diff --git a/roles/collect-logs/README.md b/roles/collect-logs/README.md
index 3538e27..ef0ff3b 100644
--- a/roles/collect-logs/README.md
+++ b/roles/collect-logs/README.md
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ artcl_create_docs_payload:
   to the target specified by `artcl_rsync_url`. Uses `BUILD_URL`, `BUILD_TAG`
   vars from the environment (set during a Jenkins job run) and requires the
   next to variables to be set.
+* `artcl_txt_rename`: false/true -- rename text based file to end in .txt.gz to
+  make upstream log servers display them in the browser instead of offering
+  them to download
 * `artcl_publish_timeout`: the maximum seconds the role can spend uploading the
   logs, the default is 1800 (30 minutes)
 * `artcl_use_rsync`: false/true -- use rsync to upload the logs
diff --git a/roles/collect-logs/defaults/main.yml b/roles/collect-logs/defaults/main.yml
index da31f1f..7a3f0c9 100644
--- a/roles/collect-logs/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/collect-logs/defaults/main.yml
@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ artcl_gzip_only: true
 
 ## publishing related vars
 artcl_publish: false
+artcl_txt_rename: false
 # give up log upload after 30 minutes
 artcl_publish_timeout: 1800
+artcl_artifact_url: "file://{{ lookup('env', 'PWD') }}"
 artcl_full_artifact_url: "{{ artcl_artifact_url }}/{{ lookup('env', 'BUILD_TAG') }}/"
 artcl_use_rsync: false
 artcl_rsync_use_daemon: false
diff --git a/roles/collect-logs/tasks/collect.yml b/roles/collect-logs/tasks/collect.yml
index 1a5f3a7..7251018 100644
--- a/roles/collect-logs/tasks/collect.yml
+++ b/roles/collect-logs/tasks/collect.yml
@@ -210,37 +210,3 @@
       file:
         path: "{{ artcl_collect_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}.tar"
         state: absent
-
-    - name: Check for stackviz report data
-      stat: path="{{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/var/log/extra/stackviz/data"
-      register: stackviz
-
-    - name: Copy stackviz to root level
-      command: cp -r "{{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/var/log/extra/stackviz/" {{ artcl_collect_dir }}/stackviz
-      when: stackviz.stat.exists
-
-    - name: Unzip stackviz files
-      command: gzip -d -r "{{ artcl_collect_dir }}/stackviz"
-      when: stackviz.stat.exists
-
-    # Collect the tempest artifacts for reporting
-    - name: check for tempest html results
-      stat: path="{{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/home/stack/tempest/tempest.html.gz"
-      register: st_tempest_html
-
-    - name: unzip the tempest html file
-      command: gzip -d "{{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/home/stack/tempest/tempest.html.gz"
-      when: st_tempest_html.stat.exists
-
-    - name: check for tempest xml results
-      stat: path="{{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/home/stack/tempest/tempest.xml.gz"
-      register: st_tempest_xml
-
-    - name: unzip the tempest xml file
-      command: gzip -d "{{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/home/stack/tempest/tempest.xml.gz"
-      when: st_tempest_xml.stat.exists
-
-    - name: Copy the tempest html to the base dir of the logs
-      command: cp -r "{{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/home/stack/tempest/tempest.html" {{ artcl_collect_dir }}/tempest.html
-      when: st_tempest_html.stat.exists
-
diff --git a/roles/collect-logs/tasks/publish.yml b/roles/collect-logs/tasks/publish.yml
index 2a72a03..917fd87 100644
--- a/roles/collect-logs/tasks/publish.yml
+++ b/roles/collect-logs/tasks/publish.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,25 @@
   command: cp -a {{ local_working_dir }}/ara {{ artcl_collect_dir }}/ara
   ignore_errors: "yes"
 
+- name: fetch stackviz results to the root of the collect_dir
+  shell: >
+    if [ -d {{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/var/log/extra/stackviz/data ]; then
+        cp -r {{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/var/log/extra/stackviz {{ artcl_collect_dir }};
+        gunzip -r {{ artcl_collect_dir }}/stackviz;
+    fi;
+
+- name: fetch tempest results to the root of the collect_dir
+  shell: >
+    cp {{ artcl_collect_dir }}/undercloud/home/stack/tempest/tempest.{xml,html}{,.gz} {{ artcl_collect_dir }} || true;
+    gunzip {{ artcl_collect_dir }}/tempest.{xml,html}.gz || true;
+
+- name: Rename text based files to end with txt.gz extension
+  shell: >
+    find {{ artcl_collect_dir }} -type f |
+    awk '/\.(conf|ini|json|sh|log|yaml|yml)\.gz$/ {
+    renamed=$0; sub(/\.gz$/, ".txt.gz", renamed); system("mv " $0 " " renamed) }';
+  when: artcl_txt_rename|bool
+
 - name: upload to the artifact server using pubkey auth
   shell: rsync -av --quiet -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" {{ artcl_collect_dir }}/ {{ artcl_rsync_path }}/{{ lookup('env', 'BUILD_TAG') }}
   async: "{{ artcl_publish_timeout }}"