diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/build.gradle b/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/build.gradle
index 9073e823a0fe25..c92e3bdac1ecbe 100644
--- a/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/build.gradle
+++ b/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/build.gradle
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
     id 'java-library'
-    id 'de.undercouch.download' version "5.4.0"
 }
 
 java {
@@ -18,10 +17,3 @@ dependencies {
     // this dependency is an exception to the above rule because it is only used INTERNALLY to the commons library.
     implementation 'com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path:2.7.0'
 }
-
-def downloadSpecSecretMask = tasks.register('downloadSpecSecretMask', Download) {
-    src 'https://connectors.airbyte.com/files/registries/v0/specs_secrets_mask.yaml'
-    dest new File(projectDir, 'src/main/resources/seed/specs_secrets_mask.yaml')
-    overwrite true
-}
-tasks.named('processResources').configure { dependsOn downloadSpecSecretMask }
diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/src/main/java/io/airbyte/commons/logging/MaskedDataInterceptor.java b/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/src/main/java/io/airbyte/commons/logging/MaskedDataInterceptor.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 072884392adc1f..00000000000000
--- a/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/src/main/java/io/airbyte/commons/logging/MaskedDataInterceptor.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2023 Airbyte, Inc., all rights reserved.
- */
-
-package io.airbyte.commons.logging;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
-import io.airbyte.commons.constants.AirbyteSecretConstants;
-import io.airbyte.commons.json.Jsons;
-import io.airbyte.commons.yaml.Yamls;
-import java.nio.charset.Charset;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Optional;
-import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.stream.Collectors;
-import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LogEvent;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rewrite.RewritePolicy;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.Plugin;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginAttribute;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginFactory;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jLogEvent;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.message.SimpleMessage;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.status.StatusLogger;
-
-/**
- * Custom Log4j2 {@link RewritePolicy} used to intercept all log messages and mask any JSON
- * properties in the message that match the list of maskable properties.
- * <p>
- * The maskable properties file is generated by a Gradle task in the {@code :airbyte-config:specs}
- * project. The file is named {@code specs_secrets_mask.yaml} and is located in the
- * {@code src/main/resources/seed} directory of the {@link :airbyte-config:init} project.
- */
-@Plugin(name = "MaskedDataInterceptor",
-        category = "Core",
-        elementType = "rewritePolicy",
-        printObject = true)
-public class MaskedDataInterceptor implements RewritePolicy {
-
-  protected static final Logger logger = StatusLogger.getLogger();
-
-  /**
-   * The pattern used to determine if a message contains sensitive data.
-   */
-  private final Optional<String> pattern;
-
-  @PluginFactory
-  public static MaskedDataInterceptor createPolicy(
-                                                   @PluginAttribute(value = "specMaskFile",
-                                                                    defaultString = "/seed/specs_secrets_mask.yaml") final String specMaskFile) {
-    return new MaskedDataInterceptor(specMaskFile);
-  }
-
-  private MaskedDataInterceptor(final String specMaskFile) {
-    this.pattern = buildPattern(specMaskFile);
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public LogEvent rewrite(final LogEvent source) {
-    return Log4jLogEvent.newBuilder()
-        .setLoggerName(source.getLoggerName())
-        .setMarker(source.getMarker())
-        .setLoggerFqcn(source.getLoggerFqcn())
-        .setLevel(source.getLevel())
-        .setMessage(new SimpleMessage(applyMask(source.getMessage().getFormattedMessage())))
-        .setThrown(source.getThrown())
-        .setContextMap(source.getContextMap())
-        .setContextStack(source.getContextStack())
-        .setThreadName(source.getThreadName())
-        .setSource(source.getSource())
-        .setTimeMillis(source.getTimeMillis())
-        .build();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Applies the mask to the message, if necessary.
-   *
-   * @param message The log message.
-   * @return The possibly masked log message.
-   */
-  private String applyMask(final String message) {
-    if (pattern.isPresent()) {
-      return message.replaceAll(pattern.get(), "\"$1\":\"" + AirbyteSecretConstants.SECRETS_MASK + "\"");
-    } else {
-      return message;
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Loads the maskable properties from the provided file.
-   *
-   * @param specMaskFile The spec mask file.
-   * @return The set of maskable properties.
-   */
-  private Set<String> getMaskableProperties(final String specMaskFile) {
-
-    try {
-      final String maskFileContents = IOUtils.toString(getClass().getResourceAsStream(specMaskFile), Charset.defaultCharset());
-      final Map<String, Set<String>> properties = Jsons.object(Yamls.deserialize(maskFileContents), new TypeReference<>() {});
-      return properties.getOrDefault("properties", Set.of());
-    } catch (final Exception e) {
-      logger.error("Unable to load mask data from '{}': {}.", specMaskFile, e.getMessage());
-      return Set.of();
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Builds the maskable property matching pattern.
-   *
-   * @param specMaskFile The spec mask file.
-   * @return The regular expression pattern used to find maskable properties.
-   */
-  private Optional<String> buildPattern(final String specMaskFile) {
-    final Set<String> maskableProperties = getMaskableProperties(specMaskFile);
-    return !maskableProperties.isEmpty() ? Optional.of(generatePattern(maskableProperties)) : Optional.empty();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Generates the property matching pattern string from the provided set of properties.
-   *
-   * @param properties The set of properties to match.
-   * @return The generated regular expression pattern used to match the maskable properties.
-   */
-  private String generatePattern(final Set<String> properties) {
-    final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
-    builder.append("(?i)"); // case insensitive
-    builder.append("\"(");
-    builder.append(properties.stream().collect(Collectors.joining("|")));
-    builder.append(")\"\\s*:\\s*(\"(?:[^\"\\\\]|\\\\.)*\"|\\[[^]\\[]*]|\\d+)");
-    return builder.toString();
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/src/main/resources/log4j2-test.xml b/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/src/main/resources/log4j2-test.xml
index 22d52667d0ee0c..3f5caf0947019d 100644
--- a/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/src/main/resources/log4j2-test.xml
+++ b/airbyte-cdk/java/airbyte-cdk/airbyte-commons/src/main/resources/log4j2-test.xml
@@ -1,23 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <Configuration status="INFO" packages="io.airbyte.commons.logging">
     <Properties>
-
-        <!-- Mask the string apikey=<string> to apikey=***** to prevent secrets leaking. -->
-        <Property name="default-pattern">%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}{GMT+0} %highlight{%p} %C{1.}(%M):%L - %replace{%m}{apikey=[\w\-]*}{apikey=*****}%n</Property>
+        <Property name="default-pattern">%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}{GMT+0} %highlight{%p} %C{1.}(%M):%L - %m%n</Property>
         <!--Logs the timestamp and log_source/application name in the beginning of the line if it exists with a > separator, and then always the rest of the line.-->
-        <Property name="simple-pattern">%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}{GMT+0}%replace{ %X{log_source}}{^ -}{} > %replace{%m}{apikey=[\w\-]*}{apikey=*****}%n</Property>
-
+        <Property name="simple-pattern">%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}{GMT+0}%replace{ %X{log_source}}{^ -}{} > %m%n</Property>
         <!-- Always log INFO by default. -->
         <Property name="log-level">${sys:LOG_LEVEL:-${env:LOG_LEVEL:-INFO}}</Property>
-
-        <Property name="s3-bucket">${sys:S3_LOG_BUCKET:-${env:S3_LOG_BUCKET}}</Property>
-        <Property name="s3-region">${sys:S3_LOG_BUCKET_REGION:-${env:S3_LOG_BUCKET_REGION}}</Property>
-        <Property name="s3-aws-key">${sys:AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:-${env:AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}}</Property>
-        <Property name="s3-aws-secret">${sys:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:-${env:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}}</Property>
-        <Property name="s3-minio-endpoint">${sys:S3_MINIO_ENDPOINT:-${env:S3_MINIO_ENDPOINT}}</Property>
-        <Property name="s3-path-style-access">${sys:S3_PATH_STYLE_ACCESS:-${env:S3_PATH_STYLE_ACCESS}}</Property>
-
-        <Property name="gcs-log-bucket">${sys:GCS_LOG_BUCKET:-${env:GCS_LOG_BUCKET}}</Property>
     </Properties>
 
     <Appenders>
@@ -34,159 +22,9 @@
             </ContextMapFilter>
             <PatternLayout pattern="${simple-pattern}"/>
         </Console>
-
-        <Rewrite name="SecretMaskRewrite">
-            <MaskedDataInterceptor></MaskedDataInterceptor>
-            <AppenderRef ref="Default"/>
-            <AppenderRef ref="SimpleDefault"/>
-            <AppenderRef ref="LogSplit"/>
-            <AppenderRef ref="SimpleLogSplit"/>
-            <AppenderRef ref="LogSplitCloud"/>
-            <AppenderRef ref="SimpleLogSplitCloud"/>
-            <AppenderRef ref="AppLogSplit"/>
-            <AppenderRef ref="AppLogSplitCloud"/>
-        </Rewrite>
-
-        <Routing name="LogSplit">
-            <ContextMapFilter onMatch="DENY" onMismatch="ACCEPT">
-                <KeyValuePair key="simple" value="true"/>
-            </ContextMapFilter>
-            <Routes pattern="$${ctx:job_log_path}">
-                <!-- Don't split logs if job_root isn't defined -->
-                <Route key="$${ctx:job_log_path}">
-                    <Null name="/dev/null"/>
-                </Route>
-                <Route>
-                    <File name="${ctx:job_log_path}-local" fileName="${ctx:job_log_path}">
-                        <PatternLayout pattern="${default-pattern}"/>
-                    </File>
-                </Route>
-            </Routes>
-            <IdlePurgePolicy timeToLive="15" timeUnit="minutes"/>
-        </Routing>
-
-        <Routing name="SimpleLogSplit">
-            <ContextMapFilter onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY">
-                <KeyValuePair key="simple" value="true"/>
-            </ContextMapFilter>
-            <Routes pattern="$${ctx:job_log_path}">
-                <!-- Don't split logs if job_root isn't defined -->
-                <Route key="$${ctx:job_log_path}">
-                    <Null name="/dev/null"/>
-                </Route>
-                <Route>
-                    <File name="${ctx:job_log_path}-local" fileName="${ctx:job_log_path}">
-                        <PatternLayout pattern="${simple-pattern}"/>
-                    </File>
-                </Route>
-            </Routes>
-            <IdlePurgePolicy timeToLive="15" timeUnit="minutes"/>
-        </Routing>
-
-        <!--
-            Separate routers are created for each cloud logger as
-            1) a Route only accepts 1 appender
-            2) Routes don't support routing log output to more than Route
-        -->
-        <Routing name="LogSplitCloud">
-            <ContextMapFilter onMatch="DENY" onMismatch="ACCEPT">
-                <KeyValuePair key="simple" value="true"/>
-            </ContextMapFilter>
-            <Routes pattern="$${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}">
-                <!-- Don't split logs if job_root isn't defined -->
-                <Route key="$${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}">
-                    <Null name="/dev/null"/>
-                </Route>
-                <Route>
-                    <Log4j2Appender name="${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}"
-                      verbose="true"
-                      stagingBufferAge="1"
-                      s3Bucket="${s3-bucket}" s3Path="job-logging${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}" s3Region="${s3-region}"
-                      s3AwsKey="${s3-aws-key}" s3AwsSecret="${s3-aws-secret}"
-                      s3ServiceEndpoint="${s3-minio-endpoint}" s3PathStyleAccess="${s3-path-style-access}"
-                      gcpStorageBucket="${gcs-log-bucket}" gcpStorageBlobNamePrefix="job-logging${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}">
-                        <PatternLayout pattern="${default-pattern}"/>
-                    </Log4j2Appender>
-                </Route>
-            </Routes>
-            <IdlePurgePolicy timeToLive="15" timeUnit="minutes"/>
-        </Routing>
-
-        <Routing name="SimpleLogSplitCloud">
-            <ContextMapFilter onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY">
-                <KeyValuePair key="simple" value="true"/>
-            </ContextMapFilter>
-            <Routes pattern="$${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}">
-                <!-- Don't split logs if job_root isn't defined -->
-                <Route key="$${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}">
-                    <Null name="/dev/null"/>
-                </Route>
-                <Route>
-                    <Log4j2Appender name="${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}"
-                                    verbose="true"
-                                    stagingBufferAge="1"
-                                    s3Bucket="${s3-bucket}" s3Path="job-logging${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}" s3Region="${s3-region}"
-                                    s3AwsKey="${s3-aws-key}" s3AwsSecret="${s3-aws-secret}"
-                                    s3ServiceEndpoint="${s3-minio-endpoint}" s3PathStyleAccess="${s3-path-style-access}"
-                                    gcpStorageBucket="${gcs-log-bucket}" gcpStorageBlobNamePrefix="job-logging${ctx:cloud_job_log_path}">
-                        <PatternLayout pattern="${simple-pattern}"/>
-                    </Log4j2Appender>
-                </Route>
-            </Routes>
-            <IdlePurgePolicy timeToLive="15" timeUnit="minutes"/>
-        </Routing>
-
-        <Routing name="AppLogSplit">
-            <Routes pattern="$${ctx:workspace_app_root}">
-                <!-- Don't split logs if workspace_app_log_root isn't defined -->
-                <Route key="$${ctx:workspace_app_root}">
-                    <Null name="/dev/null"/>
-                </Route>
-                <Route>
-                    <RollingFile
-                            name="${ctx:workspace_app_root}-local"
-                            fileName="${ctx:workspace_app_root}/logs.log"
-                            filePattern="${ctx:workspace_app_root}/logs.%i.log.gz"
-                            ignoreExceptions="false">
-                        <PatternLayout pattern="${default-pattern}"/>
-                        <Policies>
-                            <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100MB" />
-                        </Policies>
-                        <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="3" />
-                    </RollingFile>
-                </Route>
-            </Routes>
-            <IdlePurgePolicy timeToLive="15" timeUnit="minutes"/>
-        </Routing>
-        <Routing name="AppLogSplitCloud">
-            <Routes pattern="$${ctx:cloud_workspace_app_root}">
-                <!-- Don't split logs if workspace_app_log_root isn't defined -->
-                <Route key="$${ctx:cloud_workspace_app_root}">
-                    <Null name="/dev/null"/>
-                </Route>
-                <Route>
-                    <Log4j2Appender name="app-logging/${ctx:cloud_workspace_app_root}/"
-                      stagingBufferAge="1"
-                      s3Bucket="${s3-bucket}" s3Path="app-logging${ctx:cloud_workspace_app_root}" s3Region="${s3-region}"
-                      s3AwsKey="${s3-aws-key}" s3AwsSecret="${s3-aws-secret}"
-                      s3ServiceEndpoint="${s3-minio-endpoint}" s3PathStyleAccess="${s3-path-style-access}"
-                      gcpStorageBucket="${gcs-log-bucket}" gcpStorageBlobNamePrefix="app-logging${ctx:cloud_workspace_app_root}">
-                        <PatternLayout pattern="${default-pattern}"/>
-                    </Log4j2Appender>
-                </Route>
-            </Routes>
-            <IdlePurgePolicy timeToLive="15" timeUnit="minutes"/>
-        </Routing>
     </Appenders>
 
     <Loggers>
-        <Root level="${log-level}">
-            <!-- Use the rewrite policy to ensure that connector configuration secrets are masked when logged
-            Any additional appender references should be added to the <Rewrite> section above in this document
-            to ensure that any secrets logged via those appenders is masked.-->
-            <AppenderRef ref="SecretMaskRewrite"/>
-        </Root>
-
         <Logger name="org.eclipse.jetty" level="INFO" />
         <Logger name="com.github.dockerjava" level="INFO" />
         <Logger name="org.apache.hc" level="INFO" />