diff --git a/hack/update-openapi-spec.sh b/hack/update-openapi-spec.sh
index 78bb8791c90..ba6ec258c48 100755
--- a/hack/update-openapi-spec.sh
+++ b/hack/update-openapi-spec.sh
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ kube-apiserver \
   --service-account-lookup="${SERVICE_ACCOUNT_LOOKUP}" \
   --service-account-issuer="https://kubernetes.default.svc" \
   --service-account-signing-key-file="${SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY}" \
+  --enable-logs-handler=true \
   --v=2 \
   --service-cluster-ip-range="10.0.0.0/24" >"${API_LOGFILE}" 2>&1 &
 APISERVER_PID=$!
diff --git a/pkg/controlplane/apiserver/options/options.go b/pkg/controlplane/apiserver/options/options.go
index 2da89f9555d..f21faca2a27 100644
--- a/pkg/controlplane/apiserver/options/options.go
+++ b/pkg/controlplane/apiserver/options/options.go
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ func NewOptions() *Options {
 		Logs:                    logs.NewOptions(),
 		Traces:                  genericoptions.NewTracingOptions(),
 
-		EnableLogsHandler:                   true,
+		EnableLogsHandler:                   false,
 		EventTTL:                            1 * time.Hour,
 		AggregatorRejectForwardingRedirects: true,
 		SystemNamespaces:                    []string{metav1.NamespaceSystem, metav1.NamespacePublic, metav1.NamespaceDefault},
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ func (s *Options) AddFlags(fss *cliflag.NamedFlagSets) {
 
 	fs.BoolVar(&s.EnableLogsHandler, "enable-logs-handler", s.EnableLogsHandler,
 		"If true, install a /logs handler for the apiserver logs.")
-	fs.MarkDeprecated("enable-logs-handler", "This flag will be removed in v1.19")
+	fs.MarkDeprecated("enable-logs-handler", "This flag will be removed in v1.33") //nolint:errcheck
 
 	fs.Int64Var(&s.MaxConnectionBytesPerSec, "max-connection-bytes-per-sec", s.MaxConnectionBytesPerSec, ""+
 		"If non-zero, throttle each user connection to this number of bytes/sec. "+
diff --git a/test/e2e/network/networking.go b/test/e2e/network/networking.go
index be7f99b077f..82ca6b9b577 100644
--- a/test/e2e/network/networking.go
+++ b/test/e2e/network/networking.go
@@ -118,9 +118,6 @@ var _ = common.SIGDescribe("Networking", func() {
 			{path: "/version"},
 			// TODO: test proxy links here
 		}
-		if !framework.ProviderIs("gke", "skeleton") {
-			tests = append(tests, struct{ path string }{path: "/logs"})
-		}
 		for _, test := range tests {
 			ginkgo.By(fmt.Sprintf("testing: %s", test.path))
 			data, err := f.ClientSet.CoreV1().RESTClient().Get().