diff --git a/extensions/openpower-pels/registry/README.md b/extensions/openpower-pels/registry/README.md
index 69ff800..d637b75 100644
--- a/extensions/openpower-pels/registry/README.md
+++ b/extensions/openpower-pels/registry/README.md
@@ -474,6 +474,48 @@
 }
 ```
 
+### Capturing the Journal
+
+The PEL daemon can be told to capture pieces of the journal in PEL UserData
+sections. This could be useful for debugging problems where a BMC dump which
+would also contain the journal isn't available.
+
+The 'JournalCapture' field has two formats, one that will create one UserData
+section with the previous N lines of the journal, and another that can capture
+any number of journal snippets based on the journal's SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER field.
+
+```json
+"JournalCapture": {
+    "NumLines": 30
+}
+```
+
+```json
+"JournalCapture":
+{
+    "Sections": [
+        {
+            "SyslogID": "phosphor-bmc-state-manager",
+            "NumLines": 20
+        },
+        {
+            "SyslogID": "phosphor-log-manager",
+            "NumLines": 15
+        }
+    ]
+}
+```
+
+The first example will capture the previous 30 lines from the journal into a
+single UserData section.
+
+The second example will create two UserData sections, the first with the most
+recent 20 lines from phosphor-bmc-state-manager, and the second with 15 lines
+from phosphor-log-manager.
+
+If a UserData section would make the PEL exceed its maximum size of 16KB, it
+will be dropped.
+
 ## Modifying and Testing
 
 The general process for adding new entries to the message registry is:
diff --git a/extensions/openpower-pels/registry/schema/schema.json b/extensions/openpower-pels/registry/schema/schema.json
index 2c1602f..50066ee 100644
--- a/extensions/openpower-pels/registry/schema/schema.json
+++ b/extensions/openpower-pels/registry/schema/schema.json
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@
                         "$ref": "#/definitions/calloutsUsingAD"
                     },
 
-                    "Callouts": { "$ref": "#/definitions/callouts" }
+                    "Callouts": { "$ref": "#/definitions/callouts" },
+
+                    "JournalCapture": { "$ref": "#/definitions/journalCapture" }
                 },
 
                 "required": ["Name", "SRC", "Documentation"],
@@ -755,6 +757,88 @@
         "calloutsWhenNoADMatch": {
             "description": "This contains the callouts to use when a match in the 'CalloutsWithTheirADValues array isn't found.",
             "$ref": "#/definitions/callouts"
+        },
+
+        "numLines": {
+            "description": "The number of lines of the journal to capture.",
+            "type": "integer",
+            "minimum": 1,
+            "maximum": 100
+        },
+
+        "syslogID": {
+            "description": "SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER value from the journal whose entries to capture.",
+            "type": "string",
+            "minLength": 1
+        },
+
+        "journalSection": {
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {
+                "SyslogID": { "$ref": "#/definitions/syslogID" },
+                "NumLines": { "$ref": "#/definitions/numLines" }
+            },
+            "additionalProperties": false,
+            "required": ["SyslogID", "NumLines"]
+        },
+
+        "journalSectionList": {
+            "description": "Describes which syslog IDs and how many journal lines to capture",
+            "type": "array",
+            "items": {
+                "$ref": "#/definitions/journalSection"
+            },
+            "minItems": 1,
+            "uniqueItems": true,
+            "examples": [
+                {
+                    "Sections": [
+                        {
+                            "SyslogID": "phosphor-bmc-state-manager",
+                            "NumLines": 20
+                        }
+                    ]
+                }
+            ]
+        },
+
+        "journalCapture": {
+            "description": "Allows a PEL to capture journal data in UserData sections.",
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {
+                "NumLines": { "$ref": "#/definitions/numLines" },
+                "Sections": { "$ref": "#/definitions/journalSectionList" }
+            },
+            "oneOf": [
+                {
+                    "required": ["NumLines"]
+                },
+                {
+                    "required": ["Sections"]
+                }
+            ],
+            "additionalProperties": false,
+            "examples": [
+                {
+                    "JournalCapture": {
+                        "NumLines": 30
+                    }
+                },
+                {
+                    "JournalCapture": {
+                        "Sections": [
+                            {
+                                "SyslogID": "phosphor-bmc-state-manager",
+                                "NumLines": 20
+                            },
+                            {
+                                "SyslogID": "phosphor-log-manager",
+                                "NumLines": 15
+                            }
+                        ]
+                    }
+                }
+            ]
         }
     }
 }