diff --git a/lib/appenders/loggly.js b/lib/appenders/loggly.js
index f3ecdbd..c13682b 100644
--- a/lib/appenders/loggly.js
+++ b/lib/appenders/loggly.js
@@ -5,8 +5,46 @@ var layouts = require('../layouts')
 , passThrough = layouts.messagePassThroughLayout;
 
 
+function isAnyObject(value) {
+	return value != null && (typeof value === 'object' || typeof value === 'function');
+}
+
+function numKeys(o) {
+  var res = 0;
+  for (var k in o) {
+    if (o.hasOwnProperty(k)) res++;
+  }
+  return res;
+}
+
 /**
- * Loggly Appender. Sends logging events to Loggly using node-loggly 
+ * @param msg - array of args for logging.
+ * @returns { deTaggedMsg: [], additionalTags: [] }
+ */
+function processTags(msgListArgs) {
+  var msgList = (msgListArgs.length === 1 ? [msgListArgs[0]] : Array.apply(null, msgListArgs));
+
+  return msgList.reduce(function (accum, element, currentIndex, array) {
+    if (isAnyObject(element) && Array.isArray(element.tags) && numKeys(element) == 1) {
+      accum.additionalTags = accum.additionalTags.concat(element.tags);
+    } else {
+      accum.deTaggedData.push(element);
+    }
+    return accum;
+  }, { deTaggedData: [], additionalTags: [] });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Loggly Appender. Sends logging events to Loggly using node-loggly, optionally adding tags.
+ *
+ * This appender will scan the msg from the logging event, and pull out any argument of the
+ * shape `{ tags: [] }` so that it's possibleto add tags in a normal logging call.
+ *
+ * For example:
+ *
+ * logger.info({ tags: ['my-tag-1', 'my-tag-2'] }, 'Some message', someObj, ...)
+ *
+ * And then this appender will remove the tags param and append it to the config.tags.
  *
  * @param config object with loggly configuration data
  * {
@@ -21,13 +59,21 @@ function logglyAppender(config, layout) {
   if(!layout) layout = passThrough;
 
   return function(loggingEvent) {
-		var msg = layout(loggingEvent);
+    var result = processTags(loggingEvent.data);
+    var deTaggedData = result.deTaggedData;
+    var additionalTags = result.additionalTags;
+
+    // Replace the data property with the deTaggedData
+    loggingEvent.data = deTaggedData;
+
+    var msg = layout(loggingEvent);
+
 		client.log({
 			msg: msg,
 			level: loggingEvent.level.levelStr,
 			category: loggingEvent.categoryName,
 			hostname: os.hostname().toString(),
-		});
+		}, additionalTags);
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/test/logglyAppender-test.js b/test/logglyAppender-test.js
index 30937dc..688e43e 100644
--- a/test/logglyAppender-test.js
+++ b/test/logglyAppender-test.js
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 "use strict";
 var vows = require('vows')
-, assert = require('assert')
-, log4js = require('../lib/log4js')
-, sandbox = require('sandboxed-module')
-;
+  , assert = require('assert')
+  , log4js = require('../lib/log4js')
+  , sandbox = require('sandboxed-module')
+  ;
 
 function setupLogging(category, options) {
   var msgs = [];
-  
+
   var fakeLoggly = {
-    createClient: function (options) {
+    createClient: function(options) {
       return {
         config: options,
-        log: function (msg, tags) {
+        log: function(msg, tags) {
           msgs.push({
             msg: msg,
             tags: tags
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ function setupLogging(category, options) {
   });
 
   log4js.addAppender(logglyModule.configure(options), category);
-  
+
   return {
     logger: log4js.getLogger(category),
     loggly: fakeLoggly,
@@ -61,22 +61,50 @@ function setupLogging(category, options) {
 }
 
 log4js.clearAppenders();
+
+function setupTaggedLogging() {
+  return setupLogging('loggly', {
+    token: 'your-really-long-input-token',
+    subdomain: 'your-subdomain',
+    tags: ['loggly-tag1', 'loggly-tag2', 'loggly-tagn']
+  });
+}
+
 vows.describe('log4js logglyAppender').addBatch({
-  'minimal config': {
+  'with minimal config': {
     topic: function() {
-      var setup = setupLogging('loggly', {
-        token: 'your-really-long-input-token',
-        subdomain: 'your-subdomain',
-        tags: ['loggly-tag1', 'loggly-tag2', 'loggly-tagn'] 
-      });
-      
-      setup.logger.log('trace', 'Log event #1');
+      var setup = setupTaggedLogging();
+      setup.logger.log('trace', 'Log event #1', 'Log 2', { tags: ['tag1', 'tag2'] });
       return setup;
     },
-    'there should be one message only': function (topic) {
-      //console.log('topic', topic);
+    'has a results.length of 1': function(topic) {
       assert.equal(topic.results.length, 1);
+    },
+    'has a result msg with both args concatenated': function(topic) {
+      assert.equal(topic.results[0].msg.msg, 'Log event #1 Log 2');
+    },
+    'has a result tags with the arg that contains tags': function(topic) {
+      assert.deepEqual(topic.results[0].tags, ['tag1', 'tag2']);
     }
   }
+}).addBatch({
+  'config with object with tags and other keys': {
+    topic: function() {
+      var setup = setupTaggedLogging();
 
+      // ignore this tags object b/c there are 2 keys
+      setup.logger.log('trace', 'Log event #1', { other: 'other', tags: ['tag1', 'tag2'] });
+      return setup;
+    },
+    'has a results.length of 1': function(topic) {
+      assert.equal(topic.results.length, 1);
+    },
+    'has a result msg with the args concatenated': function(topic) {
+      assert.equal(topic.results[0].msg.msg,
+        'Log event #1 { other: \'other\', tags: [ \'tag1\', \'tag2\' ] }');
+    },
+    'has a result tags with the arg that contains no tags': function(topic) {
+      assert.deepEqual(topic.results[0].tags, []);
+    }
+  }
 }).export(module);