diff --git a/kedro/templates/project/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/.gitignore b/kedro/templates/project/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/.gitignore
index 9b94d84973..df9cbef344 100644
--- a/kedro/templates/project/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/.gitignore	
+++ b/kedro/templates/project/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/.gitignore	
@@ -11,18 +11,18 @@ conf/**/*credentials*
 
 # ignore everything in the following folders
 data/**
-logs/**
 
 # except their sub-folders
 !data/**/
-!logs/**/
 
 # also keep all .gitkeep files
 !.gitkeep
 
-# also keep the example dataset
-!data/01_raw/iris.csv
+# ignore kedro-viz metadata
+.viz
 
+# ignore file based logs
+*.log
 
 ##########################
 # Common files