diff --git a/src/autoscaler/.gitignore b/src/autoscaler/.gitignore
index 37f4a3c002..9951afd805 100644
--- a/src/autoscaler/.gitignore
+++ b/src/autoscaler/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ build/
 mta.yaml
 fakes/
 mta_archives/
+mta.yaml
diff --git a/src/autoscaler/mta.tpl.yaml b/src/autoscaler/mta.tpl.yaml
index 5e0cd1b48f..f06918db02 100644
--- a/src/autoscaler/mta.tpl.yaml
+++ b/src/autoscaler/mta.tpl.yaml
@@ -44,4 +44,11 @@ resources:
   parameters:
     service-tags:
     - syslog-client
-
+- name: app-autoscaler-application-logs
+  type: application-logs
+  parameters:
+    service-broker: null
+    service-plan: standard
+  parameters-metadata:
+    service-broker:
+      optional: false
diff --git a/src/autoscaler/mta.yaml b/src/autoscaler/mta.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index a7c82483d6..0000000000
--- a/src/autoscaler/mta.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-ID: com.github.cloudfoundry.app-autoscaler-release
-description: Application Autoscaler Release for Cloud Foundry
-_schema-version: "3.3.0"
-provider: Cloud Foundry Foundation
-copyright: Apache License 2.0
-version: 0.0.0-rc.1
-
-modules:
-  - name: metricsforwarder
-    type: go
-    path: .
-    properties:
-      GO_INSTALL_PACKAGE_SPEC: code.cloudfoundry.org/app-autoscaler/src/autoscaler/metricsforwarder/cmd/metricsforwarder
-    requires:
-    - name: config
-    - name: policydb
-    - name: syslog-client
-    parameters:
-      memory: 1G
-      disk-quota: 1G
-      instances: 2
-      stack: cflinuxfs4
-      routes:
-    build-parameters:
-      builder: custom
-      commands:
-      - make vendor
-
-resources:
-- name: config
-  type: org.cloudfoundry.user-provided-service
-  parameters:
-    service-tags:
-    - config
-    path: metricsforwarder/default_config.json
-- name: policydb
-  type: org.cloudfoundry.user-provided-service
-  parameters:
-    service-tags:
-    - policy_db
-    - relational
-- name: syslog-client
-  type: org.cloudfoundry.user-provided-service
-  parameters:
-    service-tags:
-    - syslog-client
-