diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-hdfs/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-hdfs/docker-config
index 3232a105f96e3..63bbbd8987338 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-hdfs/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-hdfs/docker-config
@@ -31,51 +31,5 @@ HDFS-SITE.XML_dfs.namenode.rpc-address=namenode:9000
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
 
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.http.requests.s3gateway=INFO,s3gatewayrequestlog
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog=org.apache.hadoop.http.HttpRequestLogAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog.Filename=/tmp/jetty-s3gateway-yyyy_mm_dd.log
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog.RetainDays=3
-
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
 #BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
-
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-mr/common-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-mr/common-config
index b83f3323fab13..7936238833125 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-mr/common-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-mr/common-config
@@ -75,12 +75,3 @@ CAPACITY-SCHEDULER.XML_yarn.scheduler.capacity.root.default.acl_administer_queue
 CAPACITY-SCHEDULER.XML_yarn.scheduler.capacity.node-locality-delay=40
 CAPACITY-SCHEDULER.XML_yarn.scheduler.capacity.queue-mappings=
 CAPACITY-SCHEDULER.XML_yarn.scheduler.capacity.queue-mappings-override.enable=false
-
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop=INFO
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-om-ha/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-om-ha/docker-config
index 5c3b2a2c2db11..f3de99a50a796 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-om-ha/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-om-ha/docker-config
@@ -35,51 +35,6 @@ OZONE-SITE.XML_hdds.profiler.endpoint.enabled=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
 ASYNC_PROFILER_HOME=/opt/profiler
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.grpc.client.GrpcClientProtocolClient=WARN
 
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
 #BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
-
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-recon/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-recon/docker-config
index e45353b78601d..61d1378cded30 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-recon/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-recon/docker-config
@@ -31,51 +31,6 @@ OZONE-SITE.XML_hdds.profiler.endpoint.enabled=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
 ASYNC_PROFILER_HOME=/opt/profiler
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.grpc.client.GrpcClientProtocolClient=WARN
 
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
-#BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
-
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
+#BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-topology/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-topology/docker-config
index cfbdfae26cb88..ac6a3679de3a7 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-topology/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone-topology/docker-config
@@ -33,18 +33,6 @@ OZONE-SITE.XML_dfs.network.topology.aware.read.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
 ASYNC_PROFILER_HOME=/opt/profiler
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, ARF
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.grpc.client.GrpcClientProtocolClient=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.ARF=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.ARF.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.ARF.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.ARF.file=/opt/hadoop/logs/${module.name}-${user.name}.log
 HDDS_DN_OPTS=-Dmodule.name=datanode
 HDFS_OM_OPTS=-Dmodule.name=om
 HDFS_STORAGECONTAINERMANAGER_OPTS=-Dmodule.name=scm
@@ -53,40 +41,3 @@ HDFS_SCM_CLI_OPTS=-Dmodule.name=scmcli
 
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
 #BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
-
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone/docker-config
index c7a1647774f35..380b529cd33a8 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozone/docker-config
@@ -29,51 +29,6 @@ OZONE-SITE.XML_hdds.profiler.endpoint.enabled=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
 ASYNC_PROFILER_HOME=/opt/profiler
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.grpc.client.GrpcClientProtocolClient=WARN
 
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
 #BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
-
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozoneblockade/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozoneblockade/docker-config
index af72465091c6f..4d5466c6ab9e5 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozoneblockade/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozoneblockade/docker-config
@@ -37,51 +37,6 @@ OZONE-SITE.XML_hdds.scm.replication.event.timeout=10s
 OZONE-SITE.XML_dfs.ratis.server.failure.duration=35s
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.grpc.client.GrpcClientProtocolClient=WARN
 
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
 #BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
-
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozoneperf/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozoneperf/docker-config
index 538376ee90536..d2d345272a1f1 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozoneperf/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozoneperf/docker-config
@@ -35,16 +35,3 @@ HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
 JAEGER_SAMPLER_PARAM=1
 JAEGER_SAMPLER_TYPE=const
 JAEGER_AGENT_HOST=jaeger
-
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.grpc.client.GrpcClientProtocolClient=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.http.requests.s3gateway=INFO,s3gatewayrequestlog
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog=org.apache.hadoop.http.HttpRequestLogAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog.Filename=/tmp/jetty-s3gateway-yyyy_mm_dd.log
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog.RetainDays=3
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozones3-haproxy/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozones3-haproxy/docker-config
index 4ffe9a6674c7f..d3efa2e884fa3 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozones3-haproxy/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozones3-haproxy/docker-config
@@ -26,54 +26,6 @@ OZONE-SITE.XML_hdds.datanode.dir=/data/hdds
 
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.http.requests.s3gateway=INFO,s3gatewayrequestlog
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog=org.apache.hadoop.http.HttpRequestLogAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog.Filename=/tmp/jetty-s3gateway-yyyy_mm_dd.log
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog.RetainDays=3
 
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
 #BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
-
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozones3/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozones3/docker-config
index 4ffe9a6674c7f..d3efa2e884fa3 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozones3/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozones3/docker-config
@@ -26,54 +26,6 @@ OZONE-SITE.XML_hdds.datanode.dir=/data/hdds
 
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.http.requests.s3gateway=INFO,s3gatewayrequestlog
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog=org.apache.hadoop.http.HttpRequestLogAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog.Filename=/tmp/jetty-s3gateway-yyyy_mm_dd.log
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.s3gatewayrequestlog.RetainDays=3
 
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
 #BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
-
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonescripts/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonescripts/docker-config
index 4e67a044b0119..fe713e0dde21e 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonescripts/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonescripts/docker-config
@@ -31,9 +31,4 @@ HDFS-SITE.XML_dfs.namenode.rpc-address=namenode:9000
 HDFS-SITE.XML_dfs.namenode.name.dir=/data/namenode
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
-HDFS-SITE.XML_dfs.datanode.plugins=org.apache.hadoop.ozone.HddsDatanodeService
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
+HDFS-SITE.XML_dfs.datanode.plugins=org.apache.hadoop.ozone.HddsDatanodeService
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonesecure-mr/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonesecure-mr/docker-config
index be9dc1e3b51c2..646fd021ce7fd 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonesecure-mr/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonesecure-mr/docker-config
@@ -119,55 +119,9 @@ CAPACITY-SCHEDULER.XML_yarn.scheduler.capacity.node-locality-delay=40
 CAPACITY-SCHEDULER.XML_yarn.scheduler.capacity.queue-mappings=
 CAPACITY-SCHEDULER.XML_yarn.scheduler.capacity.queue-mappings-override.enable=false
 
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop=INFO
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
-
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
 #BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
 
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
-
 OZONE_DATANODE_SECURE_USER=root
 KEYTAB_DIR=/etc/security/keytabs
 KERBEROS_KEYTABS=dn om scm HTTP testuser s3g rm nm yarn jhs hadoop spark
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonesecure/docker-config b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonesecure/docker-config
index 60d1fcf6ebe39..dece811e33bb2 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonesecure/docker-config
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/compose/ozonesecure/docker-config
@@ -82,55 +82,10 @@ HADOOP-POLICY.XML_hdds.security.client.scm.certificate.protocol.acl=*
 
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.quantile.enable=true
 HDFS-SITE.XML_rpc.metrics.percentiles.intervals=60,300
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader=ERROR
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.ratis.conf.ConfUtils=WARN
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop=INFO
-LOG4J.PROPERTIES_log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping=ERROR
 
 #Enable this variable to print out all hadoop rpc traffic to the stdout. See http://byteman.jboss.org/ to define your own instrumentation.
 #BYTEMAN_SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/hadoop/trunk/dev-support/byteman/hadooprpc.btm
 
-#LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_* are for Ozone Audit Logging
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_monitorInterval=30
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter=read,write
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.marker=READ
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMatch=DENY
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.read.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.type=MarkerFilter
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.marker=WRITE
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_filter.write.onMismatch=NEUTRAL
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appenders=console, rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.type=Console
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.name=STDOUT
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.console.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.type=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.name=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.fileName=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}.log
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.filePattern=${sys:hadoop.log.dir}/om-audit-${hostName}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}-%i.log.gz
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.type=PatternLayout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.layout.pattern=%d{DEFAULT} | %-5level | %c{1} | %msg | %throwable{3} %n
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.type=Policies
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.type=TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.time.interval=86400
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.type=SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_appender.rolling.policies.size.size=64MB
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_loggers=audit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.type=AsyncLogger
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.name=OMAudit
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRefs=rolling
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_logger.audit.appenderRef.file.ref=RollingFile
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.level=INFO
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRefs=stdout
-LOG4J2.PROPERTIES_rootLogger.appenderRef.stdout.ref=STDOUT
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 OZONE_DATANODE_SECURE_USER=root
 SECURITY_ENABLED=true
 KEYTAB_DIR=/etc/security/keytabs