diff --git a/salt/zeek/defaults.yaml b/salt/zeek/defaults.yaml
index c68339584..24e1d8ca0 100644
--- a/salt/zeek/defaults.yaml
+++ b/salt/zeek/defaults.yaml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ zeek:
       StatsLogEnable: 0
       StatsLogExpireInterval: 0
       StatusCmdShowAll: 0
+      StopWait: 1
       CrashExpireInterval: 0
       SitePolicyScripts: local.zeek
       LogDir: /nsm/zeek/logs
diff --git a/salt/zeek/disabled.sls b/salt/zeek/disabled.sls
index c75cdd7b1..2025327fd 100644
--- a/salt/zeek/disabled.sls
+++ b/salt/zeek/disabled.sls
@@ -9,9 +9,19 @@
 include:
   - zeek.sostatus
   
+# Stop first so the entrypoint's SIGTERM trap can archive the final logs; docker_container.absent
+# with force is a 'docker rm -f', which never delivers SIGTERM. force stays so the state still
+# converges if the stop overruns.
+so-zeek_stopped:
+  docker_container.stopped:
+    - name: so-zeek
+    - error_on_absent: False
+
 so-zeek:
   docker_container.absent:
     - force: True
+    - require:
+      - docker_container: so-zeek_stopped
 
 so-zeek_so-status.disabled:
   file.comment:
diff --git a/salt/zeek/enabled.sls b/salt/zeek/enabled.sls
index 453990acb..ec8148e90 100644
--- a/salt/zeek/enabled.sls
+++ b/salt/zeek/enabled.sls
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ so-zeek:
     - restart_policy: unless-stopped
     - start: True
     - privileged: True
+    # Docker's default 10s grace is not enough for the entrypoint's SIGTERM trap to run
+    # 'zeekctl stop' and let StopWait archive the final logs. Overrunning it means SIGKILL,
+    # which strands those logs in spool/tmp and marks every node crashed on the next start.
+    - stop_timeout: 180
     {% if DOCKERMERGED.containers['so-zeek'].ulimits %}
     - ulimits:
     {%   for ULIMIT in DOCKERMERGED.containers['so-zeek'].ulimits %}
diff --git a/salt/zeek/soc_zeek.yaml b/salt/zeek/soc_zeek.yaml
index 1a12f7f5f..f1cc9e14d 100644
--- a/salt/zeek/soc_zeek.yaml
+++ b/salt/zeek/soc_zeek.yaml
@@ -99,6 +99,18 @@ zeek:
         regexFailureMessage: You must enter a whole number of days, or 0 to keep crash directories forever.
         helpLink: zeek
         advanced: True
+      StopWait:
+        description: >-
+          Set to 1 to make "zeekctl stop" wait for the final logs to be archived instead of
+          letting that finish in the background. Security Onion stops Zeek by stopping its
+          container, so anything still running in the background is killed when the container
+          exits - without this, the last logs of each run are stranded unarchived in
+          /nsm/zeek/spool/tmp and never reach Elasticsearch. It is read only for that reason.
+        regex: ^[01]$
+        regexFailureMessage: You must enter 0 or 1.
+        helpLink: zeek
+        advanced: True
+        readonly: True
       MinDiskSpace:
         description: >-
           Percentage of free disk space below which ZeekControl reports a warning, or 0 to disable the check