diff --git a/hbase-asyncfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/asyncfs/AsyncFSTestBase.java b/hbase-asyncfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/asyncfs/AsyncFSTestBase.java
index d5c12069deb9..612eafd52a3b 100644
--- a/hbase-asyncfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/asyncfs/AsyncFSTestBase.java
+++ b/hbase-asyncfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/asyncfs/AsyncFSTestBase.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseCommonTestingUtil;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSConfigKeys;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -87,6 +88,11 @@ private static void createDirsAndSetProperties() throws IOException {
     createDirAndSetProperty("dfs.journalnode.edits.dir");
     createDirAndSetProperty("dfs.provided.aliasmap.inmemory.leveldb.dir");
     createDirAndSetProperty("fs.s3a.committer.staging.tmp.path");
+
+    // disable metrics logger since it depend on commons-logging internal classes and we do not want
+    // commons-logging on our classpath
+    UTIL.getConfiguration().setInt(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_METRICS_LOGGER_PERIOD_SECONDS_KEY, 0);
+    UTIL.getConfiguration().setInt(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_DATANODE_METRICS_LOGGER_PERIOD_SECONDS_KEY, 0);
   }
 
   protected static void startMiniDFSCluster(int servers) throws IOException {
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtil.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtil.java
index 8ae9206694c6..be924f23d169 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtil.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtil.java
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZKConfig;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZKWatcher;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSConfigKeys;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode;
@@ -729,6 +730,11 @@ private void createDirsAndSetProperties() throws IOException {
     createDirAndSetProperty("dfs.journalnode.edits.dir");
     createDirAndSetProperty("dfs.provided.aliasmap.inmemory.leveldb.dir");
     createDirAndSetProperty("fs.s3a.committer.staging.tmp.path");
+
+    // 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);
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/hbase-testing-util/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtility.java b/hbase-testing-util/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtility.java
index 698e433bb744..9af5392b7809 100644
--- a/hbase-testing-util/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtility.java
+++ b/hbase-testing-util/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtility.java
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZKConfig;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZKWatcher;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSConfigKeys;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode;
@@ -686,6 +687,11 @@ private void createDirsAndSetProperties() throws IOException {
     createDirAndSetProperty("dfs.journalnode.edits.dir");
     createDirAndSetProperty("dfs.provided.aliasmap.inmemory.leveldb.dir");
     createDirAndSetProperty("fs.s3a.committer.staging.tmp.path");
+
+    // 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);
   }
 
   /**