diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5a6dc5b..be5d9e2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -43,3 +43,4 @@
 test/*_test_*
 test/*_test
 phosphor-rsyslog-config/phosphor-rsyslog-conf
+peltool