diff --git a/test/e2e_node/services/BUILD b/test/e2e_node/services/BUILD
index 1a9ddb2590a..07023e74797 100644
--- a/test/e2e_node/services/BUILD
+++ b/test/e2e_node/services/BUILD
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ go_library(
         "//vendor:github.com/coreos/etcd/etcdserver/api/v2http",
         "//vendor:github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/transport",
         "//vendor:github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/types",
-        "//vendor:github.com/coreos/pkg/capnslog",
         "//vendor:github.com/golang/glog",
         "//vendor:github.com/kardianos/osext",
         "//vendor:k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/util/feature",
diff --git a/test/e2e_node/services/etcd.go b/test/e2e_node/services/etcd.go
index 48f5ef0e398..9176ff7a0d7 100644
--- a/test/e2e_node/services/etcd.go
+++ b/test/e2e_node/services/etcd.go
@@ -27,17 +27,12 @@ import (
 	"github.com/coreos/etcd/etcdserver/api/v2http"
 	"github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/transport"
 	"github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/types"
-	"github.com/coreos/pkg/capnslog"
 	"github.com/golang/glog"
 )
 
+// TODO: These tests should not be leveraging v2http
 // TODO(random-liu): Add service interface to manage services with the same behaviour.
 
-func init() {
-	// github.com/coreos/etcd/etcdserver/api package is too spammy, set the log level to NOTICE.
-	capnslog.MustRepoLogger("github.com/coreos/etcd/etcdserver/api").SetRepoLogLevel(capnslog.NOTICE)
-}
-
 // All following configurations are got from etcd source code.
 // TODO(random-liu): Use embed.NewConfig after etcd3 is supported.
 const (