diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/worker/ExecutorRunner.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/worker/ExecutorRunner.scala
index 06066248ea5d0..3a883ba031945 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/worker/ExecutorRunner.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/worker/ExecutorRunner.scala
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
 import com.google.common.io.Files
 
 import org.apache.spark.{SecurityManager, SparkConf}
-import org.apache.spark.deploy.{ApplicationDescription, ExecutorState}
+import org.apache.spark.deploy.{ApplicationDescription, Command, ExecutorState}
 import org.apache.spark.deploy.DeployMessages.ExecutorStateChanged
 import org.apache.spark.internal.Logging
 import org.apache.spark.rpc.RpcEndpointRef
@@ -142,7 +142,13 @@ private[deploy] class ExecutorRunner(
   private def fetchAndRunExecutor() {
     try {
       // Launch the process
-      val builder = CommandUtils.buildProcessBuilder(appDesc.command, new SecurityManager(conf),
+      val subsCommand = Command(appDesc.command.mainClass,
+        appDesc.command.arguments, appDesc.command.environment,
+        appDesc.command.classPathEntries,
+        appDesc.command.libraryPathEntries,
+        appDesc.command.javaOpts.map {
+        opt => Utils.substituteExecIdWildCard(opt, execId.toString) })
+      val builder = CommandUtils.buildProcessBuilder(subsCommand, new SecurityManager(conf),
         memory, sparkHome.getAbsolutePath, substituteVariables)
       val command = builder.command()
       val formattedCommand = command.asScala.mkString("\"", "\" \"", "\"")
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/mesos/MesosCoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/mesos/MesosCoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala
index 263e6197a6f45..3156b2e2b81db 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/mesos/MesosCoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/mesos/MesosCoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala
@@ -169,7 +169,9 @@ private[spark] class MesosCoarseGrainedSchedulerBackend(
       environment.addVariables(
         Environment.Variable.newBuilder().setName("SPARK_CLASSPATH").setValue(cp).build())
     }
-    val extraJavaOpts = conf.get("spark.executor.extraJavaOptions", "")
+    val extraJavaOpts = conf.getOption("spark.executor.extraJavaOptions").map {
+      Utils.substituteExecIdWildCard(_, taskId)
+    }.getOrElse("")
 
     // Set the environment variable through a command prefix
     // to append to the existing value of the variable
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/mesos/MesosFineGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/mesos/MesosFineGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala
index d8d661da311f7..b715d01a1e753 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/mesos/MesosFineGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/cluster/mesos/MesosFineGrainedSchedulerBackend.scala
@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ private[spark] class MesosFineGrainedSchedulerBackend(
       environment.addVariables(
         Environment.Variable.newBuilder().setName("SPARK_CLASSPATH").setValue(cp).build())
     }
-    val extraJavaOpts = sc.conf.getOption("spark.executor.extraJavaOptions").getOrElse("")
+    val extraJavaOpts = sc.conf.getOption("spark.executor.extraJavaOptions").map {
+      Utils.substituteExecIdWildCard(_, execId)
+    }.getOrElse("")
 
     val prefixEnv = sc.conf.getOption("spark.executor.extraLibraryPath").map { p =>
       Utils.libraryPathEnvPrefix(Seq(p))
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala
index 6ab9e99d89e4a..654fdee87a06d 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala
@@ -2418,6 +2418,13 @@ private[spark] object Utils extends Logging {
       sparkJars.map(_.split(",")).map(_.filter(_.nonEmpty)).toSeq.flatten
     }
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Replaces all the @execid@ occurrences with the Executor Id.
+   */
+  def substituteExecIdWildCard(opt: String, execId: String): String = {
+    opt.replace("@execid@", execId)
+  }
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index bf10b2481951a..ae4de90eb6555 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -275,6 +275,11 @@ Apart from these, the following properties are also available, and may be useful
     Note that it is illegal to set Spark properties or maximum heap size (-Xmx) settings with this
     option. Spark properties should be set using a SparkConf object or the spark-defaults.conf file
     used with the spark-submit script. Maximum heap size settings can be set with spark.executor.memory.
+
+     The following symbol, if present, will be interpolated: @execid@ is replaced by Executor Id.
+     Any other occurrences of '@' will go unchanged. For example, to enable verbose gc logging to
+     a file named for the Executor Id in /tmp, pass a 'value' of:
+        -verbose:gc -Xloggc:/tmp/@execid@.gc
   </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
diff --git a/yarn/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/ExecutorRunnable.scala b/yarn/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/ExecutorRunnable.scala
index 3d0e996b18720..38732e0b10623 100644
--- a/yarn/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/ExecutorRunnable.scala
+++ b/yarn/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/ExecutorRunnable.scala
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ private[yarn] class ExecutorRunnable(
 
     // Set extra Java options for the executor, if defined
     sparkConf.get(EXECUTOR_JAVA_OPTIONS).foreach { opts =>
-      javaOpts ++= Utils.splitCommandString(opts).map(YarnSparkHadoopUtil.escapeForShell)
+      val subsOpt = Utils.substituteExecIdWildCard(opts, slaveId.toString)
+      javaOpts ++= Utils.splitCommandString(subsOpt).map(YarnSparkHadoopUtil.escapeForShell)
     }
     sys.env.get("SPARK_JAVA_OPTS").foreach { opts =>
       javaOpts ++= Utils.splitCommandString(opts).map(YarnSparkHadoopUtil.escapeForShell)