diff --git a/scripts/variantstore/wdl/extract/summarize_task_monitor_logs_from_file.py b/scripts/variantstore/wdl/extract/summarize_task_monitor_logs_from_file.py
index 813c3b20363..6b6f368344b 100755
--- a/scripts/variantstore/wdl/extract/summarize_task_monitor_logs_from_file.py
+++ b/scripts/variantstore/wdl/extract/summarize_task_monitor_logs_from_file.py
@@ -201,4 +201,7 @@ def eprint(*the_args, **kwargs):
     parser.add_argument('--output', type=str, help='Output Monitoring log summary file', required=True)
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
+    if not os.path.exists("temp"):
+        os.makedirs("temp")
+
     parse_monitoring_log_files(args.input, args.output)