diff --git a/jaeger-zipkin/src/main/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ThriftSpanConverter.java b/jaeger-zipkin/src/main/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ThriftSpanConverter.java
index 56756cadb..3aa4d6744 100644
--- a/jaeger-zipkin/src/main/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ThriftSpanConverter.java
+++ b/jaeger-zipkin/src/main/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ThriftSpanConverter.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 package com.uber.jaeger.senders.zipkin;
 
+import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.twitter.zipkin.thriftjava.Annotation;
 import com.twitter.zipkin.thriftjava.AnnotationType;
 import com.twitter.zipkin.thriftjava.BinaryAnnotation;
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@
 public class ThriftSpanConverter {
 
   private static final Charset UTF_8 = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
+  private static final Gson gson = new Gson();
 
   public static com.twitter.zipkin.thriftjava.Span convertSpan(Span span) {
     Tracer tracer = span.getTracer();
@@ -78,7 +80,13 @@ private static List<Annotation> buildAnnotations(Span span, Endpoint host) {
     List<LogData> logs = span.getLogs();
     if (logs != null) {
       for (LogData logData : logs) {
-        annotations.add(new Annotation(logData.getTime(), logData.getMessage()));
+        String logMessage = logData.getMessage();
+        Map<String, ?> logFields = logData.getFields();
+        if (logMessage != null) {
+          annotations.add(new Annotation(logData.getTime(), logMessage));
+        } else if (logFields != null) {
+          annotations.add(new Annotation(logData.getTime(), gson.toJson(logFields)));
+        }
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/jaeger-zipkin/src/test/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ThriftSpanConverterTest.java b/jaeger-zipkin/src/test/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ThriftSpanConverterTest.java
index 37aa4b84f..d303e0334 100644
--- a/jaeger-zipkin/src/test/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ThriftSpanConverterTest.java
+++ b/jaeger-zipkin/src/test/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ThriftSpanConverterTest.java
@@ -44,9 +44,11 @@
 import io.opentracing.propagation.TextMapInjectAdapter;
 import io.opentracing.tag.Tags;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.TreeMap;
 
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
@@ -277,4 +279,32 @@ public void testRpcChildSpanHasTheSameId() {
     assertEquals("client and server must have the same span ID",
         client.context().getSpanId(), server.context().getSpanId());
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSpanLogsCreateAnnotations() {
+    Span span = (com.uber.jaeger.Span) tracer.buildSpan("span-with-logs").startManual();
+
+    span.log("event");
+
+    // use sorted map for consistent ordering in test
+    Map<String, Object> fields = new TreeMap<String, Object>();
+    fields.put("event", "structured data");
+    fields.put("string", "something");
+    fields.put("number", 42);
+    fields.put("boolean", true);
+    span.log(fields);
+
+    com.twitter.zipkin.thriftjava.Span zipkinSpan = ThriftSpanConverter.convertSpan(span);
+
+    List<String> annotationValues = new ArrayList<String>();
+    for (Annotation annotation : zipkinSpan.getAnnotations()) {
+      annotationValues.add(annotation.getValue());
+    }
+
+    List<String> expectedValues = new ArrayList<String>();
+    expectedValues.add("event");
+    expectedValues.add("{\"boolean\":true,\"event\":\"structured data\",\"number\":42,\"string\":\"something\"}");
+
+    assertEquals("zipkin span should contain matching annotations for span logs", expectedValues, annotationValues);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/jaeger-zipkin/src/test/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ZipkinSenderTest.java b/jaeger-zipkin/src/test/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ZipkinSenderTest.java
index 39b215a22..8f6f2b47a 100644
--- a/jaeger-zipkin/src/test/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ZipkinSenderTest.java
+++ b/jaeger-zipkin/src/test/java/com/uber/jaeger/senders/zipkin/ZipkinSenderTest.java
@@ -33,7 +33,11 @@
 import com.uber.jaeger.reporters.Reporter;
 import com.uber.jaeger.samplers.ConstSampler;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.TreeMap;
 import org.apache.thrift.transport.AutoExpandingBufferWriteTransport;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -143,6 +147,43 @@ public void testFlushSendsSpan() throws Exception {
     }
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testAppendSpanWithLogs() throws Exception {
+    Span span = (Span) tracer.buildSpan("span-with-logs").startManual();
+
+    span.log("event");
+
+    // use sorted map for consistent ordering in test
+    Map<String, Object> fields = new TreeMap<String, Object>();
+    fields.put("event", "structured data");
+    fields.put("string", "something");
+    fields.put("number", 42);
+    fields.put("boolean", true);
+    span.log(fields);
+
+    sender.append(span);
+    sender.flush();
+
+    List<List<zipkin.Span>> traces = zipkinRule.getTraces();
+    assertEquals(1, traces.size());
+    assertEquals(1, traces.get(0).size());
+
+    zipkin.Span zipkinSpan = traces.get(0).get(0);
+    assertEquals(2, zipkinSpan.annotations.size());
+
+    // ignore order by using set
+    Set<String> annotationValues = new HashSet<String>();
+    for (Annotation annotation : zipkinSpan.annotations) {
+      annotationValues.add(annotation.value);
+    }
+
+    Set<String> expectedValues = new HashSet<String>();
+    expectedValues.add("event");
+    expectedValues.add("{\"boolean\":true,\"event\":\"structured data\",\"number\":42,\"string\":\"something\"}");
+
+    assertEquals("zipkin span should contain matching annotations for span logs", expectedValues, annotationValues);
+  }
+
   private ZipkinSender newSender(int messageMaxBytes) {
     return ZipkinSender.create(
         URLConnectionSender.builder()