diff --git a/test/kubemark/resources/kubemark_logrotate b/test/kubemark/resources/kubemark_logrotate
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ef04e7aade..00000000000
--- a/test/kubemark/resources/kubemark_logrotate
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-compress
-
-/var/log/kube-apiserver.log {
-	rotate 12
-	copytruncate
-	size 100M
-}
-
-/var/log/kube-scheduler.log {
-	rotate 12
-	copytruncate
-	size 100M
-}
-
-/var/log/kube-controller-manager.log {
-	rotate 12
-	copytruncate
-	size 100M
-}
diff --git a/test/kubemark/start-kubemark-master.sh b/test/kubemark/start-kubemark-master.sh
index a3fdc6627b3..70be246141f 100644
--- a/test/kubemark/start-kubemark-master.sh
+++ b/test/kubemark/start-kubemark-master.sh
@@ -111,9 +111,6 @@ retry sudo docker run --net=host \
 	--listen-client-urls=http://0.0.0.0:2379 \
 	--data-dir=/var/etcd/data ${ETCD_QUOTA_BYTES} 1>> /var/log/etcd.log 2>&1"
 
-# Run logrotate regularly
-echo '*/5 * * * * root logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf' >> "/etc/crontab"
-
 # Increase the allowed number of open file descriptors
 ulimit -n 65536
 
diff --git a/test/kubemark/start-kubemark.sh b/test/kubemark/start-kubemark.sh
index a1931831be5..4d4bb185d36 100755
--- a/test/kubemark/start-kubemark.sh
+++ b/test/kubemark/start-kubemark.sh
@@ -170,11 +170,6 @@ gcloud compute copy-files --zone="${ZONE}" --project="${PROJECT}" \
   "${RESOURCE_DIRECTORY}/controllers_flags" \
   "${MASTER_NAME}":~
 
-gcloud compute copy-files --zone="${ZONE}" --project="${PROJECT}" \
-    "${RESOURCE_DIRECTORY}/kubemark_logrotate" \
-    "root@${MASTER_NAME}:/etc/logrotate.d"
-
-
 gcloud compute ssh "${MASTER_NAME}" --zone="${ZONE}" --project="${PROJECT}" \
   --command="chmod a+x configure-kubectl.sh && chmod a+x start-kubemark-master.sh && \
              sudo ./start-kubemark-master.sh ${EVENT_STORE_IP:-127.0.0.1} ${NUM_NODES:-0} ${EVENT_PD:-false} ${ETCD_IMAGE:-}"