diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/resources/forbidden/rest-high-level-signatures.txt b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/resources/forbidden/rest-high-level-signatures.txt
index 33e136a66f44f..cc179e12e3163 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/resources/forbidden/rest-high-level-signatures.txt
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/resources/forbidden/rest-high-level-signatures.txt
@@ -20,5 +20,14 @@ org.apache.http.entity.ContentType#create(java.lang.String,java.lang.String)
 org.apache.http.entity.ContentType#create(java.lang.String,java.nio.charset.Charset)
 org.apache.http.entity.ContentType#create(java.lang.String,org.apache.http.NameValuePair[])
 
+@defaultMessage ES's logging infrastructure uses log4j2 which we don't want to force on high level rest client users
+org.elasticsearch.common.logging.DeprecationLogger
+org.elasticsearch.common.logging.ESLoggerFactory
+org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator
+org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LoggerMessageFormat
+org.elasticsearch.common.logging.Loggers
+org.elasticsearch.common.logging.NodeNamePatternConverter
+org.elasticsearch.common.logging.PrefixLogger
+
 @defaultMessage We can't rely on log4j2 being on the classpath so don't log deprecations!
 org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.LoggingDeprecationHandler