diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 523db2075..a991242f8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - opa: Add `1.8.0` ([#1279]).
 - spark: Add `3.5.7` ([#1280]).
 - spark-connect-client: Add `3.5.7` ([#1280]).
-- superset: Add `4.1.4`  ([#1284]).
+- superset: Add `4.1.4` ([#1284]).
 - spark: Add `4.0.1` ([#1286]).
 - spark-connect-client: Add `4.0.1` ([#1286]).
 - trino/trino-storage-connector: Add `477` ([#1285]).
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - trino-cli: Bump to 477 ([#1285]).
 - tools: Bump dependency versions - kubectl to `1.34.1`, yq to `4.47.2`, and jq to `1.8.1` ([#1290]).
 - testing-tools: Update keycloak dependency to `26.3.5` and `python:3.12-slim-bullseye` base image ([#1289]).
+- hbase: move hbck2.env to hbase-operator-tools image and add log4j2 properties for this tool ([#1300]).
 
 ### Removed
 
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 [#1292]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1292
 [#1293]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1293
 [#1296]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1296
+[#1300]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1300
 
 ## [25.7.0] - 2025-07-23
 
diff --git a/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/Dockerfile b/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/Dockerfile
index c708db176..62e487346 100644
--- a/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/Dockerfile
+++ b/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/Dockerfile
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ ARG DELETE_CACHES="true"
 # The variable names are intentionally passed to envsubst in single-quotes,
 # so that they are not expanded. Disabling ShellCheck rules in a Dockerfile
 # does not work, so please ignore the according warning (SC2016).
-COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 hbase/hbase/stackable/bin/hbck2.env /stackable/bin/
+COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/bin/hbck2.env /stackable/bin/
 COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/patches/patchable.toml /stackable/src/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/patches/patchable.toml
 COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/patches/${HBASE_OPERATOR_TOOLS_VERSION} /stackable/src/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/patches/${HBASE_OPERATOR_TOOLS_VERSION}
 COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 hbase/hbase/stackable/bin/hbase-entrypoint.sh /stackable/bin/
+COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/conf/log4j2-hbck.properties /tmp/log4j2-hbck.properties
 
 COPY --from=hbase-builder --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 /stackable/patched-libs/maven/org/apache/hbase /stackable/patched-libs/maven/org/apache/hbase
 COPY --from=hadoop-builder --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 /stackable/patched-libs/maven/org/apache/hadoop /stackable/patched-libs/maven/org/apache/hadoop
@@ -84,6 +85,9 @@ if [ "${DELETE_CACHES}" = "true" ] ; then
   rm -rf /stackable/.cache/*
 fi
 
+mkdir -p /stackable/hbase-operator-tools-${FULL_HBASE_OPERATOR_TOOLS_VERSION}/conf
+mv /tmp/log4j2-hbck.properties /stackable/hbase-operator-tools-${FULL_HBASE_OPERATOR_TOOLS_VERSION}/conf/log4j2-hbck.properties
+
 # set correct groups
 chmod --recursive g=u /stackable
 EOF
diff --git a/hbase/hbase/stackable/bin/hbck2.env b/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/bin/hbck2.env
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 70%
rename from hbase/hbase/stackable/bin/hbck2.env
rename to hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/bin/hbck2.env
index 097a045b8..9b8bdd449
--- a/hbase/hbase/stackable/bin/hbck2.env
+++ b/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/bin/hbck2.env
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+export LOG4J_CONFIGURATION_FILE=/stackable/hbase-operator-tools/conf/log4j2-hbck.properties
+
 exec /stackable/hbase-${PATCHED_HBASE_VERSION}/bin/hbase hbck \
   -j /stackable/hbase-operator-tools-${FULL_HBASE_OPERATOR_TOOLS_VERSION}/hbase-hbck2/hbase-hbck2-${PATCHED_HBASE_OPERATOR_TOOLS_VERSION}.jar \
   "$@"
diff --git a/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/conf/log4j2-hbck.properties b/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/conf/log4j2-hbck.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8350a723b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase/hbase-operator-tools/stackable/conf/log4j2-hbck.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+status = warn
+dest = err
+name = PropertiesConfig
+
+# Console appender
+appender.console.type = Console
+appender.console.target = SYSTEM_ERR
+appender.console.name = console
+appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
+appender.console.layout.pattern = %d{ISO8601} %-5p [%t%notEmpty{ %X}] %c{2}: %.1000m%n
+
+rootLogger = WARN,console