diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/TestFSUtils.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/TestFSUtils.java
index 7d18b584d7df..c5555ec89584 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/TestFSUtils.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/TestFSUtils.java
@@ -525,6 +525,10 @@ public void testDFSHedgedReadMetrics() throws Exception {
     // Set short retry timeouts so this test runs faster
     conf.setInt(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_CLIENT_RETRY_WINDOW_BASE, 0);
     conf.setBoolean("dfs.datanode.transferTo.allowed", false);
+    // disable metrics logger since it depend on commons-logging internal classes and we do not want
+    // commons-logging on our classpath
+    conf.setInt(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_METRICS_LOGGER_PERIOD_SECONDS_KEY, 0);
+    conf.setInt(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_DATANODE_METRICS_LOGGER_PERIOD_SECONDS_KEY, 0);
     MiniDFSCluster cluster = new MiniDFSCluster.Builder(conf).numDataNodes(3).build();
     // Get the metrics. Should be empty.
     DFSHedgedReadMetrics metrics = FSUtils.getDFSHedgedReadMetrics(conf);