diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/runtime/BlazeRuntime.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/runtime/BlazeRuntime.java
index 0ceebc0..e6e30fa 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/runtime/BlazeRuntime.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/runtime/BlazeRuntime.java
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@
       throw new IOException("Could not query server log location", e);
     }
 
-    return loggerFilePath.map((p) -> fileSystem.getPath(p.toString()));
+    return loggerFilePath.map((p) -> fileSystem.getPath(p.toAbsolutePath().toString()));
   }
 
   // Make sure we keep a strong reference to this logger, so that the