diff --git a/raft/bin/test-kraft-server-start.sh b/raft/bin/test-kraft-server-start.sh
index ad7d755752f72..7c62e0c91b6f7 100755
--- a/raft/bin/test-kraft-server-start.sh
+++ b/raft/bin/test-kraft-server-start.sh
@@ -16,9 +16,8 @@
 
 base_dir=$(dirname $0)
 
-if [ "x$KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS" = "x" ]; then
-    echo "DEPRECATED: using log4j 1.x configuration. To use log4j 2.x configuration, run with: 'export KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS=\"-Dlog4j.configurationFile=file:$base_dir/../config/kraft-log4j2.yml\"'"
-    export KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS="-Dlog4j.configuration=file:$base_dir/../config/kraft-log4j.properties"
+if [ -z "$KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS" ]; then
+    export KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS="-Dlog4j2.configurationFile=file:$base_dir/../config/kraft-log4j2.yaml"
 fi
 
 if [ "x$KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS" = "x" ]; then
diff --git a/raft/config/kraft-log4j.properties b/raft/config/kraft-log4j.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 14f739af05df5..0000000000000
--- a/raft/config/kraft-log4j.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# 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.
-
-log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stderr
-
-log4j.appender.stderr=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-log4j.appender.stderr.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.stderr.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d] %p %m (%c)%n
-log4j.appender.stderr.Target=System.err
-
-log4j.logger.org.apache.kafka.raft=INFO
-log4j.logger.org.apache.kafka.snapshot=INFO