diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/vllm_inference.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/vllm_inference.py
index c1f94259aca6..c4d5aa2dcd37 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/vllm_inference.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/vllm_inference.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
   os.environ["VLLM_CONFIGURE_LOGGING"] = "0"
   import vllm  # pylint: disable=unused-import
   logging.info('vllm module successfully imported.')
+  os.environ["VLLM_CONFIGURE_LOGGING"] = "1"
 except ModuleNotFoundError:
   msg = 'vllm module was not found. This is ok as long as the specified ' \
     'runner has vllm dependencies installed.'