diff --git a/Dockerfile.template b/Dockerfile.template
index a66d6582..575b26e7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.template
+++ b/Dockerfile.template
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ RUN strip /usr/local/bin/node
 
 # Install fatrw
 RUN curl -SLO "${FATRW_LOCATION}" && \
-		echo curl -SLO "${FATRW_LOCATION}" && \
 		ls -la "${FATRW_ARCHIVE}" && \
 		tar -xzf "${FATRW_ARCHIVE}" -C /usr/local/bin && \
 		rm -f "${FATRW_ARCHIVE}"
@@ -45,6 +44,21 @@ RUN curl -SLO "${FATRW_LOCATION}" && \
 # Just install dev dependencies first
 RUN npm ci --build-from-source --sqlite=/usr/lib
 
+###################################################################
+# Journal access.
+# The supervisor is built on an alpine image but still needs
+# to use journalctl (from systemd) which cannot be built for
+# musl. We hack around this by copying the binary and its library
+# dependencies to the final image
+###################################################################
+FROM balenalib/${ARCH}-debian:bullseye-run as journal
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends systemd
+
+COPY ./build-utils/setup-journal.sh /
+RUN /setup-journal.sh
+
+
 ###################################################
 # Extra dependencies. This uses alpine 3.11 as the
 # procmail package was removed on 3.12
@@ -70,6 +84,9 @@ COPY --from=build-base /usr/local/bin/fatrw /usr/local/bin/fatrw
 # Similarly, from the procmail package we just need the lockfile binary
 COPY --from=extra /usr/bin/lockfile /usr/bin/lockfile
 
+# Copy journalctl and library dependecies to the final image
+COPY --from=journal /sysroot /
+
 # Runtime dependencies
 RUN apk add --no-cache \
 	ca-certificates \
diff --git a/build-utils/setup-journal.sh b/build-utils/setup-journal.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..398baaa6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build-utils/setup-journal.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+mkdir -p /sysroot/bin
+cp /bin/journalctl /sysroot/bin/
+# Get all library dependencies from the binary
+for lib in $(ldd /bin/journalctl | grep -oE '(\/.+?) '); do
+	mkdir -p "/sysroot/$(dirname "$lib")"
+	# Copy the dependency dereferencing any symlinks
+	cp -L "$lib" "/sysroot/$lib"
+done
diff --git a/entry.sh b/entry.sh
index 7f510e85..974dbf5a 100755
--- a/entry.sh
+++ b/entry.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ if [ -n "${BALENA_ROOT_CA}" ]; then
 	fi
 fi
 
+# Setup necessary directories for journalctl
+# NOTE: this won't be necessary once the supervisor can update
+# itself, as using the label io.balena.features.journal-logs will
+# achieve the same objective
+if [ -d /mnt/root/run/log/journal ]; then
+	mkdir -p /run/log
+	ln -sf /mnt/root/run/log/journal /run/log/journal
+	ln -sf /mnt/root/etc/machine-id /etc/machine-id
+fi
+
 # Mount the host kernel module path onto the expected location
 # We need to do this as busybox doesn't support using a custom location
 if [ ! -d /lib/modules ]; then
diff --git a/src/lib/journald.ts b/src/lib/journald.ts
index 219433dd..0512204d 100644
--- a/src/lib/journald.ts
+++ b/src/lib/journald.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import { ChildProcess, spawn } from 'child_process';
 
-import constants = require('./constants');
 import log from './supervisor-console';
 
 export function spawnJournalctl(opts: {
@@ -13,11 +12,7 @@ export function spawnJournalctl(opts: {
 	filterString?: string;
 	since?: number;
 }): ChildProcess {
-	const args = [
-		// The directory we want to run the chroot from
-		constants.rootMountPoint,
-		'journalctl',
-	];
+	const args: string[] = [];
 	if (opts.all) {
 		args.push('-a');
 	}
@@ -52,9 +47,9 @@ export function spawnJournalctl(opts: {
 		args.push(opts.filterString);
 	}
 
-	log.debug('Spawning journald with: chroot ', args.join(' '));
+	log.debug('Spawning journalctl', args.join(' '));
 
-	const journald = spawn('chroot', args, {
+	const journald = spawn('journalctl', args, {
 		stdio: 'pipe',
 	});
 
diff --git a/test/unit/lib/journald.spec.ts b/test/unit/lib/journald.spec.ts
index 3e261e14..f6b74993 100644
--- a/test/unit/lib/journald.spec.ts
+++ b/test/unit/lib/journald.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { SinonStub, stub } from 'sinon';
 import { expect } from 'chai';
 
-import constants = require('~/lib/constants');
 import { spawnJournalctl } from '~/lib/journald';
 
 describe('lib/journald', () => {
@@ -29,8 +28,7 @@ describe('lib/journald', () => {
 			format: 'json-pretty',
 		});
 
-		const expectedCommand = `chroot`;
-		const expectedCoreArgs = [`${constants.rootMountPoint}`, 'journalctl'];
+		const expectedCommand = `journalctl`;
 		const expectedOptionalArgs = [
 			'-a',
 			'--follow',
@@ -45,13 +43,11 @@ describe('lib/journald', () => {
 		];
 
 		const actualCommand = spawn.firstCall.args[0];
-		const actualCoreArgs = spawn.firstCall.args[1].slice(0, 2);
-		const actualOptionalArgs = spawn.firstCall.args[1].slice(2);
+		const actualOptionalArgs = spawn.firstCall.args[1];
 
 		expect(spawn.calledOnce).to.be.true;
 
 		expect(actualCommand).deep.equal(expectedCommand);
-		expect(actualCoreArgs).deep.equal(expectedCoreArgs);
 
 		expectedOptionalArgs.forEach((arg) => {
 			expect(actualOptionalArgs).to.include(arg);