diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e3f416cb4..2e340fa06 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ osc-lib>=2.3.0 # Apache-2.0
 tripleo-common>=16.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 cryptography>=2.1 # BSD/Apache-2.0
 ansible-runner>=1.4.5 # Apache 2.0
-validations-libs>=1.0.4 # Apache-2.0
+validations-libs>=1.2.0 # Apache-2.0
 openstacksdk>=0.48.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/tripleoclient/v1/tripleo_validator.py b/tripleoclient/v1/tripleo_validator.py
index d7c5ebae8..1601d7c0d 100644
--- a/tripleoclient/v1/tripleo_validator.py
+++ b/tripleoclient/v1/tripleo_validator.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #   under the License.
 #
 import logging
+from tripleoclient import constants
 
 from validations_libs.cli.history import GetHistory
 from validations_libs.cli.history import ListHistory
@@ -73,6 +74,8 @@ class TripleOValidatorRun(Run):
 
     def get_parser(self, parser):
         parser = super(TripleOValidatorRun, self).get_parser(parser)
+        parser.set_defaults(
+            validations_log_dir=constants.VALIDATIONS_LOG_BASEDIR)
         return parser
 
 
@@ -83,6 +86,8 @@ class TripleOValidatorShowHistory(ListHistory):
 
     def get_parser(self, parser):
         parser = super(TripleOValidatorShowHistory, self).get_parser(parser)
+        parser.set_defaults(
+            validations_log_dir=constants.VALIDATIONS_LOG_BASEDIR)
         return parser
 
 
@@ -93,4 +98,6 @@ class TripleOValidatorShowRun(GetHistory):
 
     def get_parser(self, parser):
         parser = super(TripleOValidatorShowRun, self).get_parser(parser)
+        parser.set_defaults(
+            validations_log_dir=constants.VALIDATIONS_LOG_BASEDIR)
         return parser