diff --git a/spring-web-reactive/src/test/resources/log4j.properties b/spring-web-reactive/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 34659ab78bf..00000000000
--- a/spring-web-reactive/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-log4j.rootCategory=WARN, stdout
-
-log4j.logger.org.springframework.http=DEBUG
-log4j.logger.org.springframework.web=DEBUG
-log4j.logger.reactor=INFO
-
-log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%c] <%t> - %m%n
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-web-reactive/src/test/resources/log4j2-test.xml b/spring-web-reactive/src/test/resources/log4j2-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..31c3aa1bdaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-reactive/src/test/resources/log4j2-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="WARN">
+	<Appenders>
+		<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+			<PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n" />
+		</Console>
+	</Appenders>
+	<Loggers>
+		<Logger name="org.springframework.http" level="debug" />
+		<Logger name="org.springframework.web" level="debug" />
+		<Logger name="reactor" level="debug" />
+		<Root level="error">
+			<AppenderRef ref="Console" />
+		</Root>
+	</Loggers>
+</Configuration>