diff --git a/jenkins/vs/sonic-sairedis-build-pr/Jenkinsfile b/jenkins/vs/sonic-sairedis-build-pr/Jenkinsfile
index e0de1141fb64..96e7756ae9dd 100644
--- a/jenkins/vs/sonic-sairedis-build-pr/Jenkinsfile
+++ b/jenkins/vs/sonic-sairedis-build-pr/Jenkinsfile
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ pipeline {
         }
     }
     post {
-        success {
-            archiveArtifacts(artifacts: 'target/*.deb, **/*.log, target/var/log/*')
+        always {
+            archiveArtifacts(artifacts: 'target/*.deb, **/*.log, target/syslog')
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/scripts/vs/sonic-sairedis-build/build.sh b/scripts/vs/sonic-sairedis-build/build.sh
index fe9e6399d0be..6f962187b7ad 100755
--- a/scripts/vs/sonic-sairedis-build/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/vs/sonic-sairedis-build/build.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ sudo sed -ri 's/^# unixsocket/unixsocket/' /etc/redis/redis.conf
 sudo sed -ri 's/^unixsocketperm .../unixsocketperm 777/' /etc/redis/redis.conf
 sudo sed -ri 's/redis-server.sock/redis.sock/' /etc/redis/redis.conf
 sudo service redis-server start
+sudo service rsyslog start
+
+cleanup() {
+    mkdir -p ../target
+    sudo cp /var/log/syslog ../target/
+    sudo chmod 644 ../target/syslog
+}
+
+trap cleanup ERR
 
 pushd sairedis
 
@@ -36,3 +45,5 @@ popd
 
 mkdir -p target
 cp *.deb target/
+sudo cp /var/log/syslog target/
+sudo chmod 644 target/syslog