diff --git a/pungi/compose.py b/pungi/compose.py
index ec9c5640..f1229439 100644
--- a/pungi/compose.py
+++ b/pungi/compose.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import shutil
 import json
 
 import kobo.log
+import kobo.tback
 from productmd.composeinfo import ComposeInfo
 from productmd.images import Images
 from dogpile.cache import make_region
@@ -590,6 +591,20 @@ class Compose(kobo.log.LoggingBase):
                 separators=(",", ": "),
             )
 
+    def traceback(self, detail=None):
+        """Store an extended traceback. This method should only be called when
+        handling an exception.
+
+        :param str detail: Extra information appended to the filename
+        """
+        basename = "traceback"
+        if detail:
+            basename += "-" + detail
+        tb_path = self.paths.log.log_file("global", basename)
+        self.log_error("Extended traceback in: %s", tb_path)
+        with open(tb_path, "wb") as f:
+            f.write(kobo.tback.Traceback().get_traceback())
+
 
 def get_ordered_variant_uids(compose):
     if not hasattr(compose, "_ordered_variant_uids"):
diff --git a/pungi/phases/gather/__init__.py b/pungi/phases/gather/__init__.py
index b559cfbc..9338d5da 100644
--- a/pungi/phases/gather/__init__.py
+++ b/pungi/phases/gather/__init__.py
@@ -730,6 +730,10 @@ def _gather_variants(
                 try:
                     que.put((arch, gather_packages(*args, **kwargs)))
                 except Exception as exc:
+                    compose.log_error(
+                        "Error in gathering for %s.%s: %s", variant, arch, exc
+                    )
+                    compose.traceback("gather-%s-%s" % (variant, arch))
                     errors.put(exc)
 
             # Run gather_packages() in parallel with multi threads and store
diff --git a/pungi/scripts/pungi_koji.py b/pungi/scripts/pungi_koji.py
index 54763e3b..dd568128 100644
--- a/pungi/scripts/pungi_koji.py
+++ b/pungi/scripts/pungi_koji.py
@@ -637,15 +637,10 @@ def cli_main():
         main()
     except (Exception, KeyboardInterrupt) as ex:
         if COMPOSE:
-            tb_path = COMPOSE.paths.log.log_file("global", "traceback")
             COMPOSE.log_error("Compose run failed: %s" % ex)
-            COMPOSE.log_error("Extended traceback in: %s" % tb_path)
+            COMPOSE.traceback()
             COMPOSE.log_critical("Compose failed: %s" % COMPOSE.topdir)
             COMPOSE.write_status("DOOMED")
-            import kobo.tback
-
-            with open(tb_path, "wb") as f:
-                f.write(kobo.tback.Traceback().get_traceback())
         else:
             print("Exception: %s" % ex)
             raise
diff --git a/tests/test_compose.py b/tests/test_compose.py
index 628973bd..94940909 100644
--- a/tests/test_compose.py
+++ b/tests/test_compose.py
@@ -777,3 +777,33 @@ class DumpContainerMetadataTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_dump_empty_metadata(self, ThreadPool):
         self.compose.dump_containers_metadata()
         self.assertFalse(os.path.isfile(self.tmp_dir + "/compose/metadata/osbs.json"))
+
+
+class TracebackTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.tmp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+        with mock.patch("pungi.compose.ComposeInfo"):
+            self.compose = Compose({}, self.tmp_dir)
+        self.patcher = mock.patch("kobo.tback.Traceback")
+        self.Traceback = self.patcher.start()
+        self.Traceback.return_value.get_traceback.return_value = b"traceback"
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        shutil.rmtree(self.tmp_dir)
+        self.patcher.stop()
+
+    def assertTraceback(self, filename):
+        self.assertTrue(
+            os.path.isfile("%s/logs/global/%s.global.log" % (self.tmp_dir, filename))
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            self.Traceback.mock_calls, [mock.call(), mock.call().get_traceback()]
+        )
+
+    def test_traceback_default(self):
+        self.compose.traceback()
+        self.assertTraceback("traceback")
+
+    def test_with_detail(self):
+        self.compose.traceback("extra-info")
+        self.assertTraceback("traceback-extra-info")