diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index f5d9f51ea7..cde6ead381 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -810,6 +810,9 @@ project(":samza-test_$scalaSuffix") {
     compile.exclude group: 'javax.jms', module: 'jms'
     compile.exclude group: 'com.sun.jdmk', module: 'jmxtools'
     compile.exclude group: 'com.sun.jmx', module: 'jmxri'
+    // Exclude Slf4j bindings for log4j1 and log4j2 since samza-test just logs to console using slf4j-simple
+    compile.exclude group: 'org.slf4j', module: 'slf4j-log4j12'
+    compile.exclude group: 'org.apache.logging.log4j', module: 'log4j-slf4j-impl'
   }
 
   dependencies {
@@ -819,8 +822,6 @@ project(":samza-test_$scalaSuffix") {
     compile project(":samza-core_$scalaSuffix")
     compile project(":samza-kafka_$scalaSuffix")
     compile project(":samza-sql_$scalaSuffix")
-    runtime project(":samza-log4j_$scalaSuffix")
-    runtime project(":samza-log4j2_$scalaSuffix")
     runtime project(":samza-yarn_$scalaSuffix")
     runtime project(":samza-hdfs_$scalaSuffix")
     compile "org.scala-lang:scala-library:$scalaVersion"
diff --git a/samza-test/src/main/resources/log4j.xml b/samza-test/src/main/resources/log4j.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ab74ebd30b..0000000000
--- a/samza-test/src/main/resources/log4j.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor 
-  license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional 
-  information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to 
-  you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use 
-  this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of 
-  the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required 
-  by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the 
-  License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS 
-  OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific 
-  language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
-<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
-
-<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
-  <appender name="console" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
-    <param name="Target" value="System.out" />
-    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
-      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%t] %c{1} [%p] %m%n" />
-    </layout>
-  </appender>
-
-  <root>
-    <priority value="info" />
-    <appender-ref ref="console" />
-  </root>
-
-  <logger name="STARTUP_LOGGER" additivity="false">
-    <level value="info" />
-    <appender-ref ref="console"/>
-  </logger>
-
-  <logger name="org.apache.hadoop">
-    <level value="ERROR"/>
-  </logger>
-  <logger name="org.I0Itec.zkclient">
-    <level value="ERROR"/>
-  </logger>
-  <logger name="org.apache.zookeeper">
-    <level value="ERROR"/>
-  </logger>
-  <logger name="org.apache.samza.system.kafka">
-    <level value="ERROR"/>
-  </logger>
-  <logger name="org.apache.kafka">
-    <level value="ERROR"/>
-  </logger>
-  <logger name="kafka">
-    <level value="ERROR"/>
-  </logger>
-</log4j:configuration>
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diff --git a/samza-test/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml b/samza-test/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f00cb7db71..0000000000
--- a/samza-test/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor
-  license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional
-  information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to
-  you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
-  this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
-  the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required
-  by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the
-  License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS
-  OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific
-  language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
-
-<Configuration>
-  <Appenders>
-    <Console name="STDOUT" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
-      <PatternLayout pattern="[%t] %c{1} [%p] %m%n"/>
-    </Console>
-  </Appenders>
-  <Loggers>
-    <Root level="info">
-      <AppenderRef ref="STDOUT"/>
-    </Root>
-
-    <Logger name="STARTUP_LOGGER" level="info" additivity="false">
-      <AppenderRef ref="STDOUT"/>
-    </Logger>
-
-    <Logger name="org.apache.hadoop" level="error"></Logger>
-
-    <Logger name="org.I0Itec.zkclient" level="error"></Logger>
-
-    <Logger name="org.apache.zookeeper" level="error"></Logger>
-
-    <Logger name="org.apache.samza.system.kafka" level="error"></Logger>
-
-    <Logger name="org.apache.kafka" level="error"></Logger>
-
-    <Logger name="kafka" level="error"></Logger>
-
-  </Loggers>
-</Configuration>
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