diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/plain/DocValuesIndexFieldData.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/plain/DocValuesIndexFieldData.java
index 4a066328bc2a9..698b289d758be 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/plain/DocValuesIndexFieldData.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/plain/DocValuesIndexFieldData.java
@@ -46,13 +46,11 @@ public abstract class DocValuesIndexFieldData {
 
     protected final Index index;
     protected final String fieldName;
-    protected final Logger logger;
 
     public DocValuesIndexFieldData(Index index, String fieldName) {
         super();
         this.index = index;
         this.fieldName = fieldName;
-        this.logger = Loggers.getLogger(getClass());
     }
 
     public final String getFieldName() {
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/plain/SortedSetDVOrdinalsIndexFieldData.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/plain/SortedSetDVOrdinalsIndexFieldData.java
index 0834d2479f072..4b3643dda059a 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/plain/SortedSetDVOrdinalsIndexFieldData.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/fielddata/plain/SortedSetDVOrdinalsIndexFieldData.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.index.fielddata.plain;
 
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReaderContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.OrdinalMap;
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.SortedSetSortField;
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Nullable;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.logging.Loggers;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexSettings;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.fielddata.AtomicOrdinalsFieldData;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.fielddata.IndexFieldData.XFieldComparatorSource.Nested;
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ public class SortedSetDVOrdinalsIndexFieldData extends DocValuesIndexFieldData i
     private final IndexFieldDataCache cache;
     private final CircuitBreakerService breakerService;
     private final Function<SortedSetDocValues, ScriptDocValues<?>> scriptFunction;
+    private static final Logger logger = Loggers.getLogger(SortedSetDVOrdinalsIndexFieldData.class);
 
     public SortedSetDVOrdinalsIndexFieldData(IndexSettings indexSettings, IndexFieldDataCache cache, String fieldName,
             CircuitBreakerService breakerService, Function<SortedSetDocValues, ScriptDocValues<?>> scriptFunction) {