diff --git a/app-config.yaml b/app-config.yaml
index a56a3df9d1..5806ad31b9 100644
--- a/app-config.yaml
+++ b/app-config.yaml
@@ -286,6 +286,15 @@ scaffolder:
   #   email: scaffolder@backstage.io
   # Use to customize the default commit message when new components are created
   # defaultCommitMessage: 'Initial commit'
+  # Use to customize the audit log emitted when a template task is created
+  auditlog:
+    enabled: true
+  # Properties of the user entity metadata (i.e. userEntity.metadata.name)
+    identityMetadata:
+      - name
+  # Annotations under the user entity metadata (i.e. userEntity.metadata.annotations['name/of-annotation'])
+  #   identityAnnotations:
+  #     # - name/of-annotation
 
 auth:
   ### Add auth.keyStore.provider to more granularly control how to store JWK data when running
diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/service/router.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/service/router.ts
index 809f64c4c9..c254994a26 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/service/router.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/service/router.ts
@@ -193,7 +193,35 @@ export async function createRouter(
         ? await catalogClient.getEntityByRef(userEntityRef, { token })
         : undefined;
 
-      logger.info(`POST /v2/tasks from ${userEntity?.metadata.name}`);
+      const auditlogEnabled = config.getOptionalBoolean(
+        'scaffolder.auditlog.enabled',
+      );
+
+      if (auditlogEnabled) {
+        const identityMetadata = config.getOptionalStringArray(
+          'scaffolder.auditlog.identityMetadata',
+        );
+        const identityAnnotations = config.getOptionalStringArray(
+          'scaffolder.auditlog.identityAnnotations',
+        );
+
+        const logMe: { [key: string]: string }[] = [];
+
+        identityMetadata?.forEach((prop: string) =>
+          logMe.push({ [prop]: userEntity?.metadata[prop] as string }),
+        );
+        identityAnnotations?.forEach((prop: string) =>
+          logMe.push({
+            [prop]: userEntity?.metadata.annotations?.[prop] as string,
+          }),
+        );
+
+        logger.info(
+          `Scaffolding template '${templateRef}'. ${
+            logMe.length > 0 && JSON.stringify(logMe)
+          }`,
+        );
+      }
 
       const values = req.body.values;