diff --git a/tests/functional/K8S_SystemTest.robot b/tests/functional/K8S_SystemTest.robot
index 2fd906b..9bdcc85 100644
--- a/tests/functional/K8S_SystemTest.robot
+++ b/tests/functional/K8S_SystemTest.robot
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@
 # Per-test logging on failure is turned off by default; set this variable to enable
 ${container_log_dir}    ${None}
 
+# logging flag to enable Collect Logs, can be passed via the command line too
+# example: -v logging:False
+${logging}    True
+
 *** Test Cases ***
 ETCD Scale Test
     [Documentation]    Perform the sanity test if some ETCD endpoints crash