diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/logging/internal/LoggerFactoryImpl.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/logging/internal/LoggerFactoryImpl.java
index 6b92f87a9be23..e8354be5ea225 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/logging/internal/LoggerFactoryImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/logging/internal/LoggerFactoryImpl.java
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ public Logger getLogger(String name) {
 
     @Override
     public Logger getLogger(Class<?> clazz) {
-        return new LoggerImpl(LogManager.getLogger(clazz));
+        // Elasticsearch configures logging at the root level, it does not support
+        // programmatic configuration at the logger level. Log4j's method for
+        // getting a logger by Class doesn't just use the class name, but also
+        // scans the classloader hierarchy for programmatic configuration. Here we
+        // just delegate to use the String class name so that regardless of which
+        // classloader a class comes from, we will use the root logging config.
+        return getLogger(clazz.getName());
     }
 }