diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManager.java b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManager.java
index 18f669ee91b..efd15a4283b 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManager.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManager.java
@@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ public interface VirtualNetworkApplianceManager extends Manager, VirtualNetworkA
     static final ConfigKey<Double> RouterHealthChecksMaxMemoryUsageThreshold = new ConfigKey<Double>(Double.class, "router.health.checks.max.memory.usage.threshold",
             "Advanced", "100", "Max Memory Usage threshold as % above which check is considered a failure.",
             true, ConfigKey.Scope.Zone, null);
+    ConfigKey<String> RouterLogrotateFrequency = new ConfigKey<>(String.class, "router.logrotate.frequency", "Advanced", "*:00:00",
+            "Sets the frequency of the logrotate service on the virtual router. The default value is *:00:00 (hourly) and follows the last block of " +
+                    "OnCalendar standard [Hour:Minute:Second]. e.g, *:*:00 is for every minute and */12:00:00 is for every 12 hours. See Systemd Timers for more options. " +
+                    "Furthermore, the file's minimum size is hardcoded as 10MiB, meaning that the service of logrotate will run, but not rotate the log files if it does not " +
+                    "reach the minimum size.",
+            true, ConfigKey.Scope.Zone, null);
 
     public static final int DEFAULT_ROUTER_VM_RAMSIZE = 256;            // 256M
     public static final int DEFAULT_ROUTER_CPU_MHZ = 500;                // 500 MHz
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.java b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.java
index c8daff60ba8..3c506946994 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
 import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
 import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import javax.inject.Inject;
 import javax.naming.ConfigurationException;
@@ -289,6 +290,10 @@ Configurable, StateListener<VirtualMachine.State, VirtualMachine.Event, VirtualM
     private static final String FILESYSTEM_WRITABLE_TEST = "filesystem.writable.test";
     private static final String READONLY_FILESYSTEM_ERROR = "Read-only file system";
     private static final String BACKUP_ROUTER_EXCLUDED_TESTS = "gateways_check.py";
+    /**
+     * Used regex to ensure that the value that will be passed to the VR is an acceptable value
+     */
+    public static final String LOGROTATE_REGEX = "((?i)(hourly)|(daily)|(monthly))|(\\*|\\d{2})\\:(\\*|\\d{2})\\:(\\*|\\d{2})";
 
     @Inject private EntityManager _entityMgr;
     @Inject private DataCenterDao _dcDao;
@@ -2126,6 +2131,17 @@ Configurable, StateListener<VirtualMachine.State, VirtualMachine.Event, VirtualM
             }
         }
 
+        String routerLogrotateFrequency = RouterLogrotateFrequency.valueIn(router.getDataCenterId());
+        if (!checkLogrotateTimerPattern(routerLogrotateFrequency)) {
+            s_logger.debug(String.format("Setting [%s] with value [%s] do not match with the used regex [%s], or any acceptable value ('hourly', 'daily', 'monthly'); " +
+                            "therefore, we will use the default value [%s] to configure the logrotate service on the virtual router.",RouterLogrotateFrequency.key(),
+                    routerLogrotateFrequency, LOGROTATE_REGEX, RouterLogrotateFrequency.defaultValue()));
+            routerLogrotateFrequency = RouterLogrotateFrequency.defaultValue();
+        }
+        s_logger.debug(String.format("The setting [%s] with value [%s] for the zone with UUID [%s], will be used to configure the logrotate service frequency" +
+                " on the virtual router.", RouterLogrotateFrequency.key(), routerLogrotateFrequency, dc.getUuid()));
+        buf.append(String.format(" logrotatefrequency=%s", routerLogrotateFrequency));
+
         if (s_logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
             s_logger.debug("Boot Args for " + profile + ": " + buf.toString());
         }
@@ -2133,6 +2149,18 @@ Configurable, StateListener<VirtualMachine.State, VirtualMachine.Event, VirtualM
         return true;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param routerLogrotateFrequency The string to be checked if matches with any acceptable values.
+     * Checks if the value in the global configuration is an acceptable value to be informed to the Virtual Router.
+     * @return true if the passed value match with any acceptable value based on the regex ((?i)(hourly)|(daily)|(monthly))|(\*|\d{2})\:(\*|\d{2})\:(\*|\d{2})
+     */
+    protected boolean checkLogrotateTimerPattern(String routerLogrotateFrequency) {
+        if (Pattern.matches(LOGROTATE_REGEX, routerLogrotateFrequency)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
     protected StringBuilder createGuestBootLoadArgs(final NicProfile guestNic, final String defaultDns1, final String defaultDns2, final DomainRouterVO router) {
         final long guestNetworkId = guestNic.getNetworkId();
         final NetworkVO guestNetwork = _networkDao.findById(guestNetworkId);
@@ -3298,7 +3326,8 @@ Configurable, StateListener<VirtualMachine.State, VirtualMachine.Event, VirtualM
                 RouterHealthChecksFreeDiskSpaceThreshold,
                 RouterHealthChecksMaxCpuUsageThreshold,
                 RouterHealthChecksMaxMemoryUsageThreshold,
-                ExposeDnsAndBootpServer
+                ExposeDnsAndBootpServer,
+                RouterLogrotateFrequency
         };
     }
 
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImplTest.java b/server/src/test/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImplTest.java
index 7b2906f2a1a..16d8fe83986 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImplTest.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImplTest.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import java.util.List;
 
 import org.apache.cloudstack.framework.config.dao.ConfigurationDao;
 import org.apache.cloudstack.utils.identity.ManagementServerNode;
+import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.mockito.InjectMocks;
@@ -306,6 +307,26 @@ public class VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImplTest {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void checkLogrotateTimerPatternTestDoNotMatchWithRegex(){
+        String foo = "non-sense";
+        boolean result = virtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.checkLogrotateTimerPattern(foo);
+        Assert.assertFalse(result);
+        foo = "*";
+        result = virtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.checkLogrotateTimerPattern(foo);
+        Assert.assertFalse(result);
+    }
 
-
+    @Test
+    public void checkLogrotateTimerPatternTestMatchesWithRegex(){
+        String foo = "hourly";
+        boolean result = virtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.checkLogrotateTimerPattern(foo);
+        Assert.assertTrue(result);
+        foo = "*:00:00";
+        result = virtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.checkLogrotateTimerPattern(foo);
+        Assert.assertTrue(result);
+        foo = "*:*:00";
+        result = virtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.checkLogrotateTimerPattern(foo);
+        Assert.assertTrue(result);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/common.sh b/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/common.sh
index c8b333e5088..70fce3e4f9b 100755
--- a/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/common.sh
+++ b/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/common.sh
@@ -882,6 +882,9 @@ parse_cmd_line() {
         privatekey)
           export PRIVATEKEY=$VALUE
           ;;
+        logrotatefrequency)
+          export LOGROTATE_FREQUENCY=$VALUE
+          ;;
         useHttpsToUpload)
           export USEHTTPS=$VALUE
           ;;
diff --git a/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/router.sh b/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/router.sh
index f5fa95c7b13..190ad60d915 100755
--- a/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/router.sh
+++ b/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/router.sh
@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ setup_router() {
     mv -n /etc/cron.daily/logrotate /etc/cron.hourly 2>&1
   fi
 
-  # Setup hourly lograte in systemd timer
-  sed -i 's/OnCalendar=daily/OnCalendar=hourly/g' /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
-  sed -i 's/AccuracySec=12h/AccuracySec=5m/g' /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
+  # As ACS is changing the file, the description will also change to make it clear that ACS is handling this.
+  sed -i "s#^Description=.*#Description=Cloudstack configuration time for rotation of log files#g" /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
+  sed -i "s#^OnCalendar=.*#OnCalendar=$LOGROTATE_FREQUENCY#g" /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
+  sed -i 's#^AccuracySec=.*#AccuracySec=5m#g' /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
 
   # reload daemon
   /usr/bin/systemctl daemon-reload
diff --git a/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/vpcrouter.sh b/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/vpcrouter.sh
index 4eeb19bae6b..7ffb9ef461b 100755
--- a/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/vpcrouter.sh
+++ b/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/vpcrouter.sh
@@ -123,9 +123,10 @@ EOF
     mv -n /etc/cron.daily/logrotate /etc/cron.hourly 2>&1
   fi
 
-  # Setup hourly lograte in systemd timer
-  sed -i 's/OnCalendar=daily/OnCalendar=hourly/g' /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
-  sed -i 's/AccuracySec=12h/AccuracySec=5m/g' /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
+  # As ACS is changing the file, the description will also change to make it clear that ACS is handling this.
+  sed -i "s#^Description=.*#Description=Cloudstack configuration time for rotation of log files#g" /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
+  sed -i "s#^OnCalendar=.*#OnCalendar=$LOGROTATE_FREQUENCY#g" /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
+  sed -i 's#^AccuracySec=.*#AccuracySec=5m#g' /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer
 
   # reload daemon
   /usr/bin/systemctl daemon-reload