --git a/templates/my.cnf.j2 b/templates/my.cnf.j2
index 0cbaeaa3..aa02ace4 100644
--- a/templates/my.cnf.j2
+++ b/templates/my.cnf.j2
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ ssl-key = {{ galera_ssl_key }}
 # LOGGING #
 log-queries-not-using-indexes = {{ galera_unindexed_query_logging }}
 slow-query-log = {{ galera_slow_query_logging }}
+slow_query_log_file = {{ galera_slow_query_log_file }}
 log-bin = {{ galera_data_dir }}/mariadb-bin
 log-bin-index = {{ galera_data_dir }}/mariadb-bin.index
 expire-logs-days = 7