diff --git a/bin/log-management-command b/bin/log-management-command
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..e4c7dd061c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/log-management-command
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import sys
+import logging
+import os
+sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
+os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "zproject.settings")
+from django.conf import settings
+
+logger = logging.getLogger("zulip.management")
+file_handler = logging.FileHandler(settings.MANAGEMENT_LOG_PATH)
+formatter = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s: %(message)s")
+file_handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+logger.addHandler(file_handler)
+logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+
+logger.info("Ran '%s'" % (sys.argv[1],))
diff --git a/manage.py b/manage.py
index e609bf2513..afb02d13a7 100755
--- a/manage.py
+++ b/manage.py
@@ -1,14 +1,21 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import os
 import sys
+import logging
+import subprocess
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
+    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "zproject.settings")
+
+    from django.conf import settings
+
+    logger = logging.getLogger("zulip.management")
+    subprocess.check_call([os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "bin", "log-management-command"),
+                           " ".join(sys.argv)])
 
     if "--no-traceback" not in sys.argv and len(sys.argv) > 1:
         sys.argv.append("--traceback")
 
-    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "zproject.settings")
-
     from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
 
     execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
diff --git a/zproject/settings.py b/zproject/settings.py
index e587c272ce..33b56d29f7 100644
--- a/zproject/settings.py
+++ b/zproject/settings.py
@@ -587,6 +587,7 @@ CACHES = {
 
 if DEPLOYED:
     SERVER_LOG_PATH = "/var/log/zulip/server.log"
+    MANAGEMENT_LOG_PATH = "/var/log/zulip/manage.log"
     WORKER_LOG_PATH = "/var/log/zulip/workers.log"
     if ENTERPRISE:
         EVENT_LOG_DIR = None
@@ -601,6 +602,7 @@ if DEPLOYED:
 else:
     EVENT_LOG_DIR = 'event_log'
     SERVER_LOG_PATH = "server.log"
+    MANAGEMENT_LOG_PATH = "manage.log"
     WORKER_LOG_PATH = "workers.log"
     STATS_DIR = 'stats'
     PERSISTENT_QUEUE_FILENAME = "event_queues.pickle"
@@ -683,6 +685,11 @@ LOGGING = {
             'level':    'INFO',
             'propagate': False,
         },
+        'zulip.management': {
+            'handlers': ['file'],
+            'level':    'INFO',
+            'propagate': False,
+        },
         ## Uncomment the following to get all database queries logged to the console
         # 'django.db': {
         #     'handlers': ['console'],
diff --git a/zproject/test_settings.py b/zproject/test_settings.py
index a355921788..62a3577b36 100644
--- a/zproject/test_settings.py
+++ b/zproject/test_settings.py
@@ -48,3 +48,4 @@ CACHES['database'] = {
 }
 
 LOGGING['loggers']['zulip.requests']['level'] = 'CRITICAL'
+LOGGING['loggers']['zulip.management']['level'] = 'CRITICAL'