diff --git a/.zuul.yaml b/.zuul.yaml
index afe400e1a4..8ede2fce80 100644
--- a/.zuul.yaml
+++ b/.zuul.yaml
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@
         '{{ stage_dir }}/core': logs
         '{{ stage_dir }}/listen53.txt': logs
         '{{ stage_dir }}/deprecations.log': logs
+        '{{ stage_dir }}/audit.log': logs
         /var/log/ceph: logs
         /var/log/openvswitch: logs
         /var/log/glusterfs: logs
diff --git a/roles/capture-system-logs/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/capture-system-logs/tasks/main.yaml
index de4f8eda08..905806d529 100644
--- a/roles/capture-system-logs/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/roles/capture-system-logs/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,17 @@
           rpm -qa | sort > {{ stage_dir }}/rpm-qa.txt
       fi
 
+      # NOTE(kchamart) The 'audit.log' can be useful in cases when QEMU
+      # failed to start due to denials from SELinux — useful for CentOS
+      # and Fedora machines.  For Ubuntu (which runs AppArmor), DevStack
+      # already captures the contents of /var/log/kern.log (via
+      # `journalctl -t kernel` redirected into syslog.txt.gz), which
+      # contains AppArmor-related messages.
+      if [ -f /var/log/audit/audit.log ] ; then
+          sudo cp /var/log/audit/audit.log {{stage_dir }}/audit.log &&
+          chmod +r {{ stage_dir }}/audit.log;
+      fi
+
       # gzip and save any coredumps in /var/core
       if [ -d /var/core ]; then
           sudo gzip -r /var/core