diff --git a/modules/nf-core/modules/filtlong/main.nf b/modules/nf-core/modules/filtlong/main.nf
index 9dbf05b..afaa938 100644
--- a/modules/nf-core/modules/filtlong/main.nf
+++ b/modules/nf-core/modules/filtlong/main.nf
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ process FILTLONG {
 
     output:
     tuple val(meta), path("*.fastq.gz"), emit: reads
-    path "versions.yml"                                     , emit: versions
+    tuple val(meta), path("*.log")     , emit: log
+    path "versions.yml"                 , emit: versions
 
     when:
     task.ext.when == null || task.ext.when
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ process FILTLONG {
         $short_reads \\
         $args \\
         $longreads \\
+        2> ${prefix}.log \\
         | gzip -n > ${prefix}.fastq.gz
 
     cat <<-END_VERSIONS > versions.yml
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/modules/filtlong/meta.yml b/modules/nf-core/modules/filtlong/meta.yml
index b3626e6..a50b452 100644
--- a/modules/nf-core/modules/filtlong/meta.yml
+++ b/modules/nf-core/modules/filtlong/meta.yml
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ output:
       type: file
       description: Filtered (compressed) fastq file
       pattern: "*.fastq.gz"
+  - log:
+      type: file
+      description: Standard error logging file containing summary statistics
+      pattern: "*.log"
 
 authors:
   - "@d4straub"
+  - "@sofstam"