diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4d6fe4be30f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[run]
+omit =
+  */**/migrations/*
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index c082a6d923e..eb20573b379 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -59,5 +59,5 @@ deps =
 whitelist_externals = echo
 commands =
     py.test --disable-pytest-warnings \
-        --cov-report=term --cov-report=html --cov=. {posargs}
+        --cov-report=term --cov-report=html --cov-config {toxinidir}/.coveragerc --cov=.  {posargs}
     echo Annotated HTML coverage report is in {toxinidir}/readthedocs/htmlcov/index.html